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

[mydesigns]

[CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP. nah jk. empathic bleed from being around them 24/7 ok.] Then I must just be asking a question and not trying to psychoanalyze you.

[hisgoldenticket]

I think... [ she pauses to... actually think about it. ] It's beneficial to my continued well-being. But I don't think I'll be any good at it.

[mydesigns]

I have apprehensions about how successful I'll be. [he's trying to be reassuring and show solidarity, but his delivery is so neutral you can't really be sure???]

[theminotaur]

You were in the FBI. [ the slightest pause. ] FBI adjacent. You caught bad guys. [ she was the bad guy. sort of. sometimes. under duress. ]

[mydesigns]

I might have to be sociable. [his tone is dry; he's joking. it's one of his joking moments. enjoy it.]

[theminotaur]

I'll hold your hand and tell everyone you're mute. [ that's helpful, right? she turns to look at him instead of the mirror. ] And blind. Maybe deaf.

[mydesigns]

[he glances down, away from her, but he's still smiling.] Then I'd really seem like a poor excuse for a knight. I don't think I'd be able to keep up the act that long, anyway.

[theminotaur]

At least you can put the armor on. [ she reaches back to start to take it off, but with her crit fail, she trips. and falls. and takes out an entire wall of armor with him.

as you do. ]

[mydesigns]

[NOOOOOOOOOO. he actually nat 20'd a ref save to catch her, but i guess he was too late to prevent the domino-like chain reaction going on in the wall of armor. w h o o p s i e s. he just sort of looks over at the mess like oh shit son.]

[theminotaur]

[ she looks over at the mess with tea cup saucer wide eyes, clinging to will as she straightens up. ] ...oh no.

[mydesigns]

It's almost time to go out there, isn't it? [so ... some other poor unlucky fuck can clean that up. (unsure)] Accidents happen.

[hisgoldenticket]

Maybe if we... just... move. [ yes good plan. very good plan. she's not meant to be the one making plans here. you're the grown up, will, do grown up things. ]

[mydesigns]

Move where? [IDK HE'S NOT A VERY GROWN UP. but no really the armor weighs a ton, trying to run while wearing it seems like asking for more trouble.]

[hisgoldenticket]

...away? [ she looks up at will like a puppy scared of being scolded. SHE DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE A MESS. ]

[mydesigns]

[he's not going to scold her, ok. he looks back at the armor junk pile, mouth quirked to one side while he considers options.] We could just put them back up. That's probably the right thing to do.

[theminotaur]

[ abigail can barely move in her own armor, she doesn't know how she's going to be able to lift up the other pieces. but she nods. will is the only thing from home that doesn't scare her -- or at least her relief of having him nearby sans hannibal overrides whatever residual fear she has about his weird empathy fueled moments -- she wants to make sure that obligation he felt for her because he killed her dad remains. of course she's going to agree with him. so she struggles to do just that. yay, lifting things.

and apropos of nothing, ] Are you still my guardian here?

[mydesigns]

[he's struggling with helping (str 4...) but he's still trying his best to do it. he wouldn't make abigail clean up by herself, okay. he replies without taking his focus on trying to fix the suits of armor—] Do you want me to be?

[brokenteacup]

[ she got a 6 so she's not much better. ] I don't know. You weren't very good at it. [ some harsh realism right there tbh. ] But neither was my dad. It was easier to explain a guardian in Port Haven. Everyone already knew about me.

[mydesigns]

[str 17; he's actually getting somewhere now. ONE SUIT OF ARMOR IS FIXED. we did it kids.] It doesn't matter so much here, does it? [what a fine suit of armor. he'll keep nitpicking at it instead of looking at her. but that's typical behavior for him. also he doesn't argue with not being very good at it; he knows.] It would just be ... symbolic. [like these suits of armor.] But if that's what you wanted to call me, I wouldn't deny it.

[brokenteacup]

[ it's actually easier to talk when people aren't looking at her, so will's avoidance of it is great. ] I try not to tell people, that I'm not from here. [ she certainly left the shelter before she could get used to those pitying looks. she'd been fine on her own. she'd just been alone, which wasn't very good for her. dr bloom had said that. being around people, talking, that was supposed to normalize her life. she doesn't think dr bloom fully took hannibal into account. ] Are you going to act like a guardian?

[mydesigns]

Smart. I wasn't as good at passing. [he shrugs like it doesn't particularly bother him. because it doesn't. not really. it was irritating in some ways, but he didn't curl up in bed and cry about it.] What would you have me do as your guardian?

[brokenteacup]

[ she has no clue. she props up a suit all by herself (str 19) in order to give herself time to answer. ] Don't lie to me or try to kill me? [ the fact that that is a genuine concern of something her guardian would do... is disturbing. thanks dad and hannibal. :| but she softens it, somewhat. a little? no, not at all. ] Could you teach me to fish?

[mydesigns]

[no, that ... doesn't make it feel a hell of a lot softer tbh.] You want to learn to fish?

[hisgoldenticket]

[ she glances over at him briefly before looking down. ] I know how to hunt. [ it seems like a natural progression. maybe a regression. ] You could bring your strays.

[ abigail, you are a stray. ]

[mydesigns]

I thought about it, before. I bought you a magnifying glass and fly-tying gear. But then I thought better of it. [because her dad taught her how to hunt and teaching her to fish did not seem like something healthy she needed in her life right then. but things are different now. that was forever ago. and she's actually asking him to. but, of course, he doesn't actually say any of that, letting the statement fall flat where it is. he goes back to struggling with another suit of armor. (str 4)]