ReMask 004 - dictated

[crownless_king]

You know, I think I finally get what this fucking place is missing. It just fucking hit me, like a rocket propelled bird smashing into a glass house.

[A moment, then in writing:]

Note to self: Strap a rocket to a bird and loose at glass house. Record results.

[Dictated again]

Anyways yeah, it just hit...

PS: Put on CastleNet. Get million views and all the CastleTube money.

Anyways! This place and what it's missing? A soundtrack! I mean really, it's so goddamn obvious, like a big ol boob window on a tight latex costume. This place needs themes and tracks for the different stages and antics that occur around and about it. Heroic themes for when people like yours truly gets to be a big goddamn hero, or for seeing off the brigade of adventurers and misfits as they hit the old dusty and explore. Sad themes for when people go home, get killed, or accidentally destroy the microwave again.

Each of us? We need our own theme song. I've got my own, but the rest of you are fucking shameful, so that needs fixing.

No, I'm serious about this. There has to be enough musically inclined bastards here that we can put together a good and proper soundtrack for this place. It'll liven it right the fuck up, and who doesn't love stirring musical numbers anyways? Plus, if we got any real good singers, we could even record a proper opening and closing song. Something catchy and endearing that gets badly translated into other languages.

I dunno. Maybe something about hands, mine or otherwise...or sanctuaries...or things simple and/or clean? Look, that shit is all drawing board, we'll come back to it.

Comments

[ontheclockpro]

[reno ignores the majority of this post for a single question. He tends to tune out with Travis rambles okay]

What's CastleTube?

[crownless_king]

Or whatever you call it. I dunno. Generic castle network video hosting site.

[ontheclockpro]

Do we have one of those?

[crownless_king]

[...]

If we don't? I'm gonna be seriously disappointed in the people here.

[ontheclockpro]

Maybe you could put it up.

[crownless_king]

Yeah, maybe, if I knew how to code anything beyond the Konami Code.

[ontheclockpro]

The what code?

[persequor]

...what's a soundtrack?

[crownless_king]

Really?

[I mean sure, he didn't spell it out, but one could just...oh fuck it]

It's music. That occurs in the background to give events an added level of depth and shit. Ranges from silly, to dramatic, to balls out fucking awesome.

[persequor]

Like in movies?

[crownless_king]

Bingo.

Video games too. Your mileage may very, but they're the ones that do it best.

[persequor]

I've only played one of those games. The zombies were stupid. You couldn't hear anything over the groaning.

[crownless_king]

Sounds like one of the bad zombie games. There's damn near ten thousand of them now.

[persequor]

There're more? [ Why. ]

[crownless_king]

Oh yeah. And do you wanna know the worst part?

[persequor]

Not sure I do. [ But go on. ]

[crownless_king]

Even games that have nothing at all to do with zombies nowadays have some sort of zombie mode.

They're everywhere.

[persequor]

That's stupid. That makes them dull.

[crownless_king]

Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing, kid. Zombies sold like hot cakes, so developers everywhere stuffed em into anything they could.

[persequor]

People are stupid.

[crownless_king]

Aren't they fucking just?

[persequor]

[ Well. She's bored. He's being amusing. Let's ask. ] What's your song?

[crownless_king]

Mine, huh. Well, it's called the Beam Katana Chronicles. And it goes kinda like this. Ahem.

[And after a few warm up whistles, he begins to whistle something along the lines of this.]

[persequor]

[ Oddly, she likes it. ]

It's good.

[crownless_king]

Catchy as hell, huh? Now you can totally see why everyone needs their own theme song.

[persequor]

[ No, not really. ]

Catchy?

[crownless_king]

Yeah, catchy. Easy to recall, easy to find yourself whistling it, or humming it. Catchy!

[persequor]

[ Confounded slang. ]

Easy to have stuck in your head?

[forsometimenow]

... CastleTube? We seriously have our own version of YouTube here?

[crownless_king]

Man, if we have knockoff internet and we don't, then there is some serious priority issues going on in this place.

[forsometimenow]

Well, we could always use another mindless way to waste time, I guess.

[crownless_king]

I know, right? God, we should just invent a fucking sport or something.

[forsometimenow]

Considering how many things we can conjure up with our minds, shouldn't be too difficult.

[ruined_jaw]

Theme music? I've got one of those, actually.

[Give Jono a moment while he plugs in his guitar and proceeds to rock the fuck out.]

Wrote it months ago while I was bored, upon the suggestion of a friend who's since gone home.

[crownless_king]

[........Fuck yes metal]

Ten out of ten, would select from a "choose your fighter" screen again. Sweet mother of fuck.

[ruined_jaw]

Thanks. Was trying to make something that fit with what me and the team I worked with did, and that was just sort of what came of it.

You're looking to do some proper musiic for this place, yeah? I could probably help with that.

[crownless_king]

The fuck did your team do? Fight giant robots on top of an exploding asteroid in the middle of a goddamn war? Because that is sure as shit the mental image I am getting.

I like the sound of that.

[...Yup. He just went there. For that.]

[ruined_jaw]

Nah, we mostly fought other mutants, bad guys and the like. Occasionally magical beings, some robots. Really depended on the week we were having. We were what you might call a superhero team, the X-Men.

We'll have to work on that then, see if we can get some of the other musicians in the castle interested. Preferably ones with functioning organs, for singing and whathaveyou.

[crownless_king]

The X-men, huh. Man, that sounds badass as fuck.

Yeah, I was gonna say, you're sick with the tunes but I couldn't really see you doing vocals.

Maybe if we lied and said we were hiring a glee club or something.

[ruined_jaw]

We have our moments, yeah. Not sure who came up with the name to be honest, but now that you've got me thinking about it, it does sound pretty badass.

I can "sing" after a fashion, but there are some who might consider it cheating on my part, so I tend to avoid it.

Could work. I know there are musicians around this place. It's just a matter of holding their attention long enough.

[asseenontv]

We had no songs in the arena - only chants, sometimes. But I find I rather like Hans Zimmer's work.

[crownless_king]

Well, chants can be pretty bad ass too. But damn, no arena music? That's a travesty man.

[asseenontv]

It would have been a distraction from the fighting.

/pretend I wasn't gone all weekend and this isn't late

[hard_talker]

Someone mention music?