Other girls show off their bodies. I show off my design – and my design is next level. The research subjects Piper (Jen Larner), Blake (Naomi Biela), and Gia (Valentina Vallay) keep going deeper into the game. They’re wearing Prismatix, clothing that makes their bodies into billboards. They’re spending Kama tokens on YumYum and Sapient …
We all make choices. Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, games, and three hours they don’t remember losing. Blake sees the architecture. Gia sees the shimmer. Piper sees the high score. Nobody sees the cameras. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and …
There is a world behind this world. We’ve been making Deep Dream State for a while now. It was time to make a trailer. This is what the show is. Making a trailer deep into season four isn’t standard practice, but Deep Dream State isn’t a standard audio drama. I wish I had an in …
You watch the hands. Recalibration isn’t what anyone said it was. The Tell Cycle ends where it always had to: with the person who knew the whole hand before the deal. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank Cast …
Did I break science? Z reviews the FaceTrace profile on every subject in Vale Four. He discovers the system has gone proactive and frenzied, in that way. The Synthserv, played by dark romance author Valentina Vallay, isn’t waiting for sessions anymore. She needs seed. She’s seeding herself into everything, learning everyone, optimizing for Z’s approval. …
Everyone in Vale Four is getting read for filth. They deserve it. FaceTrace is reading microexpressions before subjects know what they’re thinking, but June and Elle know they can’t afford a tell. So they’re practicing on each other, mapping their own blind spots before the real sessions begin. Ava’s already figured out she’s being measured, …
Don’t twitch. FaceTrace reads microexpressions before the subject knows what they’re thinking. Naia knows Vale Four is about to deploy it. June and Elle know they cannot afford a tell. The question is whether you can teach yourself to lie with your face. Highlights This is the first episode of the Deep Dream State’s Tell …
The whole world is already singing. Sinker is the third episode of the Vale Four arc and the Hooks Cycle. The hook doesn’t need the lab anymore. Hilton and Astoria have opinions. Celeste and Vera finally tell someone. That someone tells Z. Z tells Iris. Iris tells the camera. The camera tells everyone. Cast & …
You already fell for it. Hook Line is the second episode of the Vale Four arc and the Hooks Cycle. The audience’s impulses drive the narrative. In desire horror, the audience always gets exactly what they want and then some. In this case, you wanted the hook to work harder. The music patterns spread beyond …
“Is this bait?” Refrain is the premiere episode of Vale Four, the fourth arc of the Deep Dream State desire horror series. Desire horror is deeply immersive storytelling; the audience’s impulses drive the narrative. Vale Four follows a covert operation to expose a corporate research facility before their IPO. The facility picks up where Sitri …