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

[anoblelie]

[Azula was content enough to follow after, a small flame held in her hand to light any dark corner the thickening canopy may create. Flames may easily slice through the jungle, but it was better to have an excess of strength when needed than to vainly show it off when not required. Her companion had hardly given her reason to doubt so far in his capabilities, after all.]

Hm. Few signs of civilization. How can a people sit so near open conquest and then willingly leave it to others? No wonder their lord was forced into recruiting more capable peoples.

[dragmire]

You speak as if this world is worth conquering. It is a pitiful land, with endless seas dotted by islands of no importance. What would this island offer but another port, where fools tend the land and fish the seas?

[And it reminds him far too much of the same world he left behind. To go from one such wretched to another world is a grave insult. And now here he is, cutting through this jungle like a common brute.]

[anoblelie]

When all land is equally worthless, conquest needs no justification but conquest itself.

[There was power in a flag, in the nation it represented. The pitiful water tribes were hardly worth the ice they floated on, after all, but the Fire Nation would rule them nonetheless. It was destiny manifest. A cause which gave Azula's words a tone of utter conviction- one granted to her from a lifetime of being raised under nothing but such an ideology.]

And the matter of the gems, I suppose.

[dragmire]

[Vines fell away from his blade, but he stopped a moment, head tilting over his shoulder to look down at her. He had been convinced this world had no value. Indeed, he thought the same of his own world.

Conquest for the sake of conquest. Hm.]

And if you use the gems to return home, what will became of your ocean empire?

[anoblelie]

[She gave a one shouldered shrug, casting her gaze into the shadows- no. Nothing of worth. A small frown formed, though she stopped it from being a full scowl. Exploration too time. Patience. Foolish haste lead only to destruction.]

What becomes of a candle's glow once the sun rises?

[dragmire]

It is drowned in irrelevance. [He wears a cruel smile.] What does this world matter once we have left? Let it burn.

[For a moment, he is tempted to make a literal example of this in the very forest. He nearly does, but then he spots something. A shadow within the shadows, moving in a way unseen. He stops and his eyes narrow, trying to spot where this figure now was.]

[anoblelie]

Trouble?

[She takes no effort to hide the edge of hopefulness from the question, all previous conversation paused for the moment. Another person would mean a victim to interrogate, a swift means of achieving their ends. Monsters would simply mean something to kill- an idea she was rather inclined towards given her last few weeks trapped aboard a floating match box. The flame in her hand glowed brighter, burning with a renewed flame to light the shadows around them.]

[dragmire]

Not for us.

[The light aided his search, but after so long trapped in another realm, he was well suited for the darkness. But the light accomplished another task. It drove the shadow out of hiding. And so Ganondorf began to pursue, picking up speed as he hacked away at the very trees themselves, removing them from his path. The hunt was on.]