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!

Comments

nope ttly claimed in the name of the fire nation

[anoblelie]

An insult against my person? That's- oh, wait a moment.

[She smiled, sweetly. The same kind of sweet, charming smile Zuzu received whenever Azula was about to toss him under the bus cart with their father. Along with it she stepped forward, arms sweeping to gesture to the entire island- and, yes, apple still held in one hand to accent it all.]

You were here first. Or isn't that right? I've heard all about the young girl with control over water and healing. I wonder what that says about a person. Hm. But, why linger in the past? We have the same goal here, don't we?

[Avatar's girlfriend is barely kept off her tongue- but better to save any references to that for later. For now, there's the small matter of getting home, to back where the Fire Nation was relevant, regardless of the unsavory means involved.]

b-but i was gonna make apple pie :(

[unyieldingwater]

It has nothing to do with who was here first.

[ Yeah that smile. That smile would charm anyone into thinking she was not the viper Katara knew her to be. Nonetheless, she's suspicious. ]

You can't seriously expect me to think you -aren't- after the jewel for your own personal gain.

[ She wouldn't put it past Azula to get the jewel and backstab everyone, leaving Sokka and Katara stranded here while the Fire Nation took over her home. ... for that matter how was the war going back home...? Did they win? Did the Fire Nation win? Augh that's going to bother her. ]

fire nation pie. with that extra back stabbing kick

[anoblelie]

Of course I'm after it for my own gain.

[Said with such a sigh, as if explaining it to a child. The apple is twisted in the air with her accompanying gesture, before she glances down at it and back up at the other girl.]

But so are you. They say the gem has the power to take us home, right? But they don't specify the number of homes. Think about it, won't you? We're not here as explorers, as aids or guardians. We're outlaws. Pitted against each other. Obviously, I think they gem will open the portal back to one world.

[Azula stops a few feet in front of her, the apple is finally offered back to the girl with the same sweet smile in place.]

And it will be to my gain if it's to ours.

psh, this is why we can't have nice things. fire nation is always grabbing it up :(

[unyieldingwater]

[ Hey. don't you go patronizing her you know what she meant! ]

It doesn't say that it only opens the way to one world either. It's just as possible that it'll open the gateway for everyone to go back. [ Ever the idealist. When the apple is offered to her, Katara eyes it like it's a snake about to bite her before cautiously reaching out to take it back. ]

You know we're going to stop you anyway. [ Back home, she means. And well, she's not going to want you to get your grubby hands on that treasure if she can help it. Who knows where you've been. ]

w/e w/e, all the other nations are just jealous

[anoblelie]

[And the smile stayed, tone light and mocking as she intentionally misunderstand's the other woman's meaning. And dropped her hand once the apple is taken.]

Stop me from getting us back home? At the cost of you staying here, too. I'm flattered. I didn't realize I was so much a threat to your little...

[One hand comes up to her chin as she- purposefully- searches for a word.]

Happy family. But here and the real war have so very little to do with each other, don't they? Why, the Avatar isn't even here.

[Said with confidence, though she's watching Katara closely. Waiting to see if, somehow, the boy had been here, hidden all along. His team did so love to prove her wrong by yelling about the 'truth,' after all. She may just let it slip.]

nuh-uh, fire nation is jelly over our awesome parties

[unyieldingwater]

Stop you as in stopping you and the Fire Nation from winning the war. Even I'm not so heartless to leave someone stranded in a place like this.

[ Even though she kind of wonders if the war wouldn't be won easier if she did. But Aang wouldn't like that and it wouldn't sit right with Katara either. ]

... [ She flinches slightly at mention of Aang. ]

You're right.

[ Wait what? ]

I bet Aang and the others will have won the war by the time we get back.

pssh, *pssh* Fire nation has the best dancing and the avatar knows it

[anoblelie]

[She has to pull the hand back to cover her mouth, partially masking her laugh. Wow, Katara, did that 'you're right' hurt to say?]

Or died terrible without their healer. We won't know until we get back, will we? So. I propose a truce. We work together- or not against each other, anyway. Just until the moment we return to the reality that matters. Then we see where your Avatar and my dearest brother have left us, hm?

did they change the fire nation's definition of best to 'most ridiculous' and not tell me?

[unyieldingwater]

[ Yes, Yes it did, thank you for your concern! She may be internally bleeding now. ]

I'm not going to make a decision like that on the spur of the moment.

[ It's one thing to work with Zuko - he proved himself. Katara trusted Azula about as far as she could throw a hippophant. And who knows how Azula defined her idea of 'truce' anyway? But she's going to need to talk to Sokka before making any decisions, that was for certain. ]