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

[Voice]

[undeadparts]

No reason.

I'll tell my captain about you. Hopefully we'll be able to find you first, but if not a ship should hopefully come to pick you up. Make sure to mention the money. Pirates love money.

[Voice]

[level99sage]

Why's it always about m-

...did you say pirates.

It's fine~!

[bless_me_bagpipes]

[Her kind words were appreciated, but they couldn't fully sate his curiosity as to what might be transpiring at home. If Magica Despell so much as ruffles a feather on their wee heads, or gets her hand on that lucky dime.. then nothing could save her from him when he returned. Oh why did he have to have quite so many enemies to worry about? Beagle Boys, Glomgold.....just to name a few and they were all formidable in one way or another. Gizmoduck better not be slacking on the job either....]

Aye, that it could. [He couldn't help laughing about that.]

[... And you said you were too mature to get into any trouble. Running away from home would fall into that category, but that secret was safe with her for now.]

Good. You canna be too sure with some people. Though I know a good deal of people that are older than you and not half as mature, so it is possible to be a handful long after ones youth.

[Elsa's expression says a lot even without her words to correspond with it. She wasn't the only one that had trouble with other relatives mind you. Scrooge hadn't always appreciated his family as much as he should.. something he regretted later in life. The stairway to the top of the business world had left some of his family... a bit.. estranged. The way she spoke of her sister, he never would have guessed that there was any sort of problem between them. He listened attentively to what she had to say. It was comforting to know that he wasn't the only one missing someone, and it was sweet to hear just how much she cared about her younger sister.]

A summer hurricane, hmm? Well even I might have trouble keeping up with a lass like that. [Honestly, Anna reminded her not only of his nephews but himself when he was a lad] You must care for her a great deal. Did she ever grow out of being so accident prone? If not, then it might be a good thing that she's not here. There are too many opportunities to fall over board here.. but if she ever does turn up she would be welcome aboard.

[Accident prone. That reminded him of his pilot... Launchpad Mcquack. You can bet that Launchpad could have crashed a bicycle inside of a house. He could crash anything.....]

[Voice]

[undeadparts]

...yes.

[Oh this isn't going to end well.]

[Voice]

[level99sage]

Hang on hang on hang ON! You want me to get rescued by pirates?!

[Voice]

[undeadparts]

As far as the Navy's concerned we're all pirates. Including you. So yeah.

[Voice]

[level99sage]

Whaaaat? How does that even work?! I've never even been out to sea before! -er, well before I got left on an island, anyway.

[getspunched]

How is that...even possible?

[Then, he thinks about it for a moment. How is the Dark Hour possible? How is half of the things he's seen, in his lifetime so far, possible? Well, there's no point exhausting his mind trying to figure it out--not without, first, learning more about this place, at least. It's still strange, though. Knowing that there's a chance nobody, back home, even realizes he's gone.

Maybe that means he's been split off into another time-line, he questions with just a bit of sarcasm. Because, really, it's starting to seem like a bad sci-fi movie, now.]

Well, whatever. [He abruptly adds, directly after his question.] There's no point stressing over it.

[With that, he's going to start walking.]

What guy, though?

[getspunched]

[Did he forget things?

...If only that were the case.]

Because, we're all from different places. Once everyone returns home, we won't see each other, again. So, there's no point becoming all buddy-buddy with one another.

[Yeah... Yeah! That's the reason. Totally.]

[booyaka_boom]

*There is a dramatic crash!! from the kitchen, and a metal mixing bowl rolls its way out the door. If Shinjiro is nearby and checks it out, he might find a Selphie on the floor, covered in flour, the large tub lying nearby*

[getspunched]

[Oh for the love of...

That doesn't sound good, at all. The brunette frowns pretty hard, upon hearing the sound--and the fact that it had come from the kitchen honestly gives him the slightest feeling of dread. The Persona-wielder lets out a sigh and makes his way through the doorway.

...And is immediately stopping to give the other teenager a bit of a look.

Wow, this is going to be hell cleaning up...]

...What the hell happened?

[Shinji speak for: are you okay? He does care to know this, in spite of the rough tone.

Because, it's not like he knows why she fell. He just knows she fell.]

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie manages a cough, sending up a small cloud of flour as she slowly tries to sit up. When she does, she presses a hand to her forehead, and her now white hair. She's startled when she hears another voice - why is this cute guy staring at her while she's on the floor covered in flour? She scrambles to her feet, quickly trying to brush off the flour*

I'm making pancakes!

*Because duh, that's pretty obvious, right?*

[getspunched]

[Okay, well. Call him crazy, but that's not how he's ever made pancakes. Maybe he's doing it wrong...?

Bending over, he picks up the tub not far from his feet. Spinning it in his hands, he gives her just the slightest lifting of his eyebrow.]

...I see.

[He's not going to offer to help cook, since that's not exactly something he's comfortable doing. His cooking talent is supposed to be a secret, anyway. He holds the tub out towards her.]

You should be more careful.

[Translation: kitchen = sharp knives, hot things, etc. and you could get hurt.]

[booyaka_boom]

*Yup, he's definitely the one that's doing this wrong. Nothing to do with Selphie. Nope. She looks a little sheepish, though she's still laughing at her own predicament. Taking the tub from him, she carefully turns to put it on the table*

Well, that's the thing. I was being careful! It's just...someone decided to put the tub up too high!

*Still shaking off the flour, she points behind to the chair that she clearly fell from*

I mean, seriously. Flour is important, why keep it so high up, ya know?

[getspunched]

[Well, someone should clearly give him the memo on this, for future reference. Then....

...Whoops.

That...might have been him, Selphie. Glancing to the side, he quietly rubs at the back of his neck. Being new to the ship, he was curious to check everything out. During his exploration, he had gotten distracted. The flour...might have been placed a little higher than it originally was supposed to be?

OKAY, SO IT WAS HIM...What of it?!

He gave an annoyed-sounding huff, before saying the next part.]

Well, it's not like I knew someone [SOMEONE SHORT, RATHER.] was gonna jump to using it. [Glances to the side.] I was actually headin' back in here to put it in the right spot.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie does a little twirl to see if that will shake off most of the flour, and it kind of does, but she still looks a little pale. She goes off to right the chair back up and push it under the table, but that's when he speaks up and she looks offended*

You! It was you! What if I'd died? What if I drowned in flour and it all got sucked into my lungs! What if I'd cracked my head open on the floor and I'd been like a big Selphie pancake mix? What then? Huh?

*She's been getting steadily closer, finger outstretched, until she's close enough that her finger touches the centre of his chest*

Irvine Kinneas | Final Fantasy VIII

[hiddensolitude]

//JUST ARRIVING//

[Fortunately, training as a sniper is assisting him in his appearing quite casual, in spite of the fact that he literally just...woke up in a strange town, with zero idea on how he got there. And is very much worried about everyone.

Especially a certain energetic, short-haired SeeD by the name of Selphie. This is nothing like those weird dream sequences he's experienced with Squall and them. For starters, he's not in some strange dude's body. This is definite cause for him to go into an investigative state, of course.

Exhaling a deep sigh, he slowly lowers the butt of the firearm to the ground and leans against the wall. First things, first, he needs to check his equipment. Which is...exactly what he's going to be doing, for the next few minutes. In spite of the task requiring focus, he's still well aware of his surroundings. He's keeping an eye out for any familiar faces.]


//ON THE SHIP//

[The sniper is new to your crew. This clearly means time to meet all the ladies. So, don't mind him as he mosies right on over to every female his eyes land on. He's going to flirt shamelessly.

Feel free to dismiss his attempts. He's very used to it; and, will likely just give right up. Unless you're a Selphie, he's simply going to give up.]

[superstitiouspirate]

[Gibbs feels his face pulling into a frown as he stares at the Sea lion. As a seafaring man, he has been to places all over the world, but he still never heard of a circus before.]

What is it you be doing in a circus and who be Vitaly?

[Gibbs is finding it hard for someone to loose their passion over something if it is important to them. The idea seems, so strange.]

[sitalion]

[This time he makes an audible gasp. The man didn't even know Vitaly? It's impossible! Because it was Vitaly!]

Vitaly was the biggest star of us all. He was our inspiration. He jumpa though the hoops like he could fly.

Hullo new arrival!

[booyaka_boom]

*Just going about her business, keeping busy doing whatever errands it was that she had to do in town. There's a list in her head that she's frantically trying to remember when she sees -

A cowboy. A very familiar cowboy. She freezes on the spot, glancing this way and that, in case this is some kind of joke, or an illusion - one of those curse things. But then she shuffles a little closer, and then a little more, head tilted as she examines him some more. Then she clears her throat, her voice only small and uncertain*

...Irvine?

[superstitiouspirate]

Well it don't mean I know of him. I'm more of a sea going man meself.

[heartismyown]

[Roxas blinks at him a few times. That makes no sense whatsoever.]

But you're here now. Don't you want to be friends?

Hullo yourself~ <3

[hiddensolitude]

[The familiar figure was spotted when it shuffled closer, causing him to blink. Placing the last item back in his pocket, he glanced up just in time to hear that familiar voice say his name.

...Boy, is he glad to see her. Just knowing she's there and seemingly alright, is enough to lift his spirits a bit. A corner of his lips immediately lifts into a relieved smile.]

That's me! [With that, he's grinning.] ...I was worried I'd have to go on a rescue mission for you guys. [Said with only the most affectionate of teasing, of course. Then there's a bit of a pause.] That is...if the rest of the group is even here.

[booyaka_boom]

*Sorry Irvine, but it would seem that Selphie hasn't heard a single word he's said. She just sees his face and hears his voice and knows that it's him. At least, so she hopes at the rate she's running towards him*

Iiirrviiiineeee!~

*She takes a run and jump, throwing her arms up around his neck. She hasn't seen him since the summer, after all!*

[getspunched]

[...That's one hell of an imagination she's got there.

The S.E.E.S member's brow quirks just a bit as the smaller teen is suddenly moving in. By the time the finger is touching the red coat, Shinjiro is staring quietly at the shorter person's face. A bit of an unamused expression resting on his own, he lets out a sigh.]

I don't recall forcing you to climb onto a chair.

[Looking to the side, he tucks his hands even deeper into his pockets.]

You could've just asked someone else to come and get it down for you.