Yes, I need help regarding dialogue so that the people don't come up as boring same-personality people. If anyone wants to volunteer, just post in this thread the characters that you'd like to give dialogue to.

Obviously I'll credit you, so don't worry about that. I always credit those who help out on my projects, no matter how little the help is. Honour before reason, right?

CHARACTERS	Dialogue Writer	CHARACTERS	Dialogue Writer	CHARACTERS	Dialogue Writer	CHARACTERS	Dialogue Writer	CHARACTERS	Dialogue Writer
Shané	Shane	Chanelle	Polaris	Zexion Uchiha	Egregious One	Serenity	----	Reverie (represents Kanpachi)	Kanpachi
The Purple Karjam	KarjamP	Richard (represents KarjamP)	KarjamP	Erin Molony	----	Sparkle	Polaris	Sousuke Sagara (represents Egregious One)	Egregious One
AVQ Hero	Taylor	AVQ Heroine	Taylor	Tifa	----	Naturia	----	Mystery Mines Sage (Frost)	Egregious One
Alexandra	----	Kairi	Polaris	Gina	----	Riley	Polaris	Unnamed Guard	----
GMG 1 / Irma	Taylor	GMG 2 / Adriana	----	NoxiCritter King (Frost)	XiphosOrochi666	Shane (as himself)	Shane	Kim	Shane
Taylor (as herself)	Taylor	Starry Skies Sage 1 (Frost)	Egregious One	Coolio (Frost)	Wayne	Terravolt (Spark)	----	Volcannon (Ember)	----
Croavenom (Toxin)	----	Atlex	----	Walter	Wayne	Corinth	----	Lily Osbourne	----
Adrian Kosugi	----	Lydia Kosugi	----	Siobhán Kosugi	----	Sandy Lendedge	----	Hunter Lendedge	Wayne
Selena Daria	----	Ayla the puppy	Polaris	Rosie	----	Starry Skies Sage 2 (Frost)	Egregious One	Narrator	----
Frost Forest Tablets	----	Inoratu	----	? ? ? ?	----	? ? ? ?	----	Sofia	Shane
Sakura	----	Piccolo *	----	Miles Edgeworth *	----	Kori *	----	Roan (letter)	----
Vera (Chanelle) (Frost)	----	Emma (Chanelle) (Ember)	----	Lyra (Chanelle) (Spark)	----	Grizelda (Chanelle) (Toxin)	----	Ariaju	----

* They may make an appearance in the mod... provided I'm lazy enough to sprite them.

NOTES FROM SHANE:
NOTE: you can mouse over the acronyms.
NOTE 2: all characters with a ---- under the Dialogue Writer column have their current dialogues written by me or Taylor, although people complain that everyone sounds the same. Hence, this thread exists to "purge" the characters of their current dialogue, and give them better ones instead.
NOTE 3: characters that already have "official" Dialogue Writers can not be selected. Official Dialogue Writers are in italics.
NOTE 4: characters who represent people who helped out on the mods in the credits will always write the dialogue of the characters representing them. In other words, Richard's dialogue will always be written by KarjamP, Taylor's dialogue will always be written by Taylor, and so on.
NOTE 5: The "Cthulhu" are not going to be named as such, however, I have yet to think up a new name for 'em. In the original Cave Story, they're basically humans who give information and are older than they appear. In this mod, they sort-of do the same. They will be named "Sages" in Frost, "Wise Ones" in Ember, "Genii" in Spark and "Philosophers" in Toxin. Note that all "Cthulhu" (as they shall be called in general) will count as one character in terms of dialogue.
NOTE 6: Helping out with dialogue? Every person who helps out with dialogue has a maximum limit of seven characters, at the moment. Version exclusive characters do not count, however - so it's possible for one person to do the dialogue of all Sages, Wise Ones, Genii and Philosophers. See above table to see who appears in what versions.
NOTE 7: The Frost Forest Tablets were carved by the Sages.
NOTE 8: Since Chanelle is actually an antagonist, I figured it'd be useful to give her impostors. Each version has a different minion of Pacen. As of version 0.3, Vera-Chanelle makes a minor appearance. Where? I'll not say.


NOTES FROM TAYLOR:
NOTE: Please do not let the characters use swear words or NSFW words. After all, the mod is supposed to be playable for all or something like that.


CHARACTER LIST:
A list of characters with dialogue. Something like that. Names in bold are members of this forum, while names in bold italics are people who are members at other forums but not these forums.

Shane: Shané; Shane; Kim
KarjamP: The Purple Karjam; Richard
Taylor: A Virtual Quest hero; A Virtual Quest heroine; Gas Mask Girl 1; Taylor
Polaris: Chanelle; Kairi; Ayla the puppy; Sparkle; Riley
Egregious One: Starry Skies Sage 1; Zexion Uchiha; Starry Skies Sage 2; Sousuke Sagara; Mystery Mines Sage
XiphosOrochi666: NoxiCritter King
Wayne: Coolio; Walter; Hunter Lendedge

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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Um. Due to contradictions and such, I may have to make large changes to this post and the mod.

If no-one else has problems with you doing the hero and heroine's dialogues, and the antagonist, then I'll update the table.
That way, it's better to avoid wars.

Cthulhu, eh?

I was only joking.

Why's a puppy up there?
Also, why're the Cthulhu called "Pies" in Toxin? XD

Alright, y'all, the dialogue has been posted! I repeat, the dialogue has been posted!

See this thread for details. (Link)

That'd be nice, thanks!
Just say who (in the first post) you'd like to help with dialogue, if they have no official dialogue writer (those who have none are written with ----).

Also Rosie (as a boss) will have her dialogue remain, because it sounds feral. "You no take starflower" while the music stops suddenly sounds pretty scary to me, but that's just me.
Her boss theme will be a HH BG Battle for now, although that theme is going to be mainly Coolio's battle theme (NoxiCritter X uses Gigantic Boss).

Maybe I ought to add a few more ORGs? I have 18 unused ORGs so far.

17, if I consider giving Eclaire her own boss theme. Or his own. Or its own. Eclaire appears in version 0.3, I hope.

Okay, how could I help?

Dialog alterations so far:

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Richard "KarjamP" de Goede:

Represents KarjamP. Also appears in the intro cutscene.


RICHARD: I guess this world's part of Variant 0. //original

RICHARD: This appears to be in the same world as the Dragon Rider series. //Altered

RICHARD: This appears to be in the same world as the Shane's Cave Story series. //Variant



//original

< The Purple Karjam appears - yes, he's sort-of important to the story >

PURPLE KARJAM: Quote and Curly did manage to evacuate the city, but sadly, Nega-Lime Karjam destroyed it before the two robots could escape.

KAIRI: Figured you'd show up in time. What brings you here?

PURPLE KARJAM: I suspect that the mysterious disappearance of Shané could, perhaps, be linked to a plot of Nega-Lime Karjam.

SERENITY: Huh. Well, who knows...

PURPLE KARJAM: ... Of course, who knows what Author Shane is planning. For all we know, it could end up to be some guy named Pacen.

KAIRI: Pacen's the Dark One, if I remember correctly...

SERENITY: Let's just work on rebuilding the town. Could you help out, Purple?

PURPLE KARJAM: If I did, everyone would have become lazy eventually. It's best not to let THAT happen, though.

KAIRI: El, oh, el.

SERENITY: Was that supposed to be "lol"?

KAIRI: Yes. I'm just horrible at that kind of thing.

//altered

KAIRI: Quote and Curly died trying to stop that green guy from... well, destroying a Surfacian city, right?

< The Purple Karjam appears - yes, he's sort-of important to the story >

PURPLE KARJAM: Those two robots did managed to evacuate the city. Unfortunately, Nega-lime destroyed it before they could get out themselves

KAIRI: Figured you'd show up in time. What brings you here?

PURPLE KARJAM: I think Shané’s disappearance could be link to Nega-Lime’s current plot.

SERENITY: Huh. Well, who knows...

PURPLE KARJAM: ...Yeah. Who knows what the Author of this story’s planning. In fact, it could even be a guy named Pacen who could’ve done it.

KAIRI: Pacen's the Dark One, if I remember correctly...

SERENITY: Let's just work on rebuilding the town. Could you help out, Purple?

PURPLE KARJAM: Sorry, but I would only use my powers to help you if there’s no other choice. I want others to figure stuff out for themselves lest they
become entirely dependant on me to do everything. It’s best to not let that happen.

KAIRI: El, oh, el.

SERENITY: Was that supposed to be "lol"?

KAIRI: Yes. I'm just horrible at that kind of thing.




< camera focuses on the Purple Karjam >

//Altered

?: Is it ready?

PURPLE KARJAM: Not yet. I couldn't find her.

?: Shané?

PURPLE KARJAM: Yes. She's been gone since two days ago, and I can't seem to find her.

?: Have you tried looking in the ground

PURPLE KARJAM: I don't think she'd be buried.

?: I have reason to suspect that she's in a secret cave, so consealed that even we couldn't find her.

< ground shakes >

?: What the heck?

PURPLE KARJAM: It looks like a cavern is rising over there!

?: Maybe Shané's there?

PURPLE KARJAM: Well, my senses are failing me there, so that could be true.

PURPLE KARJAM: It's possible that the place's enchanted to conceal any form of life there

?: Are you going to rush now, PK?

PURPLE KARJAM: You're Joking, Richard.

RICHARD: I know. What's that behind you?

< Purple Karjam takes two steps right >

PURPLE KARJAM: That's wierd. My sensor's failing me over there as well.

RICHARD: So what now?

< Purple Karjam turns around >

PURPLE KARJAM: Well, I could always work around needing to search in two locations by sending a clone to one and me going another way

RICHARD: That's great! Let’s get going now!

PURPLE KARJAM: Okay, Mr. Impatient.

//Original

< camera focuses on the Purple Karjam >

?: Is it ready?

PURPLE KARJAM: Not yet. I can't find her.

?: Shané?

PURPLE KARJAM: Yes. She's been missing since two days ago, and I've been unable to find her since then.

?: Have you tried looking under the ground?

PURPLE KARJAM: I don't think she's buried.

?: I have reason to suspect that she's inside a secret cave, so well-hidden that not even we can find her.

< ground shakes >

?: What the?

PURPLE KARJAM: It looks like a cavern of some sort is rising up over there!

?: Maybe Shané's there?

PURPLE KARJAM: Well, I can't sense anything inside, so maybe that's true.

PURPLE KARJAM: Maybe there's some sort of sspell on it that... prevents us from detecting life forms in there?

?: Aren't you going to hurry up?

PURPLE KARJAM: You're not serious, Richard.

RICHARD: I know. And what's that?

PURPLE KARJAM: Huh?

RICHARD: Behind you?

< Purple Karjam takes two steps right >

PURPLE KARJAM: That's new! I can't sense any life forms there, either!

RICHARD: So now what?

< Purple Karjam turns around >

PURPLE KARJAM: Well, I can always send a clone to that area, and then go to those caves myself.

RICHARD: That's a good idea. So get going already!

PURPLE KARJAM: Wow, talk about impatient...




//original

RICHARD: You did a good job in stopping the Critter invasion...

RICHARD: I wonder why they wore those weird masks, though.

//altered

RICHARD: You did a great job stopping those Critters

RICHARD: Those weird masks cause me to wonder what were they going to do...




//original

PURPLE KARJAM: Hi! I'm the Purple Karjam.

PURPLE KARJAM: I would have been across the lake in the full version of this mod, but Author Shane has instead decided

to move me here.

PURPLE KARJAM: His laziness is worse than that of one of my friends, from Esiësia.

//altered

PURPLE KARJAM: Hello! I'm the Purple Karjam.

PURPLE KARJAM: In the full version of this mod, I would be across the lake, but Author Shane had decided to instead put me here.

PURPLE KARJAM: He’s even lazier than one of my friends from Esiësia.




//original

RICHARD: Stupid earthquakes. Author Shane never told me that those would happen, either!

//altered

RICHARD: darn earthquakes! Author Shane never mentioned these two!




//original

PURPLE KARJAM: Okay, so Author Shane is NOT as lazy as I thought he was.

PURPLE KARJAM: He's still lazy, though.

//altered

PURPLE KARJAM: I stand corrected about how big Author Shane’s laziness is.

PURPLE KARJAM: He’s still at least a bit lazy, of course.

EDIT BY SHANE:
The layout of the page due to the Code BBCode was sort-of annoying me.

Why'd you give the dialogue threads directories?

Is that a result of TV Tropes ruining your life?

Out of boredom

C'n'I ask if the "Frost cave being a bad omen" thing is a running gag?

... Is it even possible for someone with one arm to replace a lot of dialogue? o_O

I've finished replacing Richard and Purple Karjam's dialogues, by the way.

Hey. If it's no problem, I'd like to write foooor:

Ayla The Puppy,
Kairi,
Channelle,
Riley,
And Sparkle.

I've never really tried this sort of thing before, but I'll see what I can do.

Okay, right now I'm working on another dialogue dump. (Although I'm doing it with one hand this time, so it's gonna take me longer to do than last time.) Ergo, this thread is obsolete for now. The moment I'm finished with the dialogue dump (i.e. rewriting it into Notepad), I'll update that thread.

Of course, since I can't use both hands, my right hand will tire faster than usual if I just keep typing non-stop. Thus, I'll take breaks now and then.

That is all I'll be saying now. Wish me luck, I suppose!

By the way, if anyone wants to change who they "voice" or anything, just say so.
... Also, I need to change the last names of Chanelle and Shané...

First things first.
This is (technically) my first time working on a video game mod, so... it's going to be glitched a lot.

Uh, no.
Beta Testers can help you out with that

At the moment, Taylor's working on the dialogue extraction (because I have absolutely no idea how it was done). Thanks goes to her for that.

No problem.
I'll try to finish it before 2014 begins, but I can't promise anything.
The game has so much dialogue that it'll take a while.
And I can't rush it, for fear of spelling mistakes.

I'll do Irma, Adriana, and the second gas-mask girl's dialogue, if you don't mind.

Um.
I've noticed a contradiction: Irma and Adriana are already mentioned there; meaning that they have two dialogue helpers.

I may be scared of gas masks, but it doesn't stop me from helping with dialogue, right?

You're scared of those things too?