Test Drive for April 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!

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Masamune Date | Sengoku Basara

[put_yur_guns_on]

Hah! They think they can take us?

[It might be a haughty thing to say, but there's no denying the look of confidence on the young warlord's face as he stands at the prow of the ship. He unfolds his arms, a hungry look on his face even as the first volley of cannonballs come flying towards them.

Most of them miss the mark, the waters erupting with tall bursts as they hit.]

...all right then.

[He doesn't even blink as a cannonball flies directly for the ship with no intention of missing. In the next breath Masamune leaps- to intercept it??

Yeah. That's the plan.

Metal rings sharply as the One-Eyed Dragon rips his blades from their sheaths, swinging them forward.]

TORYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

[Despite the explosion to follow (because why not explosions), a blue streak pierces through it, landing on the deck of the opposing ship because how dare you fire on him, man.

His single eye gleams as he settles into an at-ready stance with his blade raised and parallel to the ground.]

Date Masamune, charging in!

[cherrybombpie]

[There was a girl watching all of this with amusement. She was standing at the deck where he'd just landed, her hands braced on her hips and her hair whipping in the aftershock of the explosions.]

You are formidable indeed - are you really Date Masamune?

[Her lips curved into a smile.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

Hm?

[He glances at her, grinning.]

Didn't hear me the first time? If someone claims as much, they better be able to back it up.

[He eases up in his stance, but hasn't let off his guard.]

So, you the one firing on us?

[cherrybombpie]

As far as I know, Date Masamune is dead. A great historical figure, worthy of remembrance, but long since entombed in the annals of history.

[She stalked closer to him, moving in easy, sinuous strides. A gymnastic ribbon appeared in her hand by the handle.]

So you're either a ghost or an impostor!

[Kodachi tilted her head to one side, a small smile upon her mouth.]

Which is it, then?

[She began to twirl her ribbon in small spirals. The red silk rose above her head in a tight funnel.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[He barks out a laugh.]

Crazy. I don't know where you dug up that story, lady, but I'll show you I'm no ghost, and my claws are anything but fake!

[Brow arching slightly at the ribbon as she spins it, Masamune brings up his blade again.]

[cherrybombpie]

Prove it!

[Kodachi leapt toward him, her ribbon streaking toward the ground where he stood. Where it hit, wood splintered and cracked, flying up in a spray of debris.]

[Would she destroy her own ship? No, she wouldn't, so it was a good thing she'd commandeered the ship she currently stood on.]

[Steel clubs emerged in her hands now as she came in for close combat after the distraction. She changed direction mid-air to intercept him and thrust her club toward his skull, aiming for the space between his eyes.]

Tell me who you are!

[put_yur_guns_on]

[The warlord allows for a brief moment to be impressed, because anyone who can pull something like that off with a ribbon should definitely be at least some challenge. He leaps to the side before it can reach him.]

Don't think I'm gonna go easy on you!

[Tracking her movements, he brings up his blade to catch that club before it can find its mark, having anticipated her maneuver.]

I already told you! And I'm only going to tell you once more, lady-

[He pushes back, swinging wide to try driving Kodachi back, following up immediately by rushing towards her with a barrage of strikes.]

I'm Date Masamune, head of Ōshū!!!

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi intercepted his own strikes with the Attack of a Thousand Clubs, integrating ten more of her clubs into her defense. The speed by which she moved made it look as though she was only using two, but in reality had several more clubs suspended by nanoseconds in the air, ready for an opening should he give her one.]

Names aren't enough! If you truly are a legendary samurai, make me bow to you!

[She jumped onto the air, over and behind him, twisting her body around lithely and throwing her clubs straight at him as projectiles. Their casings fell away in midair, revealing bombs with lit their fuses lit.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[Masamune isn't about to give her that opening, having no trouble keeping up his attack.]

-tch!

[Why do women have to be so stubborn? He turns and immediately launches himself after her, jamming his blade back into its sheath, only to replace it with three as he draws them simultaneously from one hip. Undaunted by the bombs he's faced with, he slashes through them with precision as he continues his charge.

Electricity surges along his blades as he rips them towards her, his words almost punctuated by the lesser explosions behind him.]

Magnum Step!!

lmao, only in shonen anime do people call out their attacks. I love it!

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi's hair stood on end as electricity crackled around them. She landed on the banister, twisting around to race across the handrail as she dodged him. She may not have been as strong as the men of Nerima, but she was fast, flexible, and sneaky.]

[Part of the bombs' intent was to damage him, but if they didn't, that was fine; Kodachi had a flair for dramatics and distraction.]

Stop! I surrender!

[She fell onto her knees a distance away from him, enough for him to halt his attack.]

[Whether or not she actually meant to surrender was a different story.]

XD

[put_yur_guns_on]

[He's not letting her out of his sight. Turning towards where she collapses, he flicks his three blades out to the side. Seems a little too easy to him for her to suddenly say as much, and from his experience with what few women he's seen and heard of on the battlefields back home, he knows not to let down his guard.]

Oh? Surrendering ain't the same as admitting you were wrong.

[cherrybombpie]

I still don't believe you're a dead samurai.

[Kodachi blinked up at him, suddenly looking completely vulnerable and waif-like. Her weapons were gone, and her gaze was simply wide-eyed and pink-cheeked and the very picture of innocence.]

Especially as you seem so . . . alive!

[Her voice was breathless as she blinked up at him.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[He lifts his blades towards her once he stops before the girl, his single eye narrowed.]

That's because I am alive.

[cherrybombpie]

Perhaps. But you still have to convince me.

[She smiled at him, and without another word, darted toward the ship he'd abandoned. Kodachi leapt over the railing and landed onto his deck, racing towards the sails to unfurl them.]

Your ship's mine now! Ohohohoho~! ♥

[Kodachi promptly lobbed a bomb toward the side of the ship she'd just abandoned, which then blew a hole upon contact.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[Why that little-

He lifts his arm as the side of the ship erupts in an explosion of water and splinters, lost from sight between that and the billowing smoke.]

[cherrybombpie]

[She was certain that he'd survive; Date Masamune or not, he had the will of a true fighter.]

I enjoyed our fight, samurai! Perhaps we can have another.

[She stood at the edge of the railing.]

I think you have talent. I offer you the invitation to join me. ♥

[put_yur_guns_on]

Sorry, but I don't take invitations from crazy ladies. 'sides. I think you've overstayed your welcome aboard my ship.

[The response doesn't come from the other ship, however, but from one of the masts of the ship Kodachi now stands aboard.

He points down at her with a sword.]

You can either hop back aboard your ship, what's left of it, or have a nice swim. I've got no reason to throw invitations out to people who won't take me at my word.

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi spun around, arching a brow. He was good! She enjoyed the challenge!]

[She looked up at him defiantly before propelling herself into the air, landing perfectly on the same mast but on the opposite side.]

[The "crazy lady" gave him a smile.]

I'm not leaving, samurai ghostie.

[put_yur_guns_on]

You got guts, I'll give you that.

[He grins.]

It'd be a shame to make you have to swim all the way home.

[cherrybombpie]

That's because you won't make me.

[Kodachi flashed him a confident smile, her slanted eyes gleaming.]

[She pirouetted off the mast and landed right behind the ship's wheel.]

Perhaps we can be team.

[put_yur_guns_on]

Hah! That's a laugh. Why would I wanna do that?

[cherrybombpie]

[So that she could steal the ship in your sleep.]

Because you are powerful, and so am I. Together, we could do many things.

OHOHOHOHOHO~!

[put_yur_guns_on]

[That just makes him stare oddly at her before he barks out a laugh of his own. Wow, what a weirdo, this girl.]

Sorry, think I'll pass.

[cherrybombpie]

A pity.

[Kodachi let out a sigh.]

Suit yourself, and mourn the loss of my company. Ohohohohoho~! ♥

[put_yur_guns_on]

Yeah....no.

[He just shakes his head. Seems he was right about the "crazy" part.]

You can swim, right?