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

[solokun]

[Kirito glances around as well. It looks like a mountainous zone.]

Places like this always have caves.

[Then he glances over his shoulder at her.]

Aren't kids your age scared of the dark?

[witcraft]

Hmph! Maybe an ordinary child would be... but I'm a witch. Darkness is my specialty.

...and candles burnt out rather quickly in the manor I lived in, so it'd get dark all the time. [right, of course...]

[solokun]

Creepy.

[Have a raised eyebrow and nothing else.]

[witcraft]

Why, are you afraid of the dark? [peering at him curiously over his shoulder]

There's nothing bad about it! Night is for nice fluffy things, like bats and owls. Only werewolves and bears are really dangerous.

[solokun]

Ehhh, I've never heard someone say a bat was fluffy.

[Then another look.]

Are you really a witch?

[witcraft]

Of course! But I'm a traditional witch, not the kind that curses people or summons demons.

Real witches weren't evil, you know? That was just something the Church made up. We're supposed to heal people and cast spells for good luck and things like that.

[solokun]

Ah, admittedly I don't know too much about all that. I just know witches from video games I've played.

[On second glance, she does sort of fit the typical little witch class from JRPGs he's familiar with.]

So you can't do hexes or like... throw a fireball?

[witcraft]

Of course not! Can anybody? [but anything seems to be possible here, so...]

Maybe if I sold my soul or something like that...

[solokun]

That sounds a little dark too.

[Look, there's a cave.]

Speaking of--how's this one?

[witcraft]

Ooh... that looks promising. [it's not exactly a grand, gaping entrance — more like a little hole in a cliff — but it's big enough for the both of them to enter, and anyway, it's not like she's seen others (outside of crude illustrations in storybooks) with which she can compare]

I wonder if there'll be treasure — or crystals? [getting ahead of herself, there] Ah — b-but just a regular cave full of rocks will be interesting too! Maybe there'll be some interesting plants inside...

[solokun]

It looks pretty boring.

[Coming from his own experience exploring all sorts of ruins and temples and such. Even so, it's the first one they find, so maybe they should explore.]

Alright, let's go. I'm banking on some treasure myself.

[He shifts her in his grip again, bouncing her further up his back since she'd slipped down a little. Then he moves carefully to the entrance and goes very slowly so his eyes can adjust to the darkness.]

[witcraft]

[her eyes adjust surprisingly fast as she looks around and gasps in surprise, pointing at a stalactite formation]

Kirito! Kirito, look, it's like the rocks are dripping!

[solokun]

Yeah, that's how they're formed. Something with the water leaving behind sediment.

[Just a random tidbit he picked up from school. Stuff like that seemed to be harder and harder to recall since he doesn't have to really use it anymore. The only things important nowadays are surviving.]

Woops, watch your head.

[And he ducks a little to move under large root going through the middle of the passage.]

[witcraft]

Oooh... [ducking low as he indicates, though she's still glancing around with wonder]

Is that how the ones from the ground are made too?

[solokun]

Mm, I think so. The water drips down and evaporates, leaving behind bits of dirt and rock that build up over time.

[Yeah, that should be it. Even if he was a very smart kid, he didn't really pay much attention in school. Games were more interesting.]

Maybe we'll get lucky and find some crystals like you wanted.

[witcraft]

If we do, we should take some with us! Crystals can be very powerful in witchcraft.

Like... [considers the possibilities for a moment] I could turn one into a charm to protect you!

[solokun]

[That's actually not a bad idea. He's used to crystal helping out and all since they were healing items and such in Sword Art Online.].

A charm, huh? I guess an extra accessory wouldn't hurt. Not like I have a limited inventory now.

[witcraft]

Yeah! I can make all sorts, but it depends on what crystals we find. Like, jaspers are good for energy and that sort of thing. [thinks it over a moment] Hmm, I bet obsidian would be good for you. Obsidian and... silver.

[witcraft]

[she's quiet for a moment, but actually, something's been bothering her] ...you know, you keep saying weird things, like "RPGs" and "inventory" and "stats" and "video games"... what are those?

Well, I know what an inventory is... but what does RPG stand for? Runic... power... gems? [she's just stringing together words that make sense to her...]

[solokun]

[Obsidian does sound cool. It would probably go with his whole motif and all.

At her question, however, Kirito blinks over at his shoulder and then hums in thought.]

Roleplaying game. I guess maybe you wouldn't know about that sort of stuff. Mh, the best way to describe something like that would be... a dream that you can control and participate in. Does that make sense?

[witcraft]

[...she has to think about that a few moments]

— that sounds like it would be so much fun!

[solokun]

Hah hah, it is, actually. Unless you happen to get stuck in one that you could really die in.

[Like he did, d'oh.]

Well, you won't have to worry about that here. We could actually die since everything here is real too!

[witcraft]

[doesn't get it, of course] Eh... that's not true, you know? If you die in a dream you won't die in real life.

[she tries to go for a disgruntled growl, but it comes out more like a pout] Well, that's why I said I was going to wait on the ship, now wasn't it...

[solokun]

[No use in really explaining it to her. It doesn't matter anyways, plus there's too many bad memories.

He slumps a little at her pout.]

Relax. I can handle it. We'll be fine. Don't you want some crystals?

[witcraft]

Of course I do.

[she doesn't really straighten herself, though, instead resting her head comfortably on his shoulder] It'll be okay. As long as you don't get hit anywhere vital, and you don't leave me behind, I can treat you on the spot.