TEST DRIVE MEME

[letsgolegion]

TEST DRIVE MEME



Pick a scenario!

Scenario A: The Legion has been invited to a fancy reception with the United Planets Council because various public officials and dignitaries want to meet with the new Legionnaires. Even the older Legionnaires don't want to go, but they've been told that if they bring the rookies they'll get some funding and resources to work on their project of getting the newbies home.

So everyone's put on their best color-changing dresses and self-tying ties and are getting to work rubbing elbows and trying to pretend they actually want to be there.

Naturally, while some of the dignitaries are polite and genuinely interested in the plight of the interdimensional refugees, many of the dignitaries are downright rude in various ways, either by making the rookies feel as if they'll never measure up to the old Legion (as if being brought into this world is some fault of theirs) or by being condescending when hearing about their comparatively "primitive" worlds. ("Oh, you still use fossil fuels there? How quaint!") Some like the green-skinned Coluans are outright hostile, telling the rookies that by helping the Legion, they're betraying organic life because of the Legion's support of Robotica.

A fun time is being had by all, naturally.

Okay, that's a lie, but at least the rookies have each other to talk to, right? And there's no dearth of weird future fashion to quietly make fun off.


Scenario B: The reception is under attack! A Xanthan terrorist group has busted in and plans on taking some of the dignitaries hostage in exchange for some of their number being released from prison.

"Nobody move and no one has to get hurt!" the leader cries out, his gun pointed at Madame President.

Unfortunately for them, the Legion got a last-minute invite to this little shindig. Time to team up with one of your teammates to kick some butt and practice those quips!


REMINDER:

There are only 30 player slots in the game. We do want to remind players of that at each step towards game opening, just so they're aware during the reserve/app process that these slots might fill fast. We've also moved the opening of reserves a day to make it more convenient for the mods. Here are the current dates for upcoming events:

RESERVES WILL OPEN ON: 12/20/15 @ 5PM EST/2PM PST/10PM GMT
APPS WILL OPEN ON: 12/26/15 @ 5PM EST/2PM PST/10PM GMT
GAME STARTS ON: 1/01/16

Comments

[wherenoonegoes]

"Don't worry, I won't say anything. Sounds pretty familiar, though. We never got that far before I figured out how to stop it, but it certainly wasn't for lack of trying."

And even though Vikings hadn't managed to hunt dragons to near-extinction, there were a few species that were close to dying out anyways. Toothless was evidence enough of that. They'd never run into another Night Fury no matter how far they flew.

"How I managed that is kind of a long story, though. But it might be more entertaining than anything else going on here, if you're up for it."

[failbender]

He was a little interested. This guy had already mentioned creating a tail for a dragon and it was sounding like maybe their different peoples had a few things in common. It seemed that his people had a penchant for violence, too, and both of them were being treated like primitives by the people of this world.

"You're already getting into bragging about things and I don't even know your name."

Yes, "bragging about things" was the way he worded it. Zuko didn't seem to care about how blunt he was.

He could see a good brag was possibly coming on but he was at least curious enough to stay and listen. Stories about dragons were bound to be less boring than the rest of this stupid party.

"My name is Zuko, crown prince of the Fire Nation."

He put his fist in the palm of his other hand and bowed politely.

[wherenoonegoes]

"Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Chief of the Hairy Hooligans Tribe of Berk."

He bowed respectfully himself, before adding in a wry tone "Yes, I'm named after a bodily function, get all the jokes out of your system now."

"And it's not all bragging." He defended. "A lot of it makes me look like a suicidal idiot."

[failbender]

"I'm bad at jokes, anyway."

He was pretty sure Sokka would have had plenty of jokes about Hiccup's name, because it was pretty stupid, but he wasn't Sokka and he was terrible at jokes. With shorter jokes and quips, they never really hit the mark and with the longer jokes, he never remembered the punchline. Or he only remembered the punchline and forgot the rest of the joke. He never managed both.

Zuko was very secure in the knowledge that being funny was not really in his wheelhouse. And he was also inclined to give more respect to other leaders. Weird name aside, it appeared that he was speaking to a chief -- albeit a very young chief. (He didn't look much older than Zuko.)

Zuko's mouth quirked slightly.

"Bragging about being an idiot is still bragging if you got away with it. But I'd still rather hear a story than talk to the pompous windbags we're stuck here with. So brag away."

[wherenoonegoes]

"Okay, there are two things you have to understand before I tell this story. The first? Is that, up until five years ago, Vikings and dragons had been at war for ages. They'd steal food, burn our houses down, kill us, and we'd kill them right back in even greater numbers. The other is that my father was pretty much the epitome of everything a Viking should be. Strong, confident, able to toss around carts filled to the brim with weapons with his bare hands. And I was scrawny, clumsy, and kind of the village screw-up. Not that that's really changed much since then, except I don't screw up as much."

And so began the tale of how Hiccup, in order to gain respect, shot down one of the most terrifying dragons in existence, befriend him instead of kill him, and everything that followed How they and Astrid eventually found out the reason the dragons were raiding them was because another dragon would eat them if they didn't bring back enough food. His initial, disastrous attempt at bringing peace, teaching the other kids how to ride dragons, and then he started getting into the fight with the Red Death.

"...so, we go into freefall, flip around, and Toothless started blasting at its wings and then set off the gas in its mouth with another plasma blast. The Red Death lost control, crashed into the ground, and exploded. Somewhere in the middle of it crashing, I got knocked unconscious by its tail, and part of my leg got taken off."

Which more or less explained why he wasn't so fussed about the leg. It'd been lost doing something stupidly heroic.

"After that, the raids stopped, and because the others and I proved it could be done, the rest of the village started befriending the dragons too."