Test Drive for February 2015 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

[skyfaring_swordsman]

A simple thing to say among men, but I've come up against opponents that are far beyond human. Gears are not so easy to over-power.

[divinerighttorule]

Or else you're not approaching them in the right way.

[skyfaring_swordsman]

I should hope that you never have to meet one, Princess.

Is the food almost ready?

[divinerighttorule]

Likely.

[She rises and goes to the small fire, removing the two skewered fish and putting them each on a plate before spooning out heated rice.

Serving doesn't come naturally to her, but she sets the plates down and takes her seat again.]

Are large machines unusual in your world, then?

[skyfaring_swordsman]

No, we have plenty of those, though not like the world once did. Several kind of machines mankind simply lost the information on. We're just sort of flying blind with some of it. We used to be able to travel the stars.

[And there he goes, chewing away on that food. After so long without, it's the best thing he's ever had.]

A triumph! Delicious.

[divinerighttorule]

My next endeavor is to find a proper cook.

[Because she shouldn't be making meals for herself. Still, one must make do in a new place such as this.]

[skyfaring_swordsman]

Leap did all of the cooking on my own ship, but I'd say I'm a fairly good one. Not a master, but I do well enough. You have to learn a few things, raising a whole ship full of young ladies.

[divinerighttorule]

A whole ship of young ladies? I may have to ask you to tell me more about that.

[skyfaring_swordsman]

[Why does everyone always get so curious about that? It seems perfectly logical, to him.]

Hm? Why would I have men on my fleet? All of the Jellyfish Pirates are girls who either volunteered to join or had no other place to go. Here, you can have a look.

[After fishing out his wallet, he shows her two different pictures.]

We had these taken on a vacation. It's not everyone on my crew, we'd need a much larger lens.

[divinerighttorule]

[Azula studies the pictures for some time, her expression difficult to read. A lot of young women, indeed. Still, it wasn't unusual for men to surround themselves with beautiful women.]

Interesting.

[Still, at least he's had a pirate crew before.]

Would you require a crew of only young women here?

[She smiles. Probably kidding. But. Well. It might not be. Hard to say with the way her lips quirk and her head tilts.]

I don't like competition.

[skyfaring_swordsman]

Those girls are my family, they'll always be the number one crew in my heart. That's in that world, though, and this is another.

[A short moment to sip more of his tea.]

I know how to compromise. It's your crew, after all. I'm not so presumptuous as to think I can decide who gets hired. What do you mean by competition, exactly? The way you carry yourself, I doubt you'll get many challenges for your position. Especially if you can fire-cast bigger than what you've shown.