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

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Marika Kato | Mouretsu Pirates

[piracy_time]

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Huh? No signal?! [ The high school girl in the weird pirate getup stood at the fountain, having just shouted that aloud into her phone. No, it wasn't a phone, but a rather fancy looking silver pocketwatch that was flipped open to reveal a small floating holographic display of sorts. NO SIGNAL is exactly what it showed before she clapped it closed and put it back into her pocket. ] Something tells me this isn't another elaborate training exercise...

[ No way her crew would leave her stranded somewhere like this, with actors pretending to be real sea-faring pirates, complete with a rustic looking port town... would they? It feels too authentic to be a theme park. It's more like she was transplanted into the world of some kind of fantasy novel.

Not to be perturbed, she walked over to the first person who might be able to give her some answers — though they might just be as lost as she is. Marika looks rather embarrassed to be bothering them. ] Please excuse me, but can you direct me to the first taxi to the space-port? I would really appreciate your help!



Journal (Text)
This is Captain Marika Kato of the space pirate vessel Bentenmaru.

I am looking for the whereabouts of members of my crew. All of them, actually. If anyone has heard that name before, or the name of the below list of individuals, please direct them at me right away.

[ What follows is a list of eight names of her bridge crew back home, with a few friends from the Yacht Club added on along with, of course, Mami and Chiaki-chan. Once the list is complete, Marika adds on a "Thank you very much!" and signs the journal page, hoping that something comes of it. ]

[Action]

[by_heart]

[Unfortunately for Marika, she's managed to pick someone who's just as confused about this whole situation as she is.]

Space-port? That's a new one.

[Lea plants his hands on his hips and cranes his neck to look around. He hasn't seen anything to indicate that this is the sort of world that would have such a thing, but this girl looks a bit more like she fits in here than some of the other people he's run into so far. Well, from the waist up, at least, but you never know with girls and fashion.]

Doesn't look to me like this place has space-ports or taxis.

[piracy_time]

It doesn't... does it. [ Instant dejection, though that isn't this guy's fault. Marika sighs and gestures to the nearby buildings. ] You're saying this isn't actually some sort of tourist attraction? If it was, my compliments would go to whoever set it up!

[by_heart]

[Lea shrugs and shakes his head.]

No one sold me a ticket, that's for sure. No one bothered to mark the exit, either. Do you remember how you got here?

[He sure doesn't.]

[piracy_time]

I didn't want to assume that you were a tourist and not an employee, but when you put it like that... [ There is something good coming from all of this, silly as it was. She was thinking. Something she might not have been doing a minute prior to the exchange. ]

Hmm, no. I can't think of any way to get from where I was to here — wherever "here" is.

[by_heart]

[He can think of a way, considering how much traveling he's done between worlds. The problem is that he seems to be well and truly stuck in this one, which is a first, and something he doesn't like the implications of one bit. However, Marika's suggestion that it might be some sort of theme park was an interesting one. If it was a simulation of some sort, it could explain why he was having trouble leaving. Well, if it was a simulation...]

"Wherever 'here' is" is right. I'm going to have a look around and see if I can find my way backstage of this "attraction." Wanna come with?

[piracy_time]

[ Marika considered that question for a few moments. If she stayed put, that could increase the chances of being discovered by other arrivals. On the other hand, making a bit of trouble behind the scenes could force whoever brought them here to expose themselves and lead to answers to the bigger, burning questions at hand.

After that moment, she gave him a sharp nod and smiled. ] I'm in.

[ Then, offering him a hand: ] We should know each others names if we're going to be working together, right? I'm Captain Marika Kato. [ Might as well give the professional title, even if she hasn't seen hide-nor-hair of her ship and its crew anywhere. ]

[by_heart]

[Lea lets out a little "heh" of laughter and shakes her hand.]

Captain, huh? My name's Lea. Got it memorized? [Old habits are hard to break.]

We should be looking for anything that looks out of place, especially doors or walls. Tell me if you see something.

[He holds his hand out in front of him. There's a small burst of flame, followed by a strange wheel-like weapon appearing in his hand. He makes a face at it, banishes it, and tries again. It takes him a few tries, but finally he ends up with what looks like an oversized, stylized key instead. Apparently this is what he was going for.]

I'll be the one stirring up trouble.

[piracy_time]

Lea. Got it! [ And she was checking her own gear for a moment before she observed him doing... that. Something impressive, whatever it was. ]

Whoa! How did you do that?

[by_heart]

When I figure that out, I'll let you know. [He shakes the Keyblade a few times just to make sure it's not going to disappear on him. He knows he hasn't actually answered the question she asked, but the actual answer is something she has no business knowing, especially since they've only just met. She seems like the sort he can just take at face value, but he's not taking chances.]

Hey, if you see anyone else with one of these, you let me know that too, okay? But for now...

[He considers the street in front of them, then heads for a wide alleyway between two buildings. If this really is a simulation, that's the sort of place where they might be able to find a flaw in it.]

[piracy_time]

Another stick like that...? [ If it's meant to be a weapon, it looks kind of weird to her. Then again the universe is filled with all manner of people who have all different sorts of tastes. Could be this guy was just being fancy. That doesn't explain anything, but this isn't the time to be prying too hard. ] Okay, if I bump into anyone, I'll tell you.

[ In the meantime, she goes with him, periodically checking behind her and with one hand holding her sheath steady at her hip. More of a reassurance for herself that it was there and ready should they find that trouble they were looking for. ] Hmm, good thinking with this approach. Maybe there will be some kind of service access, or a break room for the actors.

[by_heart]

I'm a nosy guy, what can I say? [Lea prods at a wall with his foot, but so far everything looks frustratingly normal.

The alley empties into a large open area absolutely jam-packed with uniformed soldiers. The Navy, apparently, from what he's managed to find out so far. In the middle of the area is an old fountain that looks like it's seen better days and strangely, every single person in the square seems to be giving it a wide berth. It's been this way since he arrived and he's been poking around town all morning. And here he is again.]

And my nose keeps leading me back to that thing. [He gestures at the fountain with his Keyblade.]

[piracy_time]

[ Everything about the alley certainly looks authentic. Right down to the refuse and, of course, the smell. ] Ugh. I think I'd rather follow your nose toward that, too.

[ Marika was no stranger to cleaning and doing dirty work, but even collecting trash on two full-sized spacecraft could only approach a tenth of the level of what she'd caught wind of just then. Good grief! ]

The statue... I read that inscription, too. It seems familiar somehow. [ She looks around. ] No one else seems to care that much about it.

[by_heart]

[Lea watches the motions of the naval patrols for a few moments before answering. Apparently, he's so used to skulking about that a stench like this has just become one of the hazards of his job.]

I think they care plenty about it, actually.

[He takes a few steps back into the alley, then points at one of the patrols, tracing their path with his finger. It begins as a straight line, but then his finger dips as they move as a unit as far away from the fountain as they can.]

They don't want anything to do with it. What does that tell you?

[It tells him plenty. Either that fountain or the inscription is pretty important.]

[piracy_time]

Hmm. It could be the way out. [ She points forward, and then drops her finger downward. ] Maybe the cover to an elevator leading to a lower deck. The fountain has no water in it, but I can't tell from here if it's been recently drained.

That would explain the armed guards. [ It's a leap, but right now those leaps are all she has to go on. ]

Re: Marika Kato | Mouretsu Pirates

[wavemotiongunner]

[Space Port? Oh Kodai realizes he's still walking around in his space suit. He turns to see a girl in a pirate coat and what he's sure is the skirt from a school uniform.]

I don't think there's a space port around here. I don't even think they've invented cars yet.

[piracy_time]

It sounds like that's exactly what they want us to think. [ Marika crossed her arms, but she lost her conviction after a few moments. ] At least I hope it's what they want us to think, and that you're not actually right about that.

[ Looking the man up and down, the suit is unique, but it's quite easy to identify for what it is. ] Looks like they pulled you away from your job, too.

[wavemotiongunner]

Who would want us to think what? [He wasn't really up for games bad enough Starsha and Yurishia had sent them towards Gamilas without ever telling them. Worse Yurishia kept trying to push him go there and save Yuki instead of their mission to her homland.]

Job? Sort of I'm not sure how. On minute radar was reporting an incoming energy beam next I'm sitting on the ground by that fountain over there.

[piracy_time]

I don't know. Whoever is in charge of the operation, I'd say. [ Or she'd guess. This is still under the assumption that none of this was real and everything was an act.

She quirked a brow, since the man said something curious. ] You mean they managed to steal you from your ship in the middle of a battle? That's some skill — and some nerve!

[wavemotiongunner]

That's not something to be impressed by! The Yamato might have just been destroyed. [There was no doubt in his mind that was something similar to the Wave Motion Gun. He could be dead which meant earth was doomed and Yuki was in the hands of the enemy. His hand curdled into a fist and there was a slight tremor in it. He tried not to let his fear for his comrades show. Focus on something he could do here and now.]
Is there a reason you're dressed like that? Were you having a costume party?

[piracy_time]

[ That must be the name of his ship. At his question, Marika looks down at herself and then shakes her head. ] No, it's my uniform. [ "Costume party"? Ah. It must be the ribbon. Mami did go a bit overboard with it, but Marika liked it. ]

If your ship was destroyed — and I'm not saying it was — wouldn't you have come here in a landing shuttle or escape pod? [ She looks over his outfit more critically, now, checking for punctures or singe marks; anything that might give credence to that distressful theory. ]

[wavemotiongunner]

[His space suit doesn't have any damage.]
Uniform for what exactly?[He knows it looks like a pirate outfit but there aren't any pirates where he's from as far as he knows.]

There wouldn't have been time. If that was the same type of weapon as... [He pauses he really shouldn't be giving out information on the Wave Motion Gun to a civilian.] It would have vaporized us along with doing who knows what to the gas giant we were next to.

[piracy_time]

Uh, well my captain's uniform. [ Yes, complete with frills on the ends of the sleeves and a cape, too. Marika is 100% serious about this as if there's nothing unusual about it at all.

She's also serious about something else, even if she says it with a smile. ] Then that's proof enough. If that was true, we wouldn't be standing here talking, since I can promise you I'm not from the afterlife or anything like that.

[wavemotiongunner]

[She's a Captain she looked younger than him. He still wasn't sure why Okita had appointed him Tactical Group Leader when he was right out of the academy.] Captain? Aren't you still in school? What were you doing before you ended up here?

B

[abundantlove]

Ah, hello, my name is Aida Mana, first mate of the Shepherd... I'm afraid I don't know any of those individuals. You might have been brought here without them...

But, um, if you need any help adjusting, I'd like to do whatever I can.