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

[taketwoadults]

I'm not eager to fight one. I just wanna see one.

[ropeguy]

Tch... whatever's on the island, just don't go wandering off. You never know when we might need to make a quick exit - we're pirates now, after all.

[taketwoadults]

I'll stay close, don't worry.

Say, you were a shipwright before all this happened, right? Did you ever make ships for pirates?

[ropeguy]

Yeah, we'd get pirates now and then. As long as they had they money, they were a customer.

Some of the smart ones even got to leave with their ships, too.

[taketwoadults]

Even if they weren't the good kind of pirates?

[ropeguy]

Just remember this, kid. Every man with a bounty on his head did something that somebody didn't like. It's all relative, and a customer's a customer. You don't survive by turning away work.

[taketwoadults]

I guess, yeah...

[He looks contemplative as he walks back towards the railing.]

How long d'you think it'll take before we reach land?

[ropeguy]

Well, dinosaur killer, if you don't mind adjusting the sails we can probably make it in an hour or two.

[taketwoadults]

[A grin spreads across his face and he breaks out into a run]

Already on it!

[ropeguy]

[And sure enough, with a good wind and the efforts of the crew, a few short hours later they're weighing anchor by the island. Paulie, for his part, is preparing to launch the landing boat]

Ready to go, kid?

[taketwoadults]

Definitely!

[Dry land will be a nice thing to feel]

[ropeguy]

[And off they go! And just a few short minutes later they've run aground, Paulie jumping out and sloshing through the last bit of water to true dry land]

Well, here we are. Let's just hope for some edible fruit, at least.

[taketwoadults]

[Ven leaps out behind him, jogging a little to catch up.]

Maybe we'll be able to find a village or a town or something!

[ropeguy]

Yeah, but it's too bad we don't have much to trade. It'd be nice sleeping on something that doesn't move, though.

[There does seem to be something of a path going through the jungle that he can see. It's not much, but he'll take it]

[taketwoadults]

Oh, hey! Look! There's a path up ahead!

[Because this clearly needed to be pointed out.

He runs up ahead, eagerly beginning to make his way through the jungle.]

C'mon! Let's go!

[ropeguy]

Hey, I said not to wander off!

[Dammit, now he has to run just to catch up. Freakin' Ventus...]

[taketwoadults]

[LOL TOTALLY IGNORING YOU, PAULIE. :D Well, ok, no. He heard him just fine and he stops a little ways ahead, waiting for Paulie to catch up.]

It's not my fault you're such a slowpoke.

[ropeguy]

The island isn't going anywhere! It's an island!

[taketwoadults]

But who knows what we could be missing while we take our time wandering through the jungle!

[THERE COULD BE DINOSAURS, PAULIE. D I N O S A U R S.]

[ropeguy]

Whatever's out there isn't going anywhere either!

[Sigh]

Kids...

[taketwoadults]

[Already started walking ahead, but he calls back over his shoulder.]

I'm not a kid!

[ropeguy]

[Paulie doesn't bother replying, instead following at his own pace but making sure Ven never gets out of eyesight. Looking around as they proceed, he's relieved to see that some of the fruit here looks edible at least. No matter what, the trip won't be a total bust]

Find anything interesting yet?

[taketwoadults]

Not really. Just jungle stuff.

[ropeguy]

So jungles are boring to you now, huh? I'll keep that in mind.

[taketwoadults]

No, that's not what I meant! It's all really interesting, but... probably not the same kind of interesting you're talking about.