Doctor Wallenstein Grows Funny Creatures

[davidn]

Just as I realize my usually sane and well-adjusted journal has consisted near exclusively of this for the last two weeks - it's the final part! Though a lot of things had to be taken out of this one in the interests of flow/relevance, so I might yet put together a separate out-takes video for it. Somehow, we survived. Well, I'm just speaking for myself here - I'm not sure about the others.

Thank you once again to everyone who took part, and for kjorteo's organization of us all. I had a great time doing this - not least in the climactic scene which was the verbal equivalent of battling with two colossal wedges of ham - and I honestly can't wait for our attempt to do the same thing with Holidaystar (assuming that our effort at that can eventually get posted and doesn't have to be sealed in some vault somewhere).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dJ9vEhl4E

0:20 Legumentine's
0:55 Prophecy of Beans
2:25 The limits of weirdness
3:15 Broken windows
3:40 Normal reaction to Anghel
3:50 Well-paragraphed windows
4:10 Anghel trip
5:20 11 Wisdom (572)
5:30 Black Beandonna!
6:20 HRAAUGUGUUGHGHAGHAGHAGHGAHHGHGHRGHGHAGHRHGH
7:35 A long year
8:00 The letter/racism count
8:40 The Inverted Infirmary
9:10 BATTLE OF THE RHAPSODY NARRATORS
10:30 Wallenstein
10:50 Gyaaaaaaaaaggghh!
11:20 Destruction bender
11:45 The forbidden Mantrayaniyaniyania
12:20 Acting!
12:40 The squiggles will protect us
13:45 The final boss
(It really just speaks for itself from here on)
16:30 After the war
17:30 More questions than answers
18:45 Making it through Holidaystar
19:40 Optimism
20:40 Dumbfounded, dumbstruck, pleased, exploded

Comments

[kjorteo]

It can't have been too random, or I wouldn't have ended up with the only two characters in the entire cast I can actually do (and Rabu)! Also, I'm pretty sure you ended up with Murderbeaks because Raven considers your Snape voice for him to be as iconic as he does my Pidgeworth. Also, speaking of Raven, he has to be by far the biggest surprise in the cast--I figured his Yuuya would be good just because he is all about being lecherous and French anyway, but I had no idea it would be that good ... and I certainly didn't expect him to secretly be the best Anghel ever.

I think this group has proven itself to be surprisingly good at improvisation, and we seem to have an innate understanding of how to let overlooked voice actors slip back in when it's been too long. No one told me to narrate the RPG text at the end--I just randomly decided to do it, and no one objected. Likewise, Raven just happened to seize the Punkgeons when they appeared, too. Since we each seemed to end up with main cast members we're good at, I say just forge ahead as we are, and if a part gets too small, that person can add on some background roles to compensate. (For example, Kaye would have a somewhat lessened role if we were to do BBL for what should be obvious reasons, but if we were to fling everyone from One and Headmaster Monsterbird to Labor 9, from Ryuuji to the random redshirt students, etc. at her, then it should work out!) Plus, we can always do temporary trades or something (someone tagging in for Azami next time Kaye is about to do a fifteen-minute one-woman show, for example.) We've proven ourselves capable of handling this, I think!