The "Shiver Me Timbers" Test Drive Meme

[letsgolegion]

THE "SHIVER ME TIMBERS" TEST DRIVE MEME

The Being responsible for bringing people into the Legion's universe is up to some strange tricks! It's now creating illusions of alternate universe and dumping the Legionnaires into them, as if testing them for its own reasons. Each time this happens, the captives -- er, participants have knowledge of the scenario, their role, and what they're supposed to accomplish planted into their heads, but still remember who they once were. These universes technically are just illusions and all the participants have an inherent knowledge of this, but it's up to them if they believe it -- and the danger is real. If you die in one of these scenarios you stay dead. This time they're being dumped into a scenario where they're... STEAMPUNK PIRATES THE SETTING: Ahoy, maties! Welcome to a world with floating islands covered in resplendent natural beauty or colonized with towns and cities, where steamships are the main form of travel. This world in the clouds is where most people are able to live safely after a natural disaster sent chunks of floating Earth up into the air. Certain death lies down below, thanks to nasty creatures that crawled out of the sea, that swarm the rocky, uneven wastelands that were left behind. The main thing destroying the peace of this world are air pirates, who travel from place to place, attacking island colonies and passenger ships. Everyone pulled into this temporary mayfly universe will find themselves as part of a privateer ship -- pirates commissioned to fight other pirates to protect the skies -- in the midst of a dangerous battle. To complicate things, the Legionnaires from the 31st century aren't the only ones pulled into this adventure. Strange people from many worlds are being yanked in and finding themselves thrust right into the heat of battle. Will you follow the siren call of swashbuckling adventure in the skies? Will you try to stop everyone from fighting and try to make peace? Or attack the privateers and join the nefarious pirate fleet? The choice in your hands and as you make it, the Being is watching. Judging. Deciding who it deems worthy to place in what universe it sees fit. WEAPONS AND POWERS: It's up to you whether your character still has their superpowers, if they have any, and nonpowered characters can potentially find themselves with new powers if you'd like them to. As far as weapons go, characters will find themselves with a small array of weapons, everything from projectile weapons, guns that shoot electricity (which can stun or kill), smoke bombs, cutlasses, sabers, and more. SCENARIO A: Congratulations, you scaliwag! You're a privateer and you're part of the boarding party! You're already hooked onto a zipline that will toss you head first into battle on the pirates' ship. Maybe if you band together with the other confused people tossed head first into battle you can actually survive it. Good luck! SCENARIO B: You find yourself already on the main deck of the pirates' ship and it looks like the pirates have some innocent captives cowering in a corner. Do you have what it takes to protect them? Are they even real people or is all this truly an illusion? Fortunately, if you do protect them (just in case that little voice in your head was lying about this all being an illusion) you can probably find some like-minded selfless types to fight side by side with. SCENARIO C: You're on the main deck of the privateer ship and have to maintain and protect those cannons or you and your privateer buddies are toast! Those gifted with skills in science and mechanics should find it easy to figure out how they work and will find themselves with the right equipment to keep them running -- and weapons to defend them in case they need to. SCENARIO D: What's this? You've been dumped on the side of the pirates and that little voice in your head told you to fight the privateers to get free of this and go home? It's up to you whether or not you take the pirates' side and agree to fight the privateers as a way out of this strange little universe. Maybe you'll try to fight the other side to the death. Maybe you'll try to simply stun them, or perhaps you'll change sides because some of them look just as confused as you are. In any case, you have a difficult decision to make and you have to do it fast. SCENARIO E: Wild card! Choose your own scenario. Maybe you find yourself in the group of captives and decide to pick up a weapon. Maybe you try to take the lead and organize the others. The choice is yours! OOC INFO ✦ Current players in game can jump into this and do starters if they like so they can play with new players and each other. This meme will count as part of the game canon for those that opt in, though they'll find their memories somewhat fuzzy afterward. These threads can count toward your AC, however the "new CR" credit cannot be applied since not every character joining in is guaranteed to join the game. This takes place before the Earth field trip. ✦ Potential players can use this as a standard test drive and may use these threads as their samples. However, at least two posts in their threads must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. These two posts can exist in any number of threads whether it's one thread or two. If you do plan on using a thread as a sample, please make sure the writing throughout your threads is a good example of your writing skills and has some solid examples of the character's voice. ✦ Potential players can also opt to keep these threads as game canon when they app in, so that their character remembers the scenario and then suddenly finds themselves in the game universe. However, this is opt in and players can choose to introduce their characters fresh if they'd prefer that and no other characters will remember they were there. Please just note which you'd like in the additional info field on your app. ✦ If you are considering apping to the game, currently 31 of 40 player slots are available and we may be increasing this number to 50 soon. Currently the character limit is 3 characters per player. ✦ Non-players who like the meme but aren't really considering apping to the game are free to jump in. The more the merrier! The Being behind this wants a confusing situation and will enjoy the chaos of lots of strange people trying to figure out what's going on.

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Jason Lee Scott | Power Rangers

[kingtyrantranger]

SCENARIO D:
Dumped on a random sky pirate crew? Well, it didn't require as much adjustment as life working with a nervous robot and a giant talking head had. Now, he wasn't sure about these thigh-high boots. They might be just the thing for a pirate king, but the heels were killing him.

No time to worry about that now, though. Yes, he'd been dumped onto a crew... But the wrong one. It didn't take too long to see that, just that the ship they were against was flying the Legion flag. He shook his head as the fighting ship approached and glanced around. Now there was someone who looked a little confused.

"Hey." He raised his hand and approached with his cutlass tucked into the red sash at his waist. Jason pitched his voice lower so that the men around, the actually grizzled ones who were clamping daggers between their teeth and crying out death threats lustily, couldn't hear. "You look a little lost. Hearing a strange voice, right? Look, I know you don't know me, but trust me. The guys on that other boat are friends. Not to these guys, but probably to you. Just get below or something, find some shelter, and I'll try to handle things up here. All right?"

SCENARIO E:
And the day had been going so well. Who doesn't mind a little unexpected time travel now and then? Especially when you get an awesome cutlass and bandanna out of the deal. Okay, the red silk shirt would be improved if he could find a way to keep it closed.

Admittedly, the whole 'skyship' thing had taken a bit of getting used to.

The battle was over. The pirate ship captured and the crew in chains. In raiding the enemy ship for clues, the Legionnaires and their unexpected guests had discovered, of all things, a treasure map. And if something was that obvious, it was probably the key to getting home somehow. They'd gone sailing and, with cat-like tread, managed to locate the chest, only to be confronted with some kind of paradoxical logic puzzle locking the entrance to the cave. Jason and his merry band of misfits could've handled that, if it hadn't been for the shuriken that seemed to sprout from the wall, an inch from his nose.

And now... Well, temporary as it may be, the crew's newly found piratical nature seemed to activate the instinctive hatred of the cave ninjas. Jason hissed as he swept aside his foe's weapon, hammering the hooded figure over the head with the pommel of his sword. "Hurry up with that lock, guys!" He spared a worried glance over his shoulder. "I think I'm just making them angry over here."

As good as he was, he was just one pirate against a whole clan of ninjas. Unless someone gives him a hand, or gets to that treasure, pretty darn quick, he's going to need a lot more than a bottle of rum from Ernie's Grog Bar the end of the day.

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[iamresponding]

Rich had Jason's back.

"Oh, come on!"

Ninjas? Freaking ninjas? This whole thing had just been one giant mess. A very confusing mess. Rich had done his fair share of skipping into other dimensions but this was...odd. It was just all over the damn place, like the little world they were in couldn't entirely decide what genre it was.

"This is getting ridiculous," said Rich, deflecting a katana blow with his cutlass and stunning the ninja responsible for the attack with his weird little electric ray gun. He was holding his cutlass with the weird, complicated mechanical arm his prosthetic had changed into, because it was way easier to aim the gun with his flesh and blood hand. "If it wasn't for the weird head-voice I'd've thought this was one of those holodeck-gone-wrong scenarios. Hell, it still might be, for all we know. Watch, we'll get the treasure and Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, and Evil Lincoln will show up and try to steal it."

That was always a thing, right? When they got back to Legion World, he was probably even going to start a pool on the Simroom having a glitch and causing sentient evil programs or something.