Test Drive for September 2013 Apps

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Welcome to our first Test Drive for high_seas! Here is where players can test out their characters' voices, 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!

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Kyouya Otori | Ouran High School Host Club

[hostclubshadowking]

[Kyouya Otori has his book -- well, not his, but it's his now-- open and is writing in it with a quill. He's spent some of his funds to obtain them and the trunk he's sitting on -- seachest, by the local lingo -- and the clothes, map, compass and other base, personal supplies.

The rest of his funds... Well. If the only way to get back where he belongs us to find that jewel, he'll just have to make himself useful. He can fund ship stores. Or assist, at least. Besides, a gentleman at the tavern had mentioned ships often needed pursers and clerks. He could function as either.

At present, he sits, watching the people bustling about, trying to determine who he'd be safest to throw his lot in with; he knows nothing about any of these people, and that makes him cautious.]

[tantiny]

[ A nosy seven year old is interested in what he's writing. So much so he's going to climb up on the truck to peer over over his shoulder. ]

[hostclubshadowking]

[Honey has trained Kyouya. Despite his strong desire, he does not react by shoving the child down.

He just keeps working.

The book contains a list: what he has, what he wants, and what he might need for a collective. Beside each item is a price and potential quantity.]

[tantiny]

[ Pretty impressive book keeping skills, he must say. Very detailed, and detailed is good. ]

...You're very precise.

[hostclubshadowking]

I am. [No modesty required.]

I am something of a treasurer and book keeper for a club at my school.

[tantiny]

[ Modesty? What's that? ]

Have you decided which crew you're staying with? I'm staying with the least likely to break the law and most intelligent.

[hostclubshadowking]

I haven't found a crew yet, no. [He waited for a moment, taking his time to think.] I have been attempting to find out what the social mores here are. What is lawful where I am from may not be what is lawful here.

[And, well. It's worth saying:]

And what is lawful may not be what is safest.

[tantiny]

I'm a detective, so safety isn't my main concern.

[hostclubshadowking]

[A very young detective, but children like to play pretend, so Kyouya lets it pass.]

Perhaps not, but survival ought to be.

Re: Kyouya Otori | Ouran High School Host Club

[celestial_wizard]

[ A map was the first thing that Lucy was looking for too, arriving in a place like this. She was also looking for her friends, but no such luck on that end. It'd been a long time since she was last transported to a place - and it wasn't even an Anima this time. She put her hand at her side, relieved to find her keys still present with her. Even if she was separate from her human friends, at least her spirits were with her. She already had a compass, and now a map - next, she was headed for the tavern to find out if any of her friends were here too. ]

[hostclubshadowking]

[Kyouya glances up. He does at everyone who passes him. A map, a compass. Nothing else of visible use on her.

He already has both of those items, so, by virtue of self-interest, there is no reason to engage. Multiple maps and multiple compasses won't do him any good. No, what he needs is the diversity.

Still, he takes the time to search his mental encyclopaedia of important people and find her face does not match any of them. So, he resumes work on his list.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ Of course, Lucy's 'compass' was by no means a normal compass. This is proven when a red birdlike creature waddles into the tavern behind Lucy. She exchanges a few words with the tavern keeper, only to sigh, disappointed. clearly the people she's looking for weren't here. So! She'll have to canvass the room and ask the people already present - heading your way Kyouya! ]

[hostclubshadowking]

[By this point, Kyouya is still sitting on his trunk, working at the list of supplies and prices. It's important for him to know exactly what he can offer a captain and crew monetarily. He already knows the skills he can provide.

He doesn't notice the young woman on her way, not yet, at least, having already written her off, but at least he doesn't seem to be going anywhere.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ With Pyxsis following behind her with short hops and wings flapping once or twice, Lucy drew near to Kyouka's table, where she tapped gently upon the wood. ]

Excuse me, sorry to bother you, but I have a question.

[hostclubshadowking]

[Kyouya looked up, pausing in his writing.]

Yes, Miss? [He gives a slight smile, an easy expression. One that looks sincere while it really is nothing of the kind.] What can I do for you?

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy hesitates a second, then opts to dismiss the odd feeling about insincerity. He seems perfectly nice. ]

I'm keeping an eye out for some friends of mine - would you by any chance have seen anyone with this mark on them anywhere? [ She holds her right hand out to show her guild mark. ]

Answering to either Natsu, or Erza, or Gray, or Wendy...? Or maybe two flying cats?

[hostclubshadowking]

[Flying cats. Well, he's seen odder today, all things considered. Even if it makes his head hurt to think about it.]

I'm afraid I haven't heard those names or seen that mark. I'm sorry.

[Calm, polite, but definite.

There's no real question, after all. He'd remember something like that.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ Just be glad she left out 'talking'. Though he's probably still seen odder today. ]

Oh.. I see. [ She sighs, drawing her hand back to run it through her hair. ]

Well, even if you didn't see the mark anywhere, you'd be bound to notice them. Subtlety is not really a forte of theirs. Thanks anyway.

Are you waiting for friends of your own?

[hostclubshadowking]

I'm not.

[He says it coolly, almost sharply.]

I hope that any friends of mine are kept far away from this place. [Though most of them would really like it here. Tamaki and the twins, Honey and Mori... but this offers too much danger, too much uncertainty.

He wouldn't want them risked in all of this.]

[sunofshiga]

[ He just can't leave a kid alone, really. Tenka leans against Kyouya, using his head as an arm rest. ]

Hey, whatcha doing?

[hostclubshadowking]

[Kyouya tells himself to pretend it's Tamaki. That makes it easier to indulge the intrusion of his personal space. Allows him to give a little smile as he glances to the side and up.]

Itemizing a possible inventory for a ship's supplies as well as what my remaining funds would allow me to contribute toward it.

[sunofshiga]

[ Aw, the guy reacted much more calmly than Soramaru. Too bad, really. ]

You're in charge of that?

[hostclubshadowking]

[There's a reason why Kyouya is known as the "cool type." It takes a lot to visibly get under his skin -- a couple weeks of constant, pointed needling, in fact.]

No. I hope to be, though, and am making the inventory partially for purposes of showing how I could be helpful in such a role.