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Test Drive for August 2014 Apps

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?

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Well... I was hoping someone would come get me.

Host?

[His brow furrows as he considers his outfit. The adventurer who sold it to him (for a ridiculous amount of pg) had said it was the costume of a melodist, whatever that is. "Host" sounds far too mundane for a coat as exquisite as this.]

I have absolutely no idea what that is. If you'd care to elaborate...?

[He fishes out his journal from his satchel. (His journal, the one he's been carrying from world to world, not the latest book he's added to his collection.) It can't hurt to jot down some notes.]

Guys with ridiculously coifed hair and overly showy outfits. They like to bilk lonely patrons out of cash at overpriced bars. Pretty popular in some of the snazzier colonies in the Hei Phong sector.

[He pauses with his pen poised over the book and looks vaguely horrified. What a terrible thing.]

I can assure you I'm nothing of the sort! Believe me, I would never approach a lonely lady to get at her wallet. Why do something so vulgar when her heart is the true prize a man should be winning?

[He says it with a straight face (if you can call a self-satisfied little smirk a straight face) because he genuinely means it.]

A. New Arrival

[There's a large purple lizard-like thing inspecting the fountain and reading the inscription with narrowed eyes. He looks like he's either angry or he's squinting because he's finding it hard to read. He's muttering under his breath.]

This doesn't make a lot of sense...

B. Around the ship

[Randall quite enjoyed ordering his crewmates around, even when he's not in charge, or at least brushing up on his scaring tactics by sneaking up on others. It was fun to hear the sounds they'd make. A pity he had nothing here to capture screams. But he had to make do with what he could and it seemed that power had other sources here anyway. Now he probably should be scrubbing the decks or something but he wants to find something more interesting. Maybe he can find an unwilling target or even a more productive conversation.]

[Well, that had been unexpected. She stares blankly at him for a few moments, then gives him a look that simultaneously holds disbelief and amusement. She crosses her arms lightly.] So your plan was to get caught in a net?

[Having two talking ponies and a bear on her crew, she's not too fazed when she sees Randall at the fountain. She maybe takes a second to stare before deciding he probably needs help and walking closer to him.]

The poem, you mean?

[To his credit, Gene listens to his little explanation...right before letting out a PFFFFFT! and laughing his head off.]

Oh please, who do you think you're talking to? That line might work back home, but not on Sentinel III. The chivalrous knight act went out of style centuries ago. Say that where I'm from, and you'll get laughed out of the bar!

[His frown turns toward the girl.]

What's it supposed to mean?

Weeeeeeeeell, I wouldn't really say that it was a "plan". I knew I'd get out of it somehow, I just didn't know the exact means. Pinning things down to directly doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room, you know? I like to keep my strategies fast and loose. Everything always finds a way to work out, in the end. I guess the universe just really wants me to win.

[He does a discrete check of his fire-arms, letting out a disappointed huff.]

Damn it. Guess I'll have to clean and dry these, now.

[As he looks back to her, he extends a hand.]

Gene Starwind. What's your name, cutie?

A)

[It's been, well, a long week. There's been an attack from the Navy, a lot of sailing, some getting lost, a few hostile locals... To be quite honest, Rogue is beat.

Which is why, during her off hours, she's in the crew's mess area, just sitting at a table.

She has something out, just a small playing card. The Queen of Hearts. She laughs a little, tired.]

Lucky lady, huh? Hasn' been too lucky lately.

B)

[Before the fight, Rogue was dodging everything. All her gymnastic and martial arts training had paid off, keeping her out of the hands or shots or blades of anyone who might have wanted to hurt her.

But then, well, a master swordsman had cornered her. No one else had been right there to help, so she'd used her last resort. Taken off her glove and grabbed hold of him until he passed out.

Now, as the dust settled, she lowered her sword. Her form and speed were that of someone who'd practiced for years, and she looked around. That others might not know what she could do hadn't really occurred to her. All she really grasped at the moment was that they were victorious. Battered and bruised, yes, but alive.]

Y'all okay?

["Okay" was probably too kind a word, but... She couldn't bring herself to ask if everyone was alive.]

C)

Okay... This? Is pretty amazin'.

[For as much as she hated this place sometimes with its battles and its dangerous weather and its sailing, there were little moments that at least tried to make up for it.

Like the view from one waterfall of another, both cascading down into a whirling pool that expanded into an otherwise placid lake. It was, quite frankly, breathtaking.

Well worth the hike up.]

Well, basically it means that you've been brought here to help hunt for pieces of this big jewel that, once put together, can grant wishes. Or one wish. It's not really clear on that part. [It's not really entirely clear on any of the parts, actually. She'd had to have this explained to her too when she first arrived.]

I know what you mean by that, things generally have a way of ending up alright in the end for me, too. I mean, sometimes it takes quite a while to get there, but still, things turn out okay.

[She's not really used to shaking hands, so she's confused for a second when he holds his out. Oh, right. That's a thing. That people do sometimes. Instead of the whole bowing and curtsying thing. She takes his hand and shakes it with a smile then.]

I'm Anna! It's nice to meet you. And to catch you, I'm glad that happened too. How long were you in the water, anyway?

[Anna promptly sits her rear end down on the grass after that hike, though, sort of exhausted. But she's hardly complaining, not with a view like this.]

It is really beautiful. [She leans back on her hands, obviously relaxed.] I've always loved waterfalls. Did you know there's an island here with one that goes both up and down?

Up an' down?

[She says it... not disbelievingly but in awe. And then a familiar quote drifts into her mind.]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

[Shakespeare. Mr. McCoy. Professor Xavier. Scott. Jean. Kurt. Evan.

She misses home in moments like this. But she shakes her head a little and tries to smile.]

Sounds incredible.

It's at Port Chance. We'll have to sail there some time so you can see it. Everyone should get a chance to see it.

[She turns to look at Rogue curiously then, not familiar with the verse she'd quoted. She'd always enjoyed stories, but had also always had a hard time finishing them. She'd get bored, wanting to go out and actually do something instead of just sitting there reading about doing things.]

Yeah. It is. Uhm. So, what was that, anyway? What you just said?

It's from a really old play where I'm from. The main character is really logical, likes things with reason and order. But strange things start happenin', and he can't really explain 'em.

[It's strange to explain Shakespeare. Where she's from, everyone knows it a little. At least knows some of the famous lines, like that one.]

That's what his best friend tells 'im.

I've got a teacher who likes t' quote Shakespeare, an' I like the plays pretty well m'self, too.

[She nods, listening to it all intently as she really enjoys hearing about other people's worlds, where they're from and what it's like.]

Well, there are a lot of strange things that happen here that can't really be explained, at least not easily, so that fits! I was told though that the waterfall that goes both up and down does so because of the force of the current, but... I don't really know if that's true or not. [She shrugs lightly.]

Been thinkin' it a lot since I got here.

[She's smiling a little. Because, well. She's used to the unexplained. To never quite knowing what's going to happen next.]

Things got pretty strange at home, too, so this isn' too bad. Just... wish there was electricity. Really miss that.

I know what you mean, things got pretty weird at home for me too, before I was brought here. Not entirely a bad sort of weird, but. Still weird.

[Okay, sometimes a bad sort of weird. Being frozen hadn't exactly been fun for her. Still, it had all turned out alright, so she doesn't feel the need to add that part.]

Elec...? Oh, right. That's a thing that uh, powers other things, right? I didn't have it back home, so I can't really say I miss it.

Yeah? What kinda weird? If you don' mind me askin', that is.

[Some people didn't like to talk about it. Rogue barely liked to talk about it. But... Well. This girl is pretty friendly, so. Rogue will give it as best a try as she can.

Like she sometimes does with Kitty.]

Hm...Hard to say, really. I guess going by the sun, maybe a few hours? Kinda' lost track of time when I took a hit to the head.

Tell me about it. Never get to see views like this, back home. Sentinel III is basically a slum colony, and that's putting it nicely. Most of the planet is pretty uninhabited, since the biosphere is pretty bad.

[Gene plops down in front of a tree, folding his hands behind his head and leaning his back against the trunk.]

Been a long time since I got to rest under the shade of a natural tree.

[His eyes grow shrewd for a moment. He's never heard of a place called "Sentinel III" or "Hei Phong." Some sort of military outpost? If it is, he should at least have heard the name before. Possibly this world is different not only from his, but from this young man's as well. A shame, then, because it sounds like there are legions of lovely young ladies in this Sentinel III place suffering from a dire lack of handsome, good-mannered gentlemen such as himself.]

I shall have to visit this place you're from sometime. It sounds like I could reel in quite a few --

[He coughs, cutting himself off. He needs to focus on the business at hand, not daydream about scores of lonely women, starved for a bit of chivalry in their lives, throwing themselves at his feet. No, he can do that later.]

That aside, no, I'm afraid I have no idea who I'm talking to. Neither one of us has taken the time to introduce ourselves. They call me Ringabel, by the way, and I've become quite attached to the name. And you are?

[Sentinel.

No. No, not that Sentinel. She realizes it as he keeps talking, and she breathes a small sigh of relief. Not that it wouldn't have been nice to meet someone else from her world here, but.]

Sounds like somethin' outta a book where I'm from.

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Randall || Monsters Inc.

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Rogue : X-Men Evolution

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...This is too perfect a combination. Seriously.

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