Worm Full-Cast Production - Arc 1: Gestation

Worm Full-Cast Production - Arc 1: Gestation

Project Overview


INTRODUCTION



Worm: A Full-Cast production is a fan audiobook adaptation of Wildbow’s web serial Worm. Worm is a web serial about an introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower. 


AUDITIONS

The roles we need, in order of appearance, are.


  • Taylor

  • Mr. Gladly

  • Madison

  • Lung

  • Grue

  • Regent

  • Tattletale

  • Armsmaster

  • TV Narrator

  • Grace Lands

  • Interlude Narrator

This casting call is specifically for Arc 1: Gestation. The deadline for Arc 1 characters is January 1st, 2021.


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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Taylor
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Maia Harlap

The idea is for the actress that plays Taylor to read the prose and the dialogue. If this isn't possible, however, we're willing to split the role. Taylor is Caucasian..

  • First statement screamed. Second statement angry, not screamed, but in hopeless tone.



    “What the fuck!? ”I screamed to nobody in particular, my voice echoing in the bathroom.  There were tears in the corners of my eyes.


    “The hell am I supposed to do!?” (1.1) 

  • Stated with trepidation, as if you don’t know what you’re getting into and are nervous for the future.



    “Which raises the question,” I cut in, “What is the aim of this meeting?  I’m a little weirded out with you guys revealing your secret identities like this, or at least, pretending to.” (2.6) 

  • Spoken in a taunting voice. Shouted.



    “Mannequin!”


    He stopped and turned his upper body to face me.  His head cocked to one side.


    “Yeah,” I said.  “You didn’t get me.”



    “Hey!” I shouted.  “Come on!  Fight me!  Don’t you have the balls to take on a teenage girl?  Or are they one of the things you cut away!?” (12.7) 



Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mr. Gladly
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: DaithiODonnell

Mr. Gladly is a very laid-back character. The person who voices him should be fairly young, but have a man's voice.


  • Said in a laid-back tone, like it doesn’t matter


    “Let me wrap up here,” Mr. Gladly said, “Sorry, guys, but there is homework for the weekend.  Think about capes and how they’ve impacted the world around you.  Make a list if you want, but it’s not mandatory.  On Monday we’ll break up into groups of four and see what group has the best list.  I’ll buy the winning group treats from the vending machine.” (1.1) 

  • Matter-of-fact tone


    “We’d have a discussion about what’s been going on.  You would name the person or people you believe responsible, and each of them would be called in to talk to the principal, in turn.” (2.3) 

  • Concerned tone


    “I saw the mess left on your usual seat today.  I remember a few weeks back when glue was smeared on your desk and chair.  There was also the incident that happened at the start of the year.  All of your teachers had a meeting about that.” (2.3) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Madison
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Raeoffrost

Madison should have a high voice, ideally be a soprano.

  • Screamed in anticipatory glee.

    "Oh my god, it's Taylor" (1.1) 

  • Whispered like you only want one person to hear you.


    "Yeah, do it" (1.1) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Grue
open
Unpaid

Grue should be just exiting his teenage years. This character is African-American.

  • Said in a matter-of-fact tone


    “Lee’s no slouch in a fight, but there’s a reason he’s not leader of the ABB.  He got spooked without his boss there and ran.  I guess you’re responsible for that?”  Skull-mask waited for a response from me.  When I didn’t offer one, he ventured towards the edge of the roof and looked down, then spoke without turning to look at me, “Lung is getting creamed.  The fuck you do to him?” (1.5) 

  • Stated in a nervous tone


    “That’s a disaster waiting to happen.” (18.3) 

  • Spoken as if you’re describing something. Said in a dejected tone of voice


    “And when it works, I feel… a circuit?  It’s like the darkness comes alive, a cord or wire between me and the people in my darkness, and I can actually see it.  If I focus on it, it gets bright and hot, and I have access to whatever my power’s sapping from them.  A fraction of a power, one power at a time.” (13.10) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Regent
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: EuanThePerson

Should have a cocky tone of voice, like you don't care about anything. This character is french-canadian.

  • Pretending to be angry, but not.



    “Fuck you, Grue,” (1.5) 

  • Incredulous


    “They’ve assaulted you!... “The only difference I see is that they deserve it and you didn’t.  I mean, I’m not smart like you guys are, so maybe I’m missing something.” (4.3) 

  • Stated like you don’t care


    “No offense… Well, I’ll rephrase: I don’t really care about offending you.  Don’t shoot me though.  I just want to stop you there and say I don’t care about the science stuff and all the technobabble about how you did it.  It’s boring.  I’m just saying it’s kind of neat to see what a person looks like when dissolved down like that.  Gross, creepy, fucked up, but it’s neat.” (4.8) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Tattletale
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Valravn

Cocky, "I'm smarter than you" voice. In her late teens. Caucasian.

  • Spoken in a matter-of-fact tone of voice, as if aiding and abetting a supervillain is an everyday thing


    “Well, Bug, a cape is gonna show up in less than a minute.  You did us a solid by dealing with Lung, so take my advice.  Someone from the Protectorate shows up, finds two bad guys duking it out, they’re not going to let one walk away.  You should get out of here,”  She said.  She flashed me a smile, her eyes were glittering with mischief. (1.5) 

  • Spoken in a matter-of-fact tone of voice, like you’re telling a story


    “Let me tell you a little story.  Correct me if I’m wrong on any of the details.  Eleven years ago, just five years after capes really started showing up, there was a team operating hereabouts, calling themselves the Brockton Bay Brigade.  Lady Photon, Manpower, Brandish, Flashbang, Fleur and Lightstar.  They wind up taking on a villain in his own home and it’s a pretty decent fight.  They beat him, and because he was a real bastard, he got sent straight to the Birdcage.” (3.12) 

  • Condescending tone


    “I’ll make you a deal, Glory Hole.  You go in the vault, lock yourself in, and I don’t speak on the subject.  I won’t say the one sentence that tears your family apart.” (3.12) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Armsmaster
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Sam Gabriel

Forceful, in-your-face personality. This character is caucasian.

  • Yelled in angry, scared tone, as if your integrity is about to be compromised or something


    “I met her that night.  She said she was a hero, that you Undersiders mistook her for a villain.  I didn’t think twice about it until she arranged a meeting with me, the night before the bank robbery.  Told me she had joined your group as an undercover agent, getting the dirt on you so she could hand that group over to us.  Talked to me again the night you raided the fundraiser, out there on the balcony.  Told me if I let her go, she’d get the details on your boss to me.  Guess she hasn’t gotten around to figuring that little detail out, yet.” (8.7)

  • Spoken in a lecturing tone


    “Now I want you to consider the danger involved in taking the credit for Lung’s capture.  Without a doubt, Oni Lee and Bakuda will be looking to accomplish two goals.  Freeing their boss and getting vengeance on the one responsible.  I suspect you’re now aware… these are scary people.  Scarier in some ways than their boss.” (1.6) 

  • Yelling in an angry, tired, determined tone


    “You dumb brute." Armsmaster growled. He was panting for breath. "Every fight you’ve done so far, that we’ve got on camera?  I’ve watched it, put it through programs.  I’ve got a computer on my back that’s relaying to a supernetwork, noting your every move, using subsonic pulses to read every aspect of the street, the surrounding buildings, every feature of the terrain.  I know exactly what you’re going to do next – you’re going to try to catch me from behind with a wave. You don’t even speak English, do you?  Or you’d know what I was saying, you’d know I already won.  The others helped, slowing you down, stopping the waves.  But this victory, this killing blow?  It’s going to be mine. This cloud around my blade?  Nanotechnology.  Nano-structures engineered to slide between atoms, sever molecular bonds.  Cuts through anything.  Everything.  Like a sharp knife through air. Let’s see how quickly you respond to classical conditioning.  Every time you try to run, I’ll do something like that. For the record, that last trick was a temporal stasis trigger, with thanks owed to the cooperation of a subordinate of mine.  Drains my battery reserves, but you don’t understand that, do you? I am going to be the one to take your head, abomination.  I can only hope you know mortal terror in your last moments, know what you’ve inflicted on so many others. Delaying, buying time for a tsunami? No.  Three point four minutes before the next big wave breaks through the ice.  Dragon’s probes are giving me the data on that.  This will be over before then. Finally scared? Good. I should thank you, monster.” (8.4) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Lung
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: dooule

Lung should have a Chinese accent and a fairly deep voice. This character is East Asian.

  • Snarled angrily


    “...the children, just shoot. Doesn’t matter your aim, just shoot. You see one lying on the ground? Shoot the bitch twice more to be sure. We give them no chances to be clever or lucky, understand?” (1.3) 

  • Roared, as if in pain


    “Muh… Motherfucker!” (1.5) 

  • Growled in annoyance


    “Cock. Sucker,” he growled in his heavily accented voice, his cussing interrupted by his panting for breath, “Move. Give me something to aim for.” (1.5) 


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
TV narrator
open
Unpaid

There is no context given for who the narrator is. They appear only in one chapter.

  • You're describing the most mysterious and most powerful superhero in the world, on a documentary television show.


    “We don’t know how long he had been there.  Suspended in the air above the Atlantic Ocean.  On May twentieth, 1982, an ocean liner was crossing from Plymouth to Boston when a passenger spotted him.  He was naked, his arms to his sides, his long hair blowing in the wind as he stood in the sky, nearly a hundred feet above the gently cresting waves.  His skin and hair can only be described as a burnished gold.  With neither body hair nor clothes to cover him, it is said, he seemed almost artificial.

    “The golden man would reappear several more times in the coming months and years.  At some point, he donned clothing.  At first, a sheet worn over one shoulder and pinned at either side of the waist, then more conventional clothes.  In 1999, he donned the white bodysuit he still wears today.  For more than a decade, we have wondered, where did our golden man get these things?  Who was he in contact with?

    “Periodically at first, then with an increasing frequency, the golden man started to intervene in times of crisis.  For events as small as a car accident, as great as natural disasters, he has arrived and used his abilities to save us.  A flash of light to freeze water reinforcing a levee stressed by a hurricane.  A terrorist act averted.  A serial murderer caught.  A volcano quelled.  Miracles, it was said. (1.5) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Grace Lands
open
Unpaid

Grace Lands appears only for the duration of the audition lines provided, as an interview in a television show without further character details established.

  • Spoken with awe; recollective of an important memory.


    "I thought he was going to crack his façade and cry any moment", said Grace Lands, "But when I reached out and touched his fingertips, I was the one who burst into tears."

    “That boat trip was a final journey for me.  I had cancer, and I wasn’t brave enough to face it.  Can’t believe I’m admitting this in front of a camera, but I was going back to Boston, where I was born, to end things myself.  After I met him, I changed my mind.  Didn’t matter anyways.  I went to a doctor, and he said there was no sign I ever had the disease."

    “My brother, Andrew Hawke, was the last passenger to make any sort of contact with him, I remember.  He climbed up onto the railing, and, almost falling off, he clasped the hand of the golden man.  The rest of us had to grab onto him to keep him from falling.  Whatever happened left him with a quiet awe.  When the man with the golden skin flew away, my brother stayed silent.  The rest of the way to Boston, my brother didn’t say a word.  When we docked, and the spell finally broke, my brother babbled his excitement to reporters like a child." (1.5) 

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Interlude Narrator
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Sloth_S

Worm contains 70+ interludes, each focused on a different character, and each read from the third person perspective. There is no preference for age, gender, or accent. Applicants not chosen for Interlude 1 will be considered for future interludes.

  • "The television flicked off, and the screen went black, cutting the documentary off mid sentence.  Danny Hebert sighed and sat down on the bed, only to stand just a moment later and resume pacing."

    "It was three fifteen in the morning, and his daughter Taylor was not in her bedroom."

    "Danny ran his hands through his hair, which was thinned enough at the top to be closer to baldness than not.  He liked to be the first to arrive at work, watching everyone arrive, having them know he was there for them.  So he usually went to bed early; he’d turn in at ten in the evening, give or take depending on what was on TV.  Only tonight, a little past midnight, he’d been disturbed from restless sleep when he had felt rather than heard the shutting of the back door of the house, just below his bedroom.  He had checked on his daughter, and he’d found her room empty."

    "So he had waited for his daughter to return for three hours."

    "Countless times, he had glanced out the window, hoping to see Taylor coming in." (1.5) 

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