Shower
The Chthonic Arc | Episode 5
"The only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid."
Summary
With Emma transformed by the ceremony, the focus shifts to Brittany and Amanda as they drift in a pink fog of cognitive degradation. Through suggestive reinforcement and chemical/psychological conditioning administered during showers, they lose the ability to form coherent thoughts. Their conversations become increasingly fragmented as they embrace a state of pleasant emptiness. A secret surveillance reveals the Captain and Alistair discussing the plan: Brittany and Amanda serve as cautionary examples - mindbroken to the point of uselessness - while Sarah and Kara represent higher-value targets. Their obsessive natures, curiosity, and special interests make them ideal "prey" for a more sophisticated corruption. The intelligence operatives plant false clues and scattered evidence designed to trigger Sarah and Kara's investigative instincts, creating a treasure hunt of misdirection that will lead them exactly where the conspiracy wants them.
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| Alistair | Jericho Caine | CEO of Neuroplex | Jericho Caine Show Page | IMDb |
| Amanda | Korrupted Innocence | House Mother | - | IMDb |
| Brittany | Kitten Azazel | Bridesmaid | Kitten Azazel Show Page | IMDb |
| Kara | Tender Confusion | Bridesmaid | - | - |
| Olivia | Bliss Blank | Cruise Director | Bliss Blank Show Page | IMDb |
| Sarah | Ring of Kees | Bridesmaid | Ring of Kees Show Page | IMDb |
| William | Neural Nets | Ship Captain | Neural Nets Show Page | IMDb |
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Deep Dream State is a surreal audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. The series merges lucid dreaming, transformation, and erotic elements into psychological fiction exploring the boundaries of control, identity, and desire.
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Full Synopsis (Spoilers)
Brittany and Amanda inhabited a shared space in progressively deeper fog. Their dialogue revealed the erosion of memory: they couldn't remember rooming assignments, couldn't recall the ceremony, couldn't distinguish dreams from reality. Yet within this fog existed genuine contentment - a freedom from responsibility and thought.
The shower sequences portrayed the mechanism: water mixed with conditioning, suggestive language that reframed obedience as pleasure. They internalized mantras about serving, about thinking being overrated, about floating in pink comfort. Their minds simplified into binary states: service and sensation.
In a backroom surveillance scene, the broader plan became visible. The Captain, Alistair, and Olivia discussed using Brittany and Amanda as failed experiments - broken girls who proved what happened to those who couldn't resist. They needed better prey: people whose gifts of intellect and obsessive curiosity could be weaponized against them.
Sarah's tendency to theorize, to compile evidence, to seek patterns - this would be her trap. Kara's knowledge of mythology, languages, and esoteric traditions made her dangerous, but also perfectly positioned to be reeled in through cryptic clues and forbidden archives. Every breadcrumb left behind would pull them deeper.
The apparatus was revealed as simultaneously digital, psychological, and supernatural - feeds manipulated to show them exactly what they'd be looking for, notes planted to guide them toward conclusions that would inevitably lead to the ship's central chambers.