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

Wil Ohmsford | The Shannara Chronicles (TV)

[patrimonium]

[Half-elf mongrel, healer, current keeper of the elfstones. Makes dumb decisions based on having a heart that's way too big and a penis that's way too loud. Believes the best of everyone and talks to horses.]

( 14 )

[kindawimpy]

I can't remember the last time I saw a penis in person that I didn't see a million times on text first.

[patrimonium]

i

[Okay, no, really, how does one respond to that?]

i'm sorry to hear that?

[kindawimpy]

Right? I don't want dick pics anymore. I want dick portraits, dick sculptures, dick watercolors. Put some fucking effort into the dick.

Maybe not dick sculptures, we saw how that worked out for the Vatican. FIG LEAVES FOR EVERYONE.

[ does she know it's not her sister? does she care? these are questions for which we may never have answers. ]

[patrimonium]

so you're interested in art? what's a vatican?
i think you might have the wrong number

[MAYBE?? He can barely use a phone, he doesn't even know who would write to him on one just yet.]

makes up my own because I am a rebel

[nonconfrontational]

[Rosario knows most of the faces in the Shadowkind refugee camp she's currently working in, but Wil's face is new. She finishes what she's doing before making her way over and crouching down next to him with a small smile.]

Hi, I'm Rosario. What's your name?

yessss

[patrimonium]

[He looks up from the notes he'd been scribbling into the little leatherbound journal he's been carrying with him since before his arrival, smiling thinly-- warm but tired, the face of someone trying to take a new situation in stride.]

I'm Wil. Nice to meet you.

[Well, five seconds in and she hasn't made fun of his ears, so she's probably pretty okay, right?]

[nonconfrontational]

Nice to meet you too, Wil. I hadn't seen you around before so I thought I'd introduce myself.

[And she would never make fun of his ears. Elf ears are adorable.]

You new to the camp?

15

[lowvi]

[The fact is, Dipper is not extremely combat oriented. Mostly he does the strategizing and his sister does the shooting. He thought that having a gun might let him make more of a difference in fighting.

He was technically right. Unfortunately, he was not right in the correct direction.

He pulls Wil behind a car, breathing hard.]

Oh man, I'm so sorry, are you okay? [A beat.] Of course you're not okay. I shot you!

[patrimonium]

[Wil stumbles in the process, clutching his shoulder as he leans his weight against the car for support, his own breath coming sharper now as he feels his own blood staining his fingers. For what it's worth, adrenaline is doing its job, and there isn't much pain yet, but he knows there will be.]

Don't think you hit anything vital--

[Which is as good as saying he's okay, right? As much as he can be.]

It can probably be healed, but-- [He winces, letting out a stifled grunt as the pain begins to prick at him, sending a steady throb through his arm. Accidents happen, he can't let himself be pissed at Dipper for this, but did so many accidents have to happen to him?] Don't know if I can pull it off myself, think the bullet's still in there.

[Maybe? His gun knowledge is pretty minimal still. That's Rover territory.]

[lowvi]

[Oh god does this mean Dipper has to pull it out? Dipper likes to think of himself as not squeamish but there's being ok with a little blood and then there's digging around in someone's arm.]

Ummm....

[His treat injury check of 6 is doing him no favors. He swallows.]

Keep pressure on it?

RNG says 8, you lucky dog you

[bythedreadwolf]

[ For a moment, Solas can only stare in disbelief at the mechanical monster currently trying to plow its way through a line of cars, only realizing a moment later that it's.... headed directly for them. The roar of whatever this device is still does not quite drown out the manical cackling of the magic user at the other end of the street, who had apparently given up on trying to appear even remotely competent and had gone for outright lunacy instead.

Amateurs.

Still, it was a very determined mechanical monster, apparently, and faster than he'd expected as it roars towards them, mowing down anything in its way, vehicles, signs and even a hydrant, nothing in it's path even slowing the thing down.

Which is why he grabs the arm of the young man at his side in a firm grip. ]

Now would be a good time to move.

[ He offers the words in advice even as he gives a tug, the enormous bulldozer bearing down on them with alarming speed and intent. ]

this is my favorite one tbh

[patrimonium]

Hey!

[Wil's reflexes aren't quite fast enough for him to pull himself free in time, however, and he ends up pulled out of the line of fire with Solas' help-- something he'll be grateful for when he's not busy being panicked. Elfstones aren't exactly great against anything that isn't a demon, and the only other things he has on him are his Excalibur pistol and a bunch of healing herbs.]

Is that thing really--

[He can't even finish his sentence, not with it bearing down on them as quickly as it is, and he ducks for cover behind a car, throwing his back against one of its doors.]

Okay. Okay. We need a plan.

[Solas, please tell him you have one.]

good I'm glad. Solas does not share your delight however.

[bythedreadwolf]

Yes, yes it would really seem it is.

[ Solas' voice is dry as he ducks down behind the same vehicle as Wil, but the cover isn't doing them much good. Mostly because the machine is still coming towards them and Solas is quite certain the car isn't going to stop it. Not when none of the others are so much as slowing it. ]

Hiding will do us no good. It is finding us regardless. I fear the only way to stop it is to stop the mage controlling it. One of us will have to act as decoy while the other deals with the cackling imbecile at the other end of the street.

13

[morethanasidekick]

[Nothing like a long stretch of awkward silence as these two share a cell in a police station in some, backwards country town in the middle of assend nowhere Wales.

Long... loooong stretch of silence before Kenzi finally decides to break it.]

In my defense? It totally looked like a fake badge.

[Yeah they might be in here because of her. Sorry.]

[patrimonium]

[Wil looks up at her in disbelief, his mouth set into a grim, hard line. Thanks, Kenzi.]

Looked real enough to me.

[As if he would know.]

So now what?

[morethanasidekick]

Sure, in hindsight.... [Hope you're not expecting her to take responsibility here, Wil.]

[She double takes, like 'why are you looking at me'?!]

I don't know. I break into things, not out of them. [Lifting her shoulder in a shrug.] We'll get a phone call... Eventually. [...] I hope.

6

[rovings]

[Help in any form should be exactly what Wil is hoping for as he's hanging upside down, a rope around his ankle after having been snared in a trap in the woods that surround the Castle but when help comes in the form of Eretria?

She's probably going to help but she's also going to take a moment to enjoy this first.]

Thinking twice about joining these people yet? [Eretria idly playing with the knife in her hand as she circles the hanging Wil.]

[patrimonium]

[He glares at her, the effect of which is probably hindered by the fact that he's upside-down.]

Of course I couldn't be lucky enough to get help that would actually be interested in helping.

[Because of course, Eretria has to take the time to laugh at him while all the blood rushes to his head.]

This isn't their fault.

[rovings]

I'm here aren't I? [She comes to a stop in front of him and crouches down so they're at eye level. Head cocked as her smirk wrinkles the corners of her eyes.]

I guess that trap set itself then. [Eyebrows raising.]

I rolled a 4. Gee this isn't familiar at all >.>

[treesight]

[ She's still not entirely sure why they were picked to come along on this mission. This beast they were tracking down sounds like nothing she's ever heard of. But then again, she is still finding everything here so very strange and disconcerting.

At least this portion of their journey has a hint of familiarity to it. While half their group are still utter stranger to her, falling into familiar habits alongside Wil as they set up an encampment around the fire is nostalgic enough to bring a hint of a smile to her lips as she glances over at him while rolling out a bedroll. ]

Well, I suppose this could be worse. It could be raining. [ She tries for optimism, despite the sense of tense frustration that has befallen the group over their prey eluding them so far. ]

camping and romance are my otp

[patrimonium]

[Wil shoots a smile of his own in her direction, laying out his own bedroll while his pack sits open on the ground nearby.]

Not to mention we've had plenty of practice.

[Camping back home hadn't included a lot of the helpful supplies that they'd been allowed to bring along with them on this particular mission, either.]

You hungry? They gave us all kinds of stuff to cook, we don't even have to trap anything.

2

[incantatio]

[The sirens that are currently drawing closer? Sawyer is at least, 99.9% sure that one of the Team she came here with is responsible for that one. Why pick locks when somebody could just smash a window and let themselves in that way?! She'd tried to argue against it at the time, okay but judging by those sirens? She'd lost.

The smart thing for her to do right now was run. Forget about the blonde stranger who was standing there staring as if he had no clue what was even happening (probably cause he doesn't. Sorry Wil.) He wasn't her responsibility and he hadn't done anything wrong so even if the police did find him here? They shouldn't have been able to hold him.

Except.]

The authorities around here? They aren't exactly fond of Shadowkind. [She runs her hands over her ears, shaking off the glamour magic she'd used to disguise her appearance and he'd see, quite clearly, that her own ears greatly resembled his.] Trust me, we need to move.

[patrimonium]

[Sawyer is right about one thing: he has absolutely no idea what's going on.]

Authorities? There are soldiers on their way?

[He's still so new, but at least he has the right idea, because he knows that means it's time to move. It's not the first time he's been caught doing something he supposedly shouldn't, but just like those previous encounters with law enforcement, whatever had been done to draw their attention wasn't actually his fault. Really, he has the worst habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with all the wrong people.

He opens his mouth to comment on the loss of her glamour, but goldfishes for a moment instead-- this probably isn't the time.]

Alright, let's move-- but once we're somewhere safe, you're telling me who you are and how you did that.

[incantatio]

[It's Sawyer's turn to double-take now. The fact that he jumped to Soldiers causing her to mirror his expression.]

Uh - [The wail of the sirens not leaving much time for conversation.]

Sawyer. Magic. [Not expecting that to be enough to satisfy his curiosity, she weakly adds;]

Later, I swear. [And instead of walking out the front door like a person who isn't doing anything illegal at all, Sawyer grabs hold of his arm to drag him out the back way with her.]