Hello, everyone!
This casting call is for a short piece of audio fiction called "Sid Sylvan's Audio Adventures." It's a fantasy podcast about a travelling Gnome named Sid who makes audio tours for the many magical "vacation destinations" in the Sundered Land of Karesh.
It's a comedy, as Sid always finds something nice to say about the places he's visiting despite the fact that the Land of Karesh is a bleak, unforgiving hellscape in an over-the-top grimdark fantasy world.
You can listen to a rough draft of this episode here! I now have a longer and more refined script for this story, and I'm looking to enlist the help of some talented Voice Actors, an Audio Editor, and a Sound Designer!
If this episode goes well and it finds an audience, then more episodes like it could be made in the future!
All payment will be over Venmo, and the open roles and their rates can be found down below! Break a leg!
(Accepting 18+ only. Must have Discord.)
Sid Sylvan is a little gnome who loves to explore and travel. He has a high pitched voice, and he's an extreme optimist. He's either ok with how horrible the world is around him, or he can't tell how horrible it actually is. It's hard to tell. It's important that his chipper attitude juxtapose the grimdark world around him.
The Ghost is a spirit that's been in pain for centuries, and will continue to be in pain for the rest of time. He is neither annoyed by or comforted by Sid's questioning. His existence is just a pained blur at this point.
SID SYLVAN
[You're giving the intro to your travel guide podcast. You think this place is great and you want everyone to know about it.]
Welcome to the Bloodswamps of Ungar. These fields sit in layers upon layers of fetid blood, deposited here thanks to centuries of constant warfare. The swamp fumes are thick, pungent, and filled with history. These bloody waters provide the nearby town of Gretch with rich soil, delectable bloodberries, and virulent hepatitis.
SID SYLVAN
[You're telling your listeners about places where they can stay the night in this town. This witch's house is creepy as heck, but you don't care and you don't think other people should think it's creepy either.]
"Maribeld’s" is less of an inn, and more of an old woman’s home where visitors occasionally go missing, but let me tell you; the mead here is to die for. The locally picked bloodberries give the brew a wonderfully bitter punch that you won’t forget anytime soon.
Let’s see if Maribeld has any mead ready now! Good morning, Maribeld!
GHOST
[You've been summoned by a mortal to answer some questions about your past that you barely remember.]
Who disturbs my restless slumber?
[He introduces himself, asks for an interview, and offers payment.]
Your price is…acceptable. What knowledge do you seek from me, little augur?
[He asks you what your name is and where you were from.]
My name is dust, and my home is ash. Such memories are lost to time…worn away across centuries…like a river carving a canyon out of stone.
Maribeld is an elderly witch that opens her home for travelers so that she can kill them and eat them. But she tries to appear as though she's a normal and kind old lady.
The Peasant Woman is just an angry person who lives in a stinking swamp filled with blood. She hates everyone and everything as a default.
MARIBELD
[You're greeting a small gnome that has just entered your home/inn.]
Why hello little one! Aren’t you an adorable little morsel. Are you lost?
MARIBELD
[You're trying to trick the podcast's audience and potential travelers into thinking that you're a nice old woman and that they can stay at your home so you can eat them.]
If you’re ever in Gretch, and you’re hungry, tired, lost, and there’s no one who might come looking for you, come visit Old Maribeld’s! It’s the ominous hut just behind the abattoir. I’ll make you a fine meal indeed.
PEASANT WOMAN
[You almost run over an annoying Gnome with your wheelbarrow on your way home from work.]
(Angry) Watch it, pipsqueak!
(Annoyed) Ugh, Gnomes.
I need an Audio Editor who can remove background noise, clean up dialogue, keep volume levels equal, and who can make audio clips flow seamlessly.
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I need a Sound Designer to implement sound effects, ambient noise, and to design some short and pleasant theme music that can play at the beginning and end of the episode.
(Audition was submitted and accepted outside of CCC.)
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