Episode One Hundred And Seventy Five – Gangsters Of Dreams / Goosedusa

Activate The Goose-ducer! – Descendants of an end-of-days science experiment battle the descendants of a different end-of-days science experiment through the use of yet another end-of-days science experiment.

The Dream Police Want To Make Sure That Nothing Is Inside Your Head – Dreaming is illegal, Science Rays ensure that nobody dreams, and Z-Leggers smuggle stolen dreams through sleepeasys. There’s a reason for this, and the Government say it’s a neccesary thing, but … Is it a good enough reason?

A Mobster Calls – Telepresence work shifts aren’t fun, but the rest of prison life here is OK, the counselling staff seem nice, and the guards are weirdly unconcerned about what you’re up to. It’s a nice place to serve your time, but those older counselling staff, the ones who give off the ‘former inmate’ vibe, keep dropping hints that you can’t even see the real prison.

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty Nine – I Set The Filter To “Adventure”

A safe but dull utopia has an unexpected need for people who can go outside of the norm and venture into dangerous situations.
They’re a bit light on those, as a society, but by relaxing the constraints a bit on the psych profiles, they’ve got some candidates who are within a few standard deviations of ‘Adventurous’.

Oneironauts journey into a patient’s psyche to guide them through constructed scenarios to a better mental state.
Unfortunately, pushing on one part of a personality has a tendency to make it push back from somewhere else, …

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