Worm (Audiobook) - Complete Arc 26

[@HotBotShot]

Chapter 1: 00:00 Chapter 2: 54:08 Chapter 3: 1:44:44 Interlude 1: 6:11:03 Chapter 4: 2:56:41 Interlude 2: 6:57:53 Chapter 5: 4:07:16 Chapter 6: 5:03:23 Interlude 3: 7:43:40 Interlude 4: 8:35:15

[@dancinswords]

Why is it out of order though? And how has no one commented on it

[@goodie6905]

⁠@@dancinswordswhat part?

[@dancinswords]

@@goodie6905 Well, just looking at the timestamps, all the interludes come one after the other at the end, instead of being in the video in the same order they are in this timestamp comment, which I'll assume is following the order they follow in the source material

[@goodie6905]

@@dancinswords oh yeah i see what you mean. sorry about that

[@ThePoliwrath]

Holy Crap Phenomenal last interlude. Absolutely incredible. Thank you for your hard work in narration.

[@TactlessRedacted]

Arc 1: Gestation, Arc 2: Insinuation, Arc 3: Agitation, Arc 4: Shell, Arc 5: Hive, Arc 6: Tangle, Arc 7: Buzz, Arc 8: Extermination, Arc 9: Sentinel, Arc 10: Parasite, Arc 11: Infestation, Arc 12: Plague, Arc 13: Snare, Arc 14: Prey, Arc 15: Colony, Arc 16: Monarch

[@TactlessRedacted]

Arc 17: Migration, Arc 18: Queen, Arc 19: Scourge, Arc 20: Chrysalis, Arc 21: Imago, Arc 22: Cell, Arc 23: Drone, Arc 24: Crushed, Arc 25: Scarab, Arc 26: Sting, Arc 27: Extinction, Arc 28: Cockroaches, Arc 29: Venom, Arc 30: Speck, Epilogue: Teneral

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@TactlessRedacted what is this list?

[@adelinefizzix2987]

​@@hermanmunster1054Zion says all of the arc names during his interlude

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@adelinefizzix2987 oh interesting 🤔

[@rogertheshrubber2551]

Although I still have some issues with this narrator, he's had a vast vast improvement since he started. He has a lot more character differentiation and general storytelling ease.

[@isq6672]

definitely grew on me

[@fisty539]

@@isq6672 at least it not the last arc narrator. I cannot sleep while listening to this narrator, it's too interesting. But the last one required constant focus from mispronunciations and the odd timing between sentences made me just zone out

[@hermanmunster1054]

Yah... I actually think this guy has gotten worse. Or rather he seems to have forgotten the voices he has used in the past for particular characters but he is VASTLY better than the last reader. The problem is though he is not helping me pick back up the momentum I lost with the last one.

[@zevil_2469]

Damn, Theo's balls dropped

[@haloadic2424]

NSPB is one of the best narrators in this series, but all of his voices make the characters sound snarky or high.

[@lawrencejackson9745]

God this arc is brutal

[@johnjohnson-os5gw]

Jesus christ. Gray Boy’s got thr scarriest powers in the entire series. Even more than the fucking Simurgh 🥶

[@alexanderasher8037]

What exactly is it? Is he just reseting people like Cody does bit without the memory reseting?

[@johnjohnson-os5gw]

@@alexanderasher8037 yea, but you also can’t kill him unless you have some insane power because he’s always resetting himself, and if he resets you once you’re stuck there forever, no matter what anybody can do. And he can physically change your loop, like by cutting you up into pieces

[@alexanderasher8037]

@@johnjohnson-os5gw does he have any way to bypass Durability? How would he cut up a brute like Weld or Alexandria?

[@johnjohnson-os5gw]

@@alexanderasher8037 he doesn’t, but he could loop them same as anybody else and is probably sadisticly creative enough to think to fill their mouths with pebbles or something like that

[@alexanderasher8037]

@@johnjohnson-os5gw God its so horrifying to.immagine. he can literally just torture someone forever.

[@hermanmunster1054]

*edited to put the constructive advice at the top and the critical notes at the bottom. HOWEVER, It is always better to make and COMMIT to a bad choice for line delivery then to not decide at all. I give you FULL credit for trying to change the voices after the time skip. It is even possible that you heard the complaints about the last reader and wanted to take action to make it clear that time had passed and things had changed in the world. That is a very reasonable choice. Additionally, I am going to give you credit, I think it is likely you gave this a skim over before recording and tried different voices as you went. This means you did what most did not and read before you read. Good job. My note is this, if you know your a competent reader and you have some voice decisions to make, as you do your pre-read pay more attention to the line descriptions and the reactions the characters have to each other's words than to the words themselves. Edit: and here comes the harsh part. Before this arch this was probably my second favorite reader. WHAT HAPPENED! These guys are 16-18year olds not 38year old radio news anouncers. Clockblocker is explicitly OPTIMISTIC you make him sound like **the Batman** Taylor has been a VERY winy character in the past which is why I have always liked your readings... But she isn't being winy here... You need to adjust.

[@ReinAurre]

I'm looking forward to you starting Ward, and I don't mean that in a negative way haha

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@ReinAurre thanks Rein. I thought the exact same thing. I can't WAIT to hear what you put together after having this experience under your belt and getting a chance to reflect. Every time I hear about a dark I think to myself, "wait for Ward, I know Rein is going to wow me!"

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@ReinAurre Actually I do have a question about this arch though! The interludes aren't interspersed like they normally are. A couple people said it was a mistake, but my theory is you did it on purpose as an experiment in formating. I figure you were trying to see if you could make dragon's disappearance a mystery and then build suspense and do a twist reveal. Am I right?

[@ReinAurre]

@@hermanmunster1054 ​ you give me too much credit :) The truth is I made a mistake (kind of). I assume you're referring to the comment with the chapter timestamps and the reply to it. The ordering of those chapters in that comment is actually partially wrong, so really everyone is wrong here lol The actual order of the text chapters is: 26.1 26.2 26.3 Interlude 1 26.4 26.5 26.6 Interlude 2 Interlude 3 Interlude 4 So the only chapter I had in the wrong place was Interlude 1, and I honestly have no idea how that happened (it was also 6 years ago lol)

[@ReinAurre]

@@hermanmunster1054 I just double-checked the podcast site and I did release everything in the correct order there, so I must have just made a mistake while arranging the files for the youtube video.

[@thatoneguy6744]

Finished: 8:42:52

[@renata3559]

All this time I didn't flinch at anything the writer managed to throw at me. But these bugs are getting close enough to uncomfortable to have me flinch

[@eave01]

Hey. Thanks for this. Awesome story.

[@hel-sama]

Jack's voice is so distracting🙈 Sounds like a kids cartoon villain

[@Laser-Dream]

Wait I thought narwhal died during the Leviathan attack back in ark 8 1:07:50

[@luke7320]

9:29:00

[@hermanmunster1054]

I wish I could get someone to read this with me!!!! God damb it WHAT DID JACK SAY!!!

[@ken_cognito]

7:01:47

[@trashrat8365]

5:47:51

[@Vile_Oreo]

It's like NSPB completely forgot what voice he gave to Clockblocker before. I know he changed after the time skip but not that much.

[@Vile_Oreo]

Also he gave Nilbog and Jack very similar voices which majorly throws off immersion.

[@hermanmunster1054]

This was my problem same thing for techton and he seems to have made Taylor crazy winy really throwing me off.

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@Vile_Oreo nah one(jack) was joker the ather one(Neilbog) was robot emperor from Futurama.

[@qwerty00-x5r]

Why is jack slash british? and super deep voice Theo is strange

[@hermanmunster1054]

Yah... He forgot how to voice theo

[@joshuamitchell5018]

DOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM

[@doom7ish]

I'mma going to play the doom song! Doom Doom Doom Doom Doom Doooooooom!

[@sephyrias883]

Hm, I think I have narrowed it down what I don't like about NSPB's narration. It's his Taylor. Everything else is fine, but I really don't like how he talks as Taylor.

[@ryansapp6814]

He talks excruciatingly slow. Add in the half second pauses and it just gets on my nerves. I can only listen to him sped up.

[@Alex-mt3gy]

@@ryansapp6814 I never had this problem because I only listen at 2x speed. Had no clue y people were complaining

[@pillarofsalt9724]

I can deal with Taylor. It's a little annoying, but I get it. Jack though? He sounds like a psychotic clown, and I always imagined him as really charismatic, with a smooth voice. His fear style is a normal man making sense, and messing with minds. But the way NSPB does him just hits me like an everyday insane slasher villan.

[@fellow8085]

@@pillarofsalt9724 Theres a brain dump episode about The Joker. And theres a parody joker character that shows up called the jokester. Jack and nice guy sound exactly like the jokester.

[@hermanmunster1054]

@@ryansapp6814 *slowly

[@denizeralp1831]

5 00

[@alexanderasher8037]

Contesa is so stupidly unfair.

[@isq6672]

why is Taylor so whiny?

[@hermanmunster1054]

5:06:00

[@luke7320]

2:35:00

[@DanOfThePeople95]

6:22:56

[@luke7320]

6:15:00

[@luke7320]

7:25:00