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

[caster_blaster]

Exactly! Nice to meet somebody who actually knows what I'm talking about.

[alovingheart]

Well, the space part, yeah. But I didn't know you could sail there.

[caster_blaster]

Well...

[Gene leans against the nearest railing, looking up as he tries to come up with an explanation that isn't too daunting.]

Maybe "sail" is the wrong term. There's no wind or water out there to sail on, you're just floating in empty space. No gravity or air either, it's a total vacuum. So you need to be in a sealed ship, that uses special engines to push you along. Just getting off the planet is hard, since you're pushing against all that gravity yanking you down.

[alovingheart]

[She listens intently, looking slightly in awe as she thinks about it.] That's amazing... I bet it's really beautiful being up there in space, too...

Wait, you said you were escaping pirates. There are pirates in space?

[caster_blaster]

It makes sense, right? Every time people discover a new frontier, there are people who want to take advantage of it. For us, those people are the pirate guilds. They hijack ship cargoes, do ransoms, the whole shebang.

I'm still not a huge fan of BEING a pirate, but I suppose I'll get over it.

[alovingheart]

Thankfully the good thing about being a pirate here is you don't have to do those things. You know, hijack and ransom, and all of that. Mostly my crew just sails around exploring and hunting for treasure!

[caster_blaster]

Do you actually make any money?

[alovingheart]

Uh. Well, not me personally. I think the crew has money, though? [She looks thoughtful for a second, because she's never actually asked anyone about that. It's never been something she's had to worry about. Not back home, nor while she's been here.] Yeah, we must have some, because we restock supplies and things every so often.