Archive of Our Own ^beta

Transcript:

{Music: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana starts}

{ends abruptly with a record scratch, at a very awkward/unintuitive moment>�}

DIRECTOR: Uh-uh. Nah. No. Nope. That is not right

{Music: The Wombats: Let's Kill The Director>}

NARRATOR: Meet the director

DIRECTOR: That is not right at all! It needs to be evocative not bludgeon people with a fifty tonne hammer!

{Music: The B-52s: Paperback Writer)>}

NARRATOR: the writer

WRITER: Hmmmm, does miasma really convey the shades of nuance I want? What about fog, haze, roiling miasma. Hmmmmm.

{Music: Madonna: Vogue}

NARRATOR: the actor

ACTOR: {vocal warm-up exercises} Miasma. Meeee-az-ma. Miah-sa-mah. Me-... Mi-... Mias... MiasMA. Miasma-ah. Mias- Mi- (exasperated) Who says miasma anyway?!

{Music: Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra: Teddy Bears' Picnic}

NARRATOR: the editor

EDITOR: Hmm what happens if I nudge this? [increasing sounds of hooves in background} And {Fay Wray scream} or {Wilhelm scream}? Hmmmm.

{Music:Halloween theme}

NARRATOR: This year they have been chosen.

In one month, they will be the featured performers at the exclusive Radioplay Extravaganza at the Winchester Mansion, rumored to be the most haunted abode in North America {ghosty woooooo sound}.

They will enter the Winchester Mansion {creaky door} armed only with their performance

EDITOR: {feedback sound} Shit, shit, shit, the speakers, what the fuck is causing that feedback?

NARRATOR: to entertain their audience of ghosts, poltergeists, and assorted creatures of the night.

Their prize: to escape with their lives!

{ghosty echoing Bwahahahahaha}

NARRATOR: Will the rocking radioplay soothe the savage ghosts?

GHOST: (echoing) You'd be cranky too if you had to spend eternity with these morons...

NARRATOR: Find out when Pod Together Lightning opens on February first!

CAST (in order of appearance):

DIRECTOR: lunchee
NARRATOR: fleurrochard
WRITER: somnolentblue
ACTOR: pennyplainknits
EDITOR: originally
GHOST: AshesandGhost

Featuring graphics by akamine-chan.