VL: A Little Lift for the Holidays, "Pick a Card", by Christopher Long
Victoria's Lift
9th Story Studios LLC
4.7 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
"Pick a Card"
It's Christmas Eve and Victoria has someone to visit and share a little magic.
Cast (in order of appearance):
- Carol: Mary Murphy
- Victoria Bigglesworth-Hayes: Amber Loverling née Collins
Sound Design: Daniel Foytik of 9th Story Studios LLC
Art: jesse hawke of the inky pawprint
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THEMES:
"The Lift Arrives, (Opening Theme Music):
"Victoria's Music Box, (Victoria's Theme)"
The Lift Closing Theme Music
Composed and Recorded by Nico Vettese of the inky pawprint
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Producer / Editor / Creator: Daniel Foytik
Executive Producers: Amber Loverling, Nico Vettese
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the lift. Get ready to take a ride. Ha ha ha ha. Hello. I'm Daniel Foytek, and I thank you for joining us for a special episode of Victoria's Lift. |
| 0:44.9 | Today, we're presenting the final of five mini episodes for Christmas called A Little Lift for the Holidays. |
| 0:51.3 | Full-sized episodes are coming, but until then, let's join Victoria for today's tale. |
| 0:56.3 | Pick a Card by Christopher Long, told by Mary Murphy and Amber Loverland, Naye Collins. |
| 1:02.8 | Thank you to all of you for being a part of Victoria's Christmas celebration. We'll be returning in the new year. There they sit, waiting to be shuffled into the right configuration, to make someone believe they've just witnessed the impossible. |
| 1:37.3 | Every year I practice one of Larry's tricks, or the girl who comes to visit me. |
| 1:43.3 | If there is such a thing as a year here, my jail cell is tricky. |
| 1:48.7 | It's full of forgeries. The door, which isn't my front door, opens to reveal a corridor |
| 1:57.3 | that doesn't belong there. Hello, Carol. I was married to a man who pretended he could make objects appear out of thin air. |
| 2:05.6 | This girl's different. |
| 2:07.6 | She's no magician. |
| 2:10.6 | She's a tightly wound spring of magic. |
| 2:13.6 | A sorcerer with pig tails. |
| 2:16.6 | She also happens to be my jailaler. She sits across from me, |
| 2:22.4 | noticing the cards are still in their box. No trick this year? There's no hiding my exhaustion |
| 2:31.5 | from her. They're getting louder next door. |
| 2:35.0 | It's hard to focus. |
| 2:41.0 | I can always hear their voices, taunting me, |
| 2:46.0 | trying to draw me into that room, |
| 2:49.0 | except the door's been locked ever since I first arrived. |
| 2:53.3 | According to Victoria, that's down to me, not her. Of course that was me once, on the other side of the wall. |
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