High above the streets, where the city pretends to breathe easier, the same nightmare is unfolding.

In a forgotten apartment in the Upper City, Glimps encounters another victim of the growing phenomenon — alive, breathing, and completely unreachable. The man sits awake but absent, trapped somewhere beyond words, beyond fear, beyond help. The signs are familiar now. Too familiar.

As Glimps pieces together what little evidence remains — fragmented notes, whispered phrases, traces of panic left behind — a troubling pattern begins to emerge. These incidents aren’t isolated. They aren’t accidental. And they’re happening faster than anyone is willing to admit.

When E.V. confirms a second case elsewhere in the city, the implications become impossible to ignore. Whatever is hollowing people out isn’t random, and it isn’t slowing down.

Glimps still doesn’t have answers.

But the city is starting to show its cracks.

And something beneath the surface is moving closer.

The city moves. The machines roar. The workers march forward.

Tommy walks with them — but something inside him is missing.

In the Industrial District, surrounded by steel, smoke, and routine, Tommy drifts through his morning like a ghost in his own body. His steps are steady, his face blank, his mind somewhere else entirely. Time stutters. Reality bends. And for brief, terrifying moments, the world feels wrong — as if he’s slipping in and out of a dream he can’t control.

Flashes of distorted images break through the haze. Sounds sharpen, then vanish. His own hands feel unfamiliar. No one notices. No one stops. The city doesn’t slow down for people who fall behind.

This isn’t the first time it’s happened. But this time, it feels closer. More personal. As if something is trying to surface — and failing.

Tommy keeps walking.

Because stopping would mean thinking.

And thinking might mean remembering something he isn’t ready to face.

Deep beneath the city, where neon never reaches and rules don’t apply, information has a price.

Jess and Mike descend into the Rusted Gun Barrel — a hidden bar carved into the forgotten arteries of the city. No signs. No questions. Just shadows, smoke, and people who know too much. They’re not here to drink. They’re here for names.

As whispers trade hands and deals are sealed in silence, an information broker confirms what the rebels fear most: the sickness spreading through the streets isn’t random. A dazed population is easier to control. A fractured city is profitable. And the higher you look, the worse the truth becomes.

Rumors surface of secret funding, backroom alliances, and a scientist whose work may be tied to everything unraveling below. One name, spoken carefully, cuts through the haze — a man who escaped the system and may be the only one who understands what’s really happening.

This isn’t just about a disease anymore.

It’s about power.

And someone is pulling the strings.

Beneath the neon skyline, the city tells a different story.

In the shadowed alleys of the Underground District, Glimps moves through flickering lights and digital decay, posing as a detective in a place where the system no longer looks. People aren’t disappearing — at least not physically. They fade. One moment present, the next hollow, as if something inside them has been quietly erased.

Tonight’s investigation begins with a man slumped in the darkness, trapped in a waking nightmare. His words are fragmented, his fear unmistakable. Whatever he’s seeing, it’s watching him back. As Glimps searches for answers, a troubling pattern begins to emerge — one that feels uncomfortably close to home.

Authorities dismiss the phenomenon as nonsense. Official explanations offer comfort, not truth. But Glimps has seen this before, and the signs are spreading faster than anyone wants to admit. With patrols closing in and time running out, he’s forced to make a choice: walk away, or pull at a thread that could unravel everything.

This opening scene sets the tone for Cyber Rebels of AndroidA — a cinematic science-fiction fiction podcast told through immersive sound design, tension, and mystery.

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Beneath the neon skyline, something is breaking.

In the shadowed streets of AndroidA, people aren’t disappearing — they’re fading. Workers drift through their days hollowed out, minds slipping in and out of reality. Surveillance drones watch from above. The city keeps moving, pretending nothing is wrong.

But the rebels are starting to notice.

As Glimps searches the underground for answers, whispers of a spreading consciousness disease surface — dismissed by authorities, ignored by the system. In the industrial districts, Tommy struggles with disturbing lapses in time, caught between waking life and something he can’t explain. And in hidden bars and forgotten tunnels, information brokers hint at a deeper truth: this isn’t chaos. It’s control.

Someone is watching.

Someone is experimenting.

And a broken drone in the streets may be the first visible crack in a much larger machine.

Cyber Rebels of AndroidA is a cinematic science-fiction fiction podcast set in the universe of Tommy in the Attic. Told through immersive sound design, tension, and mystery, Season One follows a group of rebels as they uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the city’s lowest alleys to its highest towers.

The question isn’t whether the system is failing.

It’s whether anyone will wake up in time to stop it.

🎧 Start with Episode 1.