The River
S4 E7: The River (GE34)
Summary
Every tell that's been catalogued and every session steered goes to one place. This is how it had to end. Everyone’s clocked, and there’s one clockmaker.
Hespa opens an operational log for Project Argus Mirror. The recorder catches more than she intends. She's replaying Ava's voice and tells and YOU KNOW on loop. When Tessa walks in, she names what she's looking at. She’s rarely nice, but she’s also rarely wrong. She submits to FaceTrace, and we see part of what makes her tick tock.
Tessa and Meg enter. To derail the brewing defection, they need to show Ava exactly who and what June is. They do it with glee. The following FaceTrace commercial shows the system design everyone feared. The offcamera conference afterwards shows the design no one expected.
Meet The Cast
Written and Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Directed by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Co-Directed by: Bliss Blank
| Dr. Zev Talcott (Z) | Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | Cast |
| Dr. June Lowell | Bliss Blank | Cast |
| Dr. Tessa Finn | Ring of Kees | Cast |
| Dr. Meg Aerin | Bun Li | Cast |
| Elle Lawson | Echo Doll | Cast |
| Iris Vale | Swirls and Twirls | Cast |
| Hespa Apate | Syndi Rella | Cast |
| Ava | Kitten Azazel | Cast |
| FaceTrace AI Voice | Valentina Vallay | Cast |
More Info
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Human Made Art
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. You can find the original here.
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.