Amnesiac Detective Harry Du Bois, is a bit insane. In his fractured mind are twenty-four different voices rolling around telling what and what not to do. But in-game, it only sounds like one actor. What if it were the opposite? What if every part of Harry's drugged up, alcoholic brain were to have it's own unique voice? This is a short concept for the critically-acclaimed CRPG Disco Elysium, that may or may not be worked into a mod. We'll see.
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Rules
1. Decent audio quality, enough to not sound like you live inside a wind turbine
2. Must have a Discord account, included alongside your audition.
3. Must be willing and able to complete lines, don't audition if you think you might skimp out. (Try not to worry though, I'm not strict with deadlines.)
Logic is an Intellect skill in Disco Elysium. Wield raw intellectual power. Deduce the world.
Cool for: Analysts, Pure Rationalists, Obviously Logicians.
Logic urges you to analyze the living daylights out of the case. It enables you to piece evidence together, detect inconsistencies in statements, and impress everyone with your astonishing conclusions. It’s the bread and butter of many a detective.
I don't have a specific voice in mind, what does the essence of LOGIC sound like to you?
If it's your "friend", why was it up there? Who ties their friend to a ceiling fan? Maybe this thing is dangerous somehow...
No objections. It's mathematically impossible to achieve a classless society. Everyone knows this.
Encyclopedia is an Intellect skill in Disco Elysium. Call upon all your knowledge. Produce fascinating trivia.
Cool for: Thinkers, Historians, Trivia Freaks
Encyclopedia makes you a know-it-all, turning your mind into a database of facts. It enables you to draw on these facts innately, offering a wealth of background knowledge to all things related and unrelated to your case. Who knows when the history of cigarette brands will provide the breakthrough you need to arrest a murderer – or when knowledge of pre-Revolutionary guns might save a life?
Perhaps a nerdy, bookish voice? Do what suits you best.
It all comes together now, the way he speaks about scabs, his general attitude. He's a follower of a 500-year-old Franconigerian boiadeiro -- itself an appropriation of vespertine cool.
That of a noble peasant or a travelling herdsman. True to yourself, independent in your actions, loyal to your friends.
What you *do* know is: at 18.9 kilometers the dormant shield volcano *Corpus Mundi* is the world's highest summit; and the failure of the '38 single *Et Puis Du Sang* to crack the Top 20 was the death knell of disco. But -- what a *field autopsy* is? You have no idea.
Drama is an Intellect skill in Disco Elysium. Play the actor. Lie and detect lies.
Cool for: Undercover Cops, Thespians of the Stage, Psychopaths
Drama urges you to treat the world as a stage – and on it, to perform. It will enable you to lie, to concoct the most elaborate and wonderful stories; to take on ingenious personas and perform acts of stagecraft in an entertaining amalgam of fourberie and deceit! As well, it enables you to see through would-be actors and their false antics. If they lie, you’ll know. Immediately.
Think of a Shakespearean actor, using thees and thous without a care.
Strange. It's as if people don't believe a cop could be a socialist revolutionary.
His eyes dart from left to right. This man isn't lying, but he *is* hiding something
She isth a laedy most fair and juste!
Conceptualization is an Intellect skill in Disco Elysium. Understand creativity. See Art in the world.
Cool for: Creatives, Psychedelic Fanciers, Critics.
Conceptualization has a special role it wants you to play in this world – not the role of cop, but of Art Cop. It enables you to make fresh associations, to delve into world-concepts from Jan Kaarp’s postmodernist karperie, to Revachol’s arabesque architectural style dideridada, and even the concept of HARDCORE – and then, importantly, to add your own contribution to these works.
What does the voice of a visionary artist sound like in YOUR head?
Have you looked in the mirror lately? You have the exact features of a savage art critic, with that beard and those clothes! Disheveled and *prophetic*. Perhaps you should try to critique architecture too.
Real art is dense and difficult. If it didn't feel like you had to wrestle a suicidal bear to get through it, you weren't really reading.
It's death - but for the Universe? Oh, we're contemplating the living *shit* out of this.
Visual Calculus is an Intellect skill in Disco Elysium. Reconstruct crime scenes. Make laws of physics work for the Law.
Cool for: Forensics Scientists, Tactical Fighters, Math-Minded People
Visual Calculus verses you not only in the laws of the state, but the laws of nature. It enables you to create virtual crime-scene models in your mind’s eye. You’ll see how a bullet shattered the glass and from that trace its trajectory with mathematical precision. You’ll also count so many footprints – and at a glance discern shoe size and design; as well as the height, weight, and gender of the one who wore them.
Think of an analytical voice, maybe a Sherlock Holmes kinda deal.
A fine web of scarring covers the back of your right hand, but none of it is recent.
More likely a projectile than a held object. There are no fragments on the floor pulling a tool back in after impact.
It is too large for a bullet yet too small for a piece of furniture. You're looking for something heavy and larger than your fist.
Volition is an Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Hold yourself together. Keep your Morale up.
Cool for: Sane People, Well-Adjusted Cops, The Non-Suicidal
Volition urges you to be a good guy – to others and to yourself. It enables you to resist temptation: be it in a bottle, between a pair of legs, or at the end of an iron barrel which promises oblivion. Volition gives you the will to finish the investigation, improving your Morale – one of the two health pools in the game.
Volition is the voice of reason inside Harry's disjointed brain, what does that sound like to you?
If that good guy never comes out, what difference does it make?
I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I have said to you is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want.
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
Inland Empire is a Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Hunches and gut feelings. Dreams in waking life.
Cool for: Dreamers, Para-Natural Investigators, Mental Creators
Inland Empire is the unfiltered wellspring of imagination, emotion, and foreboding. It enables you to grope your way through invisible dimensions of reality, gaining insight into that which sight can’t see. What’s really going on? What do these enigmatic riddles mean for the world-fate?
Go with your heart on this one, that's how its meant to be...
The furnace has long been cold, despite itself. You're too sad to jerk off. This is not the first time it has happened either.
This is a man with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future.
Has it been consigned there as punishment? You feel as though this creature is your "friend" and wants to reattach itself to your neck. So that you may continue your adventures in this strange world!
Empathy is an Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Understand others. Work your mirror neurons.
Cool for: Judges of Character, Interviewers, Interrogators
Empathy breaks into the soul of others and forces you to feel what’s inside. It enables you to notice social cues other may miss: perhaps a hidden sadness you could coax out a little more, a strange joy from someone who should be bereaved, or a hidden resentment that could return to harm you later.
A real touchy-feely type, someone who sounds like they relate to others easily.
The tiny apes are doing all they can to be better. It's not their fault.
If you say 'two days maybe' it will be etched in her mind forever.
That was disdain in his eyes. Even now he's purposefully ignoring you
Authority is an Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Intimidate the public. Assert yourself.
Cool for: Leaders, Experts of Psychological Warfare, Respect-Junkies
Authority urges you to assert and reassert your dominance over those around you. It enables you to understand the power dynamics of groups of thugs, know how far you can push a perpetrator, and how to establish control of situations.
Think of a real domineering type, like the voice of an esteemed general or a middle school principal
You need to bring the thumb of your right hand — your sword hand — to your rectum and stick it in there to form the Arch of Honours.
You're saying it really loud, but it's not coming out right. Maybe add more indignation?
You're well versed in the kind of threatening legalese that implies criminal liability but in fact has no meaning whatsoever.
Esprit de Corps is an Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Connect to Station 41. Understand cop culture.
Cool for: Cops, Cop-Aficionados, Pretend-Cops
Esprit de Corps is the very spirit of policing: the cop-geist. It enables you to understand your blue-souled sisters and brothers – not only by picking up subtle signals from your partner, but by witnessing flash-sideways scenes as they play out in your precinct.
This skill is more of a unique narrator rather than it's own character, so just go with what you think is right
Let's do this tango, pig, he thinks. Detective Pig and Detective Cunn on the case. We bouncin'.
If an assault were launched on this building right now -- if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you -- this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. You are sure of this -- but why?
We'll need more if we're going to pin this one down, he thinks -- good questions, though. Sharp eyes, officer.
Suggestion is an Psyche skill in Disco Elysium. Charm men and women. Play the puppet-master.
Cool for: Diplomats, Charmers, Sociopaths
Suggestion urges a soft-power approach. If people think they want what you want, you’ve already won. This skill enables you to implant ideas into the minds of others. You can make the citizens like you more. You can make gangsters turn on each other, too; many crime-rings have been broken by just a little doubt, after all.
Think of a real charming type, smooth yet calculating...
For a moment, his antipathy is overcome by compassion for the sheer smallness of the money
This guy's your buddy-buddy. You feel it immediately; you belong to an organization. A fraternity of drunks.
Your deportment remains dignified -- as you shed a single, manly tear.
Endurance is a Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Take the blows. Don’t let the world kill you.
Cool for: Fighters who can take a hit, Lookouts who don’t sleep, Human Batteries
Endurance is your metabolism and circulatory system. It improves your Health – one of the two health pools in the game. It enables to survive being a cop. Who cares if you can’t aim a gun, if you can take a few bullets? Why be afraid of drugs that hurt your health if you’re a very, very healthy man?
Think of your typical alt-right meathead incel, with a deep seated dislike for women. If you are a woman, don't let this dissuade you from auditioning, I think a female actor for this role would be hilarious
Own it! Steal hot dogs, shit in the sand. Whatever it takes to survive!
Rotten Human Meat-Ceramic Boot Soup? Nope, you really shouldn't.
Wö-Men. Men of Wö. You don't like them. They're insane. Their idiocy needs to be scrubbed off the world with rubbing alcohol. Wömen need to go back the fucking kitchen!
Pain Threshold is an Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Shrug off the pain. They’ll have to hurt you more.
Cool for: Unstoppable Fighters, Guys who don’t die, Masochists
Pain Threshold ignores damage so you can push on, bloodied and crawling, to the bitterest end. It enables you to negate damage you would otherwise take. Even mental pain – heartache and loneliness. In fact, these things can become a thrill you seek out and perversely revel in.
I can't give much feedback for this one. A typical masochist maybe?
The spread pattern of these bullet holes make your chest ache. Your breath grows heavier.
Feels slick and warm with blood. The pain is too strong to know what has happened there. Even clutching to your consciousness takes everything you got.
There it is again -- like a swarm of hornets buzzing under your scalp. A strange tingling you can almost *smell*.
Physical Instrument is an Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Flex powerful muscles. Enjoy healthy organs.
Cool for: Muscle Men, Bare Knuckle Brawlers, Gym Teachers
Physical Instrument is not only your muscles and your skeleton – it is your ability to use them effectively. It enables you to do push-ups, sit-ups, knock-out punches, and 360-degree spin-kicks. It’s a one size fits all solution to thriving and surviving in a physical world.
Think of high school gym teacher. A MEAN ONE.
What is this? An athletic challenge? Scream it from the top of your lungs immediately, show that asshole!
These manly men are playing *balls*. This is a ball game. Grab a ball and play it. Don't ask questions. Shoot first, ask questions never.
Cold and heavy -- like truth. You feel like you're reunited with truth once more.
Electro-Chemistry is a Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Go to party planet. Love and be loved by drugs.
Cool for: High-Fliers, Party Enthusiasts, Cops who need Lightning
Electro-Chemistry is the animal within you, the beast longing to be unleashed to indulge and enjoy. It enables you to take drugs with fewer negative side-effects. It also enables you to better investigate lurid matters – if you need to understand a chemical breakdown, or talk to someone blasted out of their mind, or understand sexual dynamics, Electro-Chemistry is there to guide you.
This role needs the voice of a real party animal! One concerned with little else other than DRUGS and SEX!
WRONG AGAIN, NERD. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Bullshit, man, I ain't compromised! No fucking way, man, I just want a drag of that sweet Menthol ziggie.
D'you know what you should do with that money, kiddo? You should buy more alcohol! Enter the endless cycle of consumption!
Shivers is a Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Raise the hair on your neck. Tune in to the city.
Cool for: City Lovers, The Wisest of the Street Wise, The Genuinely Supra-Natural
Shivers come when the temperature drops and you become more keenly aware of your surroundings. It enables you to hear the city itself, to truly belong to the streets. It is a supra-natural ability; old wrongs play out in present time, scenes across the city happens in front of you. But who is speaking to you?
Ask yourself, what if Spider-Sense had a voice? Roll with that...
The road ascends; a raised motorway loops above the ghetto. Beneath its concrete columns — a sea of rooftops, woodwork, and tar stretches northward. Four-story buildings as far as the rain can fall. Snow melts in Jamrock.
In through the collapsed roof, flowing down a concrete staircase -- to the basement, sweeping away footprints in the dust on the stairs. And then the beach below the boardwalk, its winding tunnels... a whisper away
All around you rain falls on the great city of Revachol. Rain drips from the eaves and floods the gutters, washing the filth away.
Half Light is a Physique skill in Disco Elysium. Let the body take control. Threaten people.
Cool for: High-Strung Investigators, Shoot-Now-Ask-Questions-Later Cops, Surprise Haters
Half Light is your fight-or-flight response. It enables you to sense the way situations are about to turn. It injects palpable fear into your heart – fear that urges you act before it’s too late to act ever again; fear that makes you frighten others. It is the aggression that lets you squeeze every last drop of information out of a witness.
The skill that tells you to go crazy, go stupid at moment's notice. Think of someone with a hair-trigger temper and ridiculous levels of insecurity.
Damn, that felt *good*. Your heart is pounding nicely. You should tell people to fuck off more often.
The hallowed time of fear and disintegration. A countdown has begun. All will collapse on itself. The world will disappear into a single grain of blackness. All sound will be muted. All life will scream.
Fucking MIND games! Enough!
Hand-Eye Coordination is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. Ready? Aim and fire.
Cool for: Trick-Shooters, Snipers, Jugglers
Hand/Eye Coordination loves the interaction between you and things that fly in the air. It enables you to catch coins from mob bosses, shoot straight, and understand firearms intimately. Want to know the precise make and mark of a pistol? Hand/Eye Coordination’s got you. Want to shoot someone with it? Ditto.
I dunno, a sniper kinda voice maybe?
This felt... wrong. Wrong like touching your sister's breast. You threw your sister's breast
Antiques enthusiasts, Guerilla fighters in distant countries, a few lucky Jamrock bangers. You're looking for the same thing you found in that hidden weapons cache -- only in working order.
Perception is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. See, hear and smell everything. Let no detail go unnoticed.
Cool for: Fine Detail Detectives, Sensualists, Urban Scavengers
Perception wants you to be open to the world – with eyes, ears, and nose working at full capacity. It enables you to take in what others don’t notice. The little wad of bills hid away in the sugar bowl; the odor of a perp, hiding beneath the floor boards; the gulp of a suspect, after claiming they’ve nothing to hide.
This skill is simply the body's five senses made manifest, what does that sound like to you?
Because it's nice and orderly. Well laid pallet. Easy on the eyes.
Ahhh! Savor that new board game smell! A mix of wood, paper, and ink, all wrapped in the sweet must of cardboard.
"nest in your abdominal cavity, like a little wild mouse..." The masked man's words are barely intelligible, but you can hear them.
Reaction Speed is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. The quickest to react. An untouchable man.
Cool for: Shot-Dodgers, Thinkers on their Feet, Pinball-Heads
Reaction Speed is the agility of your body and mind. It is instinct. It enables you to dodge punches, knives, bullets. Also suckers punches of the verbal kind. You’ll be more streetwise, never lost for words or lacking a witty comeback. Your mental alacrity lets you connect little details on the fly, working in tandem with your Intellect skills.
Think of someone who is quite skittish, quick to run from danger when it presents itself, but not without wit and a dash of charisma
Your sarcasm will be your doing, old man.
Wait, have you noticed there's a *war veteran* playing a ball game -- on the plaza? You should ask him about the flowers.
There *probably* is a follow-up to this, but you can't think of any. Doesn't matter. Waste of time anyway. Gotta keep moving
Savoir Faire is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. Sneak under their noses. Stun with immense panache.
Cool for: Acrobats, Thieves, Unbearable Show-Offs
Savoir Faire urges you to be better than you are: it urges you to be disco. Slip by others in Samaran boxing style, then tumble out the back with unexpected acrobatics. It enables you to move silent footsteps, to groove to a good beat, and to lift useful evidence off perps without them noticing. It also makes you a cooler cop, whose athletic flair will certainly impress the citizenry.
Think of someone obsessed with showing off, a daredevil of sorts. This skill is a high dexterity stat personified.
Look at yourself, you're a human pedometer! You must have walked 200,000 steps down cracked asphalt, mosaic, sand, and linoleum after you re-emerged. That is the sign of a hustler who never gives up. The world is harsh and people are evil -- you didn't make it that way. And you won't let it break you. You *ride*!
An adventure awaits! An adventure on the urban coast!
The dynamic motion of your flailing body is bordering on the extreme. You're going off the charts...
Interfacing is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. Master machines. Pick locks and pockets.
Cool for: Machinists, Tinkerers, Instrument Players
Interfacing wants you to connect to machines: to use and improve them, because that makes you a better human organism. It enables you to understand interactions with machines – be that how to repair the motor of a Kineema motor carriage, how to analyze the way a suspect used a pen, or how to re-figure electrical circuits. It even lets you steal keys off a keyring without being noticed.
Think of a skilled mechanic type, the voice of an expert handyman (or woman) who knows machines in-and-out.
*Bzoot-bzoot-bzoot* goes the track in the background, never ending. You can't grasp what's missing. But you can try to make something up anyway.
This is wrong, machines shouldn't behave like that.
Her hand is trembling from some sort of neurodegenerative disease
Composure is a Motorics skill in Disco Elysium. Straighten your back. Keep your poker face.
Cool for: Card Players, Military Fetishists, Cool People
Composure wants you to not crack: or, at least, it wants you to not crack in front of other people. It enables you to put up a strong front. It keeps your emotions hidden from the world and helps you to read the body language of others – to sense the cracks in their own composure. As well, it keeps you looking good while you do it. You’ll rock that disco outfit a lot more if you don’t slouch.
Think of someone stoic, not really monotone per se, but a person who can keep their cool under fire, always in control of their emotions.
He is trying to retain his jolly facade, but the underlying sadness casts a deep shadow over his wrinkled face.
The situation looks bad. Calm yourself. Steady your breathing.
Could he be... a member of the homosexual underground?
