Testing the Dark Waters - Magic Story Audio Drama

Testing the Dark Waters - Magic Story Audio Drama

Project Overview

As Wizards of the Coast continues to release their weekly Magic Story updates, it is our goal on the Voice of All podcast to bring these stories to life through audio. 

The Guilds of Ravnica stories are each individual vignettes into life on the city world of Ravnica. Each is a look into the life of the lower classes as they participate in a guild and daily life and this week we feature the mad scientists, the Izzet! Our main character is also our narrator this week so if you are prepared for that, read on! You can check out this story in full here: 

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/testing-dark-waters-2018-10-17

If you're interested in hearing our past works, you can listen to all of them here:

https://www.voiceofallmtg.com/

We can also be found on Soundcloud, Stitcher, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play! We are looking to keep up with the release of Wizards' stories as best as possible and will release our version the second following Friday, so expect to be cast this week and have your lines to me within a few days.

As a general casting note, I do not typically have any voice requirements in mind for characters. I would much rather hear your interpretations and choose from among them.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Leighbet
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: Fussbudgetjr

Leighbet is an Izzet scientist, down on her luck but extremely smart and with her eyes on the prize! She dreams of being an important scientist with her own lab and in today's story she makes some grand discoveries that may launch her career... or end it prematurely. Leighbet is also the narrator of this story, so in addition to her in character lines, you will need to read narration for the story - about 15 pages (~6400 words) in total.

  • "You know, information like that would have been useful before I started the assignment." [indignant. she's just been warned about something after it tried to kill her]

  • [laughing] "Did you blackmail a member of the board to get this pushed through, or what?"

  • Not all mad scientists are born into money. Some of us have to earn it, and sometimes earning it isn't pretty. As I walk through the sewers beneath the Tenth District, knee-deep in sludge, I ignore the bits of solid waste bumping up against the repellent spell covering my uniform. Instead, I focus on the palatial sprawl of the undercity—the mesmerizing domes, stately columns, and an ornate arch inset with a relief depicting the signing of the Guildpact. It's a dangerous sort of beauty down here, and if it weren't for the noxious gasses and half-million gallons of urine and liquified excrement flowing steadily downstream, I'd say it were charming.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Tamsyn Sweene
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: MonicaRachelle

"Tamsyn Sweene" is a Dimir spy and a shapeshifter. She takes advantage of Leighbet's desperation and uses her to try and steal her inventions. Tamsyn is cold and efficient and very good at what she does.

  • [introducing herself. "You're here for the blastseeker position?"] "I'm here if you're paying. Tamsyn Sweene. Call me Tammy, and we've got a problem."

  • "I need this job, Leighbet. Maybe I'm desperate, but you are, too. That's why we'd make a great team. You've got the big ideas, but you need someone who's good with details and who knows how to game the system. Sanctions aren't the only way to get laboratory approval. I know some people who know some people. I can get your lab declared an Innovative Niche Workshop."

  • "I'm sure you'll be on the other side of these experiments in no time. Now, if you'll have a seat back out in the waiting room, we'll finish up with the other subjects and then get your payments processed." [Calmly talking to one of the test subjects. Very good bedside manner.]

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Kel'teth
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: beardyman

Kel'teth is a golgari troll. Huge, muscled, and surprisingly, extremely laid back. He's Leighbet's guide through the sewers and knows all about every danger found within. He enjoys eating mushrooms growing on himself and taking naps.

  • "Sewer sirens. Rabid as all get-out, but they can't attack you unless you put your hand in their mouth. Best avoid them."

  • [laughing] "If I'd gone and warned you about every little thing that could kill you in the sewers, we definitely wouldn't be having this conversation right now."

  • "See, normally, we fly a couple of drakes in to vaporize the bergs, but they've become impervious to electrical magic. This one's been bombed a dozen times, and not a scratch on 'er."

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Goblin Lady
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: tickyhead

A goblin lady who's one of the test subjects for Leighbet's experiments. She's very excited, giddy. and nervous and has dreams of getting her own job in the Izzet.

  • "Sorry, this is my first time being a test subject. I'm a little nervous."

  • [follow up to "Did it hurt?"] "Not a bit. This is amazing. What was in that stuff you gave us, anyway? I mean, I know you can't tell me . . . I'm trying to get an attendant job myself. It's so competitive out there, but I'm not giving up!"

  • "Sounds great!"

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