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@tapetum-lucidum
Tapetum Lucidum is a fictional podcast based in Providence, a tourist town on the coast of Maine. It follows a cast of strangers as they navigate through the various weird happenings in the town and deal with the odd dreams that seem to be haunting them.
Currently in the writing phase of production, but the ask box is open for character, setting, general, or any other questions you may have, along with comments.
About Characters Cast & Crew
ID: a poster by Obvious Plant titled "Take care of your mental health" with nine suggestions with illustrations in a grid. the illustrations are all redrawn digitally with black and white character portraits. 1) "talk about your feelings" is melvin quill, who has messy hair in a bun and glasses, smiling benignly. 2) "keep active" is iraia miller, a snake wiggling through the air with an open mouth. 3) "eat an potato" is morgan b slater, a woman with round glasses and a sweater holding some french fries. 4) "recite a dark spell" is an amorphous black blob with trails of darkness and sparkle shapes. 5) "throw your phone in the lake" is val malone, a man with messy gelled-back hair hunching his shoulders and looking suspiciously at the blob. 6) "kiss a bird gently" is keahi lamarr, a woman with bangs and a curly bun, holding up a chicken and smiling. 7) "scowl" is nora, a woman with a spiked leather jacket and half-shaved hair, glaring. 8) "make fun of someone you don't like" is a little clownlike elf on the shelf doll, smiling mysteriously. 9) "lie down in the dirt and let the earth slowly reclaim you" is cassidy, a curly-haired person pinching the bridge of their nose looking exhausted. end ID
Some of the Tapetum Lucidum cast offer their self-care strategies of choice!
WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (Part 10)
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1) Kiki: (wary) Why do you have a hammer? Casey: (lifting hammer over head, above the elf) Direct action.
2) Casey: (after hearing the current issue they’re dealing with) You said you live in Providence? Morgan: Right! Yes we do. Casey: Okay. RIght. (pause) Have you tried not doing that?
3) Nora: You lost me at the portion where a clown bested you in combat. Aren’t you a magic user? Cassidy: (wearily) Clowns... are not human.
4) Kiki: Look at me in the eyes and tell me you aren’t going to do something stupid. Iraia: (confidently) I’m not going to do something stupid. Kiki: Now do it honestly. Iraia: (sweating) I think it’s a little unfair to add rules after the fact.
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (Part 9)
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1) Morgan: Is there a reason you live in the dream realm? Casey: You mean since I’m not an original resident? Morgan: Exactly. Casey: I took one look at that fucking elf and decided I’d rather die than own property in the real world ever again.
2) Casey: (upon seeing the elf) Get that thing out of here or so help me god I’m burning the building down.
3) Ica: Oh powerful wizard, speak your wizard wisdom! Casey: Please stop saying that every time you enter my house.
4) Kiki: Okay everyone. We’re here to save the town, right? Nora: Actually, I’m here for the money and power, but I guess the whole ‘saving the town’ thing is a positive side effect.
5) Kiki: Why... did you put the elf inside the dryer? Iraia: To atone for his crimes, obviously.
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (Part 8)
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1) Ramiel: (disgusted) Leave me, rat man. Melvin: (equally disgusted but not by the ‘rat’ part) Man?
2) Kiki: (sigh; probably dragging a hand down her face) Did you ever, possible, consider that your actions have consequences that affect the rest of us? Nora: (thinking, but like, not really) Hmm... (place sound of bubble gum popping here) Yeah, no. Not really.
3) Ica: As one of the original founders of the town of Providence— Morgan: (choking on her soda) Excuse me? Ica: —I can confirm that the town is build on a bed of lies! As well as an ever-shifting labyrinth. Melvin: (clarifying) Which is the bed of lies. Ica: I wouldn’t say that. The labyrinth doesn’t pretend to be easy to traverse. It advertises itself fairly honestly.
4) Cassidy: (upon finding out that they are on a boat that is Very High Up) Get me off this boat get me off this boat get me off this boat— Lucky: (sucking in a sharp breath in sympathy) Oh man, we broke them, didn’t we?
5) Casey: If you don’t get out of my house, I am going to hit you with something. Melvin: That isn’t very wizardly of you. Casey: Not wizardly? Not wizardly? That’s your complaint? Alright? Fine! I’ll give you wizardly! Abraca-get-the-fuck-out-of-my-home. [sound of melvin aggressively being hit over the head with a cardboard tube]
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (Part 7)
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1) Kiki: (being reasonable) You can’t solve every problem by trying to bite it. Iraia: Our success rate when I’ve bitten stuff has been 100%! It’s been working pretty well.
2) Ica: Does your shirt say— Casey: ‘Lucid dreamers fucked up my dreamscape and all I got was this stupid t-shirt’? Yeah. Did you need something or what?
3) Morgan: (about to throw the elf like a football to cassidy) Go long! Cassidy: (shrieking because that thing better not touch them)
4) Cassidy: (oh god they’re being bothered in their place of work now?) What are you doing here? Iraia: (ignoring them completely) Can I lay in the display coffins, or is that generally frowned upon?
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 6)
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1) Melvin: (mournfully) Ah, they always get what I look like wrong in books. You know, I don’t even have a cape with a hood, and certainly not in that color. [silence] Kiki: (slowly) Melvin, this is a page on Morpheus. Melvin: (confused) Yes? It’s a page on me, that’s what I was commenting on. (pause, then, realization) Oh... oh! Did I forget to mention that? My bad. I thought you knew. Nora: (mentally googling how to kill an immortal) You’re the god of the fucking dream realms and you made us walk the entire way to your stupid city? Melvin: (meekly) It’s a very scenic journey?
2) Iraia: I haven’t been able to get the taste of undead raccoon out of my mouth for like an hour now. Kiki: You didn’t have to bite it. Iraia: Well, none of you were going to.
3) Kiki: (tired; this might as well be the way this day is going) Is that... a flamethrower? Val: Oh, yes. They’re actually remarkably easy to get. Can you believe it?
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 5)
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Jacob: (tortured; the town hall never goes well) Hello everyone, and welcome to the monthly Providence town hall. Under your seats, you’ll find a list of banned topics. If you do not know the reason for the banning of these topics... please refrain from asking. [sound of paper rustling] Val: (whispering) “Elf on the Shelf (Off season only),” “Tourists,” “Raccoons (’Dead’),”... why is “The Establishment ‘Saf-T-Swim’ and All Adjacent Businesses and Services” on here? Lucky: (whispering back) Oh, so you know how we’re right by the water, yeah? Val: There’s a pier. Obviously we’re by water. Lucky: Well, no one can swim. [silence] Val: When you say no one— Lucky: Not a single person in this room can swim. Save, like, maybe 4 of us? Then again, I’m really not sure if Melvin ever learned, they’re kind of adverse to it— Val: No one can swim? In a coastal town? Lucky: The swimming is mainly for tourists, you know? And most of us don’t want to mingle with tourists. And when they’re not here, the water’s too cold, so I don’t think anyone bothers because of that. Val: Don’t you need to know how to swim to be on a boat? Lucky: Technically. In practice, no one’s going to stop you. Val: That’s—that’s not a good thing. Lucky: Well, you don’t have to tell me that! I’ve been a very vocal advocate for the implementation of a Saf-T-Swim at all of these meetings. Why do you think it’s banned? Oh, but it’s not the worst thing on the list. Chief Weer might go ballistic if you mention that the theater company is cursed— Val: (they’re WHAT) Excuse me? Lucky: —So like, super don’t bring that one up!
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 4)
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[slamming of car doors] Ica: Alright! Let’s get the hell out of here, Mel. Melvin: Of course! (pause) Well. If you can tell me which pedal does what. [silence] Ica: (absolutely about to kill them) You don’t know how to drive? Melvin: I’ve been a little busy with other things! Ica: You’ve been in this realm how long? How long Melvin? 80 fucking years? Melvin: Well, I’ve lost count— Ica: And you don’t know how to drive a car? What the hell have you been doing? Melvin: To be fair to me, it’s not like I need to drive anywhere, I have legs— (pause; wait a second) Wait. Do you know how to drive? Ica: (uh oh; put on the spot) I—that’s not the point right now, I’m not in the driver’s seat— Melvin: Hah! You don’t know how to drive either! Ica: I can fly, dumbass! Of course I don’t know how to drive! Melvin: Apparently having another mode of transportation isn’t a proper excuse, so— Morgan: (jesus christ; she’s been in the back seat this whole time) How do two gods not know how to drive? Ica: (so very close to losing it over the fact that people are calling her out for not being able to drive) Would you like to get in the driver’s seat? Would you? Because if so, please, be my guest!
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 3)
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Val: (very seriously) Here. [sound of an object being shoved into Monroe’s hands] Monroe: What... why are you— Val: (cutting him off) It’s one of those belt keychain zippy things. Since you lose your keys— Monroe: (exasperated) I—they’re magic keys— Val: Oh, I’m sorry did that stop you from magically losing them? No? So, back to what I was saying, this bad boy zips right back to your belt, and there you have it. Key loss prevention.
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WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 2)
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1) Cassidy: (muffled) Where are you? Where the fuck are you? [sound of something crashing and then being hit repeatedly] Kiki: (outside Cassidy’s door; she’s just here to check in about something and has no idea what’s happening in there) Are they... okay? Morgan: (knowing that ‘tis the season of the elf) Oh yeah, this is normal, don’t worry. Just go ahead and knock.
2) Kiki: (trying to remain calm) Alright. Just back away slowly. Maybe— [ a single gunshot. Then, after a moment, 3 more gunshots in quick succession] [silence, then one single gunshot more, just for good measure] Kiki: (flabbergasted; hey, what? The fuck?) Did you just shoot a gun in a diner? Val: (unbothered) Hey, I have a permit to carry. Kiki: (oh god help her) That isn’t the problem I have with what you just did. Val: What did you want me to do with this? Throw it?
WitchCraft: Malady Script Excerpts (part 1)
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1) Val: (to camera like on The Office, casually) So I’ve been in Providence a few weeks at most and I’ve already decided that no one should live here, ever.
2) Iraia: (determined; this is a simple problem with a simple solution) I’m going to bite it. Kiki: (voice of reason) You aren’t. Nora: (hey wait this’ll be funny) Do it. Tell us how the monster tastes.
3) Cassidy: (softly but with strong emotion to the elf on the shelf, which has been bagged) Don’t think I don’t see right through you. I know you’re up to something. Nora: Jesus Christ, are you talking to it? Why does everyone in this town do weird shit?
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Roadtrip AU....what are the main characters up to?
Morgan B Slater | Staring face against the window the entire time cause she's never been to a place in her life
Nora [Redacted] | Headphones on, totally ignoring everyone else to focus on one of her many electronic devices. Has an alarm set up on her phone for when they get close to a cool landmark, but otherwise barely even looks out the window. (will NOT share her snacks and food, and if you are playing a song she doesn't like loud enough to hear through her headphones, she WILL hack the playlist. even if its on a tape. No one is sure how exactly she does this.)
Arden Cassidy | Makes a very dedicated but tense navigator. They're good with maps and rarely miss a cue (not good at picking out places to go but by god they'll get us there), but may end up getting banished to the backseat for being Too meticulous. Oddly enough they're fine once that happens it's just if they have a Job To Do, they have to do it right
Val Malone | Suspicious of every rando at a gas station, but otherwise is very confused by every roadside attraction cause he’s barely been outside Boston before (“What do you mean there’s a CORN museum!?”). Is legitimately spooked by the hell is real billboards.
Iraia Miller | Sitting in the backseat (by choice), excitedly pointing out landmarks, making conversation, and enjoying the novelty of being on a road trip. If she's sitting next to anyone but Nora when they get tired, that person can expect to have part or all of a very sleepy snake on their person (especially Morgan, who's their closest friend of the group and thus the one who Iraia's most comfortable doing this with)
Keahi Lamarr | So Kiki is driving. She normally tries to get someone to play the license plate game with her for the duration of the trip. Her truck has one of those multi-disc cd players because she's retro, and loaded in there is the wildest assortment of music. We're talking old coldplay to tchaikovsky to doja cat to muppet show soundtrack. In the glove compartment there is an entire cd binder filled with other cds. Generally a very calm driver. Tunes out Cassidy's high strung navigation in a polite way.
32 for cassidy
32. can they play darts? would they? Yeah, you know what, they spent enough time in dingy community centers and church rec rooms as a kid and then weird middle-of-nowhere roadside dives later on. They don't actually enjoy it that much though.
8 for kiki
8. do they have steady hands?
Yes.
Val 1, Iraia 13, Arden 17, Kiki 25, Nora 37, Morgan 44
(corrected 44 to 41)
1. what kind of clothing does your character like to wear? do they have a style? anything they avoid wearing?
Val Malone | Val mostly wears a leather jacket over a button up, but it’s a bit bulkier because he also wears a Kevlar vest underneath that. He does try to avoid looking like a detective but fails
13. what helps them fall asleep when they're having trouble doing so?
Iraia Miller | Iraia often falls asleep in places that have a good view of the stars, whether by choice or by necessity. Her go-to strategy is to try to identify as many constellations as they can, almost like counting sheep. If they run out, they just make up new ones. She finds drawing those patterns oddly soothing, so much so that if given the choice, she'll almost always choose to sleep somewhere with a good view of the night sky.
17. do they fidget? how and/or with what?
Arden Cassidy | for how high-strung they are, you'd think so, but they're not that fidgety. cassidy tends more towards eerie stillness when uncomfortable or In Their Head about something. they do subconsciously mess with their hair a lot though
25. do they keep books on their person? what kind?
Kiki Lamarr | Yes! Before the start of the story, Kiki kept a little notebook and a little edible plant book in her bag. Once she discovered the supernatural parts of the world, she’s also started carrying around at least a “magic for dummies” book, if not more, from the library.
37. how would they pass the time on a train?
Nora [Redacted] | Nora is never without some form of portable computer/electronic device. She's either doing work or playing a game of her laptop/phone/game device, earbuds in before she's even gotten on the train.
41. what's the silliest thing they've used magic to do? if they don't have magic, what's something silly they'd use it for if they did?
Morgan B Slater | Morgan tends to be relatively practical with magic, although when she was ten she would "prank" people by conjuring ice cubes into their hot coffee when they weren't looking
5 and 12 for Nora! She is cool
5. if they wear any, how does your character go about applying makeup? (methodically, nervously, messily, etc)
Nora's makeup is basically battle paint. She applies it efficiently and precisely, and onlookers are amazed at how she can get her eyeliner perfect in a single stroke. She knows when to ramp it up or tone it down as the situation requires (but mostly she makes it intense to intimidate others). She also isnt afraid to experiment with bold looks, though she usually has a few looks she defaults to.
12. what color would they paint their room? would there be a design on the ceiling?
She's been doing a lot of traveling for work recently, so she hasn't stayed in a place that shes allowed to decorate in a while. At home, she used to have a very stereotypical "teenage punk" bedroom, with posters everywhere (including the ceiling). When her parents "subtly" suggested a make-over, she made it very goth out of spite. Lots of black and red with ornate decor. No designs on the ceiling, but an extremely impractical and ornate black chandelier. (this also prompted her to get her own office, because her computer didn't fit the aesthetic)
