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]

[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.

[sorceresslite]

That's what that artificial... whatever is for. [She pulls the psuedoblanket around her shoulders but its a sleeping back so there's a lot of excess just laying around. She says nothing.] Wait aren't you the older one?

[badexample]

[His back stiffens slightly.]

So what if I am?

[sorceresslite]

Aren't all their hopes and dreams meant to be pinned on your manly bits?

[badexample]

Yeah, well- Let's just say they're glad they wound up with two sons.

[CAN WE TALK ABOUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE NOW???]

[sorceresslite]

[NOPE!]

So what's so great about your brother?

[badexample]

[He picks idly at the ground, tossing small rocks, pieces of grass, and clumps of dirt in the general direction of the fire.]

Everything? Adam's just got his shit together. He's not like me. Always knew exactly what he wanted- to be in the Hide like our parents. [Plural. Both of them.] Just sort of clicked for him. And he's just better with... people. Talking to them and calming them down. Asking girls out. That sort of thing.

[sorceresslite]

Sounds boring. [So helpful...]

[badexample]

[He snorts a half-laugh.]

Yeah?

[sorceresslite]

Yeah. Sort of just a boring... bloke. Doesn't sound like there's anything that excitin' about him. Who even wants to have their life together? Takes all the fun out of it.

[badexample]

Never seemed to bother him. Or our parents. Or his girlfriends, friends, teachers, mentor, Wynn, or anyone else. [Hmph]

[sorceresslite]

[All the eyerolling.] Oh come off it, Wynn obviously doesn't give a shit. You're a knight too, aren't you? Girlfriends plural means some of them clearly didn't like him. My mentor hated me, you don't see me complaining.

[badexample]

D'you know he got promoted before me? [As if she... knew anything about them before today. Whatever, he's stuck in a shame spiral so out come all his secret insecurities.] Came in a year after me but just waltzed in like a fucking wizard- except not a wizard... you know what I mean. Saved the girl on his first mission, not a single hiccup. You've got no idea-!

[And then he just cuts himself off and pushes off the ground so he can go sulk somewhere.] Forget it. Don't know why I'm telling you any of this.

[sorceresslite]

Yeah and are you really 'bout to prove your delusion right and walk into the woods and get eaten?

[badexample]

[His steps slow but he doesn't turn around. He doesn't say anything, because this is basically the sorest spot he's got, but at least he stopped walking into the woods?]

[sorceresslite]

[She huffs. She really just wants to slap him and call him a fucktard and be done with it, but she's pretty sure if they were actually going to be eaten by a bear he would let himself get eaten first and she can't just ignore that kind of niceness. Ugh the wanker.

She is not comforting!]

Andrew. Damn it. You're not rubbish. And, and Wynn obviously thinks you've got more than enough merit, and... and your technogeek weird nerd stuff is the future, you're like a fucking investment when the rest of us, especially people like me, are just relics from the past. Your brother is a soldier. [She assumes because he said Hide and she is an incredibly weak fighter so there's her own complex on display.] A tool. But you're like, that bloke, whatshisface, the Apple guy. You're all innovative and shit.

[Charisma 15, she really means it she just can't say it properly. She is no orator.]

[badexample]

[She's bad at this, but the fact that she's trying is worth something. And his fragile self esteem just needs a bit of TLC every now and again. He turns enough to look at her over his shoulder.]

You got one thing right at least- he is a tool. [Ah, jokes that she may or may not even get, but they do lift his spirits a little. It isn't even that he hates his brother- he loves the cunt. He just hates everything that he feels he's lacking when put up side by side with him.]

[sorceresslite]

And you're acting like one. Quit it, it's hideous.

We are not going to make a cock up of this mission and if we do, then we cock it up together so please get your stupid arse back here before I have to threaten your penis again.

[badexample]

[He sheepishly shuffles back over to his previous spot beside her by the fire.]

Any chance you'll stop threatening my bits any time soon? Or should I just expect it to be your first choice any time I get out of hand?

[sorceresslite]

It's my go to threat with blokes since you're all so attached. [/kanyeshrug.] You got any movies we can watch on your phone?

[badexample]

[He debates explaining the attachment but... decides against it and instead just reaches into his pocket for his phone, which is finally done playing the role of a glow worm. He digs around for a moment before pulling up the first movie he can find.

And after rolling to see what genre it is... it's an animated kids movie. Don't judge his life, Ella.

He starts it up and holds out the phone in front of the both of them. Enjoy that tiny screen.]

[sorceresslite]

[Don't worry she has an app for that. Aka a spell. Which to be honest she should have probably put wards up around their campsite, but whoops she did not. Thinking ahead is for losers. Anyway she does a simple little enlarge spell -- she is really abusing this phone -- until it's roughly the size to an ipad.] That's better.

[badexample]

Did you just-? [But he doesn't look mad. No, he looks like he might kiss you. Except not really because that would probably end in his dick being punched to death.]

Can you do that to other stuff? [It's not what you think, I swear.]

[sorceresslite]

Anyone ever tell you it's not the size that matters, but the way you use it? [She raises her eyebrows at him, eyes flashing down to his lap as a smirk fights at her lips.]

[badexample]

...What? [His eyes go wide as he realizes exactly what she thought he was saying.] No, I wasn't- I mean, it's not that, it's... I've got this screen back home... For my computer, and it's always nicer to have a bigger one. A screen. For my computer. That's all.