While You Were(n't) Hypersleeping 4: Part 1

Summary

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Red Valley — "While You Were(n't) Hypersleeping 4: Part 1"

Released: November 30, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of Red Valley explores the psychological aftermath of hypersleep, confronting the blurred lines between past and present, and the personal cost of experimental science. Gordon Porlock continues his difficult recovery after emerging from hypersleep decades in the future. He dwells on trust, identity, and guilt, while his close relationships—especially with Warren Godbey and Grace—shift amidst the isolation and existential questions of their new world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Post-Hypersleep Adjustment and Identity Crisis

• Gordon struggles physically and psychologically with coming back after the longest hypersleep anyone has experienced.
• There's an ongoing question: "Am I still the same person?" (15:55)
• The episode dwells on the disorientation, memory loss, and frustration from Gordon's incomplete sensory recovery.

Gordon Porlock (16:16):
"Am I still the same? Am I still me?"

2. The Limits of Trust

• Gordon is wary of trusting those around him, including Grace, who persistently offers support.
• Conflict emerges about how much information Gordon is permitted regarding the outside world.
• Grace emphasizes the importance of a slow recovery and says, "You can trust me, Gordon." (11:23)

Grace (11:23):
"I apologize. I know I'm perhaps not a person you would be inclined to trust. I can only prove myself to you by my actions. But you can. You can trust me, Gordon."

3. Connections, Nostalgia, and Recovery

• Warren offers Gordon his long-lost Nintendo 64, a gesture meant to comfort but which highlights Gordon’s limitations and frustrations.
• The two reminisce about the past—games, music, and their changed roles in this future, peppered with dark humor and mundane banter.

Warren Godbey (06:22):
"Once Aubrey and everyone else moved in, they found a bunch of our old stuff... Including this baby [the Nintendo]."

• Playful banter about Lord of the Rings trading cards—full of inaccuracies—underscores their struggle to ground themselves in something familiar.

4. Ghosts of Red Valley and Moral Dilemmas

• The fate of Briony is discussed with discomfort and guilt; Gordon and Warren are troubled by her ongoing imprisonment, yet recognize her past acts and their continued debt to her.
• The episode raises difficult questions about justice versus practicality in a world turned upside down.

Gordon Porlock (17:43):
"What is there to say? She did the worst things imaginable, but she kept us both alive. We can't kill her. But should she be allowed to live?... But we can't keep her down a bloody tunnel."

5. The Outside World & Ecological Disaster

• Dark humor surfaces when the two speculate about global ecological collapse: the extinction of midges, the fate of humanity, and whether the end-of-the-world is truly upon them.
• The blandness with which these horrors are discussed reflects a coping mechanism.

Warren Godbey (15:02):
"I assume the circle of life is kind of fucked at this point because..."
Gordon Porlock:
"Of the end of the world."

6. Existential Dread and Coping Mechanisms

• Gordon and Warren use dark humor and nostalgia to process trauma and existential dread.
• The two discuss whether hypersleep alters one’s identity at a fundamental level and use playful references to Nintendo 64 as both a comfort and a reminder of what is lost.

Warren Godbey (15:41):
"I'm not very good at [helping with your existential dread]. I'm as good at that as I was at Goldeneye."
Gordon Porlock:
"Existential Dread 64."
Warren:
"Yeah. Probably sell more copies than Dr. Mario."

7. Mental Health and Breakdown

• Gordon is clearly suffering mental strain, culminating in an apparent episode or panic attack (18:45–19:34).
• Warren urgently calls for Grace's help as Gordon loses his grip, questioning previous events and his own reality.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It's about galloping towards a glorious death."
  — Gordon Porlock (01:08)

• "You do not have full sensation in your extremities back yet? Warren knows this well. You cannot play video games."
  — Grace (09:22)

• "Everything has 64 in the title. Mario 64, Dr. Mario 64, Wipeout 64... No, wait, that one doesn't."
  — Warren Godbey (06:34)

• "Just when I was starting to get used to things."
  — Gordon Porlock (07:09)

• "Global ecological disaster does sound like the end of the world."
  — Gordon Porlock (15:10)

• "I'm really bad at this."
  — Warren Godbey (13:22)

• "How are your dreads? What terrors have you been ruminating on of late?"
  — Warren Godbey (15:43)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:03–03:00:
  Opening philosophical tensions on life, death, and dreams; the blurred line between reality and compulsion.
• 04:09–05:41:
  Grace encourages Gordon in his slow recovery; offers of community (the choir), and gentle insistence on rest.
• 06:01–07:13:
  Warren gives Gordon the Nintendo 64 and they discuss lost time and their changed world.
• 13:22–17:12:
  Gordon and Warren reflect on the strangeness of their survival, their own identities, and the unsettling new world.
• 17:20–18:45:
  The fate of Briony discussed with moral uncertainty and distress.
• 18:45–19:34:
  Gordon's breakdown—a collision of past, present, and imagined realities—leads to an urgent call for help.

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Tone and Mood

The episode blends wry humor, deep melancholy, and tender camaraderie. Characters speak frankly, often with bleak wit and blunt honesty about trauma, loss, and their attempts to adapt. The shadow of past tragedy looms, yet there's a persistent (if fragile) hope in small acts of empathy and connection.

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Conclusion

This chapter of Red Valley probes the limits of endurance after science upends reality. The drama is not in large events but in small moments: hesitation, memory, the fleeting comfort of nostalgia, and a persistent search for trust. Characters confront not just what the world has become, but who they are after everything changes—wondering if it's possible to ever truly belong again.

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Transcript

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[Gordon Porlock]

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[Warren Godbey]

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[Gordon Porlock]

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[Warren Godbey]

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[Gordon Porlock]

I'm the one with everything to lose here.

[Grace]

You've got the power.

[Warren Godbey]

There has to be some larger function.

[Gordon Porlock]

It's about galloping towards a glorious death. Well, there's no shame in not wanting to get yourself hurt, especially if you've done nothing to earn it. I mean, this just feels like a stupid dream where you make choices you would never make in real life.

[Unknown Male Character]

I don't want to kill anyone. I don't want to kill anyone. Gordon. We were wrong about you, weren't we? Your dedication to finding out what truly happens here borders on the obsessive. You're not outraged or disgusted by the macabre, the gory, the violent. You're enthralled by our work, of what it could mean. When you talk about it, you sound feverish.

[Gordon Porlock]

I wish I could help you. And I could take you out of here. We could try and make a run for it.

[Grace]

I want to do this.

[Gordon Porlock]

You do?

[Unknown Male Character]

Here's the thing about death. It's death.

[Gordon Porlock]

I was scared of everything. I was scared of people.

[Unknown Male Character]

People like us will be in the place. We're welcome back in the basement. Everyone who has died in this facility on my watch has had the situation and the risks explained to them in explicit detail. And they consented.

[Gordon Porlock]

And then I was here. And it was all gone. I don't have to worry about. Well, any of that. You know, when you're on a train.

[Unknown Male Character]

You still object to the US don't you? There is a place for the Gordon Porlocks of this world. Here. The only person you have to listen to is yourself. There's Nobody else around.

[Gordon Porlock]

There's nothing you can do about it. It's not your fault.

[Warren Godbey]

I don't think any knows anyone, to be honest. You just. I don't want to do this.

[Gordon Porlock]

You don't want to do this. How do you think I feel? Let me live vicariously through you.

[Grace]

Where did you go?

[Unknown Male Character]

No one is useless, Gordon. They just need to find their place.

[Grace]

Where did you go just then?

[Gordon Porlock]

I'm sorry.

[Grace]

You went somewhere else. Just wondering where that might have been.

[Gordon Porlock]

Where else is there to go? Just Red Valley.

[Grace]

Take your time.

[Gordon Porlock]

Okay.

[Grace]

That's right.

[Gordon Porlock]

Okay, look, I've got it.

[Grace]

Yes. Yes, you have.

[Gordon Porlock]

I've got it.

[Grace]

All right. There you are. Take a minute to get your breath back.

[Gordon Porlock]

This is taking too long.

[Grace]

It must seem that way.

[Gordon Porlock]

It is that way.

[Grace]

I know I'm repeating myself, but truly it is extraordinary that you are doing as well as you are.

[Gordon Porlock]

I know.

[Grace]

With everything you've been through.

[Gordon Porlock]

I do know. I am grateful. I would just. I would like to walk faster than my tortoise.

[Grace]

It's been a few weeks. You will get there. I was wondering if you might consider joining some of us later. The choir are having nightly get togethers at the moment. At this time of year, there's always something musical going on. It's very relaxed. People come and go. I think you might enjoy it. And of course, everyone is very happy to see you up and about.

[Gordon Porlock]

I need to sleep.

[Grace]

Yes, of course. I'll leave you to it. Oh, remember, your medications are just.

[Gordon Porlock]

Yes, yes, I'll take them now. Thanks.

[Grace]

Would you like me to take waffles?

[Gordon Porlock]

No, that's all right.

[Grace]

Of course. You know, Gordon, if you want to talk about anything, I am here.

[Gordon Porlock]

Thank you, Grace. What do you think? Waffles? Do I want to talk? Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Warren Godbey]

Hey. Hey. Oh, you were asleep. Sorry.

[Gordon Porlock]

No, no, I was just. What time is it?

[Warren Godbey]

It's four o'. Clock.

[Gordon Porlock]

Four? Oh, yeah.

[Warren Godbey]

You still feel like you flew around the world?

[Gordon Porlock]

I can't. I never know what the time is. It's pretty hard in a room without windows.

[Warren Godbey]

It's gonna get better. It took me a while, too.

[Gordon Porlock]

Yeah, I know.

[Warren Godbey]

Hey, look what I found. Santa came early.

[Gordon Porlock]

What? Oh. What is it?

[Warren Godbey]

It's your Nintendo 64. And it's still alive. Oh, wow.

[Gordon Porlock]

It was here all the time? For 44 years?

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah, man. Once Aubrey and everyone else moved in, they found a bunch of our old stuff. Some of it was way too far gone, but some of it was boxed up real good. Including this baby. Anyway, I thought you'd want to see it.

[Gordon Porlock]

Thanks.

[Warren Godbey]

Everything has 64 in the title. Mario 64, Dr. Mario 64, Wipeout 64, 1080, Snowboard. No, wait, that one doesn't.

[Gordon Porlock]

Look, I don't think I'm really.

[Warren Godbey]

Pilotwing 64, Donkey Kong 64. I can go on.

[Gordon Porlock]

I suppose it is appropriate, isn't it?

[Warren Godbey]

How do you mean?

[Gordon Porlock]

Well, like it being 2064.

[Warren Godbey]

Holy shit, you're right.

[Gordon Porlock]

Occasionally that's wild.

[Warren Godbey]

Like, I don't believe in fate, but, you know, sure. It's gonna be 2065 before you know it.

[Gordon Porlock]

Just when I was starting to get used to things.

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah, right. Well, we can set it up later.

[Gordon Porlock]

Later?

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah, yeah. I'm on shift in a minute. I just wanted to show you this first.

[Gordon Porlock]

Oh, right.

[Warren Godbey]

I'll come straight back down as soon as I'm done. If you've been asleep in the middle of the day, you're probably gonna be up half the night now.

[Gordon Porlock]

Wouldn't know the difference.

[Warren Godbey]

Ain't that the truth. Look, I gotta go. Oh, did you want to see the Puscrank choir or band or whoever it is who's doing a rehearsal thing later? I don't know.

[Gordon Porlock]

Still really weird.

[Warren Godbey]

What? Having your old band become a musical touchstone for a lost generation.

[Gordon Porlock]

Is that what you're calling it?

[Warren Godbey]

You're kind of like John Lennon. But if he didn't die.

[Gordon Porlock]

Warren, for God's sake.

[Warren Godbey]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Look, I really have to go. I'm sorry.

[Gordon Porlock]

Don't worry about it. Have a good shift.

[Warren Godbey]

You okay?

[Gordon Porlock]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[Warren Godbey]

He's fine. Door open or closed?

[Gordon Porlock]

I don't mind open.

[Warren Godbey]

Let's get some air in here.

[Gordon Porlock]

Okay.

[Warren Godbey]

Gordon Porlock. Door done. Unlocked.

[Gordon Porlock]

What?

[Warren Godbey]

It needs work. I'll see you later.

[Gordon Porlock]

Bye. Gordon Porlock.

[Warren Godbey]

Door lock.

[Grace]

I've never played Nintendo myself. More of an Xbox man, truth be told. Sure.

[Gordon Porlock]

I bet you were great at Halo.

[Grace]

I was accomplished at Halo. I'm not sure I've ever been great at anything.

[Gordon Porlock]

I'd say you've aged pretty great.

[Grace]

I've always had a diligent skin regime.

[Gordon Porlock]

So you can still get hold of moisturizer in 2064?

[Grace]

It's not the kind of thing that's freely available. In any case, I think at my age, it's shutting the door once that horse has bolted. But I do rely on the odd homemade remedy. Vanity, I suppose.

[Gordon Porlock]

Must be important to keep up appearances.

[Grace]

It bothered you, the Nintendo.

[Gordon Porlock]

What do you mean?

[Grace]

You do not have full Sensation in your extremities back yet? Warren knows this well. You cannot play video games.

[Gordon Porlock]

Look, it was a kind thing for him to do. It won't be long until I get feeling back. That's what you said.

[Grace]

Yes. Yes. I'm only saying your recovery has been very different to Warren's for so many reasons. I imagine it could be frustrating to see him so energetic. Yes.

[Gordon Porlock]

It's a bit disconcerting, I suppose. He's usually quite sleepy. Yeah, definitely sleepy.

[Grace]

You know, I don't think that change happened when he Woke up in 2064. It happened when he knew you were safe. He cares about you very much. I think he talks about you a lot on the water here.

[Gordon Porlock]

All right?

[Grace]

I mean, he doesn't have much choice. The residents are very interested in you.

[Gordon Porlock]

Even more than the Brigadoon.

[Grace]

Warren did not write Moria Invictus.

[Gordon Porlock]

I co wrote it. At best.

[Grace]

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[Gordon Porlock]

Yeah, speaking of truth, am I allowed a Blue sky unit yet? God, it doesn't make me feel very safe being cut off from information.

[Grace]

I understand.

[Gordon Porlock]

Look, it's kind of my thing. Like, it was literally my job.

[Grace]

We've discussed this. We have to consider what is best for your recovery.

[Gordon Porlock]

Grace, I've jumped 40 years into the future. The world is unrecognizable to me from what little you've allowed me to know.

[Grace]

And it is not a matter of being allowed information, Gordon. Emergence is no small thing. And no one. No one on the planet, I expect, has been in hypersleep as long as you. Your recovery will continue to present challenges.

[Gordon Porlock]

All the more reason then.

[Grace]

All the more reason to take things slowly. If we gave you a Blue sky unit, even with certain data restricted, you would drive yourself to distraction trying to get around those restrictions. Would you not?

[Gordon Porlock]

Please don't talk like you know me.

[Grace]

I apologize. I know I'm perhaps not a person you would be inclined to trust. I can only prove myself to you by my actions. But you can. You can trust me, Gordon.

[Gordon Porlock]

I know. I want to. I want to trust people. But I don't.

[Warren Godbey]

Okay. You go. What do you got?

[Gordon Porlock]

Ugluk.

[Warren Godbey]

The fuck is Ugluk?

[Gordon Porlock]

He's an Uruk. Hai, Chief. Okie doke. Anyway, he's 540 years old, so I'll.

[Warren Godbey]

Go with that 540.

[Gordon Porlock]

Look, Lord of the Rings. Top trumps don't lie.

[Warren Godbey]

Well, I have Ayoma. He's 30. Pathetic. No, no waffles. It's not for you. It's not for you.

[Gordon Porlock]

Don't snap at her.

[Warren Godbey]

She's fixated.

[Gordon Porlock]

You should encourage her interest.

[Warren Godbey]

At what cost? Anyway, here you are. Take Aymer. While you still can.

[Gordon Porlock]

Thank you.

[Warren Godbey]

I don't know if these cards are right, man. It says Ayama is 5 foot 9.

[Gordon Porlock]

Really?

[Warren Godbey]

It doesn't ring true, does it? Like, I'm about five foot nine. Ama's got to be bigger than me.

[Gordon Porlock]

You're not five foot nine.

[Warren Godbey]

I bloody am.

[Gordon Porlock]

With your boots on the push. But yeah. I would have thought the Captain of the Rohirim was bigger than that. So, how was today? It was fine.

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah?

[Gordon Porlock]

Yeah.

[Warren Godbey]

I'm sorry about the Nintendo.

[Gordon Porlock]

Don't be.

[Warren Godbey]

No, I wasn't thinking. Of course, your dexterity.

[Gordon Porlock]

No, it's fine. It was good to see it. Yeah, I mean, the repeated reminders of the year we're suddenly living in.

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah, I'm really bad at this.

[Gordon Porlock]

You're not.

[Warren Godbey]

Like If Bedside Manor 64 was a game.

[Gordon Porlock]

There you go again.

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah, I'm just. But in bashing here, it's like international track and field. I've just got no idea what I'm doing.

[Gordon Porlock]

It's fine.

[Warren Godbey]

Hey, at least I'm not spending my days trying to care for vulnerable people or anything. Right?

[Gordon Porlock]

I'm really happy to see you doing it. I'm sure you're great. Gandalf the White.

[Warren Godbey]

Oh, nice.

[Gordon Porlock]

Hang on. What? Says he's five, nine, two.

[Narrator]

What?

[Gordon Porlock]

Five foot nine.

[Warren Godbey]

Oh, is he? Bollocks. Gandalf's an easy six foot.

[Gordon Porlock]

Right. Legolas is only five, ten.

[Warren Godbey]

Wrong.

[Gordon Porlock]

Aragorn is six, four.

[Warren Godbey]

Six foot four. You're not telling me that. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, is 7 inches taller than Gandalf the White, towering over Mithrandir himself, even with his hat on.

[Gordon Porlock]

I don't even know how we can continue with this. Any news from the outside world?

[Warren Godbey]

News? Oh, news I heard the other day when the press first covered the public creation of hypersleep and how it would or wouldn't change the world in like, 2026, or whatever it was they nicknamed it. The Snoring 20s.

[Gordon Porlock]

That's dumb. What would they call this era, then?

[Warren Godbey]

The minging 60s? Oh, you remember the midges?

[Gordon Porlock]

How could I forget? They were almost as bad as the human experimentation and murder.

[Warren Godbey]

Well, good news. They're all dead.

[Gordon Porlock]

They're all dead?

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah. It's like the only upside to global ecological disaster. They're just gone.

[Gordon Porlock]

The midges are all gone.

[Narrator]

All of them.

[Warren Godbey]

I mean, from here, from Red Valley. I can't speak for the rest of the highlands.

[Gordon Porlock]

Doesn't that leave some terrible hole in the local ecosystem? Probably.

[Warren Godbey]

I assume the circle of life is kind of fucked at this point because.

[Gordon Porlock]

Of the end of the world.

[Warren Godbey]

I don't think anyone actually knows for sure if it's the end of the world.

[Gordon Porlock]

Global ecological disaster does sound like the end of the world.

[Warren Godbey]

Well, don't quote me.

[Gordon Porlock]

And it's clearly bad enough out there that everyone wanted to hide out in hypersleep for a thousand years.

[Warren Godbey]

Some people are prone to overreaction or.

[Gordon Porlock]

Under reaction in the face of overwhelming evidence.

[Warren Godbey]

The pink footed geese are fine. One of them shat on my boot earlier.

[Gordon Porlock]

It is quite unsettling how blase you're being about all this.

[Warren Godbey]

I'm sorry, I am. I'm supposed to be helping you with your. With your.

[Gordon Porlock]

With my existential dread that. Yes.

[Warren Godbey]

I'm not very good at that. I'm as good at that as I was at Goldeneye.

[Gordon Porlock]

Existential Dread 64.

[Warren Godbey]

Yeah. Probably sell more copies than Dr. Mario. So how are your dreads? What terrors have you been ruminating on of late?

[Gordon Porlock]

Of late I've been thinking about whether or not hypersleep does change you as a person. Because we never pinned that down, did we? With you, I mean. Right.

[Grace]

I guess.

[Gordon Porlock]

I. I'm not trying to talk about you. Don't worry. I'm thinking about me. Am I still the same? Am I still me?

[Warren Godbey]

You're playing card games and feeling anxious. Seems like you.

[Gordon Porlock]

I don't know. How does one know? Because I run this round and round in my head. I try and tell a version of this story to the old me. The me back at home, before we ever came here. I tell him, not only will you find out the truth about Red Valley, not only will it be more fantastical and terrible than you've ever imagined, but you are part of it. You go into cryonic preservation and wake up in the future. You hypersleep longer than anyone's ever hyperslept.

[Warren Godbey]

Only by like, a week or two. Like, don't let it go to your head, Oren.

[Gordon Porlock]

Sorry. Sorry. There's a version of me that would be so excited by all this, he'd flip his workstation over. It would energize him, it would thrill him, it would feed him.

[Warren Godbey]

You're missing quite a lot of context in that account of events.

[Gordon Porlock]

Yes and no. I just. I just don't know.

[Warren Godbey]

Look, I liked the you before and I like the you now. You're able to effortlessly jump from Tolkien to mental health crises. It's something I've always admired in you.

[Gordon Porlock]

I've been thinking about Briony, too.

[Warren Godbey]

Okay.

[Gordon Porlock]

Do you see her?

[Warren Godbey]

Do I see her? No. She's locked up. How far away is she from us right now? Down tunnels. Far away.

[Gordon Porlock]

What is she still doing here?

[Grace]

That's.

[Warren Godbey]

That's down to Aubrey and Hester and Grace, not you. No, it's not down to. It couldn't and shouldn't be down to me.

[Gordon Porlock]

Or me.

[Warren Godbey]

Gordon. Bryony.

[Gordon Porlock]

Bryony what? What do you mean, bryony what? What is there to say? She did the worst things imaginable, but she kept us both alive. We can't kill her. But should she be allowed to live? Hey, she's too dangerous to set free. But we can't keep her down a bloody tunnel.

[Warren Godbey]

You need to try and trust what's going on here with the people around you.

[Gordon Porlock]

You sound like him.

[Warren Godbey]

Like who?

[Gordon Porlock]

Like Grace.

[Warren Godbey]

I believe he's genuinely trying to help you. We are all trying to help you. This part sucks. I know. And I know it's been so much harder for you than it was for me. And I'm sorry. I hate that. But soon this part will be over and you'll be properly out and about with the rest of us. What? You object to the us, don't you?

[Gordon Porlock]

What did you say?

[Warren Godbey]

I'm not saying I'm one of them and you're not. You and me are in this together, but, yeah, I am trying to.

[Gordon Porlock]

People are dying in this place.

[Warren Godbey]

What?

[Gordon Porlock]

And where. Where was Warren on that list, Gordon? What? What?

[Warren Godbey]

What are you talking about?

[Gordon Porlock]

Whoa.

[Warren Godbey]

Hey.

[Gordon Porlock]

Jesus Christ.

[Warren Godbey]

Gordon.

[Gordon Porlock]

Gordon.

[Warren Godbey]

Gordon.

[Gordon Porlock]

Hey. Where is Aubrey?

[Grace]

Was it.

[Warren Godbey]

I don't know where Aubrey is.

[Gordon Porlock]

Aubrey. I never met her.

[Warren Godbey]

Look at me. Look at me.

[Gordon Porlock]

Chat rooms online, we use fake names, aliases. No, no, please go.

[Grace]

Grace.

[Warren Godbey]

Grace, I need you in Gordon's quarters right now. Hey, hey, hey.

[Gordon Porlock]

Hey.

[Warren Godbey]

It's all right. Warren. Yeah, yeah, it's me. I'm here. It's okay. Warren, where did you go?

[Grace]

Sa.

[Narrator]

While you weren't hypersleeping is a Red Valley miniseam. Written by Jonathan Williams, directed by Alan Mandel and associate directed by Carol Pestridge with music editing and sound design by Richard Orpheus Campbell, additional sound effects editing by Luke Elliott, Original podcast artwork by Claire Hoopes and promotional artwork by Noah Dow, Transcripts by Karen Butler Performances by Alan Mandel as Gordon Porlock Jonathan Williams as Warren Godbey Diane Broney as De Gracious Mele May Cunningham as Briony Howell Alexander Broad as Clive Schill and Carol Pestridge as Waffles. Choir vocals by Laura Wickham, Carol Pestridge and Richard Orpheus Campbell. Thanks as always to the Overhead Board of directors Jack Rees, Marguerite Kenner, Dev Patel, Paul James and Hayley Daniel. Red Valley is recorded at Orpheus Studio London and brought to you by Continue Productions. Thanks so much for Listen. Sa.

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[Warren Godbey]

Hello and thanks for calling the Arena. If you know your party's extension, you can dial it at any time. If you're psychiatrist has gone missing, press 3.

[Gordon Porlock]

Press 3?

[Charlie]

That sounds ill advised. Life is about choices, man. You and I both suffer from a very rare form of mental illness. Right?

[Grace]

Yep, yep, that's us.

[Charlie]

I'm just saying we're probably not the best private investigators since we don't know what's real.

[Gordon Porlock]

The waitress at the Chinese restaurant, she.

[Grace]

Told me that I needed to complete.

[Gordon Porlock]

Three trials to find Sadler.

[Warren Godbey]

Okay, but how long have you been out of your meds?

[Unknown Male Character]

Three trials. The arena, the old factory, the inventor's basement.

[Warren Godbey]

The inventor's basement.

[Gordon Porlock]

Exactly.

[Charlie]

Mama, I met someone today. You're not gonna believe this. Half spider, half human.

[Warren Godbey]

You all have this disorder. We call it the Imperfection.

[Gordon Porlock]

Okay, so we just got off the train at a stop called east river between East Broadway and York street, which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist.

[Charlie]

We are not a cop show, Charlie.

[Gordon Porlock]

I know that. But we're friends and I need my friends.

[Warren Godbey]

How sure are you that these things.

[Gordon Porlock]

Are actually happening in real life?

[Warren Godbey]

It seems like reality can be a little slippery.

[Grace]

Charlie. Charlie. They're on my face. Amber.

[Narrator]

Amber.

[Grace]

Stop.

[Warren Godbey]

Stop.

[Narrator]

Stop.

[Gordon Porlock]

Stop it.

[Grace]

Stop it.

[Announcer]

These fucking spiders.

[Charlie]

They are everywhere.

[Warren Godbey]

The Imperfection an audio drama in nine parts Produced by Wolf at the Door Studios out now. For more information please visit wlfdr. Com.