Test Drive for January 2014 Apps

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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!

Comments

[opendoor]

stowaway!

[ when you're chasing after a sister who runs away at the very sight, sound or smell (it's the sea breeze ok!) of you, you have to get creative. survival of the fittest, adapt or get hauled away by a snowman who most assuredly does not care for warm hugs. so anna, upon once more spying elsa about to board a ship, in a fit of desperation inspiration sneaks aboard.

in a barrel.

hey, if her sister runs away at the sight of her, why not take the whole "seeing her coming" out of the equation? it's totally a foolproof plan!

...except for how she might have snuck aboard the wrong ship.

feel free to find her or notice the whispered complaints coming from the barrel ("What was in this?") or catch her as she's trying to climb out ]

( ooc: alternatively, she could have hidden in a barrel among supplies to be loaded onto people's ships! )

[hisoldtricks]

[Wrong ship indeed. Loki had a feeling something wasn't quite right when a few choice muffled words coming from a barrel. Surely a stowaway would know better than to come aboard the Glided Rose. It was a small crew, but quite a vicious one.

Quietly he stood in the storage area, completely veiled from sight as he watched the young woman climb out of the barrel she had been hiding in. It wasn't until her feet hit the floor boards that he become visible again.]

It's quite poor manners to board a ship like this.

[opendoor]

[ this is how it's supposed to go:

she's going to start a little (a little) in surprise but quickly regain her composure and then in one smooth motion, stepping aside and then turning to position the barrel between herself and the hapless victim / charm school teacher (who even bothers lecturing about manners on a ship? yeesh, from what she's seen, spitting overboard was the height of shipgoing etiquette. kristoff had been so horrifyingly right) and then - wait what was she supposed to be doing before she went into that tangent about spitting? oh yeah, smooth fluid motion, barrel... barrel! pretty important in her plan what with her using it as a shield, obstacle and something to kick right into whoever it was that was behind her.

and sure that seems a little like an unreasonably violent thing to do to the - seriously what is he, an aspiring governess? or the male version thereof? but she's really taken her adapt or get hauled etc. mantra to heart.

this is how it actually goes:
she yelped, tried to do the smooth turning step but ended up hopping behind right into the barrel and knocking it over and into another empty barrel that just starts a veritable cascade of barrels falling and then rolling everywhere.

she cringes and wonders if there isn't a way she could lose him if she laid down and rolled along with the barrels. ]

Ohhhhh no. Oh- stop rolling- please oh-

[ instead she takes to trying to run around and stop the some of the rolling barrels with her foot. when she stops none of them, she finally turns to face loki and with a cringe says- ]

I'll put them all back where they were, I swear!

[hisoldtricks]

[He watches the calamity unfold with a never-ending amount of amusement. Though considering it is not his ship and he knows the captain will be more than a little put out if the content of said barrels gets ruined. He lifts his hand and utters a spell, suddenly all the barrels stop rolling. Another flick of his wrist and they right themselves.]

Now is your chance. You'll likely stay on the Captain's good side if you do not ruin her cargo. She is not a forgiving woman, when it comes to her goods.

[opendoor]

[ she blinks at the barrels, blinks at loki and then looks up and squints at the sky and then very slowly raises her hand and swats her own arm ] Nope, I'm awake.

[ hey even after all this time, the abilities of the other people in this place surprise her. ] Wow, that was amazing! Sorry, you must get that a lot. Or... do you get that a lot? I don't get that a lot or see that a lot I mean so- [ she shakes her head ] Sorry. Again! I'm supposed to be thanking you. So. Thank you. I don't think I broke anything and I went for the empty barrels. I checked! I mean some of those smells were practically tangible but still. Mostly empty!

[ and then she pauses uncertainly ] Er, you're not going to ask me about what I was doing in a barrel, right?

[hisoldtricks]

[She definitely has a dizzy intellect, before he can respond to any one thing she says or asks, she's on to the next topic. Thus he just sort of stares at her, until either she runs out of air or she finally pauses for him to get a word in edge wise.]

The thought had crossed my mind. There are more direct ways to get a ride on a ship. Especially in this world, where most any crew is willing to take on a new crew mate when approached.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie was busy singing to herself as she did her usual sweeping of the deck when she thinks she hears something. She stops right by the barrel and stares at it - was the barrel talking to itself? She waits a moment more, holding her breath, then knocks on the side with her broom*

...hello?

[opendoor]

[ she manages to stifle a surprised eep at selphie's knock and thinks ok not as planned and thinks i need another one and thinks i really need to start coming up with plan b's no matter how failure-proof i think plan a is and finally decides to

rap on the inside of a barrel. maybe she can convince whoever it is that it's possessed or something

ok aside from coming up with a plan b, she really should come up with a better plan b. ]

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie blinks at the barrel, then leans even closer, this time knocking with her hand. Seriously, she's pretty sure that the barrel knocked back*

[opendoor]

[ darn it, it looks like her barrel-knocking friend isn't planning on leaving. she's already at plan f (plans c through e were basically all variations of "hope really hard the person goes away") and it doesn't seem like it's going to be all the more successful than plan b so- ] Shhhhhhhhh! Please don't scream or anything!

[ that's totally reassuring ]

[booyaka_boom]

*?! Okay, she didn't expect to hear the barrel speak. Sitting beside it, she moves up close like she's whispering to someone*

Uh, hello? Is somebody in there?

[allendsmeat]

[looking for tarantulas. Some came in with the bananas and he wants a really big one to show to Usopp. Pop open a barrel and, hey, look, a person instead.]

Yo.

[opendoor]

...yo!

[ she offers up a strained smile and then blinks at him. he doesn't seem all that surprised or likely to react violently so he's already her favorite barrel-discoverer (if that's not a thing, it is now). she bites her lip, wondering if she was really just that lucky or if this was just a prelude to things turning bloody. whichever it is, she has to say something. ]

Um. This is a dream and you're asleep. [ weakly ]

[allendsmeat]

Haha really? Then this is a pretty cool dream.

[barrels are a great mode of transport so he's not really surprised but]

Hey could you check and see if there are any tarantulas in with you?

[opendoor]

[ check? check how? and wait a second- ]

Tarantulas?! Why would there be- [ she'd involuntarily jerked in surprise, causing the hem of her skirt to brush against the skin of her leg ] I think I just felt something!

[ she immediately struggles to get out and ends up tipping over the barrel ]

[allendsmeat]

Eh? Really? [the barrel is tipping but he grabs it with surprising strength for his otherwise thin looking arms and lowers it so she doesn't completely crash against the deck]

Let me see!

[and then he tries to crawl in there with her. Well one out of two ain't bad]

[opendoor]

What are you doing?! Stop or you'll get hurt- [ of course, she's probably going to be the one to end up hurting him as she flails as the barrel becomes unbalanced again and she once again feels the brush of something (it is still her skirt) and she decides to do the heroic thing and save him from himself and slaying the awful possibly-a-tarantula thing before he gets all the way in. she tries stamping down with her foot but barrels? unsurprisingly not that roomy. ] At least wait until after I've killed it!

[allendsmeat]

Ah! No don't kill it! I wanna keep it! [and he goes deeper into the barrel to save it which means his legs are mostly sticking out and he sneezes as skirt gets in his face but he wants that spider bad enough so it's okay]

[opendoor]

Why would you even-

[ and whatever else she might have said will have to wait until after she stops them from toppling over. she leans back to avoid getting his feet in her face ]

This is not a barrel built for two! Wait don't grab that, that's my foot-

[ and she tries to heave herself out of the barrel. gravity, be kind and- ] Ahhhh!