Deep Dream State

Tessa the succubus tells the posthuman court beneath Dupont Circle about her forbidden romance with Cassady, the human investigator sent to watch her. The Dominion rules her choices and the cops rule his, and neither side planned on them falling for each other. Foxglove is pretty, and it stops hearts. After After S5E3. Monster romance audio drama.

A Lilith painting goes up for auction, an old rival bids against Tessa, and Cassady gets his first real look inside her world: her gallery, her private collection, and a greenhouse where no wire can follow.

Humanity is over, and the monsters are deciding what comes next. In the Halloween premiere of Lilies, the first season of After After, succubus Tessa Finn is under investigation as a suspected black widow: three dead husbands, a fortune, and a demon overlord who wants her married again. The investigator assigned to her case is falling for her. In a succubus happily ever after, will he be her partner or her prey?

Deep Dream State is a full-cast monster romance and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. Listeners vote on which monster faction...

After After is the monster romance fifth season of Deep Dream State. Naia takes control of humanity’s next step, seven extrahuman factions make their case, and listeners vote on what comes next. Monster romance, desire horror, queer posthuman desire, and a species-level happily ever after.

I know exactly what you are.  You’re trade.

Evergreen is the finale of DDS’s fourth season, Vale Four. Every DDS season looks at something through the lens of desire horror. That means it asks why we want unsettling things.

This season looked at ads. Each linked set of stories, or cycle, was about an advertising phenomenon. We did earworms, facial telemetry, microtargeting, and gaming. We wrapped up with astroturfing: fake grassroots that makes it unclear what’s real.

The whole season followed a corporate sabotage plot. One faction tried to tank Va...

Yield kicks off with a very normal ad for Spotlight, assuming your definition of normal includes performance conditioning and Iris Vale enjoying the attention a lot too much. Then everybody goes to court, where Elle tries to win a serious legal case while the rest of the cast provides the world's least helpful whispered commentary. Long-running jokes and suspiciously specific phrases start paying off in ways that suggest somebody has been planning this for a while. By the end, the legal question may be settled, but the show is still very interested in asking whether all of this was...

The Deep Dream State enters its final Vale Four cycle with Radix, a story about astroturfing, manufactured agreement, and the illusion of control. Naia, Tessa, June, Z, and Meg move through competing layers of reality as candid conversations and behind-the-scenes fragments become part of the experiment itself. Everyone thinks they understand who is watching, who is performing, and who has the clicker. They're all wrong.

Z releases the eager wolfgirls for the hunt while Elle and Porsche watch Tessa’s subjugation through the library’s magical surveillance system, only to realize the approaching wolfgirls are real and flee deeper into the stacks.
In the library’s core chamber, Elle and Porsche discover the real Vale Four amendment, updated schematics, and surveillance-free routes dumped into Snarecraft by an apparently careless developer, giving them both damning evidence and a possible path to freedom. At the safe house, Blake learns from the REAL secret of the game from Hespa.

A climactic Vale Four ad reveal...

Hubris becomes a game mechanic as every team begins to get exactly what they deserve. Team Alchemy remains in the Panoptic Library. Z keeps Team Leash ready for the hunt, with Gia fully settled into her darker concubinded role. Team Flowers watches from the Second Secret Library, where total visibility means they can see everything and cannot look away. In the forest, Team Thorns learns that every vine and every thrall Tessa cuts down comes back stronger, until the balance of power begins to reverse.

Team Alchemy trusts the map. Team Alchemy should not trust the map. Meg reads the signs; Leandra reads the room, and the room has been waiting for both of them. The library at the end of Deep Ward isn't a reward, it's a job interview with no correct answer, and the price goes up every single night.

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 …

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Hespa and Blake have fled the island to testify, and Vale Four is sending an army of gamers after them through Snarecraft. Three teams take three different paths through the hunt: Team Thorns chooses brutality; Team Alchemy relies on calculation; Team Flowers leaves it all to chance. The maze itself was built by Hespa, so the hunters are counting on it to give her away. Listeners will find out which pack hunts best, in a game with the highest stakes yet.

Blake is out of Kamas, out of options, and out of runway. Hespa tells her the truth about what Vale Four is, what it costs to leave, and what it costs to stay. Naia Anderson has been waiting for someone exactly like Blake to walk through that door. The arrow was always aimed at her.

Piper, Blake, and Gia keep going deeper into the game. They're wearing Prismatix and spending Kama tokens. At this point, they're not just playing the games. They're getting played by all the factions.

Neuroplex bmanagement wants their data and their selves harvested. The Holdfasts want to push them to the point of rebellion. Cael and Hespa may be playing their own game.

All the subjects can tell is that they've taken all the free offers, and they're the product now.

We all make choices. Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, get games, and lose three hours they don't remember losing.

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 …

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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 …

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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.  …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 & …

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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 …

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“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 …

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The medium was always the mechanism. Arouse concludes the Sitri Center arc and completes Deep Dream State’s five-hour narrative exploration of control, desire, and surrender. The staff and subjects of the dream research institute finally confront the true nature of the systems reshaping them. As the boundary between experiment and experimenter collapses, one final revelation …

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Barbie goes matryoshka. Meg and Tessa believe they’ve reached Ur, the destination they’ve been mapping through the Institute’s dream architecture. What they find there is Nyra, who has been waiting, and a version of the lucid dreaming protocols they know being used in a direction they didn’t anticipate. The structure of Sync is its argument: …

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The abject never looked this good. Meg and Tessa have entered the mirror chamber at the heart of the Sitri Institute’s dream architecture. Nyra is already there. Center is the episode where the testing protocols – clock checks, finger counting, mirror reflection – stop functioning as tools the researchers use and start functioning as tools …

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Welcome to the Hive. Here come the queen bees. Meg and Tessa surface from dreamlock not entirely sure what just happened, and Oona’s not going to let them forget it. The temple they descended into last entry turns out to be something else entirely: a blueprint, not a metaphor, its architecture a precise echo of …

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The Naditu Empire never ended. Meg and Tessa are still inside the Institute and still losing ground. The restriction protocols are working. The pulse patterns are working. The wheel is on the schedule and they both know what that means. Their only remaining move is Oona Reyes: a prisoner with a court-ordered stay, a colorful …

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Episode Summary In “Tether”, the boundaries between discipline, devotion, and discovery blur beyond recognition inside the Sitri Institute. What begins as a study of synchronized dreaming becomes an experiment in control. Meg and Tessa are drawn into the same patterns they once observed, repeating phrases that echo through the walls like incantations.  Z weaves the …

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Here be dream dragons. After Cusp mapped the threshold, Descendent crosses it. Meg and Tessa follow Lyra’s dream coordinates into the Sitri Institute’s buried architecture, tracing corridors that run older than the building above them. The stations are real. The map is real. And somewhere at the end of it, behind a soundproofed door with …

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Between what you want and what you’ll admit. Lyra Crosswell dreams in corridors. Mezzanines, transfer tunnels, platforms that lead nowhere she can name. She thought it was an aesthetic obsession. The Sitri Center thinks it’s a map. Something is encoded in the Institute’s architecture, and Lyra’s subconscious has been tracing it all along. Cast & …

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The program needs that data – raw. Elle’s dream training has become protocol. Tessa is running the sessions and the line between researcher and subject has moved again without anyone filing the paperwork. When Dr. Lowell declares the program a failure, Meg enters the chamber as a contrasting profile – and finds out she was …

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You’re not being graded. You’re being rewritten. Elle Lawson is locked in REM paralysis. The dream figures are already inside. Meg Aerin is taking notes. The Construct is responsive and the journal is mandatory and the line between researcher and subject is getting harder to locate in the data. Cast & Crew Written & Produced …

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This center is my dream. Construct 37 is running. The dreams are escalating. The research team is watching. Tessa Finn is about to learn the difference between engineering a dream and becoming one. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Co-Directed by: Bliss …

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Everyone sees what you are. The Sitri Center is a dream research institute where scientists do more than study subconscious fears. They engineer them. Tonight’s first subject is Phoebe Bosworth. Her dreams have already started escalating. The experiment has already begun. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: …

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The game makes us all the same. The final challenge connects every contestant to every other through a chain of haptic triggers. The winner claims a surprise prize. The door closes and a new season begins. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns …

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The final challenge begins. Three contestants remain. But only one understands the chain. To win, you have to know who you are—and what they want you to become. This is the climax of Incognitoh. And when the show ends? The real game begins.

They’re not just playing the game. They’re getting played by it. The dolls are glitching. The code is leaking. And Bella’s building something far more addictive than she intended.

Every uniform tells a story. And none of the stories are real. Cheerleader. Cow. Bimrista. Barista. What matters is what they do to you — how they fit, where they buzz, what they unlock. New icons. New rules. New triggers. Because when the costumes go on... the mask comes off.

This is not a reboot. It’s a reveal. The show already aired. The edits already happened. And you already watched. So why can’t you remember? Glass Houses is a prequel reality competition set before the events of The Chthonic — where submission is entertainment, viewers are judges, and icons are everything. But behind the silicone smiles and streaming orgasms, someone’s rewriting the rules. Program puppets. Play to win.