Test Drive for November 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

[freeadvice]

[Remy makes a face at her like you'd expect a five year old to do with a sibling. As Parker starts contemplating the ring, he gets slightly more serious. And starts thinking.]

Could be more important den a simple ring.

[...And then he has an idea.]

Maybe it's fo' somethin' bigger, eh?

[Like real booty.]

[loveshertaser]

...Like a real treasure hunt.

[Okay. Now, that? That sounds cool.

And has her examining the ring more closely. What would Nate look for?]

[freeadvice]

...Maybe we need t'pay de governor another visit?

[Breaking back into an island that is definitely not accepting visitors or their specific ship back right now considering all their ports are closed - thinking that whoever broke in is still there.]

Dat'd be fun.

[loveshertaser]

[Parker turns the ring over in her hand.]

Could be a key.

Oh! The stones might come out! And if you arrange them just right? It opens a door!

[It works in the movies Hardison's made her watch.]

[freeadvice]

[Remy just arches a brow. Someone's been watching too much television.

Then again they are all living in a magical pirate world where Davy Jones and magical jewels are a real thing.]

...S'not the craziest t'ing I ever heard.

[loveshertaser]

Or!

[She's still looking at the ring. Very, very closely.]

Maybe there's just a bit of difference in the color. Like hex codes but... old... timey... stuff.

And the difference makes coordinates! To where the loot's buried!

[freeadvice]

Mebbe.

[That's his thinking voice. Because if - if - that was possible solution.... There had to be several deciding factors included.]

D'ya even t'ink dey have any kind o'numerical or alphabetical hex code here? Dat's a pretty tall order dere.

[loveshertaser]

Anywhere that values gems has a grading system.

[Duh.]

There has to be a way to distinguish when you're buying or selling. The quality, the shine, the size, the vibrancy of color. All of those make every gem unique.

And people who are going to make jewelry with multiple pieces of the same stone need a way to rate the color. For a consistent look.

[Or.]

It might even be the difference in color between them and real sapphires that's the code.