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

[iamresponding]

"It's magic. Trust me on that. One of my archenemies that kept popping up every few years to be a pain in my butt like the world's most annoying whack-a-mole was the immortal court magician of some old pharoah." God, the Sphinx was a pain in his ass and the only thing that had ever made it worth the aggravation of dealing with him was using his time-meddling to pull the girl he loved out of the timestream so she never faced her death. "My world's chock full of it and even despite some of the smartest eggheads in my world studying it, it still can't be entirely understood. There's magic in this world, too, apparently, so we have that little joy to look forward to. Hooray."

He'd been reading up on some of the Legion's old adventures and apparently this world was no different than his in having magical enemies -- and heroes.

"How old are you, anyway? And how long you been at the hero thing?" A pause. "I figure it has to be a hero thing 'cause you don't exactly seem the mustache-twirling villain type."

[nerdninja]

His face scrunched up in what would've been wrinkling his nose, for anyone with an obvious nose, at the mention of that archenemy. "Ugh. I hope none of ours manage that."

Given what little they'd learned about the Pantheon so far, he wasn't expecting to be terribly lucky in that regard.

Still, that problem - as much as he'd like to deal with it - was dimensions away, and worrying about what he couldn't do anything about wasn't going to help anyone. Better to focus on what he could do to get himself back to it, first, and that? That meant smiling, playing nice with the politicians, and not doing anything to jeopardize their shot at getting more resources assigned to the Legion to keep up the research on getting them back.

(He really should've written down those coordinates that had sent them one New York in the wrong direction when they were test-driving the spatial transporter. Or rather, the ones that had gotten them back home from that.)

"I don't really go out of my way to be a hero, but it...just happens anyway, sometimes." It was just rational, as far as he was concerned - if nobody else was in a position to save the world from Krang, then why would he just stand back and let it happen? "But...all of that started not even two years ago, I guess."

It could be argued that things started long before that, but even if Donnie was much more accepting of all that reincarnation jibberish than he used to be, he didn't much like it as a defining point of where it all began. There were too many ways to take that further and further back - it started with Stockgen's experiments on the mutagen, it started with Hamato Yoshi's execution by the Foot, it started with whatever the Utroms were doing back in the Mesozoic Era...it was complicated.

As much as he enjoyed tackling the complicated questions, sometimes you just wanted a simple answer.

"Mutagen kind of messed with how fast we grew up, though, so the age question gets...kind of sticky."

And sometimes you didn't have a simple one to offer, but at least you could try not to give the really complicated one to a guy you met five minutes ago.