test drive meme!

[wynn]

Interested in playing at Knights of Legend but want to get a feel for the players/characters/world? Already in the game but want to clown around with other muses to see how they would fit here? Now's your chance!

The setting is our world... but all the legends are real, because magic has spilled over the centuries from a Dungeons & Dragons fantasy dimension called the Shadow World into the modern one. If you have a canon character, they too have spilled over through cracks between dimensions - and remember little to nothing of their past lives, except in some rare cases. How much they remember is entirely up to you! Canon characters can either have recently arrived in this world, or already be settled and accustomed to it. Original characters are natives of either this modern+magic dimension, or from the Shadow World - in which case, they too lost memories on their journey here.

Either way, your characters have joined up with the Knights of the Silver Dragon: a large secret organization dedicated to protecting this world against the evil creatures arriving from other dimensions - and protecting the innocent dimensional travelers from cultural misunderstandings and prejudice that they face here.

Compiled from various memes at bakerstreet . Deal with it.

How it works:
1. Post as your character with Name | Canon if applicable in the subject line. You can choose the scene and prompt yourself or leave it blank for others to decide. Current players can make threads too, if you'd rather tag them!
2. Others respond to your prompt or after going to RNG and entering numbers 1- 15 for a prompt. The Gamemaster will provide everyone with at least one NPC at random to interact with!
3. Respond and play it out!
4. Part of the fun of KOL is using dice rolls to determine success or failure of actions taken! For the purpose of this meme, don't worry about having a character sheet or stats for your character - if the GM or a fellow player asks you to make a roll to determine something, simply randomize out of 20 and compare it to the number they give you to see if your character succeeds or fails!
5. Play nice. If someone doesn't want to play something out, respect their wishes.

You may use threads from this meme for your application samples!

1. Arrival; Your character wandered into some mysterious mist in their homeworld... and abruptly finds themselves in some part of our modern world, with either all, most, some, or none of their memories missing! Play out their confused first steps in this new world. Get creative about where and what they arrived in the middle of!

2. Popo Shut Us Down; Oh crap, get to the getaway car! You may be innocent or have actually broken the law, but either way, you've got to escape those sirens because the cops don't know or care that you've got a license to kill and now you're wanted. Car, boat, chopper, whatever you want, just flee the scene together and fast!

3. Anger Management; Maybe they said something insulting to you, maybe you just don't like their face, but either way you're hit with the overwhelming urge to punch this person in the face. So you do. And everything rolls on from there. Do you get in an overly dramatic fight full of fiery explosions? Is a friendship shattered? Who knows!

4. Camping in the Wilderness; This has to be the worst mission ever. No fancy hotels for you. Just a tent. Don't get eaten by an owlbear!

5. Monster of the Week; You and the other character are on a mission together when you encounter some kind of hideous monster! Start a thread, and the GM will crash with some kind of randomized beast. :3

6. Trapped! One of the characters is trapped, whether behind bars or an unbreakable glass. Drama and/or epic breakouts ensue.

7. Apocalyptica. It's the end of the world!!11 Evil mages, horrible cults, the tarrasque, world war iii, you choose. The world needs some heroes, so maybe you should get on that.

8. Animated Bulldozer. Some wacky wizard cast a spell on a bulldozer, and now it's taken on a life of its own and is tearing apart the town! Shut it down! And then you should probably get on stopping that wizard, too.

9. Critical Failure. There's failure, and then there's critical failure - the result of rolling a one on your d20. This is an epic level of fail often reserved for slapstick comedy, but sometimes having really horrible consequences. You just set fire to the book you were attempting to do research with. You just tripped and fell face first into a moat full of crocodiles. Here's a solid example.

10. Weapon Training! The Knights handed you a gun - and gave you access to a massive armory full of every kind of medieval and modern weapon you can imagine. Make use of the combat rooms and get in some sparring time!

11. Godmod; The other character just gained the ability to spam spells of massive destruction. This could be bad.

12. Savior; you've been tasked to save this person, no matter the cost. Maybe they're a stranger, maybe they're your closest friend, even your greatest enemy, but you have to save them. From who or what is up to you!

13. C-c-c-cellmates. Man, getting kidnapped stinks. Break out?

14. Texts From Last Night; Either go to tfln, and select one, or make up one of your own!

15. Shot By Your Teammate; In the heat of battle, accidents happen... and the other character just shot you. At least you think it was an accident. Dun dun dun.

16. Attack the Darkness; A classic dungeon crawl scenario! Never split the party as you make your way through a dungeon full of monsters and traps, looking for some kind of treasure.

17. Passive Aggressive Post-It Notes; Living with your fellow Knights 24/7, whether at the castle, or in close quarters on a mission, means you're going to get on each other's nerves sometimes. One or both of you is leaving passive aggressive post-it's for the other. Either respond in only post-it's back and forth, or roleplay out a confrontation once the notes get out of hand! Feel free to use the Post It Note Generator if you so choose!

18. Awkward Brunch; You've all seen plenty of these scenes before. There are tons of situations that can make things ~awkward~ between two people. And now you have to have brunch together. Uncomfortably pull through.

19. Fashion Show; Joining the Knights means getting a fancy suit of chainmail armor in blue and silver to wear for your Knighting ceremony. It weighs a ton and is awkward as fuck 8D You and the other character are trying them on for the first time together.

20. Curses! You have angered a wizard/witch/powerful faerie/omnipotent entity/incredibly stereotypical gypsy/all of the above, somehow, because you're probably a horrible person. The next day you discover you've been cursed. The nature of the curse and whether it affected one or both of you is up to you.

Comments

diana meade | the secret circle

[astrae]

[ /sidles in here late. i tried rolling but she's being uncooperative so -- have at her! umm canon info... she and faye are polar opposites basically - also she's a magic user but she won't remember that, and can be annoyingly optimistic/patient. ]

3..... the dice know our life

[reallywicked]

[Something about her just pissed Faye off. Sure, she's had some bad run ins with squires but this was different and she didn't know why.

Not knowing only pissed her off more.

And so without any prompting or even a word out of the girl's mouth, Faye decides that it's time to sort this out once and for all. She turns on her, stepping close and threatening.]

You got a problem?!

come at me etc etc

[astrae]

[Whatever free time Diana has is spent trying to make sense of the small leather book she'd found on the beach, the one with her family tree inscribed across several pages and post-it notes with half-translated poems stuck haphazardly throughout.

Preoccupied with a particularly odd rhyme, she nearly stumbles into Faye.]

Well, I think my Latin skills are a little rusty.

[reallywicked]

[The answer only irritates her more. Glancing down at the book in the girl's hands, she tries to grab it but her grip is off. Instead of snatching the book away, she just rips half of a page out.]

I think you're in my way. [Currently? In general? What is she even mad about??? THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW]

in the way of PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS?

[astrae]

[Diana holds tight – she’s still not sure what the book is exactly, but it’s clearly hers and she has some sense that it’s important, meant to be used for something. The page that Faye has ripped out is free of notations and covered in a cramped, illegible scrawl.] Uh, I’m sorry I didn’t…

[There’s… not really anywhere to go, but she flattens herself against a wall as best she can, then holds out her hand.] Could I have that back, please?

[reallywicked]

What? This? [A smug look comes over her face as she realizes how important the stupid book is to the girl. It gives her the perfect excuse to use the one spell she can use flawlessly.]

Burn bright
Ignite

[The corner of the page begins to smoke, then a small flame starts to burn the old paper.]

i'm still confused by the rolling + char stats thing so lets say she uh... overreaches a lot?

[astrae]

[Watching the flame curl across the edges of the page and devour the ink makes something in her chest tighten. The rhyme that Faye used to incite fire sounds familiar; her mind tries to conjure one in response, but the words seem too far away to reach.] Stop it.

[She remembers water, saltwater crashing against the rocks along the shore in New Salem in January. The Atlantic was particularly frigid in winter -- even most of the driftwood for bonfires had been soaked through. The more she thinks about the beach in Massachusetts, the more real it seems. Soon she can almost feel the icy chill of the waves against her arms and along her back.] Faye, stop.

[Water drips from the edge of her nose and she realizes, with surprise, that she wasn't imagining any of it. She shivers with real cold, and the ink in the book she holds is beginning to smear and fade across the pages.

And Diana and her book aren't the only things covered in freezing seawater.]

i can help, if you want me to try to explain on AIM or plurk or something :3

[reallywicked]

Faye, stop! [She mocks the girl and rolls her eyes. But the taunting doesn't last long because the next thing she knows, water dumps on her from out of nowhere. She gasps, a harsh intake at the sudden cold.]

You little bitch!

tfln it is, idek.

[bittersweeter]

Excuse me, but the alley I want to fuck in happens to be a very nice clean area.

idk either

[astrae]

I don't think you can be somewhere that's nice, clean and also an alley all at the same time.

[bittersweeter]

I think you severely underestimate my knowledge of alleys.

[astrae]

Not all of them, just the non-dark and creepy variety.

[bittersweeter]

I am not a one trick pony.

wow it only took me a day and a half to notice/get annoyed by the font change

[astrae]

No, definitely at least six or seven. :)

[bittersweeter]

Please, I have an entire stable of tricks.

12

[witchwoman]

[Myrilandel had to keep moving. Her gift pulled her, urging her forward, telling her to run. Her feet moved swiftly, a large black catlike creature just behind her.]

Where are you? Are you hurt? [She could only feel the pain- didn't know exactly what happened.] Please! I can help...

[astrae]

Just my wrist. [Diana looks for Myri's bright head from her place on the ground. She doesn't know how badly she's hurt, only that her wrist is throbbing where it's been twisted and pinned beneath her. She's having a difficult time sitting up and the nearly dead-weight of her body is keeping her arm trapped.]

I don't think it's that bad, I just -- there's um, a tree -- if I could reach my crystal, I'm sure I could... [Unfortunately, it's tucked into her back pocket and she can't do much besides brushing her fingers across the sharp edges of its outline.]

I think the tree is ...sick? There's a growth right above me, in the middle of the trunk.

[witchwoman]

[The mention of a tree throws Myri off, because he abilities are definitely for animals and humans and NOT for trees. She kneels down beside Diana and shakes her head.]

The tree can wait. [Instead of waiting for permission, she easily maneuvers the girl up to sitting and takes the wrist gently in her hands. A soft blue light comes from her palm, creating a slightly numb sensation. She takes a slow breath, eyes closing briefly as she pours herself into the work, assessing the damage.

From behind her, the large black cat creature pads forward on talons, butting his head against Diana's as if to scold her for running off alone.]

[astrae]

[She’s not particularly skilled at plant magic either, but she’s sure suddenly, that someone she knows is. The thought comes on quickly enough to make her dizzy … or maybe that’s the shock of being helped into a sitting position.] I don’t think I hit my head.

[Yes, very helpful Di.]

[witchwoman]

[Myri only nods absently as her gift finds the source of the injury. It's broken, unfortunately, but nothing she can't heal with enough time and concentration. She pushes her magic into the injury, feeling her energy drain away as the bone seals itself back together. After several minutes, Myri falls back, breathing heavily.]

Are you... How do you feel?

13 | cellmates!

[bancroft]

[ diana was the last hope for the mission, the one everyone was left counting on to get them out of here... and so you can imagine the look of dry amusement on thomas' face when she's marched into the dungeon cell, and the door is shut behind them. ] Well, so much for plan Z.

[astrae]

[She's trying not to look too disappointed in herself, but Diana's never really been good at hiding her emotions. Her hands hurt from where they were bound after she'd been caught.] Well, we've still got all of the non-Latin alphabets to work through.

[She rubs her wrists, looking around for a window and wishing that spells came more easily to her - they might've avoided this if she could only remember anything from before.] Plan Azu?

[bancroft]

[ as the guard leaves them alone, thomas shoots her a mischievous smile ] You read my mind.

[astrae]

[She smiles back, much too enthusiastically for someone stuck in a prison cell without much in the way of tools to fashion some sort of escape.] That window… what kind of metal do you think those little bars are?

[A rhyme tickles the back of her mind, but it isn’t clear enough to say aloud.]

[bancroft]

Iron? Steel? [ he moves over to the little hard cot and stands up on it, tapping on them ] I never was much of a metalsmith.