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legionclubhouse2017-01-16 05:17 pm
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The "Voyage of the Clammed" 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 Titanic II is a luxury space cruise ship named after the original Titanic by a naive Carggite owner that only knows the ship was famous and doesn't know the unfortunate history of the original. Sure enough, like its predecessor, this ship is cursed, and has hit a space icebe--er, comet. It's broken down in a very perilous area of space and has drifted into the territory of the Space Dolphins. The Space Dolphins have an isolationist empire that spans star systems and prefers to have no contact with the outside galaxy. They are demanding that the passenger and crew of the Titanic II leave their territory immediately and are not accepting any excuses. They've given the ship a paltry half hour to evacuate when it should take at least 1-2 hours. Once the half hour is up, they plan to attack and make the Titanic II crash into a nearby uninhabited planet -- whether it's fully evacuated or not. Characters may find that they have brand-new superpowers that can help them save the day. SCENARIO A: BEFORE THE CRASH Some characters will find themselves on board the cruise ship with the knowledge it's going to crash. What they do with that knowledge is up to them. Perhaps they'll try to warn the crew, or simply wait it out and prepare with others to act once it happens. Or maybe they'll try to warn passengers away from the section where the comet will impact. In the time before the ship hits the comet, they'll at least be privy to some beautiful sights as they fly past nebulas and planets, but it will be little comfort as they sit there waiting for inevitable disaster. (Maybe they can rearrange some desk chairs?) This is the mingle option for those that want something other than an action thread. SCENARIO B: PLACATE WITH FISHIES After the crash, not much can be done to prevent the Space Dolphins from preparing to attack, but they can be distracted somewhat if characters find some fish to distract them with. After stealing fish from confused cooks in the kitchens, they can brave the dangerous vacuum of space to dump what they find outside to create a feeding frenzy that can delay the dolphin attack. Fortunately, there's transuit technology that will allow them to go into vacuum without being encumbered by too much gear. SCENARIO C: HELP EVACUATE The ship needs to be evacuated and it needs to be evacuated fast. With fires, machinery breaking down, collapsing floors and walkways, and areas suddenly being exposed to vacuum, and even some explosions, the ship is growing more and more perilous by the minute and the passengers need help and occasional rescue to make it out of dangerous areas and into the lifepods. The engine core is especially dangerous, with broken machinery trapping some of the engineers and mechanics inside, and dangerous radiation leaks that will kill them if they're not freed soon. Characters may find themselves getting into deadly peril while trying to help others, and will need to work together to survive. The human element is also a factor here. People are getting scared and that means they need to be stopped from trampling each other, or fighting over lifepods. (There are plenty to go around). SCENARIO D: ATTACH THE "SONAR" DEVICE An engineer that was a passenger slapped together a device from scrap that can help buy some time by projecting a vibrational frequency that will keep the Space Dolphins a distance away. It can only work for a short time, but buying a little extra time is better than nothing. Unfortunately, it has to be directly attached to a large power source, like the ship's engine. Characters must brave perilous crawlspaces and ventilation systems (including ones with those giant spinny fans), and work together to reach the engine and attach it. (Due to the Time Trapper's meddling, this task can be done in multiple time loops, allowing multiple teams to go through the scenario). SCENARIO E: PISS OFF SPACE PETA Sometimes in life you just have to punch a hyperintelligent dolphin in the face. With the Space Dolphins finally attacking, it's time to take action before they damage the escaping lifepods or damage the ship enough to make it fall onto the nearby planet before it's fully evacuated. Characters have transuits that will allow them to survive in vacuum, making it so they can fight the Space Dolphins directly. Beware their head-mounted pulse weapons and ion beams, tracking missiles, and that weird painful pokey-thing dolphins do with their noses. SCENARIO F: WILD CARD Maybe your character wants to take a moment before the crash to re-enact the "I'm flying!" scene at the bow. Or lasso and ride an annoyed Space Dolphin. Perhaps a missing child needs to be found and reunited with a parent. Or maybe two lovers ✦ 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 "Silent Horizon" and "No Sanity Clause." ✦ 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 5 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 to get an idea of what kind of plots are in the game and what's to come. New Player Reserves will open on Friday Feb. 3 @ 10 pm EST. ✦ 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. |
BEETLE / Kubo and the Two Strings
[It is utterly and perfectly normal for there to be a beetle man here, isn't it? Coz' there one is, quiver snug across his chest, and probably looking more bewildered than anyone is at him. Wasn't he just at the fortress...?
And now he's on a boat. A very big boat.
He doesn't think he's been on a boat this big before, but once he gets over the initial bewilderment, he'll be happy to kind of look around and exploH MY GOODNESS don't mind him pressing up against a window with a gasp]
Did you see that!?
C///
[Well, this isn't good.
Beetle's absolutely going to be using his large bulk to help out, whether it be by carrying one person in each of his four arms, holding up a breaking support with his great strength, or even just, say. Trying to calm down a nice lady who's trying to hit him with a purse, over and over]
Hey, hey, I can go get your Sweetiepaws if you just tell me where you saw them last, you don't need to go over in the fire, I promise-!
[Excuse him while he just. Grabs someone with an arm. Is it you? Probably. Help this poor man looking at you with the most helpless expression]
...do you know what a Sweetiepaws is?
E///
[How do beetle wings work in space? DO they even work in space? These questions will forever go unanswered, but Beetle is certainly buzzing about with his, nevermind the fact you can't quite...buzz...in space. That's not the point.
The point is he's got out his bow, has looped his quiver over his transuit (how does it FIT?
Don't think too hard about it. It might stop working.]
F///
Make something up for wildcard, I'll match style!
A
She pushes past some fellow passengers, uncaring that it's "rude" or the glares they may shoot her way, her heart in her throat.
It's him. He's a beetle still, but it's him.
Probably. Hopefully. There aren't any aliens who look like that, right? ]
Hanzo?
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-except, perhaps, that name, called by that voice. He straightens up immediately, looking left, right, because- he knows that name! He knows that voice!
His gaze will sweep right over her without stopping, though.]
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(She'd hoped, but she had tried not to expect. It still makes her heart break.)
His eyes move past her, and she folds herself up, dropping into what will hopefully be a more familiar form. She moves the rest of the way towards him, calling up. ]
Beetle! Down here!
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Monkey! You're here, too?
[And Hanzo? Little Hanzo is here? Except not, so maybe he's with- Beetle tilts his head, great antenna bumping someone a little too close, and he has to tilt it back and excuse him being awkward for a second before recovering and-]
Is Kubo?
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She laughs softly and reaches up to move the angle of his head slightly to avoid catching someone on the other side. ]
Sleeping, but yes, Kubo's here. It's good to see you.
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Beetles do not have tails, but one could imagine one wagging behind him.]
Really? I mean- of course it is. [Wait, no. Start over. His lower arms make a quick gesture] I mean, it's good to see you too. [THERE, YES. Good. That feels MUCH better, and now he can get down to something else.] Where are we, anyway?
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At least a ship travelling through space showing passengers the wonder of the cosmos seemed like a plausible thing that might happen in this strange future, strange as it still was for him and his mother to have randomly appeared on it.
He wandered through other passengers, looking for a flash of either the gold robes or the white fur that would indicate his mother. She'd said to come find her after he was done napping. When he spotted her past some well-dressed Coluans, he wondered for a second why she was in Monkey form, but didn't give it much thought as he jogged over, maneuvering himself and his shamisen through the crowd of passengers.
"Mother," he called. "I think it's time to -"
He stopped short when he cleared the other passengers, and saw who she was talking to.
"Father?"
His eye was wide, and the only reason there were no tears in it yet was because he was newly certain this had to be a dream after all.
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"Apparently our Beetle has found his way here," she says, putting a slight emphasis on the name. He doesn't remember that, she tries to convey silently.
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"Kubo-father?"
He sounds surprised by the term, but not necessarily for being called 'father'. It stirs some memory in him, which is always a difficulty; those things have a habit of dancing just out of reach. And chasing after them is normal, but this one-
This one seems important. Give him a minute to work this out, the hand of an upper limb touching his mouth while another makes a vague gesture at Kubo, another tracing to the Monkey-now-Woman, the last pointing back at himself.
"All right, let me- just-"
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Unfortunately, she was working against Kubo's many years of wanting so much to meet his father, and his two years of having known that he had.
And had missed out on having any more than a few seconds by not paying attention to his surroundings.
For a second, Kubo looked all around, scanning the area for threats. If this were a dream, he didn't want it to turn into the nightmare he'd already lived. He saw nothing but passengers, milling about their own business, no threat of enmity in any of their gestures.
Just his father, confused, but alive, and his mother, doing her best to keep things peaceful and calm and orderly in a way he just couldn't keep up.
Kubo bolted for his father, doing his best to throw his arms around his armored exoskeleton, as much of a hug as he could manage. He'd grown, but his father still dwarfed him, and it didn't much matter.
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Mental tracking was aborted as there was suddenly a Kubo at his waist. Beetle made a little 'mm!' of surprise, automatically dropping his lower two arms to return the embrace without hesitation. Didn't need thought for that, but there was still a trail as he looked back up at...
At her.
"...Starlight?"
He still had two perfectly good arms to sort of hold open after his question.
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It's his smile, the one only Hanzo ever drew out of her. Kubo, you're going to have to deal with being sandwiched between your parents as she presses her hand to the side of Beetle's face.
"Married to a bug," she says quietly, with a little laugh in her voice - she can't not tease him a little, if only to keep herself from losing too much of her cool in public. She never did like that. "I'm so glad you're here."
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Kubo was happy - so happy - to be a little bit squished between his mother and father, a position death had denied him twice.
Still he drew back enough to see his father's face again, to look for a little bit of familial resemblance that his grandfather's curse might have left behind. There wasn't much, but that really didn't matter.
He paused in his smiling to glance around again, just in case this dream were too good to be true, before smiling at his father and mother again.
His eye welled up as all the things he wanted to say to his father built up behind him - that he was sorry, still, not to have been more watchful in the fortress, but his mother would not let him bear that guilt and he felt sure his father wouldn't either. That he was sorry for his father's decade in amnesiac isolation, that he was afraid this reunion was too good to be true, that he loved his father and was so, so proud to be his son -
"I missed you," he settled on, his voice breaking as a tear spilled out of his eye.
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Beetle had never been good at holding back his excitement. They were practically ragdolls in his arms, albeit ones he was quick to set back down after a turn or two (and probably knocking in to others in his exuberance, whups) and. Well. Sariatu-not-Monkey-except-both got dusted off, while Kubo got his hair scuffed up.
"Ha! I did remember! See! Mostly." No need to dwell on that right now, though. "Look at you, you got bigger! And you-!"
Eyes for Sariatu, now. Wide and
foreverunblinking."You couldn't always do that!" The whole. Changing thing back and forth. Was he impressed?...more than a little. Not a hint of accusation in his voice, because why would he? No, he was much more excited for the fact that, well. She could do it in the first place, now! That was great!
(Maybe she'd forgotten, too? Things were still fuzzy, and threatening to get back that way if he stopped clinging so tightly to it all.)
E!
Kubo was sort of punching the space dolphins, anyway, blasting them with percussive bursts of sound from his shamisen. His paper whirled about himself and Beetle, slicing the space dolphins' delicate hides in sharp pointed paper planes and raw-edged pinwheels.
It wasn't death by a thousand cuts, but it was definitely severely distracting discomfort by a thousand cuts.
"You need to stop this!" he shouted at the dolphins that swam near enough, still trying to play the peacemaker even as he (temporarily) obliterated their sensitive sonars with his powerful sound. "The ship is here by accident. Your people don't need to die for this!"
And he meant it, but at the same time, the cosmic cetaceans had better stay the heck away from his father. Kubo had no intentions of going through any of that "watching Dad be viciously murdered just after finding him miraculously alive" nonsense again. He hadn't killed a dolphin yet, but he was making it as impossible as he could for them to reach Beetle, who WAS doing just that.
Compromised as he was, though, by his anxiety over keeping his father alive, he didn't notice one of the greater dolphin warriors, building speed as it swam at Kubo at ramming speed, concealed in his blind spot.
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It sounds like a cat. Or it could be an alien pet.
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Why would you call a cat a-hey, wait!
[lady no you are getting gently picked up with two hands just as the kid is being set down. Gotta love having an armored shell, her flailing might hurt otherwise.]
Lady, I told you, I'm fully capable of finding your lost...Sweetiepaws. Whatever it is.
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[They duck out of the way of the woman's flailing a little, leaning past Beetle to peer down the hall.]
Where were they last?