Test Drive for April 2015 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!

♦ Arrr, here be buried treasure, but not all that glitters is gold! Will ye be telling your mateys what ye found, or keeping it for yourselves?

Comments

[childofreim]

[Titus looks up and down the beach, especially at the huge piles of sand he's moved and all the holes he's excavated. If that's true...

He looks over at Roxas in dismay.]

I was supposed to be looking for a key, too? I didn't know you needed a key.

[In the stories, brave explorers just open the chests. What's inside is what's important, so maybe the authors just gloss over that part. If it's true, though, they might have a problem.]

[heartismyown]

You know...I don't know!

[He seems to think this over.]

How else would you unlock it?

[Roxas pokes at the chest, thoughtfully.]

I don't know how it's supposed to work, but I can unlock it for you if you want.

[childofreim]

[Titus tugs at the lid of the chest, but it is indeed stuck tight. He can see a latch and there does seem to be a lock, but he can't figure out just by looking at it where the key would go in. Actually, he's not sure he's ever had to unlock something himself. If Roxas can unlock it, though...wait, is he going to unlock it with...?

Titus brightens considerably.]

With your key?

[He's never gotten a chance to see the key in action! The way Roxas has described it, it doesn't sound like any magic tool he's familiar with. He's not even sure how it would work in theory. And now he'll actually get to see it!]

[heartismyown]

Yeah, with my key!

[The prospect of opening some buried treasure is way more exciting than finding a chest lying around Twilight Town with a potion in it, although having a bunch of potions wouldn't be a bad idea, considering. Who knows what kind of treasure it is?]

I wonder what it is.

[Only one way to find out really. He summons Oathkeeper and points it at the keyhole. Come on keyblade, work your magic! A little stream of light leaves the key and bursts into the keyhole.]

There! Try it now.

[childofreim]

[Titus hunkers down and watches the lock with rapt attention. His hair has to be full of sand at this point, but he barely even notices that. This is a sort of magic he's never seen before! He can't even piece together how it should work. It looks like Light Magic, but he's quite good at that himself and there's no way he can think of that would allow light to act as a key and undo a lock. Maybe if he understood better how locks work, he could figure it out, but all he knows is that they need a key and the key moves something in some way (that clunks!). You shouldn't be able to move something with Light Magic. Gravity Magic, yes, but not Light Magic. And of course there's no point in asking Roxas. He's not a magician, no matter how much magic he's capable of using. The Keyblade, as far as Titus can tell, is some sort of Magic Tool that enables him to cast the spells he does.]

That really unlocks something?

[He can't help but be a little skeptical, but he tugs at the lid anyway. It's old and rusty, but with enough force, the lock falls away and it creaks open a bit.]

Ah! It's opening!

[heartismyown]

[Roxas nods with a grin.]

It unlocks anything!

[He vanishes the keyblade again and leans forward to peer closer.]

What's in there? Is it gold? Or a treasure map?

[childofreim]

A treasure map wouldn't be in a treasure chest! That's what you use to find a treasure chest.

[Don't you read, Roxas? He's a little disappointed in you. To his credit, though, he just leaves it at a pointed remark and doesn't make a face. Instead, he starts carefully moving aside the old, musty packing material to try to see what's inside the box. He can already tell it's not gold coins because those are supposed to fill the box up to the top. It must be something else, but honestly, he's not sure what else gets put in treasure chests.]

It's all wrapped up.

[When he does unearth a parcel, it's wrapped tightly. Whatever it is, whoever packed it away wanted it secure and wanted to keep it from breaking. But why did they hide it away? Why go through so much effort to keep something safe and then bury it under the sand on a beach where who knows what could happen to it? He'd really like to ask.]

Should we unwrap it?