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

[hands4healing]

[Blink. Blink blink.]

No...?

[Could it really be? Could Auntie Trisha, or her Mom and Dad come back to life? Really?]

[bravelittlehero]

Oh! That's good. Really good!

[Clementine gives a brilliant smile.] You don't want to see them because they are very weird and they try and eat you. When they bite you, you get sick. Or they eat you until you die.

[She stops smiling for a moment.] But if they aren't here, then that's really good news. Do you know where I am?

[hands4healing]

E-eat you? [Well, that kind of sounds like those one-eyed things Ed talked about once. Winry is glad she didn't see them.]

Um, I'm sorry, I'm not sure where I am, so, I guess we'd have to find out together?

[bravelittlehero]

Together?

[She pauses a moment, thinking about it before nodding.] Um, okay! I'm Clementine!

[Clem smiles brightly again offering her small, albeit dirty hand out to her.]

Lee calls me Clem. I don't mind.

[hands4healing]

[Grins back, and shakes Clementine's hand.]

Sure! I mean, we have to stick together in a strange place, don't we?

I'm Winry. It's nice to meet you, Clem!

[bravelittlehero]

That sounds good. [She nods her agreement and checks to make sure her baseball cap is in place. It is, so she is left just holding the gun, unsure of what to do with it.]

Oh, it's nice to meet you Winry. [She says as an afterthought, as though she's forgotten her manners for a moment.]

I see lots of alive people. That's good right?

[hands4healing]

Alive people is very good. [Beams.]

Are you hungry? Or...maybe we should get you a bag or something, so you don't have to hold your gun in your hand all the time.

[bravelittlehero]

Well...

[Clementine seems to be thinking about it, because she's also got this strange journal that she woke up with and her hands are pretty full altogether. But more importantly, she turns to Winry and lowers her voice, as if imparting a very solemn secret.]

I really really want a chocolate bar.

[hands4healing]

[Winry nods as solemnly.]

Then let's find you a chocolate bar!

[bravelittlehero]

[Her eyes shine brightly and she smiles.] Okay! It's been a really really long time since I had one. Nowhere we go has anything like that anymore. I understand, I would've eaten the chocolate first too.

[hands4healing]

I'd bet! And while we're looking for chocolate for you, maybe we can find some apples for me.

[bravelittlehero]

Oh wow. I like apples.

[Clem grins.]

I guess I need a bag maybe. I lost my sweatshirt. The mean man took it...oh...but I guess it was his before. We took it first. [She looks down, a bit ethically confused.]

[hands4healing]

I'm sure we can find you a new shirt to wear, and a bag. [And a bath, but Winry won't say that out loud. Yet.]

Where were you before this?

[bravelittlehero]

I was...I was... [Clementine's lip quivers a bit and her eyes water. She takes in a shuddering breath but pushes it away.]

[She swallows.] I was trying to leave Savannah, but I'm all alone and it's taking a long time.

[hands4healing]

[Winry realizes she's asked the wrong question, and squats down so she's closer to Clementine's height, putting her hands on the other girl's shoulders.]

You're really far from Savannah now. [Whatever Savannah is.] And this is a nice place...most of the time.

[bravelittlehero]

I guess that's good. I won't see the walkers anymore? [She looks hopeful, maybe a little tired.]

[hands4healing]

Well...I don't know. [Winry doesn't want to lie, after all, and she doesn't really know enough about this place to say what might be on the islands or the ships.] But there are people who'll help you, I'm sure of it.

[bravelittlehero]

Lee said I can look after myself now. [Clementine informs her, swelling with pride.] He taught me to shoot the gun.

[hands4healing]

[Guns.]

I'm sure he wanted you to be able to protect yourself. That's important.

[bravelittlehero]

[Clementine nods.] Yep. Protect myself and him. Except...

[She looks a little sad.] Lee's not here anymore. I had to...[She waves the gun a bit.]

[hands4healing]

[Oh. Oh.]

I'm sorry, Clem!

[bravelittlehero]

Thanks. He got bit...[She shuffles her feet.] He was going to turn into one of them so he asked me. I didn't miss. I did real good.

[hands4healing]

I'm sure you did. [Winry bites her lip, and rubs Clementine's shoulder.] What you did was very brave.

[bravelittlehero]

[Clem nods.] I know.

[hands4healing]

And I'm sure it hurt, a lot.