theround | test drive meme!

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[well he doesn't argue with her choice, so it must be okay with him.]

Almost three years now, I think. So, awhile. You?

Few months. [ still chugging her water and then it's gone. sad face. ]

[he slides his untouched water across the table to her bc he's not really thirsty right now and she apparently is.] What do you think? Do you like it?

Thanks. [ mmmm water. she's probably drinking it too fast and her stomach is going to be like but whyyyyy but apparently she was dehydrated. ]

I'm not sure yet. It's not anything I'm really used to. I joined on a whim.

It's not like anything anyone's used to. Unless you're from Faerun, maybe. That's what makes it so great.

[ hmph. ] Not from Faerun.

I wasn't saying you were.

I know, I'm just... [ defensive, basically. ] I'm not sure I'm cut out for the hero gig.

[ just look at how well she does with getting kidnapped. ]

[well that ... makes him sad.] Why not?

[ her shoulders lift in a shrug and she pokes the straw around in the water. she's not sure why she's even talking about this with what effectively amounts to a stranger. overtired, probably. ]

Well ... okay, let's try this. What does being a hero mean to you?

[ this sounds like therapy, but she allows it anyway, mostly because she doesn't have very many friends to actually talk to and cora and ollie are busy with their own stuff which is probably more important in the long run. ]

I don't know. Um, people who act when others can't, I guess.

[um she could talk to alex ok!!! maybe not tho he'd probably roll his eyes at this convo and call it dumb.]

Yeah, that's one way to look at it. So, what, you don't think you could stand up for another person? Be selfless?

[ exactly why she will not be talking to alex. ]

I'd just get in the way probably. I left home so I wouldn't feel weak anymore, but my dad didn't make me stronger, he just made it so pain doesn't bother me.

Sounds to me like the only person you're getting in the way of is yourself. You can't bog yourself down with self-doubt like that.

It is really just self-doubt when I keep being the damsel in distress?

It's not what happens to you, it's how you deal with what happens to you.

[ so weak to self-doubt and nagging guilt that she can't place, it's not easy for thea to just accept his words and move on. there is a lot of self-loathing in the queen family, thea just usually hides it better.

she is saved from answering by the waitress bringing the food and two plates for the both of them. ]

[and he's a boy so he's like yeahhh food gonna eat. so she's temporarily rescued from the conversation.]

[ well good, because she needs the time to gain her ground back. she normally doesn't spill her guts to strangers. or people she does actually know. stupid minor kidnapping making her weak. :|

eventually: ] How do you deal with it?

Uh, what? [HE WAS EATING]

[ annnnd she just shakes her head. nah, she doesn't really want to go back to it anyway. ]

Driving that car. Do you just pretend it's not a death trap?

Dude, no, I worked on that car. I brought it back to life. If it's a death trap, it's my fault, and I deserve to get blown up in it. But that wouldn't happen because I did an awesome job. Also, I can count on it never being taken out of the garage by someone else because it's so hideous.

I'm not sure Frankenstein's monster really counts as being alive.

And to think, if I had stuck it out in academia a little longer, I could be a doctor.

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