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Soon I will be playing an ancient female dwarf warrior named Mammo Wooly in an online rendition of Fists of the Ruby Phoenix.
To better get into character, I've been using Adobe Audition to try and peg down what I imagine Mammo Wooly would sound like. My hope is that I could develop enough basic statements and phrases that I could put together a comprehensive soundboard that will let me actually "play the character" through the microphone more often than not.
I was hoping the members of this fine community might be able to help me brainstorm other dwarven curses, phrases, statements, and responses to common questions, etc. that I could record. In particular, I'm looking to cover things that are likely to come up during the life of an adventurer during an adventure. If you help me come up with some good ones, I'll even record them and post them here. :)
If you're interested in hearing the ones I've already developed, here are some of the audio files I've produced towards that end.
WORD OF WARNING! Some are rather tawdry!
Apologies in advance if these seem crudely done. I'm still learning my way around Adobe Audition.
- 419. (Mammo's age)
- 99 Barrels of Mead... (Tipsy song lyrics, most often sung when one is too inebriated to sing anything more complex.)
- A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself.
- A fight!
- All must face Her judgement, but not me. Not this year. Not yet. (A reference to Pharasma.)
- And now you are going to die.
- Certainty of death? Small chance of success? what are we waiting for!?
- Don't make me laugh! I will crush you like an insect!
- Don't you dare!
- Eyes down here! (Because Mammo is short.)
- Farewell!
- Get me a drink!
- Good day to you.
- Good riddance!
- Goodbye.
- Have any of you seen my bra? I fear I may have left it back at the tavern...with the bartender.
- Help me.
- Hey! Watch it!
- Hi.
- How are you?
- How?
- I am fine.
- I am in need of assistance.
- I am leaving.
- I am not a fan of the back door. (A reference to subterfuge.)
- I am very old.
- I don't know.
- I hate subterfuge.
- I have no idea what you're talking about.
- I keep trying to tell them: it's experience that matters!
- I know very few who can outrun me.
- I think you will find that I am quite experienced in war.
- I will have your back if you will have mine.
- I will not be spoken to in such a manner!
- I will see you all in the morning...unless I die.
- I am Mammo Wooly. Matriarch of Clan Hammerdasher, Wild Warrior of Kalsgard, and ice miner of Undercroft.
- It is merely a scratch.
- It's no hair off my chin.
- Just look at you, you're practically still a baby!
- Let's go.
- Make no mistake, I am going to outlive you!
- May your halls collapse upon you! (Akin to "Go to Hell!" Sometimes shortened to "Halls collapse upon you!")
- Maybe.
- Most people simply call me "Old Wooly."
- No.
- Nooooo!
- Now that's what I call a hunk of meat!
- Oh no, that's much too big for little old Mammo.
- Oof!
- Over here.
- Perhaps.
- Stone endures! (Meaning and usage varies; sometimes used in exasperation and at other times more akin to an uplifting "don't give up!" morale booster)
- That one hurt him!
- That was merely a feat of strength.
- Today is a good day for someone else to die.
- Torag's beard! (A common exclamation of shock or surprise; often used in lieu of an expletive.)
- We are a team. It's time we started acting like it!
- We are leaving.
- We dwarves are natural sprinters; very dangerous over short distances.
- We should celebrate.
- Well, don't look at me.
- What do you want?
- What is that?
- What?
- When the mountain crumbles! (akin to "When Hell freezes over!" or "When pigs fly!")
- When?
- Where are we?
- Where did that damn healer run of to?
- Where?
- Who are you?
- Who?
- Why wait? I say we go in through the front door!
- Why?
- Yes.
- You could not hope to match my strength!
- You make a grave mistake underestimating me.
- You needn't worry about me.
As an aside, does anyone know how to turn these into an on-the-spot voice synthesizer? Is there an app or tool for that somewhere? Simply talking would be much more convenient than having to record them all in advance.
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A big thanks to Justin Michael Campbell and others for helping me dig up some more cool dwarf phrases and insults. :D
- A good pick will serve your grandchildren. (A good purchase should last a long time.)
- A lone column supports nothing. (Akin to "There's no 'I' in 'Team.'")
- A pint of ale and a kind word will get you further than a sword.
- All ale and no ore. (An indication of laziness.)
- And I hear dwarves mine! (A sarcastic response to something obvious.)
- Call me crazy again and I will eat your other eye!
- Even a pebble has its place. (Everyone has a job to do.)
- Even you will look up to me once I tear your legs off!
- Has your forge gone cold? (Akin to asking "Are you stupid?")
- He's gone over the mountain! (indicating they're "far away;" akin to saying "He's lost his mind!")
- I would rather hear my canary choke than to listen to your for another minute. (As in "I would rather die.")
- It ain't the size of your pick that counts, but how you swing it. (An indication that training and experience is more important than one's weapon choice.)
- May you dig in sand for a thousand years! (Cursing someone to never make it big in life.)
- May your funeral be a sober occasion. (Cursing someone to die alone and unloved.)
- May your troubles be as long as your legs. (Wishing ill of another, usually taller, individual.)
- Not every stone is a gem. (Not everyone gets to be special.)
- Only a kobold trusts a kobold. (A warning to watch out for schemers.)
- Rust and ruin! (An exclamation born out of frustration.)
- Slag it! (Akin to more commonly used expletives.)
- Stuck between the hammer and the anvil (Akin to saying "stuck between a rock and a hard place.")
- That took longer than a day without ale. (A really long time.)
- The water will find its own way down. (Alluding that things will work themselves out eventually.)
- You are a beardless fool.
- You hit like an elf! (Alluding to weakness or "sissiness.")
- You know the ale's good when you wake up next to an ogress! (Really good ale.)
- You're a few hairs short of a beard. (An indication of possible insanity.)
- You're about as useful as a quicksilver helmet. (Meaning, not useful at all.)
- You're just poking the troll. (Implying that what someone is doing is ineffective.)
- You've gnomed it up. (As in "made something overly complicated or unnecessary.")
I got an amazing new microphone and re-recorded everything. It all sounds SO much clearer than before!
You can find the entire audio library here.
Let me know if you come up with any other dwarven phrases or euphemisms, and I will record them too!
You definitely need something saying you weren't aware one of the other characters was a male because you have a longer/fuller beard than them.
Oof. That's quite a burn!
Super interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think I could be able to use any such things (I don't think you can put player generated sounds in Foundry or Roll20).
But I hope it'll come at some point.
Super interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think I could be able to use any such things (I don't think you can put player generated sounds in Foundry or Roll20).
But I hope it'll come at some point.
Yep. I've been trying to find a way.
For now, I can play them back through my mic via another device (hardly ideal) or share them with the other players in advance as a sample of my character's voice and personality. Sort of like passing around a character portrait, but more.