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legionclubhouse2016-03-01 02:05 pm
letsgolegion) wrote in legionclubhouse2016-03-01 02:05 pm
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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... 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! ✦ 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. |
Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy | Marvel Comics (Earth-65)
"So about the part where I come back to you guys..." Nope, too late, Gwen is already riding down the zipline and literally heading straight towards one of the pirate ships.
Oh god, why.
She didn't so much as tumble or roll once she made it aboard. Thanks, wall-crawling powers. Instead, she just sort of... arrived, feet planting themselves on the ship deck. And with as much white as her costume had, it meant that Gwen suddenly had a bunch of pirate eyes on her. Great, just great. Well, time to bust out some of that classic Spider-Woman wit!
“Okay, I know what you guys are thinking.” Not really, telepathy wasn't really her thing, much as she would've liked having that for high school.
“Where did a hero like her get such a cool outfit? Well, the reality is-” And that was a pirate swinging at her with some sort of blade. Like, right in the middle of her big explanation. Could you get any more rude? Then you had another one trying to shoot her. Which… was much more familiar that some creep taking a swing at her with whatever kind of sword pirates used.
“Wow, okay. Was that entirely necessary just now? Like, come on.”
[C]
Protect the cannons and keep them up and running. That first one she could do, no problem. The other, well...maybe not so much. Still, Gwen did her part and and knocked out a few of the pirates who got a bit too close to the canons.
Easy, at least, she thought it was, until she turned around to get closer look, and listening ear, at the canon.
“Hey, it's making a weird a noise. Should it be making a weird noise?”
C!
"I'm not sure. I've never had to man them before." Saralegui seemed almost irritated to admit it, giving the cannon a petulant look. And oddly enough, he seemed more concerned with this little frustration than the battle raging on around them.
"But on the off chance that there is something wrong with it," he added, and took her upper arm to gently pull her away from the cannon, "It would probably be better not to examine the very dangerous gunpowder-filled piece of artillery so closely."
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Well, at least it was still firing, so that was a good sign, yeah?
But seriously how had she gotten stuck with this sort of gig. Hand her a drum stick and she could do some real magic with that. Musical magic. But magic, still. Tell her to stand watch over a cannon and...
Yeah.
"So... now wait? I mean, it's still making that noise. Just less loud than before."
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Worst case scenario, it stopped firing. Well, second-worst case. "Worst" would probably involve the thing exploding. Either way, it was probably a nightmare for the sailors, but negligible as far as Saralegui was concerned. He'd won larger battles with fewer resources.
"In the meantime, perhaps help deal with them?" Retreating a few steps behind another (fully functional) cannon, Saralegui gestured with his head at a trio of pirates that were just dropping in off a zipline they'd attached at some point.
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“Sure, beating up pirates sounds like a great story to take back home with me.”
And off she goes, without so much as… a plan, just charging towards the enemy pirates. But really, the trio don't put up much of a fight, with Gwen outclassing them all and making quick work of them. Hardly even breaks a sweat, but that could've also been due to the costume she was still wearing. Either way, the pirates are all dealt with and a triumphant Spider Woman is returning back.
“Alright, took care of those guys easily enough! How's the cannon?” She asked, looking at the still functioning artillery.
“Oh good, they're all still doing cannon things.”
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When she turned back to the cannons, he was leaning on his elbows against the one he'd sheltered behind, chin propped up in his hands, wearing an expression like he was watching a very entertaining TV show. The actual danger of the situation didn't seem to touch him.
"Mm, nothing's exploded yet," he reported, helpfully. "You have quite the interesting style."
A
Unlike Gwen, he'd been shoved into a pirate costume, even if it had some touches of his usual costume. Lots of blue when blue wasn't exactly a common pirate color.
He'd been thrown head first into this little jaunt, too, but some faces he recognized. Fellow Legionnaires. This girl, on the other hand...
"Okay, so what is it? Arachni-girl? Spider-woman? Unless you don't have a superhero name yet." It was a possibility. Even the costume might've been something created by the Whatever-It-Was that had tossed everyone into this mess. "If that's the case, how 'bout Spider Lass?"
The Legion seemed to love those "lad/lass" names, and if she'd been tossed into this, whatever it was, it was possible she might follow them home like the multiversal equivalent of a stray puppy.
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And punching pirates square in the jaw.
"You know, this is a lot less cool than it originally sounded."
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Funny that, a pirate asking questions about superheroes.
"Because Spider-Man and I go way back." Way, way back. "He was one of my first big team-ups."
So clearly not a pirate, which was at least partly obvious by the way he was mostly powering through all this with brute strength. He'd done a little bit of weapons training with Gamora and Drax, but not enough to be any good at this. A real pirate would actually know how to wield a cutlass.
"These aren't my usual duds, by the way. Normally, I go around with a bucket on my head." A pause. "Which is not gonna make a lick of sense unless you're from the same or a similar universe."
Everyone called him bucket-head back home, but if she didn't have a Nova in her universe, well...she'd probably just think he was some kind of weirdo who went around with a bucket on his head.
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All because he wanted to be special, like her.
The witty one-liners had stopped, Gwen herself distracted by thoughts about Peter. Both the one she was responsible for getting killed, and the one that had gone on to become Spider-Man.
"Yeah. We, uh, know each other. Different universes, though. Met back when these crazy, universe-hopping alien vampires were all hunting us down." Oh the fun she'd had during those days.
"Long story, trust me."
And by that we mean that there was hardly any fun to be had.
"So what's the story behind the bucket? Other helmets too last year for you?"
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"I'll bet it's a long story," Rich said with a grin. "They always are. Especially when there's alien vampires."
It was just a thing.
"I go by Nova," said Rich. "I got my powers -- which aren't working right now, lucky me -- from a dying alien who was part of an intergalactic police force called the Nova Corps. The powers come with a uniform that has a completely not-ridiculous helmet, standard issue. So ol' webhead, all of my friends, and pretty much all of the superhero community back home thinks it's funny to call it a bucket. And they call me 'buckethead.'"
He picked up one of the pirates and threw him right over the railing into the ocean.
"Spidey started it. Natch."
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"Yes." Yes, it was entirely necessary, taking the time to quip or rant will always leave you vulnerable to attacks, he'd learned that the hard way the first time he'd gotten into a real fight. How was he not supposed to take advantage of an opening?
This time using the rapier the way it was meant to be used Thad thrust the sword at her, trying to drive her further back as opposed to aiming to actually hit.
While he remembers what occurred with the Legion, the planted orders and dramatic shift in universe have messed with his sense of reality. It feels too much like the old simulations he'd run with Craydl, and the orders are far too easy for his mind to twist into instructions from the old AI. As far as he was aware this was all just another run of "training", and the people here were just virtual opponents, which makes him as dangerous as any of the other pirates on this ship.
Fortunately, while he's quick, his stance and his way of holding the rapier are all clumsy, as if he's never actually used a sword before. It wouldn't be too hard to take advantage of that.
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Tough crowd, even though just the one guy didn't really count as much of a 'crowd' to begin with.
She's pushed back after his thrust, with Gwen able to read his intentions. It's by watching him that she can tell just how serious he's being about all this. Definitely several steps above the rest of the pirates when it came in regards. And ugh, he was fast, too. Why did she had get the one that faster than the others.
Well, he's fast, but so is she. The problem is, he's armed and she's... well, not.
"Because me? I'm feeling like you can't actually land a hit."
Re: Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy | Marvel Comics (Earth-65)
Danny looked around, trying to figure out how to shut it down. He wasn't entirely sure how strange steampunk cannons functioned, but he'd worked with weirder weapons before. Finding a Level, he yanked on it and the cannon stopped firing and went quiet.
Danny then proceeded to phase his head into the internal workings of the cannon.
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A ghost.
Wow, spooky.
"So... how's it look? Pretty sure it should be making some kind of noise rather than no noise at all."