Test Drive for January 2014 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

[letthestormrageon]

[In an empty island, visitors aren't expected, neither are wanted. Still, Elsa thinks that if someone comes to check out of curiosity, it would be better to welcome them and try to convince them to leave. Otherwise, they could get the wrong idea, think that there's something where it's just her.

The door opens as soon as someone knocks and Elsa senses it before she even hears anyone's voice. It's only as she's making her way to the entrance that she hears the voice, and she doesn't even need to hear the name to recognize it.]

Anna?!

[She loses herself for a moment and runs towards the entrance, stopping at the hall near the staircase that supervises the area. It can't be. It must not be. But it is, Anna. Anna is right there.]

What are you doing here?

[She hadn't even imagined that Anna would be taken as well, that anyone else from her world could be taken. All of them had a place they belonged to, only she was out of place. Only Elsa had nowhere to go and thus didn't mind which world she was in, so long as she was alone, unable to hurt people.]

[letthestormrageon]

[She frowns slightly, she knows now that there are more powers than the ones she posses, and that in this world many people with those powers are being gathered. Still it feels strange to be told that it's not the first time someone sees a power like hers. At his question she shakes her head.]

I... I don't think I can do that. Though I've only recently started to explore the extent of my abilities, so I don't know yet everything I can do.

I can't see how this would be useful on a ship, though.

[grandlineswag]

This is an unknown sea, with unknown dangers. Much like the world that I came from.

[Crocodile leans against the side, inhaling from his cigar again and blowing out a few smoke rings. Few things unnerved him as much as the unknown. He always surmised that he could beat anything as long as he KNEW about it. It was always what you didn't know about that killed you. Even he wasn't immortal.]

The difference was that I knew the rules, there. Here, it's different. The enemies and islands entirely mysterious. Every bit of offensive power is needed, and that is why you are indispensable as well. Ice is one of the most underestimated dangers on a sailing vessel.

Icy weather is an insidious enemy. It builds upon the ship, bit-by-bit. It freezes lines, tears and weighs down riggings and sails, drains the stamina of the crew, renders food inedible, traps ships between solid floes. One of nature's most dangerous weapons.

[grandlineswag]

Unless this is sensitive information, does it matter who knows? It depends on what you wish to tell me.

[letthestormrageon]

[Elsa pauses in her way up, thinking for a moment before she turns slightly.]

That... I could accept that. I won't turn visits away, and I will listen to what they have to say, or what they can show me. But I make no promises about leaving this place.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie gives a sombre nod then smiles as she heads towards the door*

Alright. That's good enough for me. So, maybe I'll come back soon just to hang out, okay? And I can bring some books for you to read so you don't get bored.

*She lingers at the door, like she's not really sure that she wants to leave*

But it was nice to meet you, Elsa.

[letthestormrageon]

[She doesn't cheer at the idea of her power being needed offensively, but she knows it's the truth, and she understood well what she was signing up for when she enrolled on the ship. Pirates they are supposed to be and pirate will she be. Until they find an unpopulated island at least.]

In that case, yes, I can see how my abilities would be useful. It's the only use they have after all.

[To harm others, that was why she had left after all.]

[letthestormrageon]

[She's back at the top of the staircase when Selphie reaches the door, her face brightens at the mention of books. Her smile is sincere and much happier at the prospect.]

I would love that. It was nice to meet you too... And thank you, Selphie, really.

[I'm sorry.]

[grandlineswag]

You say that almost as if it's a bad thing. Having a fearsome reputation can be a great mental weapon, as much as a physical one.

[letthestormrageon]

[A "special case"? Elsa pauses at that and considers it a moment before she frowns slightly.]

I apologize, but I can't approve of that. No matter the circumstances a king is a king and deserves the proper respect and acknowledgement for it. I understand that there may be many reasons as to why relationships between two kingdoms or royal members wouldn't be pleasant, but none of those are above respect and manners. Just because I wouldn't get involved in trade with a kingdom or forge an alliance with them doesn't mean that disrespect is adequate.

[No matter what, Elsa thinks that being proper and well mannered is important. Even when dictating that one would never again establish trade with another land.]

[letthestormrageon]

[She smiles politely and nods.]

I apologize, that wasn't my intention. It's true that having a fearsome reputation is very important, specially in this line of work. Though as you said before, reputation isn't something we have here so it matters little as of now.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie blinks at the barrel, then leans even closer, this time knocking with her hand. Seriously, she's pretty sure that the barrel knocked back*

[grandlineswag]

Not yet. We will, I'm going to make sure of that.

[He raises his hand, forming a small tornado of sand over the center of his palm.]

Tell me more about your powers. What are you capable of?

[letthestormrageon]

[She smiled reassuringly at his question. It's true that she wasn't the active type. That would be Anna, cheerful, always restless, Anna. However, Elsa's not such a delicate flower herself. Just as the ice wasn't always as fragile as it seemed, she had more endurance and strength that what she usually showed.

That, and she would despise to be a hindrance to the other. She had found Mcduck to be an enjoyable person to be with, intelligent and well versed in adventures. Ambitious and maybe a bit greedy, but in their situation that was more a virtue than a flaw.]

Worry not, Mister Mcduck. I can still go on, and there's nothing else that bothers me, nothing except my own inexperience at adventures and treasure hunting. I apologize if I'm being a hindrance to you.

[letthestormrageon]

[If she were to be honest and to herself she can be, out of all the members in the crew, this man was the one who worries her the most. She knows next to nothing about him, but just with the few words that they have exchanged so far she can tell that he's someone to be careful of. And if someone in the crew could have an issue with a member abandoning it, such as she hopes to do in pursue of solitude and isolation, that would be him. Not because of her specifically, but because of losing offensive power basically.

It's also why she's cautious as to what to reveal about her powers, it's better if he doesn't know the extent of her powers. Fortunately, lying isn't a thing she will have to do. She herself isn't aware of the extent of them. Elsa keeps her distance, glancing curiously at the small tornado of sand but she doesn't do any show of power of her own.]

What you have seen is basically it, sir. I freeze everything I touch, I can manipulate ice and I can summon snow storms, but so far that's all I know that I can do. Unless you're interested in having an ice palace, though that would fall in the ice manipulation category.

[kingkilvas]

Our species have been purposefully kept separate for a long time. I wouldn't pay automatic respect to beorc royalty, so why would they do the same for me? It's not as if we have all of your kind's ridiculous traditions of nobility, either. So your approval or not, it's barely something to get worked up over.

[He just shrugs again. She keeps getting offended on the behalf of the laguz, something that, for the most part, he doesn't even do.]

I'll give you that it's an honorable mindset, at least. Albeit one I have never understood.

[grandlineswag]

You can even create structures from them? I see. Fortuitous, in case we end up in a situation where we are caught away from the ship. Creating proper shelter is a necessity.

How is your control? I would much rather ice be turned on our enemies, than on our ship.

[grandlineswag]

[Unfortunately, once the stranger cleared the threshold of the building they were leaving and stood up to his full height, it became quite apparently just how far from harmless he was.]

Can I not walk a mere fifty meters without running into one of the Strawhat boy's compatriots?

[executionerrose]

I am a florist by trade, not a musician, but I do hold a great admiration for all things of beauty.

[Still leaning back against the rail Chloe didn't look away from the stars overhead. It seemed to make conversation easier for the young girl if he kept his eyes averted from her anyway. ]

For me...

[It was a question that could lead to a much deeper conversation than he was ready for, so the answer he gave touched on it but remained vague enough not to require further explanation. ]

The stars shine over everything else. It is a reminder of friends and family who are not here but also of something greater. By looking at the heavens it is almost like we can come to know 'Our Father' a little more.

[yourotherleft]

Thanks to Luffy.

[he heard that much, at least...]

[grandlineswag]

A debt I have already repaid several times over.

[yourotherleft]

Oh? Well, good.

[he still folds his arms over his chest, being all tough and things.]

[grandlineswag]

Is your Captain still trapped here, or has our captor grown bored of his antics?

[yourotherleft]

Yeah, he's still here. I was on my way to meet up with him.

[grandlineswag]

[Satisfied for the moment, he slowly moves out of the way.]

I see. Well, I suppose I'll have to greet him at some point, won't I? On your way, then.