Sirenroot - Deluge of Deceit is a non-commercial, fanmade video game modification project: A Skyrim quest about a hired team of divers, and how they become trapped within an underground Ayleid dungeon. The add-on will be free to download and play, for any user that can download custom assets, such as: Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Game Pass and XBOX users.
A signature magical plant emits a ‘siren’ like singing voice, which subconsciously manipulates the thoughts of those around them.
Aside from one, Ingun Black-Briar's hired team expects a simple paid collection job of alchemical ingredients. While in a cave, they all fall into a large, ruined temple. In the temple, the player attempts to gather the team and break the trance that the siren has over each person, revealing their pasts. As the player has multiple dialogue choices to control the story, the characters also have multiple responses with different possible outcomes of their fate.
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In order of most to least dialogue: Tilael > Cayrice > Peletius/Yineel.
Side character(s): The Assassin, Larelleis (1 conversation each)
Each lead character has:
an opening conversation with questions about them prior to the quest,
either a range of brief remarks to multiple medium length conversations throughout the dungeon,
a major section dedicated to them, with multiple choice routes to complete their portion
ending dialogue based on player choices and who has survived,
then post-quest conversations with more questions, based on choices
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As the setting is medieval fantasy, there is a decent amount of Elder Scrolls terminology that is spoken in the script which may be difficult for some. Example: (Ayleid - Ay-(letter A)-Lee-id) Most of the words are read as you'd expect, though. The overall feeling of English used in Skyrim is fairly modern sounding, using contractions and such.
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You can see the WORK IN PROGRESS, (~99%) colour-coded dialogue script for the entire project here: [Deluge of Deceit Dialogue Script]
Deadline Update March 7: The script above is no longer accurate, as I've begun to focus on individual character scripts.
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To those who audition:
- Acknowledge the 'envisioned' voices for each character. Each one is a clickable link to a sample of a voice. It's just a suggestion, of course. I might like your approach better! Feel free to do multiple takes of inflection, accents, whatever you think is best. Peletius' VA suggested another accent, and I liked it.
- Submit audio with as little background noise as possible. Some noise reduction/cleanup is fine, though I would like to coordinate later on and have the final product with consistency over all character lines.
For Selected Actors:
Payments start at a flat $40 USD through PayPal for the smallest roles, and increase based on line count.
As of April 14th, I have finished selecting actors.
I will likely do a couple test-runs to fine tune the direction.
For lead characters, I'll provide a portion of the payment upfront, then the rest upon completion.
(this will all be repeated and then tuned individually for the actor's needs, of course, and probably in a less serious way.)
