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

[badexample]

Good to know. [sense motive of 17 is sure not making him feel better. He is pretty sure he is dying tonight.]

I bet you wouldn't tell me if you were the Blair witch either. [It's muttered more to himself as he huffs before just walking into the woods.]

[sorceresslite]

[She won't let him die, gosh. She may have destructive storm magic but she's pretty handy to have around when one has a fear induced heart attack. She'll start that heart right up.

But she doesn't actually say that because how do comfort? Instead she just tiptoes behind him, skittering a little to keep up.]

[badexample]

[Havin her actually creeping behind him only makes him more nervous and it shows in te way he glances over his shoulder every two seconds.

Except that the ominous sound actually comes from up ahead. Andrew's gaze snaps back in front but he can't see anything.]

Did you hear that...?

[sorceresslite]

[Listen AND spot crit fails. TWO IN A ROW WHY DID WYNN SEND THEM TOGETHER LIKE IDK DOES HE SHIP IT BECAUSE THEY GON' DIE.]

Hear what? [He's not the only one who is nervous because she grabs him arm. He is making her nervous.]

[badexample]

[With a crit fail to his will save, he actually JUMPS INTO THE AIR when she grabs his arm.]

Sh-hit! [He draws out the word, hit heart thudding in his chest. He barely notices that he's dropped his cell phone. If that screen is broken, you are in so much trouble, gurl.]

[sorceresslite]

Christ, Andrew. Relax! [She crouches down to grab his phone, dusting it off, but it's still glowing so she doesn't bother to see if it's broken.] Maybe we should head back, the spells going to wear off soon anyway. We'll just have to... freeze.

[That seems better than being mauled.]

[badexample]

[He should be brave. He should tell her that he'll go on alone and that she should head back to camp. That's what Adam would do- and dad.

But that's not him. He's the guy that glances back at the woods with a lingering fear and then turns back to the tiny girl he's with and just nods.]

Yeah... We'll figure something out. [Or freeze to death. Whichever comes first.]

[sorceresslite]

Good. [Because she's a brat and rude, but she doesn't want to go in those woods. Fuck nature. She is a 'fraidy cat.] We can give it a go in the morning.

[And for the record, if he said he'd go on by himself she would have kicked him right in the nuts. Yeah, swell plan, leave the innocent little tidbit on her own... that's a big no.] Oh. Here. Don't want you to lose your girlfriend. [She holds out the phone.]

[badexample]

Thanks. [He mumbles and takes the phone, not very happy with her referring to it like that but not really finding the words to correct her or be witty because ... nope.

Walking back to the camp site, he keeps his phone out to light the path.]

You know I'm not even sure what the point of this is. Could have just set up a remote surveillance system and monitored it from the comfort of a hotel room but noooo... have to do things the old fashioned way.

[sorceresslite]

[Ella's pretty smart, but she is smart with... old shit. Arcane texts, ancient gaelic, artifacts from Faerun. Computers... well she can put apps on her phone and download texts to her tablet but that's about it.

So... she understood none of that.] Yeeeeah, sure. You wanna go halvesies on that boat I'm buying on Wynn's tab?

[badexample]

That's ridiculous. You can't share a boat. [A quick shrug] Guess we'll need two.

[sorceresslite]

Not that I'm going to deny you a boat, but how come you cannae share one?

[badexample]

Was just making a joke- sort of. Saying we could spend... more that way...

[Well now he feels like a loser. Oh hey the sticks they collected earlier. He stoops to pick them back up. It's at least something to do while he tries to feel less weird.]

[sorceresslite]

[God they are both really pathetic. She sighs grumpily.]

Hideous joke, gorgeous plan.

[badexample]

[He will just walk in awkward silence until they make it back to camp. At least the crickets are there to make it slightly less terrible??? Maybe??? He... drops the sticks near where a fire could be.]

Do you know how to get a fire started? [Definitely not cub scout material.]

[sorceresslite]

Yeah. [Well hopefully. She sets the sticks up in a little log cabin with a bundle in the center and after dropping a bunch of matches, haha she is such a tool, she manages to light the center. TEN POINTS! (Survival 15.)

Shifting from a crouch to her knees, she leans over to gently blow on the tiny flames so they'll catch. Enjoy the view, bud.]

[badexample]

[He's not looking!

...He's totally looking.]

[sorceresslite]

[She doesn't notice, too busy trying to get the fire going and not set her hair on fire at the same time. After a few seconds the rest of the sticks ignite and Ella squeals happily, straightening up as the flames start to lick at the top of the stack.]

Ah! I did it!

[badexample]

[When she speaks, he finally yanks himself out of his blatant staring. He manages a forced smile because he sure realizes what he was doing there...]

Great..! [A small string of nervous laughter follows. He sits on the ground near the fire because he sure is cold without his jacket.]

[sorceresslite]

[Aww yeah he finally gets to see her smile. See, it does happen! She rocks back to pop up to her feet and then does the smartest thing of the whole escapade.

She gets a fucking sleeping bag.

Starting to unzip it, she cheerfully sits down next to him, crossing her legs and pausing the unzipping to smooth her dress over her knees.]

I feel like Tom Hanks in that film, the one with the football.

[Or volleyball. Whatever.]

[badexample]

[Pop culture: 17]

Wait- you mean Cast Away? Cuz that was a volleyball. [He holds out his hands in front of him to roughly the size of a volleyball... as if that will help.]

You're not going to start calling me Wilson then, are you?

[sorceresslite]

That's practically the same thing. [She's Irish, when she says football she means David Beckham not Drew Brees.

She looks at him for a second before finishing unzipping the sleeping back. Tada! Blanket.]

You don't look like a Wilson. Or an Andy, does anyone call you Andy? Like your mates, do they call you Andy, have you even got mates?

[Rude, El.]

[badexample]

[He... might be Irish too actually. Moments when OC lives are not fully fleshed but the actor is so... maybe.]

My brother does. [And he doesn't look really pleased about it. Hmph.]

[sorceresslite]

Want me to punch him in the dick? [So cheerful as she shrugs out of the jacket to return it to him.]

[badexample]

[He starts to protest, but when she has the jacket off, he just slips it back on because she's got a sleeping bag so she's probably okay for now.]

Probably shouldn't. He's way more likely to actually do the get married and have kids things. Pretty sure my parents would have a fit if that was ruined by a swift kick.