Wow, all this negative reaction to the production here. The awesome production is what made this story for me. Honestly, I wasn't that impressed with the actual story, I didn't hate it, but it's no "The Cord", which was one of my favorites last year.
But the production on this story just took it to a whole extra level. I have now shared this story with two others, and burned it on to a cd I'm giving to a friend who wanted a good example of a podcast that "wasn't just reading the story" (along with "Revelation of Cormorants"). That's right, I make Pseudopod mix tapes, you got a problem with that?
Part of it may have been that I listened to this while driving around at 2 A.M. in pea soup fog, but this story really did it for me, although I can't find anything about the plot/writing that would have put it above "solid" for me. It's the greatest success of your audio production experimenting to date! (Because I'd have loved "Cormorants" with our without the building wave noises, although I obviously prefer with.)
I practically jumped at every scream, and not just in surprise, while at the same time perfectly imagining that sound effect being abused in a crappy old game. And the 8-bit dirge was stuck in my head all the next day.