Worm Full-Cast Production - Arc 6-8: Tangle, Buzz, Extermination
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 5: Hive. This round of auditions focuses on characters that are introduced in Tangle, Buzz, and Extermination, arcs 5-8 of the story. The project will release on an arc-by-arc basis, but those cast as characters will record all of those characters' lines in advance.
Please submit raw files, free of any filters or processing. No need to include an introduction (AKA a slate) - only the requested voice lines are needed. Include your Discord name, including four digit # tag.
Auditions
The major speaking roles we need are as follows:
- Canary
- Dragon
- Imp
- Interlude 6.x Narrator
- Dinah
- Interlude 7.x Narrator
- Legend
- Chevalier
- Chariot
As well as various minor and unnamed characters
We primarily organize via Discord; selected actors are required to join. https://discord.gg/6ZbS4BBh
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Canary is a 23-year-old professional singer, the quality of her voice amplified - and granted a hypnotic affect - by her power. She is convicted at the beginning of the story of assault for an accidental use of her power on her ex-boyfriend.
- female young adult
"I- I guess I was still amped up from my performance, and my power’s effects were still empowering my voice, or he was in the audience and was pretty heavily affected. So when I told him to go fuck himself, he, um, he did. Or he tried, and when he found it wasn’t physically possible, he hurt himself until…” Paige closed her eyes for a moment. “Um. I won’t go into the details.
“I wasn’t disgruntled,” Canary said. “I freaked, and I couldn’t exactly charge back on my credit card or sue them. But I adjusted. I got what I really wanted in the end. By the time I realized I’d gotten too much of what I wanted, I was already in jail.”
Dragon is a woman of indeterminate age, the world's premiere Tinker with the power to modify other Tinker's inventions. In truth, she's an artificial intelligence, restricted by her creator - now dead - in key ways. These limitations frustrate her, but despite this, she's genuinely sympathetic and heroic, one of the key figures keeping the world running.
- female adult
The Baumann Detention Center is a structure so complex I had to design an artificial intelligence to put it together. It’s situated inside of a hollowed out mountain, the walls of which are lined with layers of a ceramic of my own design, each such layer separated by volumes of dormant containment foam. If you punched a hole in the outside of the mountain, you’d only wind up with more foam than you knew how to handle.
I’m obligated to follow the laws of the land. To obey the local government, no matter who they are. When we’re done here, whether we stop the Nine outright, see them escape yet again or lose the fight, you should ask me about Cauldron.
Imp is a 13 year old black girl, rebellious, with a tendency both towards violence and towards joking. She has the power to erase herself from others' attention, invisibility on steroids, and she sometimes fears this makes her too easy to ignore.
- female teen
"You keep going down this road, your kid is going to be born without a face or something,” Aisha said, her voice quiet. “You know how hard school was for me? Even as far back as kindergarten, I couldn’t sit still. Teacher tells me three things, and by the time they’ve gotten to the third, I’ve forgotten the first. And Brian doesn’t have any of that.
"No! Oh god, no! All this time spent on fucking setting up, hammering shit into the floor so the chair wouldn’t slide, getting that fucking hook in the ceiling, and I spoil it by getting the name wrong!? No!"
"There are two real answers to this situation, here,” Imp said. “Either you’re doing a fucking shitty job of lying, or you’re under some kind of compulsion. If it’s the former, I’m not seeing a reason to keep holding on. If it’s the latter, then I’m not seeing much of a reason to carry on with this fucking conversation."
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.
- androgynous
Paige’s jaw hurt. Being muzzled like an animal did that. The other restraints weren’t so bad, but that was only in a relative sense. Her hands were buried in a pair of reinforced metal buckets, each filled with that damn pastel yellow foam. The buckets themselves were linked together behind her back, with comically oversized chain links. It would have been intolerably heavy if it weren’t for the hook on the back of her chair, which she could hang the chain on.
Dinah is 12 years old at the beginning of the story, although casting will likely ignore this fact. She's a powerful precognitive girl who has been abducted and is being held and coerced through the administration of drugs. Many of her lines take the form of reading out numbers - she sees possible futures in terms of probabilities, reporting them in the same manner.
- female child
Sometimes it's in two years. Sometimes it's in eight. Sometimes in between. But if he’s alive, something happens, and everyone on Earth starts to die. Not that everyone doesn’t die anyways but they die really fast when that something happens, all one after another, and in a year almost everyone is dead. So I said everyone, if that makes sense and a few live but they die pretty soon after anyways and-
The last thing I want is another arrogant dickface telling me what to do. You want answers, Director? Fine. Twenty two point eight one three percent chance you die painfully, over long, slow minutes or hours. Maybe soon, maybe in twenty years, but it’ll bring you to tears, and you’ll wail in pain. That’s a freebie. Want more details?
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.
- androgynous
She had been hidden in the cellar beside her house. She had heard the screams and gunfire. Too much gunfire, considering how few working guns the men and women of her village had. Guns and bullets were too expensive when you lived off your garden and what you could hunt, and a trip to the nearest city to buy such things was dangerous. What they had were the leftovers, the handful of weapons taken off enemies by the guerilla fighters and left behind or traded in barter when they passed through the village for supplies and medical care. Those who had the guns lacked the skill or training to use them. The fighters were supposed to defend them against people like this, stop them from getting this far.
Legend is a gay man in his 40s, and the image of a comic book superhero - noble, charismatic, and attractive - without the sort of subversive dark side many modern superheroes have. He has "the kind of voice you wanted to listen to." He's one of the most powerful heroes in the world, the public face of the Triumvirate.
- male adult
You are doing a good thing. The greatest thing. This is why we are tolerated, why society allows and accounts for the capes that walk the streets and fight in its towns. Because we are needed for situations like this. With your assistance, we can forestall the inevitable. Your efforts and, if you choose to make them, your sacrifices, will be remembered.
We started Cauldron in the early days. They had a way to give people powers, and each of us were desperate for our own reasons. We should have had trigger events, but we weren’t lucky enough to have the potential. Nobody deluded themselves about the risks. We knew that it was all too possible to die or become a monster.
Chevalier is likely in his 30s or early 40s, a bit younger than Legend. He takes over as leader of the Protectorate after Legend steps down. He's determined - sometimes too determined - and a bit more practical as a leader, less prone to rousing speeches.
- male adult
There’s no sugarcoating it: the fact that you’re here, today, knowing the state things are in, you’re the biggest damn heroes I’ve worked with. I’m not going to make any big speeches. Better we get out there and save lives. Hit him hard if you see the chance, keep an eye out for whatever his goal might be, communicate with other groups as best as you’re able. Stay spread out so he can’t wipe too many of us out at once. You work best with the people you know, so form your own teams, stick with the people you’ve operated with before. Go.
I’m running out of time. Three days from now is too long to wait, because things take time to set in motion. I’m going to have to start making decisions, about amnesty for everyone who participated in the fight, about the hero teams, how we’re going to administrate a city that has more sheer depth than anything we’ve ever conceived of. That woman, in there, she’s at the crux of this. Choices I make in regards to her affect everything else. If I forego amnesty for her, if I have to forego amnesty for her, then I’m drawing a line in the sand, and others are going to wonder if they fall too close to that line.
Chariot is black teenager, somewhere below 18 years old. He's a member of the Brockton Bay Wards with the power to design transportation-based technology, but he's secretly working for the supervillain Coil.
- male teen
That’s a camera, and this would be the power source, that part does something with wavelengths, and this reads energy… but I’m not getting it. What does this do?
I don’t want to give up my stuff to others. It’s mine.
“Let’s put vendettas aside,” Chariot spoke. He smirked. “We have bigger fish to fry.”
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