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?

Comments

[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.]

[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.

[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?

[tactilelearner]

I mean I got a power.

[No use hiding it. Better if people know, actually. None of this stupid 'skin condition' bs. Besides, here? People needed to know. So they could avoid anything happening.]

But it ain't what I'd call "cool."

[caster_blaster]

Oh yeah? Well, what can you do?

[tactilelearner]

One touch.

[She says it as she holds up her hand. Gloved, so there's no danger.]

I get it all. Memories, abilities, powers if someone's got 'em. The memories an' just physical abilities stay -- like muscle memory stuff. But the powers don' long.

Longer I hold onto someone, more I get. More I keep.

[caster_blaster]

So if someone was a martial arts master, and you touch them, you're a martial arts master? That sounds pretty awesome to me.

[tactilelearner]

Sounds like it, don' it?

[Because in theory, it was amazing. There was a world of skills, all literally at her fingertips. Anything she wanted to be good at, she could be. She only had to find the right person to touch.]

But it hurts people. If it's just a tap, just unsteadies 'em. Anythin' more? Well.

One guy took my arm once. Just t' help me up when I fell. Let go pretty quick 'cause it hurt. Still nearly wound up in a coma.

[She'd learned a little control since then, but there wasn't a lot of opportunity to practice. The professor didn't want her using her powers unless she had to.]

[caster_blaster]

Can't you...I don't know, train it? Learn to not automatically switch it on?

[tactilelearner]

'M years away from bein' able t' do that. If I ever can.

[Because, theoretically, it was possible.

Just like, theoretically, Scott would someday not need his glasses to control his eyes.

But Scott had been working on his for a lot longer than she had, and they were both far from having that kind of control.]

[caster_blaster]

See there? Light at the end of the tunnel. Hell, I'll help you out with it, if you want.

Granted, I'm not sure how, but it's not the first time I accepted a task before I made a plan. Flying by the seat of my pants is kinda' my thing.

[tactilelearner]

[...And there is the skeptical Southern tomboy look. The raised eyebrow that says it all.]

Y'know, I think I'll pass.

[caster_blaster]

[He blinks in surprise, genuinely taken aback.]

Eh? What? What did I say?

[tactilelearner]

Unless you've got some experience teachin' someone how t' use powers like that?

I'll pass.

[caster_blaster]

Are you afraid you're gonna' kill me with it?

[tactilelearner]

No.

[Because she wouldn't do it. She didn't trust herself enough for that.]

'Cause I don' mess with things like that.

[caster_blaster]

How long does it take for it to even take effect? What if someone tapped you on the shoulder really, really fast, just one time?

[tactilelearner]

Instant.

[It's an easy answer. Because she's experienced it.]

Moment someone brushes my skin with a knuckle? Down for the count. Good few minutes last time.

[Stupid Gambit.]

[caster_blaster]

Hm...Well, that does suck. I can safely say I'd be training it every day, were it me.

[He slowly raises back up to his feet, stretching out to crack his back a few times. Then he fixed his binoculars toward the west, looking into a densely forested area.]

But it's your life. If you're comfortable pushing your limits, then there's not much to do about that. There IS, however, something to do about fixing up our food supplies. I just saw some tasty looking animals over that way.

[tactilelearner]

I've got a teacher, so thanks but no thanks.

[Plus, well. The way she's seen it work, when people find out about her powers, they want one thing: to use her.

And that'd come with his offer to "teach" her.]