Test Drive for December 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!

♦ NAVY SHIPS! Cannon fire! Guns and explosions! It's a Pirates vs. Navy battle! **HINT: This might be a good one to try this time around... :D

Comments

[hotspurred]

[Henry hadn't meant to run into anyone else, but there weren't many avenues of escape -- and while he can appreciate her martial skill, this woman seems more like she was raised in a mercenary's tavern than a noble house.

He scoffs.]

Is your vanity yet sated? Retreat afore you draw their full force this way.

[delicate_maiden]

[How...how handsome. She's dumbfounded a few moments because the last thing she'd expected was to be faced with someone so noble-looking and dreamy and...totally disgusted with her, it looked like. Good job, Kai, you've done it again. Why didn't you just punch a bear in front of him, too? Then maybe he wouldn't even have bothered talking to you and you could die of shame in peace.

Oh well. Might as well try to salvage things. Maybe he didn't catch the yelling part. Maybe.]

I'm really sorry. Sometimes i--[No! "Sometimes it just happens" is the wrong thing to say now!] --I lose sight of my surroundings. I've never been anywhere like this before.

[That sounded okay, right? He wasn't going to think she was weird, right? If she just stepped back a little and listened to what he said about retreating, he'd forgive the rest, right?]

[hotspurred]

[The sudden change in attitude catches Henry off-guard, as different from the brute force approach as it is; the twist of his mouth combined with the faintly awkward aversion of his gaze hint at the embarrassment that bleeds beneath his veneer of composure. He knows that he has been too sharp. Their situation has him more tense than usual.]

Your strength is... [impressive] commendable.

[It's a peace offering -- one that he would have never made before the Black Prince had tempered the worst of his flaws.]

[delicate_maiden]

Oh, it's nothing really! A lady like me just learns what's necessary to defend her castle, that's all. [She just goes above and beyond the call of duty...]

[hotspurred]

...Quite.

[His breeding prevents him from further comment, but his temperament allows the incredulity to colour his tone. He places a hand on his hip and dips his head, considering, before he shifts his weight and looks her directly in the eye.]

It serves us ill to linger. Come along, if it should suit you.

[He's impatient to get moving, but on the other hand, abandoning her doesn't rest easily on him. They are involved in the same fight, for better or worse.]

[delicate_maiden]

[She's about to tell him exactly what she thinks of that attitude (because who does he think he is?) but then she gets a full dose of handsome right in the face. Someone standing behind her and looking over her shoulder would see a young man who simply looks impatient to be moving and a bit incredulous of the girl staring at him with wide, sparkling eyes, but through Kai's eyes, it's as if Henry is in a much softer focus, with a vague aura of light about him.]

S-sure. Where are we going? [If she sounds distracted, well, she is.]