Jason Damron, the voice actor behind The Storyteller – the principle character of a long-running and widespread fan-made Fallout lore video collection on YouTube – seems to have died.
That is in response to a tweet posted earlier in the present day by Damron’s account, which makes use of his on-line deal with Kankennon and is identical one credited within the descriptions of the newest Storyteller movies starring him.
“Hiya everybody, I’m Emily Damron, Jason Damron’s (the Storyteller) daughter,” it reads, “I simply wished to share that on Saturday September 7, my father handed away after a horrible 12 months of well being. He was identified with stage 4 adrenal most cancers that unfold to the liver.”
For these unfamiliar, The Storyteller collection is one which holds an analogous revance amongst followers to that of different Fallout fan creations like Nuka Break. Garnering tens of millions of views on YouTube and overlaying lore subjects starting from the unique Fallouts to Bethesda’s fashionable entries – Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 – in addition to New Vegas, the premise of The Storyteller was easy, however fantastic.
You’re taking a power-armoured wastelander obsessive about cataloguing the previous and current of the world round him, dropped at life machinima-style with assist from mods, and use his travels throughout the wastelands depicted within the video games to debate areas of Fallout lore, whereas an journey plot that step by step builds because the collection progresses stops issues ever getting too dry or info-heavy. For youthful followers like myself who bought into Fallout via the more moderen entries, the present was a good way to first study concerning the wider world of Fallout and the occasions of Fallouts 1 and 2.
Damron’s voice, starring alongside a solid that sometimes included the likes of longtime Bethesda voice actor Wes Johnson, Courtenay Taylor – the voice of the feminine variant of Fallout 4’s Sole Survivor – and even for one episode cameos from Fallout builders like Tim Cain and Josh Sawyer, was an enormous a part of the attraction. It was the type of voice that turned what might simply have felt like unwieldy lore lectures into monologues that preserve you engaged and alongside for the journey.
The information of the actor’s obvious passing has been adopted by tributes from a number of personalities and creators inside the Fallout/Bethesda group. “Jason was at all times a pleasure to work with and had a tremendous ardour for each Fallout and making cool content material. The world is dimmer with out his presence. That is devastating,” wrote Austin Hourigan, the present major character of the Shoddycast YouTube channel, the place The Storyteller collection starring Damron ran from 2013 to 2017.
“Thanks for the work we did collectively and for the enjoyable conversations. Actually a legend within the Fallout group along with his character, the Storyteller! My ideas are along with his household,” posted YouTuber TKs-Mantis. “Completely heartbreaking to listen to this,” added one other Fallout YouTuber, Juicehead, “The Storyteller was a serious inspiration for me and my content material and an enormous a part of why I began making Fallout movies within the first place.”