Test Drive for July 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!

♦ 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?

Comments

[witcraft]

[stubbornly] I-I can move, too! I bet I could have made it to town in a few hours. [not that she would have known which direction to crawl toward]

Eh, how did you know? You don't look German. Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

[alwaysgrumpy]

Humans aren't meant to crawl after infancy. No efficiency to it.

I know a German name, when I hear one. Some nationalities have naming conventions that really jump out at you. Like me. Akira is a very common japanese name.

last tag for now, g'night!!

[witcraft]

Japan... hmmm... [that. that country is completely foreign to her, particularly since her knowledge is several centuries out of date and generally specific to one topic]

Where is that relative to Germany? Somewhere to the south?

[alwaysgrumpy]

Gotta' go east about a bazillion miles, through a bunch of European countries, through Russia and China, and across a small stretch of ocean. Little nation of islands.

[witcraft]

Oh, I know where Russia and China are! [...roughly. she probably imagines russia a lot bigger than it is] So it's east of China?

Are they islands like this one? [picking some twigs out of her sleeves — it's a shame, she's quite fond of this dress]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Bit bigger than just this island, they're all really close together.

[witcraft]

Oh, I see. [she's imagining wooden bridges connecting them together, so no, not really] That sounds convenient.

Were you a peasant in Japan, Akira? You don't really seem like a landowner. [ouch...]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Peasant? The hell? What year are you from?

[witcraft]

Year?

Um... isn't it 1889?

[alwaysgrumpy]

I'm from 2011, thereabouts. We've got people from all over time and space, around here.

[witcraft]

Eh, 2011...? [please hold, doing math]

That's... a hundred... um, a hundred and twenty-two years ahead...? [??????] Are you sure?!

[alwaysgrumpy]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

[witcraft]

That's kind of hard to believe... [...] Maybe the villagers haven't been keeping track of the years correctly...

I mean, you look normal to me. I always imagined that someone who came from the future would look really weird.

[alwaysgrumpy]

Yellow eyes and pointy ears isn't weird enough?

[witcraft]

Huh? I didn't notice... [shifting her weight so she can get a better look at him; she hadn't looked at him that closely when she was preoccupied in ridding herself of leaves]

Well, the color of your eyes doesn't really matter — [coming from a world where no one ever comments on the fact that the butler has red eyes...] — but you're right, your ears are really pointy! [she's tempted... to pull on them, but even she's not that rude] You're not a forest fairy, are you? You're a bit too big to be a forest fairy.

[alwaysgrumpy]

Sorry. I'm not quite human, but you're still off the mark.

[witcraft]

You're not a demon, are you?

[alwaysgrumpy]

Wrong. Try again.

[witcraft]

...a vampire?

[alwaysgrumpy]

Cloooooose~.

[witcraft]

[POUTS... what is he, a ghoul? a zombie? something undead?]

Well, I'm out of ideas, so you'll just have to tell me.

[alwaysgrumpy]

Werewolf.

[witcraft]

[she gives him this really hard, long look]

[opens her mouth]

[closes it]

[makes a funny sound in her throat]

[opens her mouth again]

[...closes it]

...and you're sure about this?

[alwaysgrumpy]

I think I would know.

[witcraft]

But the werewolves I know aren't people at all!