reallybadeggs | Test Drive for February 2015 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?

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[NOPE TOO LATE he already caught on. His eyes had gone straight to the tattoo (because tattoos on the chest are the best, man) and now Barty is cowering with his hands clenched in his generous crest of floofy hair going oh shit oh shit oh shit]

Marco the Phoenix, fuck! I didn't think he'd be here too. Ahhhahahaha no offense, man, really. I'm all turned around, I swear I didn't...

[but...he did say something about a drink. Bartolomeo chances a look up and then takes a step to follow]

...eh? A drink?

At least you catch on quicker than most rookies, eh?

[Signals and heads into the bar.]

And none taken. It does sound pretty crazy at first. I lucked out in meeting my brother first although even that was kind of a shock.

[he picks himself up and trots along, not quite the puppy at the heels like he would be with Luffy but still pretty impressed. After all, any crewmate of Luffy's brother who also distinguished himself amazingly at Marineford is worth the awe.]

Does that mean there's a lot of folks here from our world? Not just Luffy-senp...I mean, Straw Hat Luffy?

[BE COOL MAN jesus.]

[... Oh man. Luffy-senpai.]

[That takes him back.]

[When was Roger's first fanboy?]

[A WHILE AGO.]

[God damn he's getting OLD.]

[No wonder his father felt ANCIENT.]

Sorry, mate, no.

Only a few left.

Mostly my brothers, or Straw Hats. One mermaid from our world: Keimi, she's with the Straw Hats, she's a friend of theirs. [He mentally ticks through a list.] Law and Bepo of the Heart pirates. Also traveling with the Straw Hats.

Dark King Rayleigh and Shakki were here for a little bit, but they're gone too now.

[Fond grin.] It's probably just as well. They'd wreak a lot of havoc.

[And their era is past.... or something like that. Actually that's too dark for Marco to think much about........... SO HE WON'T.]

L-law?

[but weren't they just...and he was...no he's good, that's right. Yosh! All right, then.]

Whitebeards, huh? Wow, never thought I'd brush up against them so soon. And Straw Hats. Not bad, not bad.

You know Luffy's crew?

Who doesn't?

[oh shit here we go. Full fanboy mode is go.]

Straw Hat Luffy is going to become the Pirate King someday! It's going to be amazing!

Uh...

Right.

Is being the Pirate King really such a big deal?

[Yes Marco, ask the chicken that. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.]

ARE YOU KIDDING?! I mean, you should know, but I don't wanna bring up stuff about Whitebeard if it's like, taboo or something.

But I grew up on Loguetown, seeing that platform every day. The Pirate King is big news! Always has been, always will be!

[Ewwwwwwwww...]

[East Blue cooties.]

[And for JUST A SECOND...]

[Marco kind of understands why Shiki wanted it destroyed.]

[Gross.]

Sorry, I've been in the New World for a very... long time, eh?

And I guess I'd always rather be like my father than Roger, eh?

Ace could probably tell you some good stories about his little brother, but he's not here, and Jinbei and Thatch took the brunt of a lot of the rest of the stories, but they'd probably be too annoyed to really repeat them.

Is Loguetown exciting? [He's guessing not.]

Ace? Fire Fist Ace? But he's...isn't he...you know. I mean, we were fighting for the Mera Mera...

[hang on Marco what is this confusion, you're messing with his poor addled chicken-head]

Loguetown? Eh, no, not really. I was kind of an underground boss there, it was the only thing to do, really. Nothing as exciting as being a pirate on the open sea, though!

Aye. Welcome to being in a different world, eh?

If you die, you go to Davy Jones locker, but not gone forever. Sort of. It's a whole big time-space continuum thing that I haven't solved yet and Robin hasn't forgiven me for. [Girls. Whatcha gonna do? Marco's just gonna drink now.]

It's complicated. And why I'm not in a rush to go back without figuring it all out first. Thatch is also alive here. Fourth division commander, if you'd heard of him. Just don't mention Blackbeard to any of my brothers, eh.

Y-yeah, I mean no. No sweat. [all badassery aside, he's not going to get the First division commander pissed at him.] I think I need a few drinks just to wrap my head around that if you don't mind.

My treat.

[Slides him one.]

So the mera mera fruit is up for grabs, eh?

[free booze from Whitebeards, this is a good day all things considered.]

Ah. Uh, yeah, sorry if you didn't know about it. There was a fighting tournament on Dressrosa, it was supposed to be the prize. If I won it, I was gonna give it to Luffy-senpai. I can't use it anyway, already got one, but I know he'd want that precious keepsake of his brother.

[he might have squeed and flailed about it in front of Luffy, but here, in front of someone he'd only met but still respected, he could be serious about it. It was the truth, after all.]

[Grins.]

You're a pretty good guy, Green Chicken-kun. [He should probably figure out his name before nicknaming him but whatever.]

I'll admit, I got pretty scared for a moment there. Teach would love to have his crew use that kind of thing, I'm sure.

[gnashing of teeth] It's Bartolomeo!

...uh. Yeah, I bet. [hmm maybe it's better off not to mention Burgess. Big dumb asshole.] Not an issue, though. It's safe.

As you say. [He will never call him that.]

[Maybe Chicken-man.]

So what's your devil fruit, anyway?

[a question like that calls for showing off. Barty grins and glances down the bar at some of the other sad sacks drowning their sorrows, and then crosses his fingers with a flick of his wrist. The guy on the other side of Marco suddenly splutters as some kind of force field appears between his mouth and his glass and his attempt to take a drink turns into ale everywhere.]

I'm a barrier human. HAH! Smooth move, dumbass! You got a drinking problem, all right!

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