Test Drive for October 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

[cherri_cola]

[He might actually like island life, but the Zones are all dead and desert and definitely not nice like this.]

[Getting home though... does she not know this is his afterlife? It has to be, right? He’s dead back home. Or maybe he’s not and he’s laying there in the sand and delusional right now. Hmm]

Yeah, getting home doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy.

[he gave her a faint smile. He never knew a Kuina. he wonders where his delusional brain picked that name up]

Names Cherri Cola. [he said with a nod]

[unforged]

[ Nobody's told her that she's dead yet. That'll come in time, though. ]

Are you from the Red Line, then, Cherri? It sounds like you're pretty far from home too.

I wonder what ocean this is...? [ Being somehow brought to a strange island in another ocean is weird enough, nobody tell her this is a whole other world... ]

[cherri_cola]

[He’s only assuming he’s dead, because that Zap fight had been pretty bad, and he remembers being hit, but... not how he got here. Clearly he’s dead.]

I’ve hit the red line, but I’m not really a crash queen anymore. [he shrugged at that, glancing around as he spoke. Hitting the red line means going fast. Generally a driving term. Not a name of his home.] Naw, I’m from the Zones. Mostly Zone six, sometimes four.

And I’m willing to bet that’s the Pacific ocean. [finger pointing off at the water not far from view]

[unforged]

Hit the red line...? Crash queen? Zones? Pacifist Ocean? [ WHAT THE HECK ARE ALL OF THESE TERMS AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN? ]

[cherri_cola]

[He blinked, surprised as she repeated terms everyone generally knows. At LEAST know what the pacific ocean is, kid... come on.] Wait, you’ve never heard of any of that?

[unforged]

Well, the Red Line is the continent that divides the oceans. But you've got the four Blues and the Grand Line, I've never heard of a Pacifist Ocean.

So. No.

[cherri_cola]

[Okay...... this is weird. His brow stayed raised as he spoke carefully.] Hitting the red line just means going real fast. It’s not a location to me. And uh.... last I hear there were seven great seas, or something. I haven’t really been outside the Zones, so I’m not sure.

Alright, so... [he ran a hand through his hair, messin the light blue streak in it. Frowning.] So this place isn’t what it seems, or it’s a dream, or my brain is real messed up.

[unforged]

You're really weird. [ Kuina, master of tact. ] Did you hit your head before you woke up here? [ That would explain things. ]

[cherri_cola]

[He gave a snort at that, kind of a laugh maybe.] Yeah, I’ve heard that before, kid.

Uh... [he tried to glance over his shoulder then frowned more.] Actually? I got shot in the back, so I kind of think this is the Phoenix Witches resting grounds. The great beyond.

[unforged]

You mean, we're both-

[ No, she's not dead. She's pretty sure she's not, anyway.


She pinches an arm just to make sure. Okay, no, she felt that. ]

I don't think we're dead.

[cherri_cola]

[He pinched his own arm, as she did, and then nodded.]

I would have been okay if this was my afterlife though. It's better then home. Though it doesn't explain what is going on. I got shot in the back. I should be dusted.

[unforged]

You'd be surprised what people can survive. [ Kuina you died falling down a flight of stairs you have no room to talk. ] Though.... you'd expect to at least be wounded from something like that. [ And he looks fine to her. ]

[cherri_cola]

You don't normally survive a thing like that is all. [Looks fine to him as well.] I can feel it though. And it doesn't change the fact that we're in a town where someone called me a pirate. That's a new one.

[kuina]

Hmm, that's not too strange. If an island doesn't get a many visitors, they might be spooked by new faces, assume they're pirates.

[cherri_cola]

[He looked at her a long moment before saying softly] Now who's the weird one? You'd logically jump to assuming a new person in town is a pirate?

[kuina]

I wouldn't. My village gets a lot of visitors - my father's dojo brings in a lot of outsiders too. But other islands don't, and it's probably safer to assume somebody's a pirate. [ She's heard stories of what pirates can do to a village. ]

[cherri_cola]

[Okay. He'll give you some of that logic, even if it all sounds outdated to him. Scratching at his neck he frowned, looking around where they stood.]

So... dojo, huh. Explains the cutlery. So I take it you live on an... island. In one of your blue oceans. I live on main land in the Zones. You've got pirates. I got Draculoids. For some reason none of these puzzle pieces match together.