Knights of Legend | 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.  
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! Many people end up using this TDM as canon or partial canon to their post-Veil history!  As long as you get the consent of those you're threading with, that's perfectly fine. :)

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. The Floor is Lava; When spells go very wrong (or right?), sometimes childhood games aren't so funny... or imaginary.

4. Trapped in an Elevator;  Bad luck or part of a villainous trap?

5. Roadtrip; You and the other character are on a mission together but it involves some travel.  How will you handle life on the road together?

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. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes:  Whether mad science gone wrong, or dangerous magic, now there are people-sized tomatoes terrorizing the town.  Someone better do something about that.

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. Handcuffed Together; You've fallen prey to a set of cursed handcuffs, and now you and the other character are inseparable!  Literally...

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. Another Goddamn Squiring Party:  Squiring parties are exciting!  Until you've been to a hundred of them.. Maybe this one will get spiced up with some drunken shenanigans???

Comments

[torrigan]

Mine? [confusion begins to win out over the panic that had begun to set in, and he steps closer, his height causing him to look down at her. His closer proximity would show her the bags under his eyes, the jittery cloud of emotions fighting for purchase in his eyes.]

My nightmare...is in Death?

[moonheart]

Death? [ uhhhh

she looks up at him, trying to give him something solid to hang onto in his confusion, but... confused herself now ] What do you mean "in Death"?

[torrigan]

[His startlingly blue eyes latch onto hers, searching intensely for something to hold onto, his confusion matching hers.]

This is the River that all succumb to at the end of their days, is it not? [He looks around at the flat greyness surrounding them, the confusion clearing just enough as he finds a thread of a memory to follow, lending conviction to his words.] I've never seen it before, but my M- [he pauses, swallowing deeply as pain crosses his features again] It was spoken of before, and this is very reminiscent of those tales.

[moonheart]

Well, good news, no, you aren't dead. I'm a ... a dreamwalker. I've been searching for people trapped in nightmares by the Nightmare God. It's-- kind of a long story.

[torrigan]

[He still looks super confused by this whole thing but doesn't seem willing or able to look too deeply at it all.]

A Dreamwalker? [The way he says it would give her the impression that it's, to him at least, an official title she holds.]

[moonheart]

It's uh, just how it sounds. I can enter people's dreams. I'm sort of related to the Dream Goddess.

[torrigan]

[That just...sounds like one more thing that he is super confused by. His head cants to one side, questions banked in his eyes as he gives her a helpless shrug.]

So, your connection to the Dream Goddess is what allows you to enter other's dreams? [he pauses.] If this is nothing but a dream...? Where am I?

[moonheart]

I....'m not sure, actually. What's the last thing you remember?

[torrigan]

[he considers her question a moment, and for the first time since they began talking, his confusion seems to clear. Dark brows furrow as his memories begin coming back to him in bits and pieces.

Flashes of the Reservoir, the Charter Stones, his Mother, Kerrigor, a golden chalice filling with blood...

He stumbles backward, water sloshing up to spatter his pants. His hands come up to cradle his head, tugging at his hair as a low, painful groan rumbles from his chest.]

I- [he swallows deeply, pained eyes meeting hers again, and the look in them is so lost and full of sorrow it's almost enough to drown the both of them.] I.. I can't. [he shakes his head, eyes searching hers, looking so alone it's hard to tell if he'll be able find his way back]

[moonheart]

Hey! [ she throws herself forward, reaching out to try and steady him ] Hey, it's okay, don't... don't hurt yourself. You're going to wake up, and then you'll know, okay? You'll... you'll be alright. [ she thinks?? maybe?? she's a little worried, because she's never encountered anything like this. and it feels wrong to think that she'll never know, because when he wakes up he could be beyond her reach. anywhere. ]

[torrigan]

[the touch of her hand on his arm seems to anchor him, his eyes catching hers again as he tries to swallow down his rising panic (ws 12).]

I... I don't know if I want to know. [his voice is a strained whisper, hoarse from trying to reign in his emotions. Blue eyes fall away from hers as shame begins to creep into them, turning their color a darker, bruise-like hue. He straightens, inhaling deeply as he tries to gather his tattered emotions.]

Where will you be, when I awaken? [surely she must be close to him, at least in the same Kingdom, to be in his dream as she is. Perhaps she would be willing to be there, when he woke, just so he would know that this wasn't merely a dream, some kind of reality for him to keep a hold of.]

[moonheart]

It's... hard to explain. I live in a castle, outside of the city of London. I work for a place called the Karthur Institute.

[torrigan]

[his disappointment is nearly palpable at her answer, shaking his head sadly as he realizes that no, she isn't close to him, he's never heard of either of the places she had named. He was likely alone, in the Reservoir, probably unconscious from the blow Kerrigor dealt him. He would wake only to meet his end at the hands of that monster. He had hoped for some small mercy, that his memory was wrong, but he knew what fate was waiting for him when next his eyes truly opened upon the waking world.]

I am afraid I've never heard of either of those places before, my Lady. I do not believe that we are in the same place, as I had hoped. [If there was nothing more to it than to get it over with, the least he could do is show his gratitude to her for her concern and kindness. He takes her hand from his arm, raising it to brush a soft, yet formal, kiss across her knuckles, before releasing it to her side once more. He braves a smile that almost passes as convincing (bluff 7).]

Thank you, my Lady, for your assistance in waking me from my nightmare, and for bringing me back to myself.

[moonheart]

Wait. [ yeah she sees right through that. as he goes to release her hand, she grips his instead, to keep him from ... she's not sure what. where's he gonna go, in a dream, that she couldn't follow? but she has a sudden image of him waking up, and never seeing him again. something about this place still has a heaviness to it that doesn't set right, and she's beginning to wonder if this is a regular nightmare after all. of course, that could all be the doing of the new nightmare god... ] I don't even know your name.

[torrigan]

[her grip surprises him, eyes falling to look at their hands clasped between them before raising slowly to catch hers again with gratitude. He doesn't immediately seem to want to let go, giving her delicate fingers a gentle squeeze in thanks.

The eerieness of the river as it laps gently around their ankles would certainly lend weight to the feeling that she has about this not being a regular nightmare, too constant and unwavering in its ebb and flow, not like the stuff of dreams she had grown accustomed to in her travels.

He considers her for a moment longer, opening his mouth once, twice before seeming to settle on what to tell her.] I am a fool, enough that even one such as myself can recognize, therefore a fools name should you call me. [he does drop her hand this time, fingers forming a soft fist as he tells her wryly-] You may call me Touchstone.

[he shrugs, obviously not happy with his chosen name, but doesn't change his mind, instead saying-] May I have your name as well, my Lady?

[moonheart]

Faith O'Keefe. [ she says deliberately, hoping that maybe there's a chance he can look her up when they both wake up.

if they both wake up. ] Touchstone... if that's what you wish, then that's what I'll call you. [ but if it's not his real name, it means that she can't look him up either. ]

[torrigan]

[his eyes light up with a smile as he brushes his knuckles against her cheek lightly.] Faith. That's a beautiful name.

[He doesn't move away immediately, holding her gaze for a few moments, seemingly reluctant to end their dream.]

[moonheart]

[ oh my gods what is happening tho

is it hot in this freezing cold death river or is it just her? ]

Oh, um, thank you! It's ... [ words, faith, use your words ] sort of a matched set. My sisters are Hope and Chastity. Mom's... real cheesy.

[torrigan]

[That makes him chuckle, a light blush stealing up his neck.] That's adorable.

[He gestures over his shoulder, taking a step back from her with a hint of sadness entering his eyes.] I wish there were a way I could go with you out of this dream.

[moonheart]

I ... wish I knew a way to do that, but unfortunately your body has to be... somewhere out there. Someone has to be waiting for you to wake up in it.

[torrigan]

[He shakes his head sadly.] The only thing waiting for me outside of this is my own death.

[moonheart]

Wait. What? [ the words shake her to the bone, and she looks at him in disbelief ]

[torrigan]

[he looks... completely serious.] I do not know how long I have been in this dream, Faith O'Keefe. It can have been no longer than a few moments, or it could have been much longer since I succumbed to this River, I cannot be sure. If it's been but a few moments, then it is certain that Death waits when I wake. If it has been much longer? I cannot be sure what to expect.

[moonheart]

[ nothing that he's saying is making sense to her tbh which is not helping her feel less panicked about it ] Then... then I have to find you! You have to tell me where to look.

[torrigan]

[He steps closer to her, a hand coming up to her arm to rest there lightly, a look of desperation entering his eyes.]

Do you know the Kingdom of Ancelstierre? That is where I am, in the palace, at least... that is the last that I remember.