Polybius Protocol

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 th...

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. #PolybiusProtocol #AnalogHorror #AudioDrama #FictionPodcas...

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...

Liz’s students are in a coma. She’s the only one still standing. Returning to her childhood home in Laurelton, Oregon, she’s desperate for answers. But her mother, Dr. Shelly Faire, doesn’t want her to remember. Because this isn’t the first time Liz has come close to the truth. In 1981, a classified mind-control experiment hidden inside an arcade game called Polybius changed her forever. The SIGNA...

A new SIGNAL is spreading. First it was audible. Then visual. Then both. Now, the Signal may be biological . When substitute teacher Liz Faire wakes up handcuffed in a hospital wing full of comatose students, fresh from her return from the VOID, she realizes Polybius has followed her into the real world. As the Mannequin King and his doppelgänger cronies tighten their grip while hunting a missing...

LIZ IS BACK! A forgotten arcade cabinet. A digital entity with memories. And a void that feels too familiar. When Liz snaps between dimensions, she finds herself inside the game she thought she escaped. Polybius is evolving and remembers her. But so is something else. Trapped in an 80s-style arcade filled with corrupted memories and digital phantoms, Liz must uncover a hidden past, face her parent...

EPISODE 4 — “What’s the Deal with Kelly Deale?” A Portland high school physics class collapses into a mysterious coma except for two missing people: the strange transfer student Kelly Deale , and her substitute teacher (and our reluctant hero), Liz Faire . Now, Men in Black agents String and Stick interrogate the only conscious witness who might know what happened: Reagan , a chaotic Twitch stream...

🎮 Episode 3 – “STRING AND STICK” ▶️ Episode THREE Now Streaming The Polybius Protocol — a retro sci-fi horror podcastinspired by the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend — has been recognized by the Austin Film Festival (2025) as a Second Rounder in their Fiction Podcast Screenplay category. Thank you, AFF, see you in Austin! About the Series: Blending analog horror , Cold War conspiracy , and ps...

Episode 2 – “SUB” ▶️ Episode Two Now Streaming Relieve the part of 1981 that has been suppressed from the history books. Over and over again. Polybius Protocol is a retro sci-fi horror fiction podcast, inspired by the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend. Blending analog horror, Cold War conspiracy, and psychological suspense, the series explores what happens when haunted technology remembers what...

Before TRON, there was POLYBIUS . ▶️ Episode One Now Streaming Reboot the program. Remain for the glitch. Polybius Protocol is a retro sci-fi horror fiction podcast from Children of the Neon God , inspired by the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend. Blending analog horror, Cold War conspiracy, and psychological suspense, the series explores what happens when haunted technology remembers what we w...