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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Rich Rider / Nova | Marvel Comics

[iamresponding]

SCENARIO A

"Blue Blaazeeees!" The last word was dragged into a long, confused yell as Rich was yanked onto the pirate ship on his zipline. He was able to tuck and roll when he hit the other side, thank God for superhero reflexes. His flight ring was gone, after all, so flying and making a smooth landing was out of the question.

He quickly unhooked the zipline, just in time to duck a blow from a pirate meant to chop his head off and then punched the pirate in the stomach with his prosthetic--

-- which now looked super weird. It wasn't the sleek robotic arm the Legion gave him. It had been replaced by a complicated-looking contraption with lots of moving parts, and he could hear loud gears whirring on the inside.

As he caught sight of his clothes and pulled out a saber from its sheathe at his waste his brows furrowed in extreme confusion.

"The hell is going on?" he yelled out. Yeah, that weird voice had told him what was happening but that didn't mean it made sense to be suddenly yanked into this. "And why are there gears on my clothes?"

That was a lot of gears. On clothes. Why the hell would clothes need gears? They weren't doing anything.

SCENARIO B

Even though the little voice had told them about this world -- that it wasn't real but the danger was -- Rich didn't want to risk that it was lying. He knew he wouldn't be able to stand having it on his conscience if there were people that needed help and he let them die because he'd believed a lie.

So here he was, powerless, armed with a cutlass he didn't even really know how to use all that well, trying to defend them.

There was a person nearby, someone that looked like they were just as confused as he was -- which meant maybe they'd been dragged into this, too -- and Rich turned to them.

"Listen, I know that weird voice said all this wasn't real but if we can get hurt, it's real enough. Whatever-it-was might have been lying, and if it was, these people need help. If we don't protect them, they don't stand a freakin' chance."

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.

Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy | Marvel Comics (Earth-65)

[deafleppard]

[A]

"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?”

Son Gohan (The Great Saiyaman) | Dragon Ball Z

[onthespot]

SCENARIO A
Despite himself, Gohan couldn't help but smirk as he looked down at the pirate ship. Arms crossed, as he hovered high in the air away from it all. He could tell the privateers needed help, it didn't take a genius to see that. But more importantly...

If he was going to help, he needed to make sure his entrance was memorable.

So he waited. He waited for just the right moment, then quickly descended to the ship. One of the pirates had their blunderbuss leveled on someone's head, ready to fire. However, as the shot went off... the pirate would find a certain green tunic in front of him, completely unaffected by the impact.

"You should be more careful with those," Gohan said with a smirk. Before casually bringing his hand to the barrel of the gun, and squeezing it shut. "You could hurt someone."

And then he punched the pirate, sending him tumbling away.

"Never fear, for the Great Saiyaman is HERE!"

SCENARIO B
Given his abilities, the pirate ship hadn't been that hard to infiltrate. Between all the chaos on the main deck, and all the different people with brightly-colored outfits, he... blended pretty well, actually. As such, he figured he could use the confusion to look for any captives, to try and get as many innocent people out of this mess as possible.

He was doing pretty well for a while! At least, until he got to the biggest group of captives, and found that a large chunk of pirates had been waiting to ambush whoever tried to free them. They hadn't attacked yet, instead circling around him and the captives in a thick circle.

But they were gonna. There was no doubt.

"Drop your weapons, and I will not hurt you!" Gohan said in his exaggerated voice, hoping to maybe defuse the situation. It was a long shot, but hey... maybe it would work! "I'm taking these people to safety! It doesn't have to get messy!"

videl | dragon ball z

[notwithoutafight]

[ scenario b ]

Videl had never hated anything in her life more than the corset she found herself in. The damned thing was cinched tight enough to give her waist the diameter of a hand-span and crammed so much of her gut up into her chest that it was too crowded to even breathe, much less fight pirates. Curse the Being, the universe, and whoever else was responsible for binding her up in this monstrosity. But an archaic ribbed torture device wasn't going to stop Videl from saving those captives. It didn't matter that this wasn't Satan City and that she didn't have any backup from the police in case things got hairy; it was pretty clear that these people needed a hand and Videl had two perfectly good ones to offer.

"All right, listen up!" She stepped up to the pirates and their captives, planting her feet shoulder-width apart with her fists on her hips. "I'll give you a chance right now to let everybody go, so you better not waste it."

A few of the pirates looked over in Videl's direction, but their expressions went from aggressive surprise to irritated dubiousness the moment they laid eyes on her. Short in stature and slight of build, Videl was far from intimidating at first sight, but even grown men eventually blanched under her steely glare. The pirates murmured amongst each other, trying to determine if this girl was as much of a threat as her self-assured threat implied.

Videl crossed her arms and huffed impatiently. "Forget it. Time's up!"

She lunged forward and brought a knee up into the stomach of the nearest pirate in a group of three. The man coughed and doubled over, clutching his gut, while the wench on his left lifted her pistol. Videl caught sight of the pistol out of the corner of her eye and rounded about, kicking the gun away. In that time, the third pirate had balled his fists and slung a left hook in Videl's direction, but she dropped low after the kick, allowing the punch to wiff through the air just in front of the wench's nose. From the crouch, Videl sucked in a shallow breath, briefly aware of the restriction against her chest, then spun her leg around in a low kick to knock all three pirates to the floor.

She leaped back as they collapsed, trying to catch her breath for a quick second before her opponents got to their feet. But again, the corset prevented her from filling her lungs. She coughed, raising her fists defensively as the first pirate grabbed the musket slung over his back. Bright spots speckled her vision.

"Ha...Hang on ... a sec," she rasped, swaying unsteadily. She could feel her consciousness starting to fade. Not good, not good at all.

[from_pallet_town]

SCENARIO A

"BWAAAAAAAAAUGH!"
"CHAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Two voices screamed in unison as they went flying down the zipline, into a crash landing right on the priate ship's deck. The voices' owners, a boy in blue and a yellow rodent, skidded facedown to a halt, and we immediately surrounded by three pirates. As one tried to stab them, the rodent got it's bearings, and with a "PIIII...KAAAA...CHUUUUUU!" electrocuted every last one of the trio with a Thunderbolt

"Where are we?" Ash asked, dusting hilsef and the caped blue outfit he was stuck in.

"Pikapika." replied Pikachu as he pulled off an eyepatch, not sure himself.