Day 1: The Seal is Broken

HIGH FIVE [10 points for posting your list, 35 points for each audio fanwork created from your list]:
Create a list of 5 audio fanworks that you'd like to create. The list could include stories or lyrics you'd like to record and/or ideas for audio fanworks you'd like to create from scratch (such as filk or oral notfic you'd like to create or stories you'd like to write and then record). The list must be posted in #high-five before you start creating any of the audio fanworks. Each audio fanwork you make off your list gives you points.

Notes:
-Only one player gets points for each audio fanwork created in this challenge.
-You may submit a work from your High Five list for another challenge, but if you do so you can no longer use it for High Five and you may not add a replacement item to your High Five list. So choose carefully!

SECRET MESSAGE [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create sets of audio fanworks whose titles go together to form a secret message of your choice. Each secret message should be made of at least 3 different titles, and each audio fanwork must be based on a text work that already has a title—titles can't be created specifically for this challenge. Players get points for each fanwork they contribute to that ends up as part of a complete message. Thanks to Jocunda Sykes for suggesting this challenge!

Day 2: Double-Edged Sword

DIY CHALLENGE [10 points per team member when the team chooses their challenge, ? points for fulfilling the challenge]:
Each team works together to come up with an audio fanworks challenge that hasn't been used as a Voiceteam or Mystery Box challenge before. It's okay to overlap with another team by accident, but you cannot purposely choose the same DIY Challenge idea as another team. The team must get the scoring system for their challenge approved by the mods (including the coding mods who will need to make it work in Airtable!). Once the challenge is approved, team members get points for fulfilling their challenge.

Notes:
-Each team only gets to create one DIY challenge this round of Mystery Box.
-Team members can only get points for fulfilling their own team’s challenge, not another team’s challenge.

BACK UP YOUR JUNK [40 points for the first set of audio fanworks backed up, 5 points for each additional audio fanwork backed up]:
Choose 10 of your already-posted audio fanworks and add links to one other hosting website to extend longevity of the fanwork. (If you haven't posted 10 podfics, you get the points for adding additional links to all the ones you have posted.) Bonus points for each podfic you back up beyond the original 10. Thanks to Jocunda Sykes for suggesting this challenge!

Day 3: Stirring in the Dark

COLD READ [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Record a podfic as you read the story for the first time. The maximum amount you may read in advance is the title, tags, summary, and first few paragraphs. Or if you want, you can have someone else find the story for you and go in completely cold!

PODFIC ~~WELCOME~~ AVAILABLE [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Fulfill a podfic request from fandomtrees, holiday_wishes, or any similar wishmaking fandom event
https://fandomtrees.dreamwidth.org/tag/m:podfic
https://holiday-wishes.dreamwidth.org/tag/podcasts+and+podfic
OR
record a work on AO3 tagged with "podfic welcome" or anything similar!
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Podfic%20Welcome/works

Day 4: They Keep Coming

ORAL NOTFIC DUEL [40 points for each player who contributes]:
Two players or groups create oral notfics that take opposing positions on an element of their choice (such as genres, tropes, fandoms, characters, etc.) Example opposing positions include AU vs canon-compliant, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, Bert vs. Ernie, fluff vs angst, ship vs gen, or anything else you think would be fun! Players involved in the duel should set terms—what will be the shared starting point of the two notfics? They might start with the same fandom, characters, trope, and/or premise. They might even have the same first sentence! Then each side will go off and record their separate oral notfics, making sure to incorporate their side of the element they are dueling over. THE WINNER IS EVERYONE (and everyone gets points for contributing)!

Go to #oral-notfic-duel to brainstorm ideas for this challenge and find dueling partners!

PASS THE BATON [30 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an audio fanwork where each step of the process is done by a different Voiceteam player: 1) selecting the text OR writing the text OR giving the starting prompt; 2) recording; 3) editing; 4) sound effects/soundscaping (optional); 5) cover art (optional); 6) creating related fanworks such as playlist/fanart/crafts inspired by the podfic (optional). Participants complete their part of the project and send it on to the next person in the chain. It is okay for more than one person to collaborate on a single step, but no player can contribute to more than one step of the same audio fanwork.

(If you are familiar with the Podfic Polygons event, this is similar to that, but with only one audio fanwork being passed from person to person instead of multiple audio fanworks being passed simultaneously.)

Day 5: Out of the Abyss

2022 RETROSPECTIVE [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an audio fanwork for a canon that didn't exist before 2022. For an RPF fandom, this challenge defines the start of canon as when the person/people first became famous, or when they became publicly linked (e.g. when they first released a work together or joined a team together). For a new part of a larger fandom, it counts for this challenge if it's a discrete storyline (e.g. new storyline in an actual play podcast) but not if it's a direct continuation of an already ongoing storyline (e.g. a new season of a TV show that picks up pretty much where the previous season left off).

3-MINUTE MASTERPIECE [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an audio fanwork of 3 minutes or less that showcases at least 3 post-production skills or techniques. These could include soundscaping, underscoring, other use music and/or sound effects, layering voices, voice effects, filters, etc.

Bonus Challenge

IT'S A TRAP
Create an audio fanwork with contributions from at least 90% of this round's Voiceteam Mystery Box players. If at least 90% of players contribute, every Voiceteam player gets 90 points outside of their point cap. If less than 90% of players contribute, nobody gets any points. Either way, this challenge is completely meaningless pointswise.

If you complete this challenge, well done! If you resist the urge to engage in this complete waste of time, also well done! No matter what the outcome, we will consider it a success!