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

[executionerrose]

[Oh... right... Haruka = Japanese.

Erf.

Be that as it may, he tries not to make too much of a fuss about it. ]

Cute, for a flower Shoppe? I think something more elegant should have been picked, 'Rose Blanche' maybe. But then my sense of style has always been more refined than the others.

[Not much of a fuss... for Chloe anyway.

And yeah that 'boy band' stuff is complicated, try working in a flower shop with a bunch of men. ]

[oneofthelost]

...Shit.

[It's her immediate reaction to an illusion being mentioned. Because that is a real possibility. Even though she's supposed to be done with those things.

But it might be Victor testing out the powers? Or... Something. Who knows.]

Damn. This is...

Pretty messed up, isn't it?

[my_lost_heart]

[You don't see many Japanese girls with pink hair and amber eyes? Did that throw you off Chloe?]

Mm! Or a pet shop. [How could anyone not admit how cute that name was? She did however wonder why it was selected for that sort of business.] Does it cause much confusion among your customers? [If not, then why worry about it? Renaming it would mean having to print new advertisements and signs] That's a lovely name too. ["More refined"? She didn't want to choose sides in this name debate]

... Are you missing the others while you're here?

[She doesn't want to try that. She would die D:. /Was imagining Kitten's House being run by the vocalists... and having them giving her too much attention throughout the day.]

[runningonramen]

Yeah, kind of. I'm used to some pretty strange things, but nothing like this. It doesn't seem to be an illusion though.

[He pockets the journal.]

[sunk_your_battleship]

[Attention diverted! With luck Murasa will never have to bring that subject up again and thus avoid that unpleasantness entirely. Just as planned! ...or Murasa being drunk enough to decide to show off. Or too sober. It's hard to tell sometimes.]

Signal interference got you too, huh?

[She puts the cup down on the counter and it's more or less immediately whisked away to be replaced with a full one.]

You might find it on the next island. Or the next. Or after that. They keep telling me that too.

[executionerrose]

[As an admirer of women that, admittedly did help to throw him off the trail... but then where did striking ladies like her actually come from?]

It does come up occasionally, but when some one comes into the store looking to buy a cat I try to sell them Aya.

[HA! It was his idea to name the store that anyway!
So many would love to take that offer

The tone grows more sombre as the joke fades into the air. Those guys were loud, bossy, rude, had no class what-so-ever... of course he missed them.]

Searching the stars is a good way to reflect on many things after all.

[Including those left behind, still working in that mismatched flower shop at home. ]

[my_lost_heart]

[An "admirer of women"? You do remind me a lot of Ren....]

[Lightly cupping her mouth she tried not to laugh too much]

You two must be really good friends if you're able to kid each other like that. No one's tried to take you up on that offer, have they?

[I should have read the strikeout!]

.............. Oh!...

[Right. He'd said that before. They'd both managed to forget about their worries for a little while but she'd managed to bring it right back to his concerns.]

I'm sorry- I didn't mean to..... I should have known from what we were talking about earlier.

[tsunderseaboat]

That's so ridiculous! You'd think with these journals at least, if there was something like that out there, someone would have said something, right?

[She is vastly overestimating the number of users they have...]

I'm grateful to be out from under that hag's thumb but it does me even less good to be stuck here!

[Sigh. HOW IS SHE SUPPOSED TO REUNITE WITH GUNZOU HERE]

[thepurpleway]

Because no one has ears like that unless you're cosplaying.

[thepurpleway]

Ah, now I can definitely agree that playing the piano is better than television! That must've been very nice!

[sunk_your_battleship]

[Murasa chuckles a bit.]

The ocean's a pretty big place. It takes awhile to find things, even preposterously large ones. Like, say, a flying ship that doubles as a temple.

[frostheartedrose]

[And probably no sushi, either. Sad kitty... Though if this was as 'Mediterranean' as it felt...]

Well, there are other good things around to eat. This is just a seedier area, a few streets over there are pubs and stalls rather than taverns. Less drunks, more food.

[But less people willing to lose their money to a pretty blond in a game of cards. Three taverns in one hour, Bridget was a bit more comfortable when it came to funds.]

[runningonramen]

[A pub or a stall might be good, Naruto muses for a moment, although he's not really bothered by seedy places. His teacher was kind of a lush :|]

I guess if you're new here, you haven't found anyone else yet.

[He scratches his cheek.]

Are you hungry?

[frostheartedrose]

Found anyone else yet? No, nobody from my team is on this island. We have arrangements for this sort of thing. I did get quite a bit of good information from the journal though.

[Food... Hm.]

I suppose a bit. I'm more nocturnal so it's time for breakfast for me. I don't mind keeping company but you're paying for your own.

[runningonramen]

Yeah, I read it, it was fine. Different world and all that. I'm just not sure how I got here.

[Oh well. Maybe when he's eaten he can think about the mystery. He laughs a little.]

I wasn't asking you to pay dattebayo! I've got some money here.

[frostheartedrose]

[Well, her estimation of him rose five points. Bridget smiled enough to flash a hint of fang this time.]

Good. I won quite a bit at those taverns but I know how much a young man can eat. Especially one with muscles like yours.

[Yup, she certainly noticed he wasn't an awkward kid. Not when he was standing with the perfect balance of a dancer or fighter.]

I'll let you choose.

[runningonramen]

[He grins again and starts walking, pointing a bit.]

Then let's see what kind of food we can find. I'm not that picky really.

[tsunderseaboat]

That sounds ridiculous. How do you even keep something that big aloft?

[Then again, she's talking to a ghost. A ghost who can apparently imbibe liquids]

Have you seen something like that?

[executionerrose]

[He and Ren could be long lost twins.]

[Yes, you should have done.]

A few have. Aya does not have much of a sense of humor about these matters though, so no one has ever been able to go through with the sale.

[But one could get a laugh out of watching his expression! He smiled to remember it even now.]

There is no need to apologize. We have only gone full circle with our conversation after all.

[sunk_your_battleship]

It's a special ship.

[tl;dr: Touhou]

I'm the captain of it. Before it, you know, disappeared. Along with everyone on it. Except me, who gets to be somewhere a few hundred years in the past where the stars make no sense and the charts are worse.

[Drink.]

Ha ha, must have been some party.

[THIS IS KIND OF DISTRESSING and she's trying to cover it up with brass cheek and booze. Some of that bitterness leaks into her voice anyway]

[tsunderseaboat]

That doesn't explain anything... and are you trying to act like you accidentally partied your way here?!

[This person is kind of infuriating!]

I feel sorry for your ship, having a captain like you.

[Murasa is clearly no Chihaya Gunzou]

[frostheartedrose]

Somehow, I'm not surprised. Though, as you're assumed older sister, I'm very concerned that you aren't overdoing the meat and ignoring your vegetables.

[The glance out of the corner of her eye as she kept pace with him easily was certainly mildly teasing.]

Ramen is good now and then of course. But you shouldn't stick with just one thing all the time.

[runningonramen]

[Naruto laughs. She has him pegged, but he did promise his mom he would eat more vegetables in the future.]

I love ramen though, and there's a stall in the village that makes the best ramen I've ever had-ttebayo! I've traveled some and I've never had anything better than Ichiraku.

[sunk_your_battleship]

[And just like that, all the humor is gone.]

No. It was a joke.

[That seems to have struck a nerve.]

[tsunderseaboat]

With how you were drinking down that alcohol, it was hard to tell.

[Okay she kind of feels bad about upsetting her but PRIDE WILL NOT LET HER BACK DOWN]