The Chance Encounter series is a popular Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfiction series by Telcontar Rulz on Fanfiction.net. The main character is Balian d'Ibelin from Kingdom of Heaven, along with Legolas, and has lots of characters. The series mainly focuses on the adventures of the somewhat dysfunctional, and ever growing, True Companions of Balian d'Ibelin and their odd adventures through many worlds. It started as a Kingdom Of Heaven/LOTR crossover, then steadily expanded, with multiple fandoms and as many OC's appearing.
Thus far, Balian's world/time, Arda (Middle Earth), the POTC world, a parallel POTC world, complete with a very scary Evil Counterpart version of Captain Jack Sparrow and the world of Troy (yes, the 2004 film one, complete with Brad Pitt's Achilles. The author has stated that a large amount of Author Appeal is involved) have all featured. The latest, incomplete adventure is in the alternate pirate's world, and features the Fountain of Youth (since this series was started around the time of POTC 2/3, it is not the POTC 4 version of the fountain).
The link to the first one in the series is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3289824/1/Chance_Encounter
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Author Appeal: Much of the reason for the fandom choices, characters played by Orlando Bloom abounding.
- All are now, or on track to be Action Moms
- Archangel Michael: Appears at the end of Instalment's one and two, first taking Balian on a tour of Purgatory so he can see his family again (Balian is on his death bed at this point, but he recovers).
- Author Tract: Not obvious, though there are hints of this towards the end of the second one, with very catholic ideas of the afterlife. The author is a catholic (this is the general indication anyway).
- Badass Normal: Aragorn, Balian (debatable, given his immortality, though that seems to be more eternal youth than anything else), Paris, Éomer, Jack, Barbossa, Hector, Will after he is freed of the Dutchman and Hector takes his place, Helen and Briseis (eventually), Eudoras (you have to have serious balls to attack Legolas head on in bronze age armour and weapons) and many more.
- Butt-Monkey: Balian usually, and sometimes Paris. Much of the humor is derived from Balian's various mishaps and the other characters snarking about it.
- Call-Back: Quite common, often with references to the original canon of the movies each character(s) starred in prior to joining the series. In-series one's usually include people reminding Legolas that he was nearly stabbed by the concubine (an example of God Save Us from the Queen!. She killed a man she formerly loved just to make a point) of the 3rd installments Big Bad.
- Common Tongue: Averted. They all speak different languages, it just appears that a form of celestial intervention makes them mutually comprehensible. Basically God did it.
- Heel–Face Turn: Fulk, though he wasn't particularly evil in the first place.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Guy de Lusignan, in line with the film Kingdom of Heaven, from which he is from. Richard Coeur de Lion, but only insofar as was the norm for 12th Century monarchs, and is arguably more likeable than Philip of France, making it more of a Deconstruction of Richard the Lionheart being an all nice guy.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Legolas, with both bow and gun. The only time he misses his shot, Gimli laughs at him.
- Running Gag:
- Jack's Eunuch Jokes.
- ABSINTHE!
- Jack being drunk.
- Jack being crazy, among other things, dancing outside of Mordor in the 3rd Installment as a distraction, singing the Jar of Dirt song.
- Jack most of the time.
- Legolas and the Haradrim Concubine.
- Take Over the World: A popular motive for most of the villains, leading to criticisms that each is to one extent or another, an Expy of the others.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Everyone to a degree, as it is both a World of Snark and a World of Badass.
- Particularly Legolas and Gimli (in fact, most people and Legolas. You can tell when something is really wrong because he isn't snarking), Paris and Achilles and Barbossa and Jack (eventually).
