#the kollok radar

[aceofspaces16]

a stranger on a couch - a kollok fanfic

chapter 1 - "a strange man"

summery - when a strange man suddenly appers on mallory's couch, the kollok radar doesn't know what to do about him or someone kicked the driver out of the driver seat and now he is apart of the story he was telling

word count: 1144

This isn’t supposed to be happening 

Something is wrong 

The story is wrong 

What happened 

“Hey you awake yet '' Billy said looking down at the strange man lying down on the couch. He had tried snapping his fingers in front of the man but he was still asleep. He walked around the living room frantically wondering what he was supposed to do. 

“So none of you guys know who he is, isn’t he what, special like you guys” malloys voice can be heard from the far end of the room, scared at the strange man who just appeared on his couch. 

“No he’s not … not every random person has powers like us” mickey said sitting down opposite to the man, she had to go home soon her dad might be worried. 

Billy once again snapped his fingers rapidly in front of the man hoping for some kind of response but nothing came. 

The man had short blond hair that was brushed to the side and a trimmed beard, he wore a simple black suit with a white shirt and a black tie, his facial features were scarcely similar to Billy's, a bystander would think they were related. He looked to be around his late 20s to early 30s. He was barely alive, but his breathing was irregular. 

“What am I supposed to do? I don't have room for one more person” Malloy said, his voice getting shaker with every word said. 

“We’ll figure it out” Mickey said, attempting to comfort Malloy, he’s the one that's going to have to deal with it. 

“I’m gonna start shaking him!” Billy said walking back towards the man and his hands moving towards his shoulders, micky without missing a second ran up to Billy to hold him back. “Please, how else is he going to wake up” 

“I don’t think shaking him would work” “No, I agree with Billy, we need answers and he will probably give it to us,” Malloy added, wanting to see some results. 

Micey, fighting a losing battle, calmly let go of Billy as he rushed towards the man, lifting him up and rapidly shaking him. As Billy kept shaking him, the man's eyes slowly opened up until Billy was satisfied and dropped the man back onto the couch. The man is now fully awake. 

“See, I knew it would work,” Billy said, turning towards Mickey with pride in his voice. 

The man slowly sat up looking around him, rubbing the back of his head. He glanced at everyone present in the room until his focus was on Billy baker. 

“What did you do?” he said, his voice shaking, almost scared towards Billy.  

“Hey I didn’t do anything, your the one who just appeared on Malloys couch” billy said defensively 

“Roll- '' the man's mouth moved to reply but he stopped himself from saying anything. He moved into a more comfortable position as he wrapped his arms around his body while looking down at the floor as his mouth curled in on itself. 

“So um hey, I’m Malloy Jenkins you might have heard of my dad, you seemed to have appeared on my couch” Malloy moved slowly closer towards the man hiding his fear within his voice. 

The man kept looking at the floor and back to the people in the room and back at the floor, making no attempts to continue the conversation. He kept trying to move his body back, trying to hide from the curious eyes of the group. 

“So … um what's your name?” Malloy continued talking. 

Hearing the direct question, the man quickly looked at Malloy, looking surprised at the question. His mouth slowly opened but closed as quickly as it opened. 

“I- don’t know” was all the words the man could muster. 

“Do you know who you are?” Billy asked, wanting to contribute 

“I do but…” the man stopped himself from saying more. 

“Man this is too weird, I mean a guy just appeared in my living room” Malloy walked backwards visibly showing how scared he was of the man. 

“I got it, what if we give you a name” Billy interjected, killing the silence. This idea had gotten the man’s attention as he looked surprised at Billy's comment. 

“I do not need another name billy baker” the last part slipped out of his mouth, as now Malloy’s full attention was back at the man and Billy took a few steps away from the man. 

“How do you know my name?” realising his mistake, he looked back down onto the floor struggling to speak.

“It's hard to explain, but I know more then you would think” 

“How!?” 

“I can’t explain it” 

“Don’t worry i’ll believe you” the man's eyebrow raised at Billy's response, curious about Billy's reaction. 

Billy has seen a lot of stuff. If anyone was going to believe this strange man it would be Billy or anyone apart of the kollok radar, there was stuff he had never considered to exist until the radar was formed.  

“I know what you have been through, all of you, Malloy, MickEy, Embeth, Laura, I am not someone you should be afraid of, I know your story Billy Baker” his words came out like fiction, the group didn’t know what to think, if he was even telling the truth or not. They weren't expecting the man to know their names, Billy took a few steps back and Mickey moved to be next to Billy hovering over him.  

“And why should we believe you?” Mickey chimed in, confronting the man in a defensive state, she moved closer to the man almost towering over him, as if Billy and Malloy left the room.  

“I understand how you wouldn’t believe me, but please, something is wrong and I need your help” the man begged, he begged to the group. The previous fear from the group changed to confusion, as micky gave the man some room to breath   

“Well you came to the right place sir, the Kollok radar is the best help you can get” Malloy said with pride, not understanding how serious this situation is. 

“Guys we shouldn’t trust him, not yet” Mickey said, turning towards Malloy, slightly forgetting the man was still in the room.   

“I understand how you wouldn’t trust me but please I need help. I don't know who else to go to” the man said with a hint of disgust like the sentence itself was unknown to him, he looked back down at the ground feeling his mouth with his hand. 

At this moment Malloy moved towards the man and Mickey took a few steps back, they were speechless. They gave each other a look as micky mumbled something under her breath and pointed to the hallway. 

“Excuse us for a moment” Mickey said, the man didn’t have time to respond as they all ran down the hallway.

A.N i had this fanfic in my docs for a while and now that i see that people are actually interested in kollok stuff, why not post it, its not beta read cause we die like men in this house, anyways so the chapter list might be all over the place so please don't mind that i have no idea what i am doing, anyways i will try my best to keep this upload regural but i will try

[akainferno]

The Kollok Radar - Season 1

[jackaycola]

Two "what if" KOllOK scenarios I am currently working out.

One: What if Rachel managed to pay off her debt in time?

And two: What if Mickey was with the rest of the radar in the end?

Both of these have some ideas and more things attached but think about it.

[utilitycaster]

so I'm loving the NADDPod love! I do have a couple quick thoughts though based on comments I'm seeing a lot:

I intended this very much to be about Actual Play journalism, not fandom spaces. Honestly, I find that most podcasts with a Big Fandom Presence tend to have shorter episodes, and I think NADDPod does need to be compared to podcasts, not other actual plays. Critical Role and D20 are very livebloggable, whereas I usually listen to NADDPod on the go, frequently while driving, and so I can't really comment during episodes the same way.

Re journalism, a part of it is that it's hard to jump into NADDPod as it's longform. It's hard to do that for Critical Role, but there's much more built out resources and you get into a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy re: mainstream osmosis (within what is still a niche, to be clear). D20 seasons are a weekend commitment; binging season 1 of NADDPod took me over a month, and that was during lockdown as an essential worker with a long commute. and that is...I don't want to say valid, but I do understand that it's uniquely challenging for AP journalists to keep up with longform campaigns without already being huge fans who'd do this anyway, which unfortunately means a lack of boundaries between professional critique vs. fandom.

However, and I've talked about this before, the current state of affairs means that I feel a lot of actual play-specific journalism either focuses on D20, TAZ, occasionally shorter CR productions, and anything that's buzzy spectacle low-hanging fruit (*cough* Kollok). Honestly, while NADDPod flies under the radar of journalism they are also doing quite well; I had a great time at a live show a couple years ago and it was a full and enthusiastic house. They've played Carnegie Hall; they are able to boost other shows like Three Black Halflings and Rotating Heroes; I'm not worried. But a lot of shows with minimal but still competent editing and production that don't have the benefits of D20 (or former College Humor/Drawfee/Jake and Amir) crossover fandom are also ignored. The fact that one of the biggest, most successful examples is uncommented on is rather worrisome because it says a lot about how smaller strong podcasts also get ignored unless there's a shiny gimmick.

I'm not here to bash D20 - I like D20 a lot - but it's WILDLY disproportionately the subject of actual play journalism for both "easy to jump into" reasons (not super valid actually given that many smaller shows are also a sub-20 ep run) and uh. the fact that several significant names in the space have special access to D20 contacts and seem to be unwilling to branch out into spaces where they aren't given a red carpet treatment.

I am admittedly behind on all podcasts for a number of reasons and that's unlikely to change though I plan on doing a bit of a binge this weekend, but I'm talking about Actual Play crit and journalism in the group chat and it never ceases to be wild to me that NADDPod has a solid following and fandom but is virtually unremarked upon in like, AP journalism or discussion despite being I think one of the most consistent shows in terms of quality. And, if I'm being really honest it's because Murph isn't showy and can't do accents well and is an adequate but not brilliant actor, but the thing is, he's one of the strongest writers among AP DMs and that's really undervalued. (Emily is also, while not usually the DM, also a good writer and that's also not something that comes up.)

[channelrat]

Kollok + Text Posts

I can’t wait for this happy wholesome ttrpg show to return

[femmefaggot]

having a completely normal and well adjusted time w kollok

[heistheghostking]

I love Mallory but I do kinda get it...

[knightingale99]

Bizzarro Billy yelling at Mallory

[synchroneity]

[imstilltiredimstilltiredimstillt]

Happy New Years and Birthday to the OG Kollok Radar, Micky Jones, Skye Hawkins, Marcus Bennett and Billy Baker..

(Really don't know if any of them could make it to their 40's but let's pretend)

[aceofspaces16]

I made a simple Kollok edit with a sound from tiktok and I hope there are still people who can appreciate this so here you go

If this gets noticed I’ll post more Kollok edits that I have made

[akainferno]

The Kollok Radar - Season 2

[seven-homosexual-dinosaurs]

The great thing about the Kollok Radar is that unlike most friend groups, there IS no responsible friend. Marcus tried to sedate a bulletproof man via needle. Billy learned that he can warp people’s perceptions of reality and chose to make himself cool. Mickey encourages Billy’s caffeine addiction. And don’t even get me started on Skye. There is no mom friend and 3/4 of the radar have at least one parent that fucked them over somehow or is just a bad parent, none of them know how to function as basic human beings. Of course Bucket had to step in, only a goddamn FBI agent would be able to come even close to keeping the Radar in check. Bucket is a tired dad who just worked a ten hour shift at his office and the Radar are his leash kids.

[7seabear7]

Gusy I am actually so excited for kollok to come back you don't even know

[sunflowyrs-art]

We begin again

[channelrat]

Kollok 1991 + Text Posts

The Radar