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Polybius Protocol
by The Children of the Neon God (DTY)
Before TRON, there was POLYBIUS.A retro sci-fi horror fiction podcast from Children of the Neon God, based on the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend.Liz Faire thought she was just a substitute teacher—until a haunted arcade machine came back to finish what it started.Analog horror, Cold War conspiracies, and buried memories.Reboot the program. Remain for the glitch.For fans of Archive 81, Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, Limetown, or Control (Remedy Games).Check out our website: polybiusPROTOCOL.com
Episodes
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Polybius Protocol — Episode 11 - Big Trouble with Little Liz
Play the game no one can remember playing. POLYBIUS PROTOCOL Episode 11: “Big Trouble with Little Liz” Young Liz runs through 1981 Portland as the signal spreads, the bystanders obey, and a mannequin-android version of her future self gets a little homicidal. Missing student Kelly Deale has…
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 10 - Live Studio Audience
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…
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 9 - "The First Signal"
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...
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 8 - "Back to '81"
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....
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 7 - "Homecoming"
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…
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 6 - "Pacify"
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...
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 5 – "Avoid the Void"
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…
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 4 - "What's the Deal with Kelly Deale?"
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...
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 3 – “String and Stick”
🎮 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.…
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Polybius Protocol - Episode 2 - "The Sub"
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...
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Polybius Protocol - "Pilot"
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Before TRON, there was POLYBIUS.A retro sci-fi horror fiction podcast from Children of the Neon God, based on the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend.Liz Faire thought she was just a substitute teacher—until a haunted arcade machine came back to finish what it started.Analog horror, Cold War conspiracies, and buried memories.Reboot the program. Remain for the glitch.For fans of Archive 81, Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, Limetown, or Control (Remedy Games).Check out our website: polybiusPROTOCOL.com
HOSTED BY
The Children of the Neon God (DTY)
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Before TRON, there was POLYBIUS.A retro sci-fi horror fiction podcast from Children of the Neon God, based on the infamous 1981 Portland arcade legend.Liz Faire thought she was just a substitute teacher—until a haunted arcade machine came back to finish what it started.Analog horror, Cold War...
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