Worm Full-Cast Production - Arc 4: Shell
Project Overview
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.
This project is a continuation of the previous project, Worm Full-Cast Production - Arc 3: Agitation. This round of auditions focuses on characters that are introduced in Shell, the fourth arc of the story. The project will release on a chapter-by-chapter basis, but those cast as characters will record all of those characters' lines in advance.
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Uber is described as a tall man with broad shoulders, changing his outfit to reflect he & his partners latest video game inspired crime spree
[Full of grandeur and pomp]
“Rest assured, Tattletale, you do,” (4.5)[Proud, sure of himself]
“You say geek like it’s a bad thing. It’s a badge of honor." (4.6)[Like it's the simplest thing in the world]
“He’s my friend,” (4.6)
Leet is a young adult, described as being "scrawny, with a weak chin and a bad slouch." His voice is described as being high pitched enough that when he yells, it's "closer to a screech." He has the power to make anything, but just once, because repeated inventions are likely to fail (explosively); he is video game themed. In his first appearance he is Bomberman themed.
[Confronted by Grue on how the duo knows the location of the Undersiders money. Do not read narration.]
“Your fifth team member led us straight to it. Lucky happenstance, really,” Leet grinned, “As for how we found her…” he trailed off.[Having his insecurities exposed. Do not read narration.]
“Shut up!” Leet spat the words, glancing over his shoulder at his teammate, “I trust Über.”
“Shut up!” Leet roared. Except he didn’t have a very deep voice, so it was probably closer to a screech.
Bakuda is a woman in early 20s, half-Asian and with a notable Boston accent. She is arrogant, and likes talking, especially when she gets to show off how clever she is.
[Bakuda has the Undersiders cornered, and is arrogantly monologuing about her genius. Do not read narration.]
Bakuda straightened up, put a foot up on the top of the Jeep’s door and rested her arms on her knee, leaning towards us. “You’re the only one I don’t get. Don’t know your powers. But seeing how you and the skinny boy baited my ineffectual mercenaries, I think I’m going to play it safe and have you be quiet. Maybe it’s a subsonic thing, altering moods as you talk, maybe it’s something else. I dunno. But you shut up, ‘Kay?”“Now, I’m in a bit of a pickle,” Bakuda hissed, examining the back of her hand. It seemed she wasn’t just compensating for the mechanical voice with body language; she liked to talk. Not that I was complaining. “See, Lung taught me a lot, but the lesson I really took to heart was that being an effective leader is all about fear. Career like ours, people are only truly loyal to someone if they are terrified of them. Enough fear, and they stop worrying about their own interests, stop wondering if they can usurp you, and they dedicate themselves entirely to making you happy. Or at least, to keeping you from being unhappy.” (4.8)
[Ranting about her experiments, her genius, quick to change in temperament when she thinks one of the Undersiders is plotting something. Do not read narration.]
“Everyone,” Bakuda answered, almost delirious on the high of her successful ‘experiment’ and Regent’s attention. “Even my most loyal. Bitch of a thing to do. Not the actual procedure of sticking the things inside their heads. After the first twenty, I could do the surgeries with my eyes closed. Literally. I actually did a few that way. She pouted, “But having to tranquilize the first dozen or so and do the surgeries on them before they woke up, so I’d have the manpower to round up everyone else? One after the other? Really tedious once the novelty wears off.”
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Her mood changed in a flash, and she angrily jabbed a finger in his direction. “No. Don’t think I don’t know you’re trying something. I’m a fucking genius, get it? I can think twelve moves ahead before you’ve even decided on your first. It’s why you’re standing there and I…” she hoisted herself up so she was sitting on the side of the Jeep, “Am sitting here.” (4.8)
Young man, chubby, soft-spoken but capable of shaky confidence when he summons his courage.
[Responding to Jack Slash, having been asked whether his mother (Purity) loves him or likes him, and what the difference is. Theo explains why Purity likes him but will never love him. Shaky, confronted, truthful]
"I- I take care of Aster for her. I do my chores, I don't talk back. I don't make life harder for her," Theo began. He swallowed, "but my dad treated her badly, and I think she sees him when she looks at me, and she'll never let herself love me because of that." She has to look past the doughy face to see Dad in me, past the baby fat I never seemed to lose, but I have his genes, I look like him, beneath it all. (11.b)[Showing immense courage, says to Jack Slash that he would kill him if he had the chance]
"People like you? I'd kill. Sir.[After a time skip, slightly deeper voice, expressing concern for just how easily Jack Slash and the Slaughterhouse 9 murdered hundreds of people]
"Right here, in this dinky little ski resort, he murdered a few hundred people, just as a warm-up. How many people on the periphery of it all are affected? How many people across America, across the world, know people in Killington? Or know the people in this town?" (26.1)
Kayden Anders is a 29-year-old woman, described as "mousy" and "shorter than average". A former member of Empire 88, the white supremacist gang, at the start of the story, although she claims to not agree with the white supremacy. She is trying to shake her criminal reputation and work as an independent hero, although she's more than willing to commit heinous crimes when she feels they're warranted.
[Pleading her case to Kaiser, her ex-husband, as to why he needs to help her re-unite some of Empire 88 to fight the ABB]
"I've talked to the others, but nobody that's worked for you is willing to be the first to join me. Some say they're worried they'll offend you. Others are just spooked, or they've already given up. They ask me why would a group of your rejects do any better than they'd managed as part of your team? I'm not getting anywhere, and time's running out. All it would take would be one word from you, and I'd have a team of four or five people. With that, I could root out and squash the ABB." (4.x)[Angryly arguing with Crusader that Theo, her son-in-law, doesn't deserve to be left behind to be arrested, since she feels like she owes him for caring for aster, her infant daughter]
"Like hell I won't. He saved Aster when Jack was going to kill her, he might have saved me in the process. I owe him-" (18.y)
[Stuck within a Grey Boy time loop, she talks to her infant daughter]
"Aster…do…what…he…says…" (26.6)
Max Anders is a man in his early 30s, manipulative and charismatic, described as being very handsome and attractive. He is the leader of a major white supremacist gang, inheriting the position from his father despite not believing in the ideology, as well as the CEO of a pharmaceutical company.
[Making an offer to his ex-wife, confident in his position.]
“You’d be my second in command. I’d talk to the old members of the team, and get them to form a separate group to work under you. You’d double check with me on anything you did, but other than that, you’d be completely autonomous. Free to use your team as you see fit.”
[Arrogant, self-possessed, calmly implying a threat.]
Kaiser shook his head with the sound of metal edges scraping on metal, “Peace is always preferable, but I can’t let an insult like this slide. We’ll need restitution before this can be put to rest. Money or blood. Your choice.”
[Defending himself for threatening a random goon with death because he can't effectively threaten the goon's boss.]
“Wrong?” Kaiser chuckled, “As far as I’m concerned, the moment you need to fall back on morals to argue something, you’ve already lost the argument. This is war.”
Worm contains 70+ interludes, each focused on a different character, and each read from a third person perspective. There is no preference for age, gender, or accent. Arc four has two interludes, and as such two narrators will be selected; this is the audition for the first interlude.
Kayden crouched by the crib, her arms folded over the edge, watching her baby’s chest rise and fall. She felt at peace. Aster was perfect, flawless, untainted by the chaos and the evils of the world beyond the apartment and the nursery. Even in her waking moments, she wasn’t overly demanding, quick to reduce her wails to quiet whimpers when she heard assurances that food, company or a diaper change were on the way. Not that she understood, of course, but she trusted her mother would provide. Kayden couldn’t have asked for more. Literally, there was nothing Aster could do, have or be that would make her better than she was.
In an odd way, Kayden supposed, she took refuge in Aster. She found succor in the company of her child, in the midst of a world she had little hope for.
Worm contains 70+ interludes, each focused on a different character, and each read from a third person perspective. There is no preference for age, gender, or accent. Arc four has two interludes, and as such two narrators will be selected, this is the audition for the second interlude.
A whistle. Brutus’ ears perk up. Already jumping off the bed as second whistle comes, just after the first. Two whistles like that means come. Master only asks for dogs to come to the front stairs if it is time for walkies!
Walkies are Brutus’ favorite thing!
Other dogs are bumping shoulders with Brutus in hurry to get to Master. Turn corner too fast, claws scratch at floor to get grip. Fall a little. Judas hesitates, sniffs, but Angelica is ahead of Brutus now. Bad girl. Brutus snarls a little at Angelica, she backs away, drops behind. Brutus is top dog. Angelica should know that. Brutus arrives at Master first, the way it should be.
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