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OK, some of you may remember that I once tried to make a radio drama out of FF6, like The Shadow or The Whistler or War of the Worlds, those 20s and 30s and 40s things. I finished one part and stopped.

Well, I've decided to dust myself off and try again. I'm starting the whole thing from scratch, all over again. I'm working from fusing the best parts of the SNES and GBA translations, plus of course a lot of stuff I have to make up to make it work for audio.

Here's the new first part. Tell me what you think!

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NARRATOR: In every realm, there are those events that become legends; true stories that are nevertheless so awe-inspiring that they are whispered everywhere people gather around the light to push back the night. They are passed down through the generations and the telling spreads them far, far beyond where they originally took place. Such stories always have the greatest, most terrible evils: a fallen knight whose ambitions warped time itself, an emperor who tried to rule the world with the very powers of hell, a cloud of darkness that threatened to engulf all existence, an incarnation of pure hate that grew from the moon, a wizard born from a tree who wished to spread across everything there is.

[as each evil is mentioned, we hear a villainous laugh to match up with each one, until we have a chorus of five heartless laughs]

NARRATOR: But always, there are the greatest, most majestic heroes, to push them back, to hold off the night.

[during this line, the laughs die away, suddenly, almost violently]

NARRATOR: And there is one last story. It tells of the end of an age, the conclusion to a war that lasted over a thousand years. The very twilight of the gods, of the world. And of the brightest lights there ever were. It is the end of an age...but it saved the best for last.

[brief pause; as NARRATOR resumes speaking, the *OPENING THEME* begins to play softly]

NARRATOR: Long ago, the War of the Magi reduced the world to a scorched wasteland...when its flames at last receded, only a charred husk remained. Even the power of magic was lost...A thousand years have passed. Life slowly returned to the barren lands, iron, gunpowder, and steam engines have been rediscovered, and high technology reigns. But there are those who would enslave the world by reawakening the dread destructive power of ages past known as magic.

[another pause; the first bell in the *OPENING THEME* should ring about now]

NARRATOR: Can it be that those in power are on the verge of repeating a senseless and deadly mistake?

[the music fades a bit, but not all the way out; we hear the sound of rising, whipping wind (and snow, if there's a sound effect for that too); after a brief moment of this, we hear a few seconds of mechanical clanking and whirring]

MAN #1: Is that the city down there, Wedge?

MAN #2/WEDGE: That's it, Biggs...Narshe. Hard to believe an Esper's been found intact in there, 1000 years later...frozen during the War of the Magi...

MAN #1/BIGGS: Probably just another wild goose chase...I wonder if it's still alive...

WEDGE: Probably...judging from the urgency of our orders. And they wouldn't have let us use *her* unless they were confident that the information was good.

BIGGS: [just a little nervously] Yes, this...witch. I heard she fried fifty of our Magitek Armored sorcerers in under three minutes. Kinda makes your skin crawl, don't it?

WEDGE: [gently amused] Not to worry. The Slave Crown on her head robs her of all conscious thought. She'll follow our orders.

BIGGS: [hesitantly] I suppose...so what kind of resistance does the briefing say this place is supposed to have?

[a little shuffling of papers]

WEDGE: Well, the local Guard, of course...some specially raised breed of wolves called Silver Lobos...and a few tame Vomammoths.

BIGGS: Vomammoths?

[another paper flip]

WEDGE: Says that's the name for Megalodoths around here...you know, the big hairy elephant things? Can summon mini-Snowstorms with their natural magic?

BIGGS: [light dawning] Oh, right, right.

WEDGE: And that's supposed to be all they have...Intelligence heard some rumors about some other thing they've managed to domesticate, but they can't find any hard proof on it. Probably just a story the locals made up. Anything else?

BIGGS: I think that's it.

WEDGE: Good. We'll approach from the east. Move out!

[more clanking and whirring noises, and then heavy footsteps, three sets of them...a trio of large mechanical somethings is on the move...the music regains intensity as the sound effects fade away]

NARRATOR: Square Enix presents...Final Fantasy VI...written by Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, and Hiroyuki Ito...translated by Ted Woolsey and Tom Slattery...adapted for radio by Thanos6...music by Nobuo Uematsu.

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To be continued...

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SuperHeroChat

that actually sounds really cool. My grandpa used to listen to those when i was over when i was a kid and i always thought that was the coolest idea. If you get to the super serious portion of this and need some voice actors, I can do a voice or two.

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