Test Drive for October 2013 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!

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Joshamee Gibbs | Pirates of the Caribbean

[superstitiouspirate]

Mother's love. This be neither Tortuga nor the Pearl. Where have I gotten meself to now?

[Said as he looked bleary eyed around the town square. Unconsciously, he hugged his teddy bear closer to his chest as he squinted around town and then at the fountain.]

[awhitecrow]

A... very strange place, sir. I know the town is called Isla Empieza, but I'm afraid I... know little else, sir.

[A quiet young man -- or, at least, he looks younger than he is -- is at Gibb's side. Or at least near enough. He still has a very Navy bearing, and to say he looks skittish is probably very kind.]

[superstitiouspirate]

[Sir? He hasn't been called that in a great long while. Not since... well. He squints up at the young man suddenly. Just as he thought, Royal Navy.Realizing that he is sitting on the ground, he uses the fountain's edge to heave himself up into a more or less vertical position, forgotten, the teddy bear remains tucked under one arm.

Like the young man, he appears to be wearing a naval uniform of a sorts. Or at least the dirty, sleeveless coat worn more or less as a vest might suggest that.]

No need to stand on formalities with me lad. I've not heard of this place in me travels. [He reached down the front of his shirt then, grabbing for his neck flask and pulling it up with a mighty need for a drink to settle his mind and his thirst... only as usual, it seemed to be empty.]

[awhitecrow]

Nor have I, sir. [It's too ingrained in him to simply abandon.] But it seems we've been brought here. Quite a few of us.

[At least he knows this man's voice. Or it sounds similar to what he's used to.]

...You're the first Englishman I've found, too, sir.

[superstitiouspirate]

Rotten luck to be cast adrift here, and with no rum too. [Gibbs gives a soft grunt as he tucks the neck flask away and rubs his face with a free hand.]

That's surprising to hear. I though we were as common as fleas on a dog's back.

[He shifts his attention away from the other man to look around, noticing for the first time the words on the fountain.] Marry Mudder of god... Davy Jones' lair? It don't mean the Locker does it?

[bottlearum]

Mr. Gibbs!

[ With authority in his voice and purpose in his steps, Jack quickly strides over to his First Mate. ]

[superstitiouspirate]

[that voice certainly got his attention. He was quick to look for the owner of said voice, while a broad grin formed on his face.]

Jack! It's good to see you.

[The teddy bear is totally forgotten, remaining tucked under one arm.]

[bottlearum]

[ The teddy bear does warrant a second glance. But he's quick to shake it off because, more than anything else, it just confirms to him that the man before him truly is Joshamee Gibbs.

But he couldn't be happy to see Gibbs. Oh no. If anything, he narrows his eyes. ]

As I thought. I hope your actions for ending up here were naught but your own, then.

[ Here not being here here, but more where he thinks here is. ]

[superstitiouspirate]

[He was always happy to see Jack, even if the man was looking rather unhappy at the moment.]

Where is here? The last I recall I was aboard the Pearl and then I awoke to find meself here by this fountain.

[He nods to the fountain, noticing for the first time that there are words written on it. Screwing up his face, he squints at it trying to read them, but given his current hangover, the letter sort of swim around and he just gives up.]

[the_white_goddess]

[One hand reaches out to him, offering to help him to his feet. The hand belongs to a young-looking woman with a kind face and a strange, grumpy looking bird (which is certainly not a parrot, sorry to say) on her shoulder.]

When that answer finds you, I shall hope you will be willing to share that answer.

[superstitiouspirate]

[He isn't used to accepting help from a lady. It isn't proper so he waves her off and uses the edge of the fountain to help himself stand instead. As he does so, he gives the woman a quick glance over, deciding that she has to be some sort of lady and therefore worthy of respect.]

Begging your pardon miss but it's not right for me to get a hand up from likes of you.

[the_white_goddess]

[Humans. His stubborn choice to refuse her help only makes her smile fondly. How can anyone not love human-kind? They are, by far, her favorite face though she loves them all.]

Oh? And why might that be?

[She can't fathom it, really. Her own people often prayed to her for help.]

[superstitiouspirate]

[Not just stubborn but also from a time period were men were supposed to be manly men and women delicate creatures.]

Well with you being a lady and all, it wouldn't look right, a grown man such as myself taking help from you.

[tantiny]

There's some writing inscribed on the base of the statue.

[ Not really clear where this kid came from but he's standing next to the man, looking over at the same fountain. ]

[superstitiouspirate]

[The voice certainly gives him a start. He jumps, fumbling for the knife he kept sheathed along the small of his back, and then relaxed, realizing that it was some kid.

Seeing as the lad was right, Gibbs leaned forwards more, squinting as he tried to make his bleary eyes focus on the words.]

It looks to be a poem of some kind. [he finally added half way through reading it. His face changed from one of casual pondering to one of outright fright once he reached the bottom of it.}

It can't be. He's dead!

[tantiny]

[ Recognition? ]

Who's dead?

[superstitiouspirate]

[Gibbs glances to the lad, wondering if he is daft.] Davy Jones!

[forgottendecade]

Another world accessed through the time stream's weakening bonds.

[ he shrugs; dressed in travel-worn clothing, Joji looked more than bored with the people milling about. he had stopped nearby and hearing the words of the older man, decided to reply. the idea of world traveling had long ago lost it's appeal but like others from his former employer, it was a fact of life. at least this place did not show signs of any Shocker troopers trying to muscle in. ]

There will be a way back to your world. There always is.

[superstitiouspirate]

[Gibbs was a smart man, even learned by some standards as he knew how to read and write, but what the other man said had him at a loss.]

My world? You mean to say I am not upon the good green Earth?

[forgottendecade]

I doubt that you are. There are a number of Earths in a number of dimensions, some a little more worse off than others, but this world does not have the same taste as does Earth.

[ shrugging, Joji flexed his right hand, the augmented fingers cracking in protest. ]

The energy is off by a few degrees.

[superstitiouspirate]

[Gibbs narrows his eyes, studying the younger man, trying to get a feel for if he is telling the truth or not. Given that Joji has no reason to lie to him, he cautiously accepts what it is he is saying.]

Other Earths don't surprise me, not when I've been to the world's end. I've a feeling this is not the usual place, seeing as at last recall I was sleeping aboard a ship and not here next to some dried up fountain.

HOW DID I MISS THIS

[justguidelines]

[Back in this pisspot, poor man's excuse for Tortuga again, to resupply and...Well, if he's being honest, to have a moment away from the ones he's calling crew in this place. Honestly, it's amazing he hasn't shot them all and dumped them overboard, but...

Well, beggars can't be choosers, and he has an itch to get home.

But the town is, as always, crowded with starry-eyed greenhorns and the shrill voices of too many annoying people crammed into too tight of a space and-

And there's Joshamee Gibbs, plain as day. Joshamee Gibbs, who for reasons unknown, never bothered speaking up when he asked after that lot the last time, though he's willing to suppose they might not have been there then.

But all the same, he makes his way to where Gibbs is hugging-

Is that a teddy bear.

That earns an eye roll, before he shakes his head, closing the distance between them.]

About time you climbed out from the pigsty, Gibbs. Only been looking for you lot since I first arrived, haven't I.

Sorry it took me a bit to respond!

[superstitiouspirate]

[Gibbs, was just finishing up reading the message on the fountain when Barbossa's voice caused him to turn around. He owed the man no real love, but still had a healthy respect for him.

He tucks the bear up under one arm, casually, aware that it isn't exactly pirate-like to be seen with one.]

I wouldn't know that as I've only just arrived it seems. I was on the Pearl the last I can recall.

Shh you're fine! o/

[justguidelines]

[Hector does nothing more than shake his head at the bear-tucking. Honestly, the people Jack befriends.

But he pauses at the mention of the Pearl. It's a minute thing, hardly telling, but there all the same.]

Gibbs, don't be ridiculous. You and I very well know we went over that waterfall last.

[superstitiouspirate]

[Now this was a curious thing for him, Considering he was quite certain he had in fact been on the Pearl while she was at Tortuga.]

Were you meaning the waterfall that lead to the Locker?

[He asked hesitantly, squinting fiercely at Barbossa. The teddy bear was forgotten for the moment.]