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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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Pirates?

[He visibly brightens at that. Pirates, eh? That's certainly an exciting and romantic sort of lifestyle! He mastered the related Asterisk, but he missed out on the "swashbuckling and derring-do" part.]

I'm no slouch at sailing, nor am I a stranger to being a bit on the wrong side of the law, so perhaps I could have a bit of success at being a pirate! Of course, a pirate captain is nothing without a valiant pirate crew...

[He taps his foot as he thinks that one over. He's going to have to find some allies. Lovely lady allies. An all-female (minus the captain, of course) pirate crew. Yes, exactly that.]

I've never met such a thing. Pirates are kinda' bastards by their nature, from what I've seen.

Also, that cliff really snuck up on me.

Funny how that works, huh?

[Easy enough, and another bite of food. Along with a drink of water.]

Are negotiations around here EVER successful? That'd be a first. That's what happens when people get blinded by money or duty.

[Gene takes a moment to assess the situation, looking through binoculars at the other ship.]

I'd say they're almost in range. We need to get our side pointed at them.

[Gene takes a few minutes to choke down a rather large hunk of cooked meat, before gulping down his water.]

So, what did you do for fun, back on your world? Any crazy stories?

Some parties, concerts, things like that.

[But for fun... For real fun...]

Been thinkin' 'bout a roadtrip.

A "hero"?

[That actually causes a small, smug smile to form on her lips. Well, that makes sense, she supposes. After all, what is a "Story" without its own "hero"?]

My, aren't you a confident one. Very well then. I suppose you wouldn't mind sharing any potentially useful information in your possession, now would you, Sir Hero?

[Darklaw's amusement doesn't last too long, however, as the scowl returns to her features soon enough.]

A word of warning, though; pointless flattery will lead you nowhere... save for dungeon.

[... Not that she holds the position of power to make it happen here, but hey. Let us not sweat over the details.]

Hm...Well, I guess you could say we're all on an extended sea-trip.

Ain't the same, though.

Road trip isn' about how y' get there, even where you're goin'.

Then what's it about?

It's 'bout who y're with. The friends, the fights, the... everythin'.

[He came over, taking a straddling seat on a bench across from her, leaning on the table and eye glancing over the card. He has no idea the significance of the card. Last he saw his rogue she'd had her powers stripped from her. This Rogue? She was... handy in a fight. Tough. Looked like she'd been hurt more then his own as well. Sadly.]

[It bothered him a bit, mostly because he had a soft spot for the kid. No one should have to suffer through things (other then him, really)]

Give it a few days. We'll run into a dry streak, sail around for a few weeks an' you'll be bored outta your gourd.

Sounds like fun.

[All sarcasm with a Southern grin.]

Can' say I much care for sailin'. Always thought it'd be fun, y'know? But this? Ain't. A' all.

Much rather have a good bike an' a dirt road.

[Her southern grin and sarcasm makes him smirk. He always liked her Snark]

Can't say I was exactly fond of it either. I'm with you, a good bike on a dirt road an' open air? That's tha life. But this? It grows on ya.

[The people you sail with? They end up becoming family. Hell, he has a tattoo of a Spade on his shoulder to prove that.]

Gimme N’Awlins--

[She has to stop herself, and she mouths the word over again. Because that was not Mississippi. That was Cajun, through and through. Damn that swamp rat.]

--at Mardi Gras over this any day.

Still. Could be worse, I guess. Got decent comp'ny.

[She made him curious. Very curious. There were such differences in her compared to-- right, she wanted to be called Marie again. Last he saw of her. It had been a few years. And even then he'd been so preoccupied with Jean's death that--]

[Didn't matter anymore. He took a pull off his drink before pointing the head of the bottle towards her and that card]

Mardi Gras. That where you got that? Davy Jones pull you from somethin' important?

Got a--

[She paused. It was stupid, trying to tell the story so it put Gambit in a good light. He'd kidnapped her, dragged her to Louisiana, and used her to get information. And... kept her safe and told her someone was looking after her.

Whether he meant him or the rest of her "family," she wasn't sure. But he gave her his lucky card. The one he saved for last.]

Things got bad at the Institute. I jus'... needed a break. Friend popped by, took me down t' New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Needed t' get away for a bit.

Gave me this t' remember 'im by, guess y' could say.

[...That worked. After all, this wasn't the Logan who'd tried to stab Gambit. And who she'd had to explain all that to in a much less pleasant light.]

Been awhile, but... I keep it. Fo' luck.

[Even if he COULD Remember Gambit, he had thought of the guy as a friendly. Someone he could work with. If he still knew him....... he'd say he was too old for her---er right, he'd say he was an alright guy, he supposed.]

[But that bullet kind of wiped that part of his memory as well. He saw the guy after, but had no idea who he was.]

[He did wonder if she was spinning stories, but it wasn't his place to call her on it. After all, different universes, after all. Though if this friend of hers shows up and gives her trouble, he wont hesitate trying to stab him again. Just sayin']

Sounds like a good friend. New Orleans is a fun city, once in a while. What suit is she, your lady luck?

[Rogue shifted the card between her fingers to show him, and the smile...

Well. The smile said it all.

A seventeen-year-old girl, a male friend who'd given her something to remember him by, and that smile. Not that she didn't try to cover it up a little. Because, well, it was still Logan.]

Queen a' Hearts.

[He snorted at that. Oh yeah, he can get the full enough picture. Young woman with a male friend. Queen of hearts as his, and her lady luck. Mmhmm.]

[He smirked though, taking another sip off his drink before shaking his head.]

That boy of yours shows up around here? He better treat you right. I might not be your Logan, but I'll put a few holes in him none tha less. [it was the protective side of him talking, that's all]

[His expression dimmed a bit though, frowning some.] It's nice to hear you livin' though. At least where you're from.

[That made her grin. Because that was Logan.

And also why she was never telling him the full story of just what she'd been doing in New Orleans or how she got down there. That all doesn't matter.]

Beats dealin' with the Brotherhood.

[A pause, and an attempt at a smile.]

Or anythin' else decides t' come our way. Seems there's always somethin'.

Brotherhood, huh? Good to hear somethin's don't change. [eye roll and a small disbelieving shake of his head.] Is Victor wandering about with them still?

[He knows enough about his brother to remember him, a bit. Mostly from battle. His memories on him are still gap filled. But he was curious of he took to that side in her home as well. Sabertooth. What a dumb name]

What else have you been through. [He wondered, for a lil bit, if they had any of the same events going on. So far it seemed like a strike out]

[This is where it's strange. Things he didn't know or she didn't. Things she and her Logan would know or he and his Rogue would know.

But... It was still Logan. Close enough, at least.]

Don' think I know a Victor. They've got Toad an' Lance -- Avalanche an' Blob. Don' know if Quicksilver an' Wanda 're still runnin' with 'em or if they're with Magneto now.

Don' know what'll come of that.

[As for what they'd been through...

She took a deep breath, pocketing the card. Because, well, Gambit was a sore spot with this. No call, no sign of him, nothing. Like he just vanished.]

Jus' faced someone called "Apocalypse."

An' yeah. It was as bad as it sounds.

[He was silent for a bit, taking in the names. He SHOULD know some of those names. Toad he knows. Storm fried him. Blab? He should know but can't place still. Damn memory. No mention of Mistique. With the Brother hood.... or Magneto? Wasn't Magneto running the brotherhood?]

[Sounded as if she had a bigger set of problems back home then his own world.]

Can't say I've had this pleasure of an Apocalypse yet. We must be a bit behind is all. [he snorted at that.] It does sound like trouble though.

[Trouble at the institute. SO the school was still open. Maybe the Professor was still alive? Or Jean...]

[He hadn't asked yet, as much as he wanted to know. Jean was here anyhow, and that was good enough for him]

Is it bad enough that you'd stay here, or would you go home if given the chance?

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