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Official cover art for “Sublimate,” Deep Dream State S4E15 / GE42 by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254). A glowing orange eclipse burns against a dark crimson and violet textured background. At its center, a silhouetted figure bends over another figure, while the spaced white title “sublimate” crosses the image.
Sublimate | Vale Four | S4E15 | GE42

Sublimate | Vale Four | S4E15 | GE42

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We’d all better get used to the spotlight.

Sublimate is the 42nd total episode of the desire horror audio drama, Deep Dream State. It is definitely a narrative high point – the aspirations of DDS are really crystallizing.

It wraps up the Snarecraft Cycle. Cycle just describes storylines in a season. Snarecraft’s a story about an augmented reality game, in a high fantasy register, used to track down its designers.

The trackers split into teams. We open with the most feral team, Team Leash. Z prepares his wolfgirls for the hunt and releases them. They aren’t unleashed, but they are unhinged. When Porsche and Elle look away from Tessa’s subjugation and see growling wolfgirls loping out of the forest, they’re compelled to flee further into the biolibrary.

Deeper in the stacks, they find the ultimate Level 256. All the most damning documents in Vale Four have been dumped inside an ingame storage room.

This might be a mistake by an incredibly lazy dev. It might be a trap. It might be something else entirely.

Whatever it is, it’ll determine whether anyone in Vale Four is ever able to escape.

State Of The Dream

  1. The Deep Dream State is not safe for work. This is by design. We believe that intimate audio can aspire to the same heights as studio backed productions.We’re deeply gratified that Closing Credits, the official educational branch of Casting Call Club, subscribes to this premise as well. Autumn Ivy’s class, Intimate Audio Business, will feature Deep Dream State casting as a week four class component.The documentation and websites are all SFW. That’s also by design; we believe in freedom of expression but only under conditions of informed consent. No blindsiding.Disclosure is especially important for this one. Some episodes are slow burns. This is not one of them. The thinkykinky spice meter starts at an 11 here.
  2. The Deep Dream State is difficult to fit in a niche.This episode has strong elements of comedy, thriller, litRPG, desire horror, and erotica. We like to think that the movement across genres achieves unique effects that lane following never could. Say what you will, but there is a LOT here.
  3. The Deep Dream State is extremely full cast. We’ve cast over 50 people at this point. We’re proud of our status as an artistic outlet and resume builder for so many VAs.For Season Five, we are especially keen to cast more male voices. We are also looking to cast people with GENUINE British or Irish accents for the first cycle of Ever After. (Genuine accents only.) If that potentially interests you, please use the audition form or email deepdreamstates@gmail.com.
  4. I am the showrunner, writer, sound designer, editor, publicist, and director. I play the character Z as an actor. I am the neophyte coder for the show, which is definitely mocked in this episode in some plot-relevant way. My creative stage name is Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254.) I am one person, not a collective or duo. (I took the name on tumblr before gen ai was much of a thing; it’s just a pun.)

Cast & Crew

Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns as Z (L) | Panda Moanium as Celeste (L) | Valentina Vallay as Gia (L) | Vixen Clouds as Clara (L) | Echo Doll as Elle (F) | Princess Ella as Porsche (F) | Naomi Biela as Blake (H) | Syndi Rella as Hespa (H)(S) | Dizzy Dollie as Naia (H)(S) | Ring of Kees as Tessa (T) | Lux Peralta as Laura (T) | Bliss Blank as June Lowell (T) | Bun Li as Meg Aerin (A) | Talithara as Leandra (A) | Swirls and Twirls as Iris Vale (T) | Eclipse Aleice as Glitch Kitten (V) | Brie Michelle as Power Up Peach (V) | Kat McQueen as Joystick Jezebel (V) | Karma Reid as Loot Bunny (V) | Cherry Pak as Pixel Dollie (V)

EPISODE LINKS

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Sublimate is the fifteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance 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

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

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.

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Rubido poster for Deep Dream State GE41, showing a silhouetted woman suspended inside a fiery eclipse against a red and violet cosmic background.
Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

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Everyone gets exactly what they deserve.

In Snarecraft, hubris is a lot more than an allusion. It’s a game mechanic.

We open with the wolfgirls choosing to run on their exercise wheels – really everyone in the game is doing the same thing. Team Alchemy is still inside the Panoptic Library. Z observes it directly as he uses the clicker to keep Team Leash ready for the hunt. Gia has fully settled into her concubinded role, and she’s chasing treatstick.

Team Flowers watches from their own vantage point. They’re in the second secret library, which lets them see absolutely all of the action. They can’t look away.

They especially can’t look away from the forest scene with Team Thorns. Queen Tessa‘s been hacking through vines and bullying her thralls. Both the vines and thralls might have learned to adapt. Everything cut down in this forest grows back much, much stronger.

State Of The Dream

S5 has both a title – “After After” – and a thematic emphasis. It’s gravitating to posthuman monster romance. The writing process has begun, so season five should launch directly from season four, with only a week or two hiatus. Serial continuity will be maintained!

Auditions are open now.  

Cast & Crew

Cast

Talithara as Leandra (A) | Bun Li as Meg Aerin (A) | Valentina Vallay as Gia (L) | Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns as Z (L) | Panda Moanium as Celeste (L) | Princess Ella as Porsche (F) | Echo Doll as Elle (F) | Swirls and Twirls as Iris Vale (N) | Syndi Rella as Hespa (H) | Ring of Kees as Tessa (T) | Bliss Blank as June (T) | Lux Peralta as Laura (T) | Dizzy Dollie as Naia (H)

Rubido is the fourteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance 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

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

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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Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

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We see you scrying.

The Deep Dream State‘s built for some fast lane changes. Whatever it’s got for handling is on display here; each scene’s drastically different.

It’s all unified by the game. An augmented reality game for commercial deployment’s being used to hunt down the game designers. That’s dark. Every scene blends that darkness with high fantasy elements, but the mixes come out much different. That – and some love for live play podcasts – is why there’s a die roll in each scene transition.

It opens comic. The Muppettes, observers who always watch the action, put on their sorceress robes and get to incanting. Even though it’s funny, there are some real secrets uncovered here, including the real origin of the name Meridian A.

It gets dark. When Z sees the Muppettes scrying, he puts his hunting team of wolfgirls through the paces. Prior subjects Gia (played by Valentina Vallay), Celeste, and Clara have found a new place at Vale Four. The writer isn’t barely disguising anything here. The Muppettes are horrified; Z clearly delights in freaking out the audience – listeners included. (The Deep Dream State is NSFW thinkykinky material. This scene should be flagged as high spice level.)

It shifts to unsettling. Team Flowers and Team Alchemy navigate their way through Hespa’s map. They find their way through raging floodwaters, their own unspoken desires, and the medieval origins of the worst sports podcast of any epoch.

They arrive soaked and breathless to a secret they were told didn’t exist.

Cast & Crew

Cast

  • Astoria : Dakota Dream
    Leads the Muppettes’ ritual, uncovers the force behind Meridian A, discovers that the thing she is watching can watch back.
  • Hilton : Tickled Panda
    The nervous novice whose questions keep the ritual grounded until one word opens Team Leash.
  • Tessa : Ring of Kees
    The queen of Team Thorns,  discipline dressed in finery.
  • Laura : Lux Peralta
    Returns as part of the hunting party Astoria watches moving through Snarecraft.
  • Z : Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
    Catches the Muppettes scrying, turns the gaze back on them, and trains his wolfgirls to hunt by scent.
  • June : Bliss Blank
    Part of the  hunt Astoria observes as the teams move through Hespa’s map.
  • Porsche : Princess Ella
    Trusts Elle’s route, accidentally summons Midstream, and reaches the marker for a library that shouldn’t exist.
  • Elle : Echo Doll
    Follows what she believes is Hespa’s pattern, gets stranded in the river, and accepts a deeply dubious rescue.
  • Meg : Bun Li
    Reads traps as systems and Leandra as badly, then confronts a map that refuses to stay legible.
  • Leandra : Talithara
    Knows the route behind the waterfall, remembers the Puzzlers, and reveals that the hidden library leads back through Deep Ward.
  • Clara : Vixen Clouds
    The newest member of Team Leash. Hides under a blanket, remembers FaceTrace, and learns that pretending not to be seen is not the same as hiding.
  • Gia : Valentina Vallay
    Breaks treatstick protocol, accepts correction, and is recruited to hunt by scent.
  • Celeste : Panda Moanium
    Performs tricks for Clara without permission, loses Trixie time, and joins Team Leash’s hunt.
  • Cael : Jericho Caine
    Returns as Caellum, a medieval Midstream merchant selling ball lore, guild membership, and suspicious raft transport.
  • Mudrick : Violently Passionate
    Caellum’s eager shield-mate, fascinated by every kind of ball and fully committed to the worst sports podcast of any epoch.
  • Hespa : Syndi Rella
    The absent architect whose recycled maps, hidden routes, and secret library guide every team toward something they were told did not exist.
  • Naia : Dizzy Dollie
    Part of the wider hunting party Astoria’s ritual observes across Snarecraft.

Quintessence is the twelfth 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

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

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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