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]

Rich bit his lip.

"Yeah. I was, uh, I was doing that for a while."

And then he wasn't. Because...of things. That happened. Events. That involved the Abstracts and a giant Galactus Death Engine, and bubbling Lovecraftian horrors from between universes.

Because of things that happened in a dying pocket dimension involving a cosmic cube.

He still wasn't sure how to broach this subject. He reached his hand up to scratch his neck.

"So...so when you're from, Nita and my brother haven't come back to Earth from space yet, right? I mean, otherwise they would've told you how I was doing. Chris knew 'Nita was back and planned on telling you guys so I figure that's why you're not surprised about that..."

After Chris had been injured fighting the Cancerverse version of Quasar, Rich'd left him behind while he'd gone off to join everyone in space to face off against the monsters beyond the Fault. He figured Chris had passed word to the others about 'Nita so they knew the good news.

That meant it would've taken someone else telling them all he was dead. He could see Nita and Robbie staying up there for a while after he was gone, especially since Nita was supposed to be dead back home, and Robbie might have been trying to help the Novas get resettled somewhere or something.

Or just trying to avoid having to bring the news to his parents.

[sir_vancelot]

Vance shook his head. "No, they're not back. Chris did pass on the message about 'Nita, because that's not the sort of thing you want to spring on Namor without a little bit of warning, but...no, I hadn't heard anything else yet."

And he knew there was stuff he was missing because of Rich's arm. Maybe other people wouldn't realize that it wasn't his real arm, but they also weren't used to the way that their friends 'felt' on a teke's mental radar. It was a good arm. But it still meant that Rich was missing an arm for some reason. "We haven't been hearing a lot out of space, period, honestly."

[iamresponding]

"Yeah, so about that..." He chewed his lower lip awkwardly for a moment. "See, there was this hole to another dimension, called the Fault. And the Many-Angled ones had taken over the heroes there, so they were these undead monsters, like...like something outta Lovecraft. They tried to invade our universe to make it the same way -- and I mean they tried hard. We got even more people allying with us this time -- like the Shi'ar and Inhumans. It was that bad."

How did he explain the scale? How could he possibly explain it?

"I'm talking a giant death engine made of the corpse of their version of Galactus. We even lost some of the cosmic Abstracts, the, uh -- God, I don't even know how to explain them. Like Death. The Death. Is an abstract. They're so many leagues above us, beyond us, that --"

He broke off in frustration, lacking the skills to articulate some of the outrageous...scale he'd seen, as usual. Also, he was remembering watching the proemial god Aegis explode in a shower of gore and otherdimensional...cancer, remembering getting caught in the psychic backlash, feeling...things, seeing things no mortal being was really meant to feel or see as she died.

The uncomfortable little twitch on his face as he thought about it was unconscious -- and brief.

"It was bad. And it came down to me, Drax, and Starlord facing down a completely insane, omnicidal Thanos in a dying universe. We kept him there while...while the openings back home closed."

He swallowed thickly and caught Vance's eye. "The cosmic cube we had didn't run out of juice like we thought it would, and that meant it would've been damn near impossible to keep it out of Thanos' hands, out of the hands of the creepy undead Avengers in there." He drew in a deep breath. "That's how I lost my arm -- evil Cap hacked it right off with his shield. Anyway, I used the cube to get Drax and Starlord back to our universe, burned all the juice in it so they couldn't get their hands on it and burned up all the Nova Force with it. I tried to keep Thanos out of our universe so he was stuck there but I don't know if I pulled it off."

Moment of truth.

"Cause I didn't...I didn't get to see what happened next." A pause. "Because I maaaay have turned into a dimensional doorway and dissipated into energy." He did one of those awkward Rich shrugs, where only one shoulder rose and fell. "I don't know how I'm even here. I wasn't...it wasn't like I was just floating there. I was gone, Vance."

Okay, joke time.

"...Unless one of the X-Men just left the damn door open."

[sir_vancelot]

It was...a whole hell of a lot to take in.

The only thing that kept Vance from staring was the fact that Rich was very much here, though he did give the other man a slight TK shove, just to be certain. Because it looked better for the 'investors' than just grabbing Rich.

"I have never been happier that I'm not a telepath," he finally muttered, shaking his head. "Though right now, I'm kinda wishing I drank." After everything with his father, though, that was one of those things that he wasn't going to start.

He went quiet for a long few minutes, processing as he took a drink. Then finally looked to Rich out of the corner of his eye.

"Well. You know the X-Men. Once they get done with a door, it's never quite the same again."