Quiver
S4 E8: Quiver (GE35)
Summary
Quiver opens the Targeted Cycle. It’s about targeting, and the subjects are the targets.
The Valescape is a closed economy with its own currency and cameras that never stop. The subjects get five hundred free Kamas to begin the calibration.
As a former game designer, Blake sees the design. She clocks it all, the rubberbanding and the addiction loop. She names what she sees. Nobody listens, because Gia’s already earning Kamas off Gluckgluck and Piper has the high score in Spotlight and the dopamine loop doesn’t care what Blake knows.
Spotlight is the Iris Vale game. When we see Iris’ profile, we see her self. It was trained on her performance capture, a process that’s still underway. Tessa always says it out loud. The next phase of Vale Four sells the real product: people.
The Midstream Sports ad breaks the episode in half like it always does. YOU DON’T CHANGE HORSES MIDSTREAM. YOU GET IN THE GAME. The system already knows which game you’ll pick.
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 |
| Naia | Dizzy Dollie | Cast |
| Cael | Jericho Caine | Cast |
| Celeste | Panda Moanium | Cast |
| Hilton | Tickled Panda | Cast |
| Astoria | Dakota Dream | Cast |
| Gia | Valentina Vallay | Guest Stars |
| Piper | Jen Larner | Guest Stars |
| Blake | Naomi Biela | Guest Stars |
| Glitch Kitten | Eclipse Aleice | Video Game Vixens |
| Power Up Peach | Brie Michelle | Video Game Vixens |
| Joystick Jezebel | Kat McQueen | Video Game Vixens |
| Loot Bunny | Karma Reid | Video Game Vixens |
| Respawn Rouge | Kitty Pawa | Video Game Vixens |
| Pixel Dollie | Cherry Pak | Video Game Vixens |
More Info
Vale Four Episodes
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.