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The "Wild Blue Yonder" Test Drive Meme
 The Time Trapper, the being responsible for bringing people into the Legion's universe, is up to some strange tricks! It's now creating illusions of alternate universes and dumping the Legionnaires into them to try to test them as Legionnaires. 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. 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 heart of these conflicts. These universes are technically just illusions (probably!) and all the participants have an inherent knowledge of this placed in their heads, 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 everyone is being dumped into a scenario where they're dealing with... The characters will find themselves on a wild alien planet, far from civilized worlds. This wilderness is as dangerous as it is beautiful, with towering old growth forests (with plants in rainbow colors), fields of mushrooms as tall as houses, grasslands of pink and purple grasses, and cavelike tunnels and rock formations dripping with baby blue moss. In some areas, there are dangerous areas of craggy rocks, or forests that can only be crossed by navigating canopies of interlocked vines. Some of the fields are also filled with dangerous flora, like orb-like plants that produce dangerous currents of electricity, or fields of multi-colored, strangely-shaped flowers that produce hallucinogenic pollen. In some areas, there are the crumbling ruins of a lost alien civilization, plagued by dangerous collapses of the husks of ancient buildings. Some of the flora and fauna is helpful, like tall trees with hollowed out sections filled with moss where characters can take refuge for the night, far away from dangerous threats. (These hollows are small which means strangers may have to get pretty cozy together to fit). Resources are also abundant, but characters have to work for them. There is fresh, running water to be found (free of nasty organisms that would make people sick), and most of the fruit is edible and tastes enough like the fruit of other worlds to make it clear it's safe, but it's usually up high where characters will have to work together to get it. There are also herd animals that can hunted for meat, abundant wood and flammable plant material for fires, sticks that can be made into spears, and sparkstones and flint that can be used to spark fires or sharpened into rudimentary knives. Based on player preference, for the purposes of the meme, characters can either lose powers, retain their canon powers, or find themselves with new powers. It's up to you. One thing is for sure: besides, you, any strangers you may meet, and the wildlife, you're going to be alone on this unexplored world for an unknown amount of time, with no way of contacting the United Planets for rescue. And the Time Trapper has only given you one imperative: Survive. SCENARIO A: HUNT AND GATHER Characters will have to work together to survive. Weapons need to be made, shelter has to be found or built, fires need to be started, fruit needs to be collected, and animals need to be killed for food. With the work that needs to be done to survive, the characters are best off cooperating with each other -- something that's not the easiest to do when they start off total strangers. SCENARIO B: BE HUNTED Not all the creatures in this world are prey animals. Ferocious beasts stalk the land, chasing down their prey on the ground, or swooping down on it from the air. Players have the freedom to create whatever strange predators they like in this landscape, and characters will have to hunt and trap them together to survive. (The upside: even the predators are good eatin'!) SCENARIO C: TRAVERSE THE TERRAIN Some places, like the open grasslands, just aren't safe, due to predators and other threats. To get to safer places, characters will have to sometimes traverse dangerous areas, like the treacherous rock formations, labyrinthine caves, and fields full of electricity-emitting and hallucinogenic pollen-producing plants. In many of these dangerous areas, characters will have to help each other keep moving, and have no hope of traversing them on their own. SCENARIO D: CANNIBALS Some areas are stalked by dangerous cannibals, humanoid creatures that erupt from underground in swarms and hunt down any prey they can find -- including people. These creatures are not fully sentient and can't be reasoned with, but are at least intelligent enough to create rudimentary tools and weapons, problem solve basic problems, and communicate to each other with screeches and growls. They kill their prey by biting, clawing at them, or using rudimentary clubs, spears, and stone axes. These creatures have no eyes and seemingly track by smell and hearing. Characters can thwart them by climbing high places (the creatures cannot climb easily, or trace a character that has gone up high due to their lack of sight), or by somehow covering up their scent and remaining quiet. They are possible to kill, but very dangerous, especially due to their tendency to swarm. They only come out under cover of darkness, and flee away from light when the sun rises, back to their underground lairs. Fortunately, the planet has multiple moons, which help provide abundant moonlight at night to allow characters to see well enough to fight back. SCENARIO E: EXPLORATION/CHIT-CHAT The predators and cannibals aren't everywhere, so not all of the characters' encounters will involve survival, travel, or deadly peril. During calmer moments, characters may encounter each other by light of a campfire and have a chance to talk quietly, or take a moment to admire the natural wonders of the world without being threatened by anything. Aside from the flora and fauna, there are beautiful fjords, canyons twice the depth of the Grand Canyon (with layers of rock in blues, pinks, and purples), desert areas of blue sand and red trees that are strangely temperate, and mountains the size of Olympus Mons that are so large they seem to cause the entire horizon to curve up. SCENARIO F: WILD CARD Have an idea for something that you don't see an option for? Maybe your characters can try to jump off cliffs onto the backs of flying creatures to see if they can be controlled so characters can fly together. Maybe your characters have to escape a perilous area that's experiencing a lightning storm or find shelter from rain and hail. Perhaps your characters mistake each other as predators or prey animals and accidentally engage in cat and mouse tracking games, or one accidentally traps another, injures them, and has to nurse them back to health. Feel free to make up your own scenarios, wilderness settings, alien plants, and alien creatures! ✦ 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 after the camping trip, and media shenanigans, but before "The Rimborian Job." ✦ Potential players can use this as a standard test drive and may use these threads as their log samples. However, at least one post in their thread must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. 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 7 of 40 player slots are available. The character limit is 4 characters per player. You can also scope out some of the game's upcoming plots here to get an idea of what kind of plots are in the game and what's to come. ✦ 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 Time Trapper wants a confusing situation and will enjoy the chaos of lots of strange people trying to figure out what's going on. |
Yuuri Katsuki | Yuri!!! on Ice
This can't be real! This isn't happening!
One did not walk through a doorway in an ice rink during a figure skating event and suddenly find themselves in another dimension. Life wasn't an anime. People didn't suddenly get teleported to alien planets or fantasy worlds.
Sure, there were times during Yuri's life where he vaguely wished things like that could happen. Like when he used to daydream during homeroom about being transported to a magical land like the protagonist of The King and the Skater. (Which was what he'd done instead of making friends.) But those were just daydreams and moments of silliness. That was impossible in reality.
Yet here he was, experiencing the impossible. And the impossible sucked because the impossible was trying to kill him.
"No no no no no no!" he shrieked as he ran from the hell beast chasing him (in between all the incoherent screaming). As he ran, his arms flapped in the air over his head in an entirely un-aerodynamic fashion, largely because he was too chilled with terror to think about why waving his arms around like a lunatic was a bad idea. "Whyyy?! Why is this happeniiiiing?!"
When he saw that he was running towards a stranger, he cried out something in warning that was half-words, half-more incoherent screaming:
"RUUUUUUNAAAUGH!
Not far behind him was the reason for his screaming/sort-of warning, and it sure had a lot of teeth.
C.
Yuuri was tired, but he was much calmer now than he'd been when he'd first found himself in this strange place. He'd had time to recover from the shock, and after taking a deep breath and deciding to be sensible, he'd dealt with this place as well as anyone could.
That meant gathering supplies. He'd found some kind of weird plant that had a leather-like pouch as part of it, washed the juices from the inside of the pouch out, filled it with water and tied off the top with thin, stringy vines, then created a shoulder strap for the thing out of thicker vines. A makeshift water skin, almost as durable as if it'd been made out of an animal skin. He'd also used a piece of sharp rock and sharpened a thick and sturdy stick into a crude spear. It made him feel just a little better.
Only a little, though. Anxiety was clawing at the base of his skull and it wouldn't stop anytime soon. He was still half-convinced this was a terrible dream, that he'd taken a fall on the ice that he couldn't remember, and now he was having some wild concussion-fueled nightmare, possibly unconscious in a Russian hospital somewhere.
The only thing that made him think maybe it was real was the beauty of this place. He was no slouch in the imagination department -- lately it had served him well in competition, in thinking up the images he'd wanted to project with his program. But this was still so so far beyond it that he didn't think his brain was capable of thinking up all this beauty on its own.
So it was real. Probably. Maybe.
And that made it just as terrifying as it was majestic.
At least I didn't get pulled here in my skates.
He shuddered to think of how ill-prepared he would've been if he'd been snatched up by whatever mysterious force brought him here right as he was going onto or getting off the ice. It was bad enough that he was in his figure skating costume, but at least he had his warm up jacket, sweatpants, glasses, and sneakers. If he'd been snatched at the wrong moment, he'd have been in just his figure skating costume and in his completely useless ice skates.
But he had decent clothes, and now supplies and a weapon, and now he was facing down a vast, twisty rocky area and wondering what to do next.
The mountains around this valley are way too high to hike through to get anywhere else. This seems like the only way out. Not that I know where I'm even going, but if there's nothing here, the only thing to do is go somewhere else.
Maybe he'd find people, or civilization, or a wizard that could teleport him out of this crazy mess.
It sure looked like rough going, though. Yuuri was certainly in good physical shape, being a professional athlete, but he hadn't spent much time hiking or climbing or doing anything outdoorsy. It seemed like it would be hard traveling through the rocky hills and spires alone.
That was when he heard someone approaching through the grass. He visibly started, nearly jumping out of his skin, turning to see who or what was there, looking torn between running or preparing to fight.
"Who's there?! I have, um...a stick!"
Realizing how stupid that sounded, Yuuri winced one eye shut.
"I have a stick"? That'll sure scare them. What is wrong with you?
C
"Yuri?"
That was all the warning Yuri got before Victor Nikiforov appeared out of the tall grass, shirt half-unbuttoned, tie undone, and overcoat slung over one arm. He would have looked amazing if he hadn't looked so confused.
Still, he couldn't help smiling at the sight of Yuri. He glanced upward briefly, toward the brilliant purple sky, and then back down again to Yuri.
"It seems we have been mislaid by our respective itineraries," he said, for lack of any idea what to say in its place.
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Yuuri dropped the spear and threw himself at the other man, pulling him close, burying his head against his neck, clinging just a little desperately.
He wasn't sure how he'd wound up here, too, considering they'd been in different countries when he'd been grabbed, but he didn't care. Victor's presence was a comforting one and it felt like a weight had suddenly lifted off of his shoulders.
Whatever happened, he didn't have to face it on his own now.
His fingers dug into Victor's shirt, pulling on the fabric.
"I thought I was alone."
And yes, as always, he'd been able to fight through things by himself, but being able to wasn't the same as wanting to. He'd been terrified.
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"I did too," he said softly. Then, because Yuuri was clearly shaken up by this experience, he forced some extra cheer into his voice. "But look, we're not! Yay!"
And he hadn't been eaten by anything in the grass, which had been beginning to become a concern for him.
"I...have to admit, I'm not entirely certain what we're supposed to do next," he says. "But at least we don't have to do it alone."
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After Yuuri had gotten enough time hugging, he went back to panicking. Which was explosive enough that it should've been classified as a force of nature.
"How is this even happening?!"
Yuuri started to stomp back and forth, finally letting himself freak out now that he felt safe enough to let loose.
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Which still doesn't explain what all of this is, but Victor had already spent plenty of time today staring at the sky with his mouth hanging open and his brain only producing a noise like the whine of a refrigerator, and he's ready to do something else now.
Something like pick his overcoat up off of the ground and wait to see if this is just something Yuuri needs to get out of his system or if it actually requires his input.
B
The sensors on her ears twitched some as she started to hear noises headed for her. A lot of it was unfamiliar, with the crashing of foliage and the sound of footsteps on dirt. The rest, though, that was familiar enough - screams of terror and Angry Monster Noises. That, she found oddly reassuring. When Yuuri showed up, the tall woman's eyes widen at the beast behind him for a moment, and then with unnatural speed, cuts in to tackle the thing.
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For just a moment, he danced around in place, not sure if he was coming or going, but ultimately he decided that he couldn't just leave her.
Letting out a incoherent noise of frustration, he picked up the largest, sturdiest stick he could find and ran back towards where she was fighting the beast, figuring that just about any animal could be stopped if you just whacked it hard enough.
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Her ear-sensors twitch, and she mutters a stressed-out "oh, no" to herself.
Agent North Dakota | Red vs. Blue
North can't help it; he just naturally tends to see the other people around him as his charges when it comes time to evacuate to a safer area nearby. He's like a mother hen counting his chicks—he hangs back a bit, allowing his superior height to allow him to watch everyone in the vicinity as they move, using his rifle's scope to do a quick job of spotting the region ahead, and occasionally doing a head count. Everyone's here, everyone's safe, as long as he's doing the work he's put himself in charge of.
It's hard to distract his attention from this, but now and then he sees someone lagging a bit and draws up to their side. "How you feeling?" he asks, gently and congenially.
Other times he starts moving faster, doing a circuit around the group as it's in motion; the various people who have come to comprise the middle and vanguard of the company may notice that he randomly appears, seems to appraise the group, and allows himself to fall back again. He will nod at someone in these groups if they catch his eye, and might even ask how things look up there, but for the most part he tries not to waste time getting back to the back.
SCENARIO F: WILD CARD
It's nightfall, and North knows not everyone has the advantage he does, wearing his heavy armor. It's inevitable that they need to either press on despite exhaustion, or find or create some kind of shelter. North can push himself, but not everyone in the company is capable of such. So he takes the time, each evening, to move ahead and scout out a good place to camp. Once he finds the place, he heads back and alerts everyone in the group. "There's a flat area in between the trees to the northwest," he might say. "We can use branches to build a shelter."
It's inevitable, as the days go by, for someone to get upset with his attempts to take charge. When that person gets in his face, he draws himself up to his full height, which in his armor is quite formidable, and yells right back. "Do you have experience leading a group like this to safety? Because I wouldn't have made myself a leader if I didn't."
Wildcard
Camp's getting set up, people are getting fed, all is well with the world.
"An hour, man. Maybe two. We're good for right now."
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"Soon, York," he says. "Soon. I need to make the rounds one last time before I'm ready to relax." He spreads his hands in a bit of a plea—give him this peace of mind, at least, York.
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For now? They're as secure as they're gonna get. "Seriously, man. You've been working overtime."
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Between the people preparing dinner in the camp and everyone who is taking the time to see that the carers are seen to, someone presses a cup of tea into his hands when he sits down to rest, and he does sit and sip it. He just also occasionally takes a look around to see where York is and whether he's running into any trouble. When he sees York is finishing up he plops his helmet back on. "Find any problems out there?" he asks through the radio.
Agent Texas | Red vs. Blue
Tex is a robot. But she's in a group with a lot of organic beings, helping them make their way to safety, and she's among the first to notice that they're being followed. The creatures that are stalking the group are stealthy, but Tex makes no secret of the fact that she is stalking the creatures right back. "Get back," she tells those with her, motioning behind her. She waits until everyone has listened before she opens fire. She knows she has made some hits, judging by the sounds that follow, but the creatures are obviously hardly bothered by being shot. They are right back in pursuit afterward, stalking forward, menacing.
"Get the hell out of here," she says as she turns back to the group. "I'll hold them off while you get away."
SCENARIO F: WILD CARD
Afterwards, when the sun rises, she separates herself from the company and heads back. Seen in the sunlihgt, she can see what kinds of creatures these were, and she doesn't want them to return and threaten the group again. She's going to head back to the source, to find the place where these things live, and kill them off for good.
It doesn't take long to notice someone is following her. She stops and turns back. "You're not going to stop me," she announces. "I"m doing this. And you're not coming with me, either!"
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Two of them peeling off to do the thing isn't that strange but it'd annoy someone into doing something stupid.
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That, that's teasing.
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"It hardly sounded rehearsed at all," she teases back. "But I guess I shouldn't feel too special."
The thing with her and teamwork was that she'd been burned so many times—not by being betrayed, but by her failures causing people to get hurt. But going off alone doesn't seem to help that much, either. York's the one who she's been willing to trust, all along the line, and she is willing to listen when he has a point.