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Back to Adventure!

(obligatory animated gif because no one remembers stuffwell)

Here’s the gist of it. Your characters are flung into an adventure! Maybe you’re fighting aliens in space, warding off zombies in an abandoned city, or fighting dragons to save a castle. There’s lots of things to do here. If you need a reason for why your characters are together to do this? Well a Wizard did it. Or come up with something more imaginative. Now here’s some ideas of where to set it and what’s going on.

Settings

1. High Fantasy - Castles and dragons galore. A simpler time when you only had to worry about paying taxes, becoming a knight, and hoping the latest monster in the area doesn’t decide to pick on your village. The King (or Queen!) is always in need of strapping adventurers to come save the day!

2. Low Fantasy - If the pristine thing isn’t your cup of tea, then maybe this poorly washed tankard of mead is. Things are grittier, people rarely live to see thirty, and you’re less concerned about dragons than you are about your king making your life harder. Maybe it’s about time someone fixed things around here.

3. Seven Seas - Yarr! There be no adventure mightier than on the open seas, where pirates and stuffy naval officers rule the waters. Sometimes you’re dealing with the brutality of a world encased in a wooden tub or you’re dealing with fantastical creatures like krakens and mermaids. Who can say what treasures lies in yonder island?

4. Old West - In the olden days, where law and justice was served or taken from the barrel of a gun. Whether it’s hunting outlaws or trying to make way with stolen money, the old west attracted all sorts of people. It’s a tough world to live in, but there’s no use fussing about it. Just grab a horse and make your fortune.

5. Stone Age - Remember when life was simple? Me want thing, me hit you and take it. In a day of anachronistic dinosaurs and cavemen, living side by side and killing one another, where creatures we never really wanted to imagine roam the world and think you’re delicious. Good luck trying to find somewhere to sleep.

6. Micro World - Sometimes the most exciting places are around your own home! That is, of course, assuming you’re the size of a flea (or perhaps bigger) and your only goal is to try and avoid getting crushed. A common mouse can become a terrifying creature when its the size of an elephant. But there’s gotta be a way to get back to your normal size, right?

7. Outer Space - Why stay home when there’s a whole universe out there? Whether you’re on a seven year mission or engaging in a thinly veiled fantasy pretending to be a space opera, there’s no limits to what can happen when you’re in the infinite universe.

8. Post Apocalyptic - Well damn. The world’s over and nobody bothered to tell you, because you managed to survive. Maybe it was a virus. Or war. Or a natural disaster. Or heck, let’s face it, I bet it was zombies. Again. Well there’s nothing for it but to pack up your weapons and head for the hills.

9. The City - What’s more familiar than the modern city? Nothing ever happens there. Except for maybe crime gangs. Car chases. Secret agents on daring missions. Superheroes fighting supervillains. Or maybe it’s a Godzilla coming down the street. Will you try and stop the city from going to hell or just get out of Dodge before its too late?

10. Something Else - Don’t be limited by the above. There’s other places too! Like a virtual world, heaven or hell, underground, somewhere in the future, or in the past, or in some ridiculous wonderland. The power is yours.

What Are We Doing?

1. Treasure Hunters - You’re a pair only out for one thing - treasure. Oh, sure, maybe it’s for a museum or something. But it could just be to line your own pocket too. Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to find something.

2. Big Damn Heroes - This isn’t about monetary gain. You’re a couple of heroes whose only purpose is to make things better, one amazing explosion at a time. Bad guys beware.

3. Outlaws - Psh. Who wants to save the day when you be making your own day better any way you want to? You’re too awesome for the law to ever catch. But it’ll be fun seeing them try.

4. Time Travelers - We’re here for one simple reason. The history books said it would be cool. Or maybe it said it would be awful and we’d like to change that. Whatever the case is, we’re not from around these parts.

5. Explorers - Being heroic is good and all, but that’s all been there and done that. Let’s discover something new no one has ever seen before. Why? Because it’s there.

6. Fugitives - Do we WANT to be here? Hell no. But here is better than there. Or at least that’s the plan. Hopefully no one will find us here.

7. Soldiers - We’re doing this for the love of our country. Or because they told us to, even though we’d really rather not. (Or maybe you’re secret agents instead!)

8. Buddy Cops - You’re just two people just trying to do your job. Sure, maybe they don’t have cops on the high sea or in medieval times. So you’re buddy sailors. Buddy knights. Whatever.

9. Wrong Place and Wrong Time - Are you people crazy? We didn’t want any of this! It just happened to us! Can we go home now?

10. Whatever - Hey, I don’t own you. Be what you wanna be! Those were just suggestions!

Now if you don’t know how to handle what relationship your characters should have, you can either just go with the flow or randomize between:
(1) Strangers, (2) Friends, (3) Rivals, or (4) Lovers.

Have at it!

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"BROWN, YOU'RE A GODDAMN MORON!"

It doesn't matter what's happening or who he's with. Azure will blame.

(OOC: Any one, any roll welcomed! As for relationship, I'd prefer strangers, but if you'd like to go with something else, PM me so we can briefly discuss it.)

[ Once upon a time there was a fantastic country named America. He wound up in some apocalyptic city with a Latin name. Shit happened and now he has a chainsaw in place of his right hand. That is where this meme story begins.

For convenience sake, let's say he got in a time-traveling phone booth and ended up in 18yettobedetermined. Yes, temporal reality whispered in awe, such time-traveling glory is perfectly legitimate and beautiful. The universe shed a single tear. The darkest corners of space that dared to point out how absurdly stupid this plot is (and that it's overly-elaborate for a simple meme) were shunned by the stars, the moons, and time itself sent anon hate messages to dark space.

While all of this was happening on a universal scale, America stepped out his phone booth and into a familiar world of blazing guns, blazing saddles, and blazing dicks infected with venereal diseases.

Yes. This is sure to be an excellent adventure. ]

A lot of stuff happened or maybe it was a little. But suddenly, you are met by a chipper, selfless, almost angelic girl who claims that you are now friends for some reason. And she doesn't judge, which is hard to come by.

[The tavern smells of piss, beer, and worse. The High King is too controlled (a conditioned trait) to wrinkle his nose, but he does pause outside to breathe a few last breaths of clean air before plunging in. In this getup, he looks lower-middle class at best, but nothing hides the poise of an officer.]

[Friends, huh when did that happen. Oh well, Colette is having Shi-chan pull at her sleeve while pointing to a deep chasm that obivously looks danger and stupid to go in.]

I wanna go in there, come with me.

"Bloody hell." Practically a catch phrase, as Spike ripped off the door of an abandoned Buick. He wasn't intending to drive it, but when you see a car with its doors not ripped off, you stop to figure that maybe it's because nobody's raided it yet. So that's just what he intends to do. See if he can't find anything useful in it before he moves on in this once beautiful city.

[I'll roll for each (or you can, I don't care c:)]

Oh, ok. ^_^

[I was kidding about the "almost" angelic thing. As if by some divine intervention, Colette makes luminiscent, transparent wings appear out of thin air on her back.]

[She grabs onto Shi-chan.]

Hold on tightly. It's a little dark down there. But don't worry, it'll be fun!

[I'll roll for each (or you can, I don't care c:)]

[ Time travel really isn't so bad when you have something epic playing in the background like Muse or T.Rex blaring in the background or a nice scarf and a sonic screwdriver. It wouldn't even be so bad if the company was well-mannered and easy to take into public, perhaps a chatty sort that knew when to hunker down and get serious about things, but was polite and amiable enough to take to high tea if Arthur so desired.

Unfortunately, England possessed none of those things at the moment, and his companion couldn't be further from who he was currently travelling with. Honestly, the chainsaw was a bit gaudy, but hardly the biggest issue when it came to the younger blond nation. The worst part about his dear, sweet America partner was probably the fact he didn't have any screws left to be loose, and had the attention span of a gnat and the social competency of a rock.

He could have cared less about the phone booth, (should have been a police box anyway), and hoped to God that they wouldn't be stuck in this awful, dusty, thirsty, limitless expanse of western American terrain for long. He could stand the stupid post-apocalyptic movie set that he'd been stranded in for months now well enough, but this, this was seriously pushing it.

As soon as they stepped out of the phone booth England realised they were not wearing the same clothes as they were ten minutes ago, taking note of this change in outfit with a certain itchiness in his clothing characteristic of none other than the glorious 19th century. Great, just great. The longer he stayed around these parts, the longer he would have to watch the decline of his empire.

Again.

The first thing he'd tried was to get right back in that phone booth and try to make it take him somewhere else. Anywhere else. But for some reason, the damned thing didn't want to work for him, and after a frustrated fifteen minutes of cursing and banging his hand against the dialing pad, Arthur exited the phone booth once more, shoulders slumping, defeat etched into his features.

Adjusting his (really stupid) hat, Arthur huffed, crossed his arms, and glared over at America with a scowl. He could be counting his blessings about how they weren't being eaten by a dinosaur, or that they were on top of a high cliff overlooking a town in the valley instead of walking out into the middle of a crowded city where they'd probably be stoned to death, or even that he had some company on this trip instead of being miserably displaced in time alone, but he wasn't. Because he wasn't gracious. Because being eaten alive, stoned to death, or alone were all far, far better options in his mind than being stuck with this idiot. ]

Great. Great, just great. Anymore brilliant ideas from you, Alfred? Maybe for fun, just maybe, we should try sticking sharp things in our eyes. [ A hand to his head, and he curls his fingers into blond strands and yanks, tearing out a chunk of hair in stifled frustration. ]

[I'll roll for each (or you can, I don't care c:)]

[Kennedy is the sort of copper who winds up making the first few pots of coffee in the morning and enjoys it more than he'll let on. He's also a lot better at playing the "good cop" end than the "bad cop" one, but he's more likely than some to act prematurely based on emotion, and therefore, almost definitely going to get fired if he doesn't calm down. Still, he's damn likable, and loyal as hell. If only he didn't get that grin when doing something suicidal.]

[Oh wings, that's pretty cool. Shi-chan blinks as she's picked up, but doesn't resist. She grasps Colette's sleeve tightly before giving a short nod.]

It's going to be a adventure. Stay with me and you'll be safe.

[Shi-chan and her pride.]

[You roll, I roll, whatever. I'm open to any of the scenarios. Whatever the situation, he will be serious and/or grumpy. Because that's how he rolls.]

Edited 2012-08-07 01:03 (UTC)

[I'll roll for each (or you can, I don't care c:)]

[With what is perhaps the brightest, cheeriest, most-child friendly demeanor she has ever mustered--]

Okay. I'm counting on you.

[I'll roll for each (or you can, I don't care c:)]

If there's an Edd, there's an Ed-venture (worst pun ever lol).

[ While England cursed, America placed his hand (and blade) on his hips and breathed in the sweet, nineteenth century air. Ahhhh nothing like the smell of industrialization and horses in the morning. ]

You can go ahead and do that, but I'm gonna enjoy this. C'mon, man, lighten up! [ he swings an arm amiable around England's shoulders ] We're not just globe-trotting, we're time-trotting. Sure, it ain't all got the fancy bells and whistles of the TARDIS, but how can you not be excited about this?! We're in the past!

[ Pulling away, America spins around to show off his old-timey getup. He looks like a hobo mated with the costume department of Firefly. All the while he grins like a kid who just got a surprise trip to Disneyland. ]

We're in the past! [ he is just. so giddy. ] My past! And a pretty badass part of my past! Now you finally get the chance to live out your dreams of tearing up the wild frontier.

[ He winks. That was not intended as innuendo nor does America see it as such. I'm sure there's a gay sex joke in there that I'm simply too tired to make. ]

No need to be jealous 'bout the outfits, either. I know mine's cooler than yours, but look at the bright side: at least it ain't that stuffy Victorian style. Now! LET'S GO FIND US SOME HOT RODS!

...By that I mean horses!

[ Judging by the way he starts jogging in a seemingly random direction, it seems America's aiming to acquire a horse in one of two ways: 1) to "borrow" it, or 2) find some wild horses and use his impossible strength to pick it up and love it until it's tame. Either way England loses. ]

[See they make a good team, for all the straight-facing Shi-chan is doing Colette is making up for it.

and Shi-chan now has a gun out of nowhere.]

Tell me if you see a enemy.

Okay. ^_^ I can see really well in the dark.

[She could be friends with Darth Vader if she put some small effort into it. Of course, diplomacy isn't much of an option, just saying...]

[With their own spaceship that materialized because fuck it.]

What's that whistling sound?

[There is literally nothing in this cosmic soup of darkness.]

[That's be some wicked friendship there.]

Great, I can't so you're put in charge of that.

Edited 2012-08-07 01:45 (UTC)

[The opening door got quite a few glances from those closest, though most looked away almost immediately, an instinctual tick brought on by the flash of outdoor light and nothing more. A handful, though, lingered a bit longer, taking in the poised set of the newcomer's shoulders and his lean cut, searching for weapons or wealth or other signs of interest. One by one, they faded away, with only the occasional glance from the corner of an eye. He was an object of interest, but only barely.

For Faith, her lingering glance came more from seeing a pretty face than anything else. That, really was more notable than his clothes. There were any number of unsavory sorts gathered around the tables. Most wore the hallmarks of rough lives...grimy faces, missing teeth, beer bellies, or old scars. In a place like this, an unmarked, handsome face was a sign all on it's own.

She, of course, stood out in her own right...which was half the reason the table she was at was already full. At first glance, the dingy slacks and tunic could have let her pass as a slender boy...but a closer look would allow for no such mistake. The neckline had been left untied, hinting at a figure that was anything but boyish, and her lips were painted a deep red that stood out against her pale skin and dark hair.

She gave the newcomer one last, appreciative glance, before turning her attention back to the man across from her.]

Another one? I'm starting to think the flies are outnumbered.

[and, setting her elbow on the table, she held out her hand. Arm wrestling, anyone?]

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