Lost/Thread Season 2: Plan B Special
Project Overview
Lost/Thread is a supernatural horror audio drama about a set of online rules that lead to another world, and the people who follow them and never come back.
Plan B is a three-part special. Rebecca, a paranormal researcher, gathers a group of near-strangers to follow the rules with her. The group consist of her ex, two YouTubers, a couple on their honeymoon, and a man from an online forum. Once they cross over, there cameras die, the rules turn out to be real, and the world starts turning them against each other.
Voice Actor
The paranormal researcher who organized the trip. Years ago she led a research trip that ended in a flood, and most of her team died. She's organized, stubborn and fiercely protective, but she's starting to lose time and hear the past flooding back in.
- female adult
- tired
- serious
- commanding
- Guarded
(sharp) I'm just asking everyone to treat this like it matters. Because it does.
(quiet, broken) Every time I close my eyes I'm back there, counting heads. And I keep coming up short.
(sobbing, broken) I thought I could save everyone. I was wrong. I was so wrong.
Voice Actor
Annie co-runs a paranormal YouTube channel with her best friend, Christina, and joined Rebecca's trip for the content. She's loud, sarcastic and a little harsh. She thinks this whole thing is an elaborate stunt planned by Rebecca but she soon realizes she can't deny it anymore. When the cameras stop working she turns the trip into a podcast on the spot, because Annie always needs to control the story.
Range: Snarky, rapid-fire curiosity, explosive anger
- english
- female adult
- Sharp
- sarcastic
- fast-talking
"It's a stunt, Chris. A really elaborate, expensive ARG, and you're falling for it."
(getting faster) "Did you see something? Hear something? Was it a gut feeling, or—"
(screaming) "YOU SAID NOT GUILTY! We all heard you say it!"
Voice Actor
Jacob is Rebecca's ex-boyfriend, and he's the one driving the group across into the the world. He's quietly hoping the trip might bring them back together. He's dependable and calm in a crisis, he's protective of everyone, and quick with a dry joke to ease the tension.
Range: Calm, dry humour, desperate
- english
- Protective
- steady
- warm
- male adult
(stern) "No way, B. We don't know what the rules are out there yet."
(forced lightness) "Everybody buckled? I'm not explaining to anyone's mom why you went through a windshield."
"I love her. That's it. That's the whole thing."
Voice Actor
Christina is Annie's best friend and co-host of their paranormal YouTube channel, and she's the steady one of the pair. She sees herself as the rational investigator who follows the evidence, and she's the first to calm Annie down or call her out when she goes too far. But she believed Rebecca before anyone else did, because she wanted it to be true, this trip is the biggest thing that's ever happened to her, and part of her is always thinking about how it'll sound on the show. In the courtroom she takes charge and acts like she has it all figured out, even though she's guessing as much as everyone else.
Range: Soothing, analytical, raw honesty
- warm
- caring
- female adult
- Grounded
"Every camera we own bricked the second we crossed that highway!"
(gentle) "Hold my hands. And breathe."
"I told myself I was following the evidence. I wanted it to be true."
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Sophia is a cheerful newlywed who joined the trip with her husband, Ali, as part of their honeymoon. At first she treats it like an adventure and giggles through the creepy parts. Then something starts following the group, and Sophia gets blamed for bringing it. She's also hiding something from Ali. she cheated on him before the wedding.
Range: Giggly, terrified, hysterical
- english
- american
- female adult
- Fragile
- bright
- bubbly
"It's fine! It's basically a scavenger hunt. Grab the flashlight, Ali!"
(whispering) "I'm sorry I ruined the trip. I'm sorry I lied."
(screaming) "I love him. I would never. I'M NOT GUILTY!"
Voice Actor
Ali is Sophia's husband a big, friendly joker who tells terrible campfire stories and would do anything for his wife. He quietly brought a gun on the trip "for emergencies," and the rest of the group doesn't find out until he uses it. As the other world gets into his head, his devotion to Sophia turns jealous and frightening.
Range: Goofy, sincere, menacing
- english
- male adult
- easy-going
- american
- funny
- volatile
(chuckling) "Relax. Guy probably just got car sick. Come on, babe, let's stretch our legs."
(defensive) "Slender Man doesn't wear a tie. It's a regional variant!"
(shouting) "She didn't vote! Nobody voted for her but us!"
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Justin is a stranger Rebecca met through an online forum, and he knows more about the rules of the other world than anyone in the group. He barely speaks at first, then suddenly takes charge with warnings that sound paranoid but keep turning out to be right. He's blunt, cryptic and hard to like, and he's hiding the real reason he came: to find his missing boyfriend, Eli.
Range: Flat and eerie, paranoid, desperate pleading
- english
- unsettling
- Intense
- male adult
- american
- quiet
(every word placed) "Do not stop this car. Not for anything."
(almost conversational) "It's not the first time, is it? Bringing people somewhere they shouldn't be."
(pleading) "I came for one person. His name is Eli!"
Voice Actor
The Judge is a strange figure hanging from the ceiling of a courtroom: masked, holding a sword and scales, its eyes sewn shut. In the final episode it puts the group on trial and decides which of them "is wrong." It only speaks in short, formal rulings that should feel cold, final and inhuman. Effects will be added in post. Open to any gender.
- english
- deep
- Echoing
- male adult
- american
- female adult
- nonbinary
- cold
- inhuman
"Be seated."
(rage) "The party has acted outside of conduct."
"You are right about how wrong you are."
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