Sublimate

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 deeper 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.

Written and Produced by: Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns

Directed by: Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns

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.)

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever, 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.