Welcome back after sweeps season and our MID-SEASON hiatus.

The Children of the Neon God, TV Guide’s #101 channel to keep an eye on, returns with its flagship show, The Polybius Protocol, where sci-fi meets existential crisis as present-day slacker Liz Faire discovers that an arcade experiment back in 1981 gave her the dark gift of quantum snapping into alternate dimensions.

Whew! Follow Liz as the artificial intelligence she befriended as a child sends her back in time to 1981, where she must confront her younger, eight-year-old self, dispensing wisdom, laughs, and possible homicide in an unexpected twist ending that will make your jaw drop!

Watch Episode 10 of The Polybius Protocol, “Live Studio Audience,” and find the eighties goodness you can only get by quantum snapping back in time.

As always, brought to you by your friends at The Children of the Neon God.

Save the children! Goshdarnit!

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Episode 9 – “The First Signal”

A hidden tape reveals the first time the Signal worked.

Young Liz returns to 1981, and when she comes back, something is different.

In her mother’s basement, she finds a recording that was never meant to be heard.

Before the game. Before the protocol.

There was a signal.

And this was the first time it worked.

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Episode 8 – "BACK TO ’81"

PRESENT DAY PORTLAND:
Liz’s mother, Shelly, and the Mannequin King AI force an entranced Liz to play a slap-dash version of the POLYBIUS arcade game.

Then—

INSERT COIN.

Then—

Score: 7,300

TARGET SCORE ACHIEVED.
DIMENSIONAL SNAP PROTOCOL ENGAGED.

PLAYER ONE STATUS: RESET.

Liz is back in 1981.
Eight years old again.
Same town. Same kids.

But something’s off.

They don’t remember her.
And they don’t remember the game.

POLYBIUS.

And Liz is starting to realize…
...something she was never supposed to remember.

Keywords: fiction podcast, sci-fi horror, analog horror, AI thriller, psychological thriller, time loop, alternate reality, mind control, retro 1980s, mystery series, immersive audio drama

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