Dark Secrets - The AudioBook!

Here's that little surprise I promised

For those of you (like Smudge) who are being kind enough to read DS right from the beginning - FEAR NOT! I'm slowly (very slowly) recreating DS into a short story in much the same manner as BlackHeart (an old ex-guildie) and I did with the Swollen Shaak Cantina RP a while back (the original of that is HERE and the story write-up can be found HERE)

This is gonna take some time but is something I've decided to invest in because I loved some of the interaction between the characters, and it shows some awesome RP from the guys involved.

For those of you who fancy something a little different, I'm also going to be creating it as an AudioBook, for you to listen to. This is something veeeery new for me so expect some silly mistakes along the way!

With each uploaded piece of audio there will also be a Transcript for you to read along to because sometimes I might not be clear or might make mistakes (I hope not, but you know me )

So far only the "Intro" is done, which you'll find at the bottom of this post. At a guess I think it will be a be in about 5-6 parts, which is why there are 6 "reserved" posts after this.

Incidentally, I am looking for people to read some of the parts of the characters, so if you're interested let me know and I'll explain how to do that!

For now I'd like to present....

DARK SECRETS: The Audiobook

The Introduction

AUDIOLINK:

DS Prologue.mp3


TRANSCRIPT:

Transcript wrote:

A Long Time Ago, in a galaxy far, far away.....
Mooncub Audio Presents: Star Wars: The Old Republic – Dark Secrets
By The Agents of The EPOCH
Read for you by Lunarwolf

As the Galactic Republic buckles under the weight of military advances from the Sith Empire,
The Core world of Coruscant grants its citizens - and perhaps the whole galaxy - some small measure of peace by signing The Treaty of Coruscant.
In the distant reaches of the Galaxy stir even older, equally sinister forces reawoken by curious minds who would see everything re-made in their own dark image.
It is into this time of unrest that a startling discovery is made and long forgotten legends unearthed threatening to endanger planets from the Outer Rim to the very Core itself.
Five destinies entwine on a course which could very well seal the fate of an entire Galaxy.....


PROLOGUE

Creed Dekkar stood in the shadowed room, looking out over the streets and towers of Coruscant. Arms folded across his chest he watched as the speeders zoomed past his window in a never-ending stream of high-flying traffic. His signature vermillion hair was tied up in a loose ponytail, a sure sign that something was bothering him, that he was on-edge.
On his desk his holo-recorder blinked incessantly, indicating a message was waiting to be displayed. He ignored it. Only a message from his Employer would be important enough to take right now and he found....other ways to get in contact. No, even the Chief Operatives of the Agency would have to wait.
If he had been in a more thoughtful mood he would have considered how the shadows from the passing airspeeders stretching across the dim lights of the room made the place look like some old spy-thriller holovid, but not now.
Right now he couldn’t help thinking of the dreams he’d been having and how oddly they were affecting him. About a week ago he’d received news that one of his old Agent contacts was dead, killed on the outer rim world of Rafa 4. He didn’t quite believe it, but there was no body found either way to confirm or disprove things. What worried him were the nightmares he’d been having since, and the nagging feeling that fate had come back around and bitten the Agent when she wasn’t prepared.
He’d known Ree’tak many years and never in that time had he ever found her to be without a plan and even a back-up plan for everything she did. It seemed ludicrous to him that she would be killed in anything less than a full scale war; the Twi’lek was always so damned careful....but what if he was wrong? Perhaps she had been killed. He hadn’t been informed of any mission from within The Agency that would need her presence that far out, especially not in the Rafa system. He realised even as he thought of it that he had subconsciously avoided the place ever since their earliest missions together.
He remembered how it had all started, how he had met her that fateful night among so many other promising hopefuls at the Swollen Shaak Cantina in Lower Coruscant. It was some time ago now of course, he was still even masquerading as a Bounty Hunter back then, but he remembered it as if it were yesterday.
Taking a seat at his desk and swinging his legs up so that his large durasteel-toecapped boots landed heavily on the pristine surface, he poured himself another glass of ice-cold Corellian Brandy and took a sip, feeling its cold soothing taste slide down his throat.
In retrospect that night at the Swollen Shaak had been a narrowly-avoided disaster. Had he known his Employer was testing him as much as the others he was sent to round up, he might have played things differently. He remembered their faces, all of them. So few were still with the Agency now, most were dead or gone.
For the first time in a long while he felt a smile creep across his lips as he thought of the commotion that Wookie had caused....what was his name again, Netra? One of only a few colourful personalities that night. Ree’tak herself had been part business and part flirt, her snow-white skin and deep purple eyes turning heads wherever she went. If only he’d paid more attention to the strange Human who’d been bothering her, perhaps what had happened next could have been avoided.
Perhaps, maybes, ‘what-if’s’. It did little to look back on the past now, so much had changed.
But if she was alive, if this was another of her schemes, then perhaps she was leaving him a message hidden in events. It wouldn’t be the first time she’d skirted round the truth to get the job done.

Downing the remainder of the drink he deleted the holo-message without bothering to read it, instead accessing the recorder’s memory-banks and bringing up the information he’d written into it so long ago. About how he and a small band had once pursued her, about the darkness they found there – and about how he became a Special Agent...

Reserved by LW

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VOICES!

Anyone who is interested in doing the voices for characters, here is what we already have covered:

Narrator: LW
Creed: Sureshot
'The Man': LW
F0-R3-GE 'Forge': LW

And this is what I need:

Nex: Needs a deep, confident voice - think Teal'c or D'argo*
Lilin-Duana Hylo/ Dee: Probably gonna need a female voice for this
Ril Tresv/E'spel: Again, female voice needed I think
Ree'tak: I might have someone to play her parts
White Mercy Receptionist: Open to suggestions on this one
White Mercy ET-74 Comm Droid: I can do this, with a voice modulator - or someone else can?
Raiflaine: Open to suggestions
Fuza 'Fuze' Macoy: PJK?
Daxx: Sureshot?
S00-Z: Same as Daxx - can be voice-synthed after reading
Nyalii: Open to suggestions, but he needs to sound "common"
Darth Mourness: Either needs a deep female voice or light male one

Any takers please let me know and I'll explain further

I could give it a try
I'll need a day when I'm by myself to test it out though

Don't blame you - it makes you feel veeeeeeeeery self-conscious for the first hour or so. Then you just don't care

Awesome idea dude. I'd be up for recording for a character, not sure which one though (I think I have a really lame voice). Maybe if I recorded myself reading the a bit of the prologue and sent it to you, you could decided if my voice fits in anywhere?

Awesome idea:) will be nice to listen to you guys:P
( if you need some alien female voice with awful accent , i can help hahahaha )

@ Smudge: Thanks! I'd recommend doing the voice for Raiflaine because he has quite a lot of lines at the beginning and end with a nice relaxing break in the middle

@ Dy: It would be great if you could do a voice or two, to be honest I think its about time we had a few "accents" in Star Wars - far too many of the main characters sound English and American

For people interested in helping with this, I would ask that you download and use a program called

Audacity <-----click for link

What I'll do is PM people the parts to read and if they could just leave a small gap (say 5 seconds) between each bit that would be brilliant

If they're done in Audacity I can mix them in with my stuff and normalize all the volume levels to match!

I will try record myself with that program
and sent it, so you could decided if my voice fits
Hahahaha this will be fun.
What text i should try to read?

i wouldn't mind doing a voice or two xP could be kinda fun lol

Nice to see so many positive responses!

OK... lets try out a little experiment....

SMUDGE:
Try reading the following for Raiflaine in a voice you think would suit him best.

"I dont like this one bit. I mean, do we even know who were going up against?"
"...Also do you actually know the password for the droid, because you were pretty out of it at the end of that meeting. Hell, I'd be suprised if you could even remember what day it was!."

DY:
Try reading the following for Ree'tak. Its over a holo-recording, and just imagine there are lots of explosions in the background!

"I don't know who these people are... I don't recognise their ships or any of their insignia. Maybe you can, I don't know.....switching to external cameras."

RANDOMFEST:
Try reading the following for Fuze McCoy - think of him as an over-confident smuggler/con man

"Thanks for the read-up, Chief! I haven't been measured in a while. You're off by a couple of years, but I'll let that slide. You seem the perceptive type, though. Can you tell me anything about what happened here? And have you seen this young Twi'lek girl?"

These aren't neccesarily the characters I need you to play, its just for a giggle - I won't share the voices here unless you say I can!

Like I said if you could create them in Audacity and then make them into either .wav or .mp3 (the program can do both), that would be excellent

Please send them to

Lunarwolf79@gmail.com

Thanks!

will do atm though its 4am so a little early to be talking to myself xP

lol you don't have to do it straight away, Random - but thanks

I'm thinking of doing audiobooks for my own stories and I might be willing to do some testing with your idea, Mr Wolf. Won't be able to do any recording before saturday or sunday tho.

lol lw thats your voice? you sound like bbc xD

Poor frenchy like LW's voice because he speaks a clear English, almost with the accent I've learnt in school. Most of my Bristol friends, for example, I understand only in mails ^^'

lol i think its sweet british accents like that are only used for the finest of american television. well that and tool academy, people love tool academy for some reason ^^

sent the thing lol

Just sent mine

This is sort of fun in a weird, "Wow I sound like an idiot" kind of way.

i already sent my funny voice
it was fun to talk to myself...
learned that phrase by heart...

i'll have a go what do you want me to say