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Test Drive for April 2015 Apps
Welcome to your monthly Test Drive for
high_seas! Here is where new players can test out their characters' voices, old players can try out new muses, and everyone can help each other get some threads for their applications! Feel free to use one of the prompts below, or come up with something on your own! Comment around, have fun, and remember that any CR formed here does not carry over to the game!See you during the application round!
♦ So you're new to this world and have just woken up in the Town Square. How do you react? What do you do?
♦ You're lost at sea. Maybe you got separated from your crew. Or perhaps you're on an abandoned island. You need help!
♦ "Pirates off the starboard bow!" It's an enemy ship! Attack!!
♦ You and your crew are hanging out on your ship. Just another day at sea!
♦ "LAND, HO!" Hey look, a new island! How about you go explore it? Tell us what you find!
♦ Arrr, here be buried treasure, but not all that glitters is gold! Will ye be telling your mateys what ye found, or keeping it for yourselves?
Titus Alexius | Magi
[There's sand in his hair. He's pretty sure there's never been sand in his hair before. It was kind of novel, how the dampness of the ends of his hair held the sand in, but now it's drying and it's getting kind of gritty and unpleasant. He probably should have thought ahead and done something to tie his hair up before making sandcastles on the beach, but he kind of hasn't gotten used to having, well, so much of it. So now he's holding an armful of it and poking through the ends with a despairing expression on his face.]
I'm going to have to wash this...
[He looks out towards the ocean. Maybe in there...? He's going to be stranded here until the rest of the crew can find him. He's going to have to figure out something.]
[B - Treasure]
[Titus has been "digging" on the beach all morning. This mostly consists of using winds spells and a variant of Aladdin's sand giant spell to move sand without getting his hands dirty, but holes are getting made and that's all that counts. Somehow, he's actually managed to unearth a battered old treasure chest. Now he's hunched over it, eyes wide and sparkling.]
A treasure chest! An actual treasure chest! Like in the stories! Look!
B
[He's never gone digging for treasure. Sure, he's seen chests, but now that he's read some pirate stories, this seems all the more amazing.]
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[Titus is practically vibrating with excitement. He's read about treasure chests and heard about them in stories other students as the academy told, but he's never, ever seen one himself. He's seen no shortage of treasure, of course. He rules Reim now, after all, but that's different from seeing actual buried treasure in an actual buried treasure chest.]
How are you supposed to open one? Is there something special you're supposed to do?
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Well, when I do it, I just whack it with a keyblade, but I don't know what normal people do with them.
Do you think they buried a key nearby?
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He looks over at Roxas in dismay.]
I was supposed to be looking for a key, too? I didn't know you needed a key.
[In the stories, brave explorers just open the chests. What's inside is what's important, so maybe the authors just gloss over that part. If it's true, though, they might have a problem.]
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[He seems to think this over.]
How else would you unlock it?
[Roxas pokes at the chest, thoughtfully.]
I don't know how it's supposed to work, but I can unlock it for you if you want.
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Titus brightens considerably.]
With your key?
[He's never gotten a chance to see the key in action! The way Roxas has described it, it doesn't sound like any magic tool he's familiar with. He's not even sure how it would work in theory. And now he'll actually get to see it!]
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[The prospect of opening some buried treasure is way more exciting than finding a chest lying around Twilight Town with a potion in it, although having a bunch of potions wouldn't be a bad idea, considering. Who knows what kind of treasure it is?]
I wonder what it is.
[Only one way to find out really. He summons Oathkeeper and points it at the keyhole. Come on keyblade, work your magic! A little stream of light leaves the key and bursts into the keyhole.]
There! Try it now.
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That really unlocks something?
[He can't help but be a little skeptical, but he tugs at the lid anyway. It's old and rusty, but with enough force, the lock falls away and it creaks open a bit.]
Ah! It's opening!
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It unlocks anything!
[He vanishes the keyblade again and leans forward to peer closer.]
What's in there? Is it gold? Or a treasure map?
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[Don't you read, Roxas? He's a little disappointed in you. To his credit, though, he just leaves it at a pointed remark and doesn't make a face. Instead, he starts carefully moving aside the old, musty packing material to try to see what's inside the box. He can already tell it's not gold coins because those are supposed to fill the box up to the top. It must be something else, but honestly, he's not sure what else gets put in treasure chests.]
It's all wrapped up.
[When he does unearth a parcel, it's wrapped tightly. Whatever it is, whoever packed it away wanted it secure and wanted to keep it from breaking. But why did they hide it away? Why go through so much effort to keep something safe and then bury it under the sand on a beach where who knows what could happen to it? He'd really like to ask.]
Should we unwrap it?
A
Hm?
[He squints as he focuses on the figure.]
You seem a little overdressed for a beach trip.
[A]
So not only have you wasted time makin' sandcastles when ya could have been watching the horizon for a ship, but you'er all breaded up n sand like a porkchop?
[And people though he wasted time doing nothing.]
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[Because that's the important question that needs to be asked. It seems like a strange thing to coat meat in. It's certainly not a common practice in Reim. Heliohapt, maybe. Yes, he could see it being done in Heliohapt, especially because they're too poor to have the luxury of letting bread go a bit stale for crumbs. He would ask Sphintus about it if he were here.]
B
[Taps the chest with his keyblade at it and unlocks it. He then turns away, because he's not really interested in the treasure.]
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It dulls his enthusiasm for the chest a bit, but he still tugs at the lid. He wants to see what's inside, after all. That hasn't changed. He's just...not really feeling it as much anymore.]
There's no need to be rude. Didn't anyone teach you manners?
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