Test Drive for August 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?

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[knightlydiary]

On the contrary, my dear, for Her Highness has imparted on me the lucky chance to share this table with so lovely a young lady as yourself.

[Admittedly, no one actually invited Ringabel over, but he's invited himself and brought a mug of strong black coffee with him. It's been a long week for all of them and he's running on nothing but caffeine and nonsense, so basically just more caffeinated than usual.]

[alovingheart]

I don't mind! And weird as in I kind of learned that my sister is magical? I mean, in the literal sense. She has magic. She can turn things to ice. And snow. It's really pretty amazing. That and I also made friends with a guy who talks and sings with his reindeer, aaand a talking snowman.

[tactilelearner]

[Now, the accent's all wrong, but she knows that kind of charm. And it makes her smile. So maybe she's a little homesick. That's not her fault. Besides, compliments.

Compliments rarely go wrong.]

Well, now. [Her drawl might have been a bit more prominent, a little more "Southern belle" than "Southern tomboy." It's an easy transition. So is putting her forearms against the table, rather than over her chest, and leaning forward instead of straight up.

An invitation to go along with his presumption.] That's a real nice thing t' say.

[tactilelearner]

[Magic. The old-school word for mutation. The power to create ice and snow.

Rogue can't help but smile just a little more as she offers:]

I've got a friend like that. His name's Bobby.

[alovingheart]

Oh... Oh! Oh, no. You got hit in the head? Are you okay? You should probably sit down. Were you injured? [She says all this very quickly, bordering on panic-mode.]

[alovingheart]

Really? With the same powers and everything? I've never met anyone that can do the same things that Elsa can. I mean, a lot of people here do have powers, all sorts of them, but no one but Elsa can do the ice thing. As far as I know, anyway.

[tactilelearner]

Yeah, Bobby can create ice. Even turn himself into ice. And he's oh-so-creative with his codename. "Iceman."

[She can't help but chuckle a little, shaking her head. The younger kids were... different. They just weren't quite the same.]

[alovingheart]

Woah, uh, I've never seen Elsa turn herself into ice. But she can make clothes out of ice. And she can make her snow creatures come to life!

[She laughs a little as well.] Well, at least it's accurate? My sister doesn't really have a codename, as far as I know. Just... Elsa. Or, well, Queen Elsa. But that's really more of a title than a codename.

[caster_blaster]

Out of a book? What do you mean? You guys don't have space travel, yet?

[caster_blaster]

Look at me. Do I look like the sort of guy who buckles under a few injuries? This body is a road map of scars, pretty much.

[caster_blaster]

...It was rhetorical, but alright. I suppose we should, after all. I'm Gene Starwind, of Starwind and Hawking. I'm kind of a big deal, back home.

[tactilelearner]

[Snow Queen.

Rogue doesn't say it, but her mind supplies it. She's been hanging out with Kitty and Kurt too much to come up with it that easy. Or maybe she just misses them that much.]

Most people where I'm from don' go by their real names. Some do. Depends on the company, too.

There's a lot of us -- like your sister. We've got a teacher who finds us. His power is sensin' when other people use their powers. He brings us together.

[tactilelearner]

We've got some, but nothin' like that. An' nothin' like a "biosphere" or anythin'.

[Which is probably different than what she knows as a biosphere, but... Meaning's easy enough to grasp. Especially thanks to Kurt and Scott liking sci-fi.]

[alovingheart]

[She settles down a little, looking at him as she's told before sighing.] Well, if you're sure...

[And he's right. She can tell just by looking at him that he's got a couple of scars, and she can't imagine how many else he might have that she can't even see.] ...Are they all from before you arrived here? [It doesn't really occur to her this might be a rude question to ask. After all, he's the one who brought up the scars, so...]

[alovingheart]

Really? That's amazing. I mean, that must be really nice...

[She thinks that Elsa probably would have felt a lot better growing up if she'd known that there were other people out there who were just as extraordinary as she was. But, Rogue had said that he 'brings them together.' Which sounds an awful lot like it would mean Elsa having left her. Which... makes her sort of glad that such a thing didn't exist in her own world, though she feels a bit guilty for thinking it.]

A teacher... So what does he teach you?

[caster_blaster]

Well, it's not a utopia or anything. We can make the atmosphere of some words just livable enough to form colonies, but they're not particularly nice places. Especially in frontier space, where things get pretty lawless.

[Come to think of it...]

...Actually, it's not all that different from this. We've got pirates, overzealous law enforcement, and guys like my crew. People in the grey.

[caster_blaster]

[Thankfully, Gene has no tact, so he never expects it from other people.]

Considering the jobs I do, injury is just par for the course. It happens. Been shot, stabbed, nearly garrotted, nearly blown up a few times. Some bounties get pretty rough.

The worst I got all at once, though. Crashed in a life pod, escaping pirates. Landing system didn't work right, so I got torn up pretty bad. Barely dragged myself to medical help.

[tactilelearner]

It's... Yeah, it's pretty nice. Most of us don' have anywhere else t' go.

[They weren't wanted. Or were wanted to be used.

But Xavier offered them a safe haven. Somewhere to hide from the world while they learned what they were and what they could do. She didn't want to imagine a world in which she never knew about the Institute.]

He teaches us how to use and control our powers. How to help people with them and how not to hurt anyone -- ourselves or anyone else.

[tactilelearner]

["In the grey."

Usually a term for "selfishness" or "we do whatever we want, screw everyone else." But Rogue knew better than to actually say anything like that. Now wasn't the time for sassing someone.

Especially with that fall if he gave her a shove.]

We don' have pirates, not that call themselves that, at least, but... Think every place has somethin' like those groups.

[caster_blaster]

I do have to admit, the downgrade is pretty jarring. I can't believe people used to travel this slow.

[tactilelearner]

Yeah, that's... really weird for me.

[She missed Scott's car. And the van. And the jet. Oh, God, the jet.]

I mean, maybe you spend a couple days in a car if you're goin', like, a long way, but that's it.

[caster_blaster]

So, you got any cool powers? I never got a chance to ask everyone. Me, I'm just boring, regular guy.

[tactilelearner]

[...Such a weird question for people to just ask. Though she was getting used to it. Here and back home.

With people knowing about the Xavier Institute and knowing she lived there, it came with the territory.]

Depends what y' call "cool," I guess.

[caster_blaster]

Eh? What do you mean?

[knightlydiary]

Is that so?

[Ringabel saved all of existence a few hours ago, but it would be a bit rude to bring that up now. This Gene fellow seems quite impressed with himself, after all.]

Some sort of merchant, then?

[That's what it sounds like, though Gene looks a bit scruffy for that. Unless it's one of those not-quite-above-board sorts of merchantries, which is entirely possible.]