Spoken Word Night

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Spoken Word Night is an event started by vid on the D'mala shard. The first meeting was held on March 8, 2006 and meetings have been held almost every Wednesday night since. This weekly gathering is home to a "voice recommended but not required" policy, encouraging explorers to share poems, stories, songs, or just about anything that they'd like to share with an audience.

Most commonly, explorers step up to the microphone to read their pieces, but many choose to use KI chat to broadcast their messages. Over it's lifetime, Spoken Word Night has been host to many original creations, as well as reimaginings of classics, or even unaltered readings. For the twenty-fifth meeting, some of the regulars came together to write, produce, and act out a theatrical play entitled "Tales from the DRC". Spoken Word Night then continued some months later in the Uru Obsession Neighborhood some months later on MO:UL. During MO:UL Spoken Word Night reached its 50th performance. Before SWN 50 arrived, hiatus episodes were held for several months. These events were hosted by various regulars of SWN as vid seemed to be busy elsewhere. One of the more notable people to take the SWN reigns was Jeff Lewis. About two weeks before the closure of MO:UL, the SWN 50 script was completed and a race to the finish was started to throw it all together for a live performance before closure. "SWN 50: Back to the Cavern" was somewhat successfully thrown together in the last few days of MO:UL and was performed live in front of an audience on the last day of MO:UL (April 9th,2008).

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[edit] Spoken Word Night 25 - Tales from the DRC

[edit] Summary

Tales from the DRC is an hour and a half long story, meant to lampoon the Prologue period. While it conveys the general idea of what happened during that time, it also serves as an extreme exaggeration of characters and events, as well as adding many completely fictional events.

The DRC, Dr. Watson, Marie Sutherland, Ikuro Kodama, Michael Engberg, and Victor Laxman have come together to restore an ancient underground civilization. But with a megalomaniac and a stoner for Restoration Engineers, pranksters run amok, and a blooming love affair in the council, can they pull it off without killing each other first? With tensions on the rise and hormones testing their better judgement, it's up to the DRC to keep things stable, or risk a collapse of the restoration.

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The "Grandpa vid" Prologue scene was completely unscripted. The scene was originally meant to be recorded as a disclaimer, but after vid recorded the scene and submitted it for approval, the response from Thend was "vid, we asked you for a disclaimer, and you told us about your kidneys". In the end, the recording was kept, and Ling recorded the disclaimer to fit into the scene.

All of the background voices in Scene 9 were performed by the actors of the show. Dalken Starbyne's "Explodes!", Thend's "Thend is here!", vid's "How I shoot book?!", Moietay's "I'm Tay!" and many others. The strange series of sounds towards the end of the scene that interrupts Marie and Watson's conversation is the audio rendition of Dalken's "Interpretive Dance" which of course cannot be seen on the audio release, and was unfortunately out of the camera's view for the video recordings.

Also in Scene 9 is the phrase "The gathered are known by their faces of stone, my butt!", which is meant to be a reference to Jeff Zandi's infamous phrase "The gathered are known by their faces of stone." from the Preafter adventure on the surface. The recording of Watson was also placed at the end of the teaser trailer.

During the "Cooking With Gehn" commercial, listeners are informed that the show airs just after "Steve Irwin's Camoudile Hunter". This segment was written before the untimely death of Steve Irwin, and there was discussion about whether to remove the piece or continue on with it. Eventually it was decided that the reference would remain in honor of Mr. Irwin's memory.

In Scene 23, Victor Laxman says the phrase "Alright, let's do this. VICTOOOOOOOR LAAAAAAXMAAAAAN!!!" in a homage to the "Leeroy Jenkins" incident from World of Warcraft.

During Scene 26, Dr. Kodama says "They will find a way. They will make a home down here." This is a reference to an early tagline for Myst Online: Uru Live that stated "Destruction is coming. Find a way. Make a home."


[edit] "Spoken Word Night 25: Tales from the DRC" Credits

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[edit] SWN 25: Tales from the DRC Trailers

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  • Lemmings Da Bomb OC Remix - Da Bomb Inc. (OCRemix.org)
  • The Tanks Thunder - Maestro Rage (Newgrounds Audio Protal)
  • Dirty Laundry - David Michael Frank (The Mole Soundtrack)
  • Bahroian Rhapsody - Lyrics by Gondar, Sung by Thend, Dalken Starbyne, Gondar, and *Moietay (Based on Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen)
  • Sound Effects were taken from Freesound Project, Soundfishing, Virtual Gallery, and Freelandia
  • All other music, ambient sounds, and sound effects are from Uru, Riven, and Myst V: End of Ages

[edit] "Spoken Word Night 50: Back to the Cavern!" Credits

[edit] Summary

The story this time takes place during the Until Uru period of Uru. We are introduced to some of the new characters which have been introduced to us through MO:UL and also discover how we got into the storyline of MO:UL. All events in SWN 50 were completely fictional, through based on some facts. The DRC are trying to find a way to fund the cavern when Dr.Kodama discovers Ms.Cate Alexander as a possibility. Little do the DRC know, explorers are having fits about marker missions, and the bahro are in some turmoil of their own. While time travel, big-bussiness, and spoofs of popular video game robots go on, the DRC must save the timeline, and secure funding.

[edit] Trivia

SWN:50 took a year to write, and was hurriedly prepared for performance in only one week. Only some parts of the original performace had full blocking. All voice acting took place before the performance and was edited together afterward. Jeff Lewis was the emergency Kodama stand-in during the show because Vortmax was still finishing the last few scenes of audio. Several people from Cyan attended the performace. vid's 'Grandpa vid' character wasw only heard by vid and Vortmax until it aired, this time, at the end of the performance and consisted of both vid AND grandpa vid talking together. Whilyam had only spoken through the microphone on two other occasions prior to this. He was usually only heard through text, and our imaginations.

[edit] Spoken Word Night 50 Credits

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