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Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38

Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38

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Our knives are drawn.

Tessa says we all make choices. Vale Four has built the genre defining choice game.

Snarecraft’s the ultimate Assistive Reality Game. It’s made to hunt people.

Hespa and Blake have fled the island. They’re going to testify. The forces of Neuroplex are going to pursue them with the most vicious hunters they can find – an army of gamers.

It’s more than just a hunt IN the game though. The game architecture helps track the quarry, because they’re looking for the coder. Hespa made the game, and now they hope it unmakes her.

The advance parties divide into three teams. Each one’s a different approach. Team Thorns is led by Queen Tessa. They’re the path of absolute brutality. Team Alchemy’s the path of calculation and foresight. (All the titles in the Snarecraft Cycle are from alchemy.) Team Flower’s all randomness and vibes.

The listeners will find out which pack hunts best. The path and stakes are as high as possible.

It’s not a game anymore.

Cast & Crew

Cast

    • Tessa: Ring of Kees
      Queen of the hunt. Rules through cruelty and calls it discipline. 
    • Z: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
      Sets the hunt in motion and explains the rules of Snarecraft. Matter-of-fact about the cruelty underneath the game.
    • Iris: Swirls and Twirls
      Convinced the maze hides a centerpiece only she can find. Haughty, dismissed, still certain she’s right.
    • June: Bliss Blank
      Careful and cowed and quietly the one whose plan actually gets the party through the brambles.
    • Meg: Bun Li
      Analytical to a fault. Treats a living, watching maze like a dataset.
    • Elle: Echo Doll
      Playing vapid just enough to get close to Porsche. Sharper than she lets on, and closer to Hespa than she admits.
    • Naia: Dizzy Dollie
      Appears in the eastern woods as a whispering forest spirit.
    • Hespa: Syndi Rella
      The fugitive the whole hunt is built to find  from inside the game she built.
    • Gia: Valentina Vallay
    • Laura: Lux Peralta
      New to the hunt and to this world. Nervous, naive, worn down scene by scene until she stops resisting.
    • Leandra: Talithara
      A video game addict who recognizes Snarecraft’s maze and remembers it better than she wants to.
    • Porsche: Princess Ella
      Vapid, lovable. A GluckGluck and Spotlight girl fangirling over Elle, guided across the stream without knowing why it matters.

Luna is the eleventh episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Human Made Art

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Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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