Test Drive for November 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

[captainspeedo]

(Durrhurrhurr Matsuoka you always were the most grownup one.)

"Of course you want to race..." Sei also began moving through the water to warm up.

"At least let me get warm, first." He idly blew bubbles under the water, surveying the distance between the two locations.

"And I don't want to screw up my stroke counts in a pool that's the wrong size, either."

[sharkasm]

(Hey, some parts of him are bigger than some of yours. And no, your speedo isn't flattering.)

Getting warm was fine by Rin; it wasn't that he was in a hurry, as such. It just felt better, having something to work towards. He'd done without a challenge (well, without a challenge he actually stood the slightest chance of winning) for far too long.

So he swam along himself, quite calmly, enjoying the range of motion the water offered. Gradually, he began going a little faster in short spurts, just enough to get his circulation going.

"You're not going to find a pool the right size in this world." Because why not state the obvious once in a while? "Or any actual pool, where you can make a quick turn..."

So maybe Rin missed his all-powerful kick. Just a little.

[captainspeedo]

( W O W )

Sei smirked to himself. Of course the almighty Rin would be pissed off about his kick, or lack thereof.

"Of course not. Maybe that only guarantees my victory. You can't exactly kangaroo kick off these rocks."

An Australia joke? Of course.

[sharkasm]

Rin, of course, failed to appreciate the joke even a little bit. How dare you mock his swimming?!

"There's more to my swimming than my kick."

All the same, he wasn't claiming that he could beat Mikoshiba just yet. The odds were 50-50 at best, and, depending on what stroke they'd use, might well be even less in Rin's favor. Of course Rin wasn't going to turn this into some immature bragging contest, the way Mikoshiba was doing.

Except that he was sort of doing that already. Oops.

[captainspeedo]

"Sheesh, I know." Matsuoka had never been able to take a joke. Sei knew that. That didn't mean he was going to stop, though.

"You want to do this, then?" He dropped a bit of the goof act, making his way for the starting point Matsuoka had pointed out.

[sharkasm]

Both Mikoshiba and Nitori had the patience of saints when it came to Rin, which was... if not more than Rin deserved, then certainly more than he gave anyone reason to think he deserved. (No one envies you your job, Mikoshiba.)

"Yeah." If Rin's speech patterns were a little less polite than normal, it was a result of both eagerness and the fact that he was talking to himself as much as anything. "It's about time I have some sort of race again."

Heading over to the starting point, himself, Rin glanced along the route he'd suggested, as if checking for obstacles along the way. There were none, really; it was a fairly straightforward swim until the water would become too shallow, then a little run to the giant tree on the other side, and back again. Touching the rocks on this end was similar enough to a 'normal' finish, and the more Rin focused on the positives, the more eager he became to do this.

"What stroke do you want to use?"