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Test Drive for October 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?

Threaded | Flat

[A:]
He’d acquired himself a small ship, large enough to live on, small enough to sail with one man. It would be easier with two but manageable with one. He’s pretty sure he’ll regret this life choice later, but he’s also of the belief that he’s IN his afterlife, so what difference does it make?

Sitting cross legged on the dock he stared at the little sail boat like he wasn’t sure if he was ready for this adventure. He had just enough coin in the end to stock the boat with some food and water, but other then that, he was going to be out there adrift for a while, he knew it. At least he had an understanding of maps, and if he focused right, he could see the ultra waves of the currents before him in the water.

Cherri Cola sat there, looking like a man trying to make peace with his decision. Leaning back on his hands with his journal in his lap, he considered finding a way to stay here on the island, but the locals had already started to turn cold. It would be best to get on this boat and sail off. “Alright, Little Dead Pegasus, baby. If we wait a little longer we can take off into the sunset. You always wanted to do that.” Yes, he talks to himself sometimes.

[B:]
[It’s a fire fight, and not one he started. he had his pistol out, but he wasn’t using it. At least not to aim at people. If he did fire an energy blast, it was at other things, trying to scare the small group of locals away. Maybe they hadn’t seen a ray gun before! Cola had his mask on, a pink color, and his green vest no had a hole in it from a spear earlier.]

[All he wanted was some fruit.]

[Apparently it was sacred.]

[He dashed through the jungle, taking a moment to crack shot a tree branch, dropping it in the middle of the path as he ran. He refused to hurt any of them. It wasn’t their fault, and there was no reason to even wound them. Though he had to hurry or he’d have a few more holes in him himself.]

[He’d gotten ahead of them, but he could hear them still coming. Jumping over a large fallen tree his feet hit sand of a beach and he took off running. Running on sand was hard, but once you hit the wet sand, it became easier. Thus he ran, down the side of the water and towards where he had tied down his sail boat. Only there was another ship not far from his. Shit, shit, shit, please don’t be real pirates. The last thing he needed to a firefight on the seas as well.]

Edited 2014-09-24 06:23 (UTC)

[ A ]

[ There's a preteen girl wandering around Isla Empieza with the dazed expression of a newbie. She doesn't seem weirded out by being on an island in pirate-era civilization, but rather just... this isn't the island in pirate-era civilization that she knows. She's never been off her home island, after all, so this is very, very weird.

Somebody come and give her some directions? Maybe tell her what's going on? Don't mind the katana, she's just a swordsman. Don't mind don't mind. ]

[ B ]

[ For the pretending-she's-been-here-a-bit option, Kuina is now aboard a ship, and said ship is sailing.

Kuina, however, has a one-track mind, and can usually be found at a nice, out-of-the-way post aboard the ship, whacking at it with a shinai. It's training, okay? She's a halfway-decent swordsman, but everybody else is a super-awesome-decent swordsman, and she doesn't like being behind other people in terms of sword skill.

Eventually, though, that training gets stale. She needs to mix it up, and practice in a real-ish fight. That means sparring. And she so she approaches one of her crewmates. ] Hey. Want to spar? [ She phrases it like a question, but she's not really giving a choice. Sorry, that's how she rolls. ]

[ C ]

[ Make up your own option! ]

[A: She is on a lawn chair on the deck, cucumber slices over her eyes and a mirror to her face as she tries to tan. If you can't beat a forced cruise on an unknown sea, at least you can enjoy yourself.

B: A hoarde of ill gotten gold.

"All this treasure WILL BE MINE! AHAHAHAHA" Obligatory lightning flash. Don't ask where it comes from. Sometimes the universe doesn't make sense.

C: What I wouldn't give for industrial strength misquito repellent. [steps in mud] Where's the muscle when you need it. Kronk!]

A: Aboard a ship, any ship

[Tohru has no idea how to operate a sailboat of any shape or size. He does, however, know how to follow instructions, and 'check the ropes to make sure they're in good condition' is a perfectly easy instruction to follow. No one ever said he wasn't allowed to explore the ship while he did the checking.]

B: Aboard a ship 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Driving a boat is like driving a car, right? Right. At least it looks that way. Did you let this guy take the helm? If not, you might want to pull him away from it before he crashes into something.]

C: Choose Your Own Adventure!

Hanging out on the ship:

I suppose I'll have to invest in a strong anesthetic, sooner or later. The salty air certainly does do a number on old wounds. Though I suppose my entire body is pretty much an old wound.

[He sucks in a deep drag from his pipe, before blowing a few smoke rings.]

It's been a very long time since I last went to sea. Then, at least the boat had an iron hull. This is far inferior.

Fighting the Navy:

[Shishio had taken the initiative to divert the Naval ambush they discovered. Not out of any real altruism for his crew or drive to be a hero. Just because it had been a while since he got a real workout. By the time the crew pulls up alongside the strangely silent Naval vessel, he's waiting for them on the deck.]

Ah, you've all finally gotten here.

[He's covered in blood, as is the deck, the riggings, the mast, and just about every surface.]

I already tossed all the remains into the sea. It was a bit of work, but I think the idea of a deserted, bloody ship is more mysterious. A bit more theatrical, don't you think?

A) Pick an island, any island

[Gray is in a pub somewhere on one of the many islands around and low and behold he's managed to strip off all his clothes, minus his boxers. He jumps up and knocks his drink over, shaking his fist in a threating, yet comical, manner at someone who made an innocent comment about it]

What was that?! For the last time I'm not a pervert!

B) Freezing things is a good idea

[Is this your ship? Because if it is, Gray just froze a good portion of the deck's floor, so watch your step. The ship's mast is also covered in crystallized ice and may or may not be damaged. He probably got into a brawl with a crew member]

C) Wild Card

[Choose your own adventure!]

(Town Square)

Man, the people around here are so rude. Can't a guy get his questions answered in peace? One of you people talk to me, damn it!

[A tall, but stout man...dinosaur...thing in a hat and suit, is tromping around trying to get some answers. Do you approach? Yes/No?]

(At Sea)

[He's really not liking the fact that he had to ditch his detective attire to get around the boat easier. Not much point in wearing a suit that turns into a wet rag by the end of the day.]

I'm gettin' hungry. Are the fish in these waters safe to eat, or what? I've got no idea how anything around here compares to Earth faire.

[A: Town Square]

[Well, he certainly looks lost. He's not asking anyone for directions, and his expression is relatively neutral, but that's not stopping Takashi from sticking out in Isla Empieza like a sore thumb. He wanders around the town square, completely without direction, like he's just waiting for something to give him an idea of where he should be looking, and he doesn't look at much of anything like it's familiar. Not even mentioning his clothes, completely out of place in these surroundings.

This wasn't Boston, he'd left Boston. It wasn't Japan, either, he'd think he'd remember the plane landing. It certainly wasn't the plane, and he'd been standing here way too long to just be dreaming. That was the last of the theories he'd had, now he was just confused.]

[B: Aboard a Ship]

[Eventually, he figured himself out. Really, once Mori got himself on a ship, it wasn't much of an issue. It might have taken him a while to get used to being out on the sea, once he'd figured it out, he took to the work well enough. Nothing too complicated, just the matter of making sure the ship could continue to go where they pointed, above the surface rather than below it. He didn't pay much mind to where they were going or what they were doing, just quietly did his work.

Even when he was resting, he didn't say much to the rest of the crew. WIthout Mitsukuni's buffer, he found himself pulled even less than usual to participate in conversation. Still, he would normally sit by the crew, listening to their conversation in companionable silence.]

[C: Choose your own]

Town Square- Isle Empieza

It's Orlando. It's Disney World! It has to be! The cobblestone streets, the quaintly dressed people- they were hiding their employee badges quite well- he had to be in Adventureland, or Frontierland, or whereever the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was. It had been so long, he barely remembered.

[A tall, immpeccably-dressed teenager in a white dress shirt, tie, and black slacks is pondering passerby, a slightly strained smile on his face and a book tucked under his arm.]

Threaded | Flat

Cherri Cola / Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys \ OTA

Kuina | One Piece

no subject

Tohru Mutou | Shiki | OTA

Makoto Shishio | Rurouni Kenshin

Gray Fullbuster | Fairy Tail