Hi Chipp, well if you have a grid of boxes you can get the randomized leveling effect by using the randomize plugin from here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5416.24

The tricky part will be separating the boxes into 2 sets so you can apply different scale factors to the ones contained inside the text outline. I've just had an idea that may work for that, I'll try a proof of concept.

- Michael