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

[bloodandbattle]

Don't try to pretend you aren't human. It's as obvious as my ears.

[He said the words with scorn, but sheathed his sword, turning to leave in the other direction.]

Do both of us a favor and just leave well enough alone.

[slugly]

--You do?

[slugly]

[Sakura, meanwhile, keeps her eyes on Sasuke while filling in the blanks.]

But nobody knows for certain.

[He's not alone in the displeasure of being here in the first place.]

There's no harm in trying. [And it's better than just standing around and waiting for something to happen.]

[sunk_your_battleship]

[Staaaaare.]

I don't know, the spirit of a ship wandering around and talking sounds fairly supernatural to me.

[blue_satin_shoes]

[My, but she was... very interesting looking. Those ears and hair and tail! Like a human mixed with a... fox? Or maybe a squirrel. Leliana's opinion changed animals when she was able to see the tail in full as the girl climbed up the statue. It was only then that Leliana made her presence known outside of just observing the girl.]

Don't worry, we are never lost, only... finding ourselves in a new adventure.

[Even if they had a very good reason to be back where they were taken from. Still, she gave the odd girl a small smile.]

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[blue_satin_shoes]

[Leliana was getting used to this. She'd been on a ship before, but never had to help sail one. All she had to go on was the poem she'd read and heard when she first woke up at this land. Either she'd find some way back home by sailing, or she'd help find this ruby and go back that way. If it even worked. If nothing else, she hoped to hear rumors during their travel about what happened back at Denerim. She still had no clear conclusion on what that light meant. If it was a good thing... or a bad thing. She tried not to think about it.

Instead, she put her focus on retrieving the treasure from this island. Even with the importance of what she left behind, she couldn't help but be a little excited about the new adventure she found herself in.]

We will never know until we try.

[She just looked over the map again, making sure they were at the right spot.]

How far down do they bury these things?

[blue_satin_shoes]

Leliana found herself coming back to the statue. This was her fourth time today. Everything she'd learned from watching others and hearing what they had to say all led back to the poem. Whether it was real or purely legend, the people sure believed in it.

At this point, she'd written off anyone else looking at it to mean that they too were curious about the poem. Hearing a woman speak something else surprised her. She'd had the same thought earlier. She laughed a little. "Yes, I thought as much too. I think she would be beautiful if restored correctly. If they used the same stone and paint, instead of trying to change her."

B

[model_prisoner]

And to think, I thought that my stomach was loud.

[Cody was already busy eating from a pretty sizable tub of fresh fried turkey drumsticks. Every time he cleans one bone, he tosses it carelessly behind him.]

You hungry, kid?

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[model_prisoner]

[Hope you weren't using that table, Sakura. Because a brick of a guy just sailed through the air and crashed right through it. Besides a small grunt of discomfort, the man didn't seem too affected by his flight. He simply stares up.]

...I guess that guy's ego was a little more sensitive than I thought.

[Cody sits up, cracking his neck a few times before finishing the bottle of beer in his hand. It's only then he realizes someone was there. He rubs the back of his neck sheepishly, his manacles clinking loudly.]

Ah. Sorry about that. Didn't have much control over where I got tossed.

[runningonramen]

[Naruto blinks and glances Cody's way a second time and grins with a shrug.]

Yep, I'm looking for a ramen stand-ttebayo!

[model_prisoner]

Ramen, huh?

[He spends one entire turkey leg just thinking about ramen. He was the type who liked to remember each meal to the fullest. It was only after he finished his meal that he tossed the bucket into a nearby can and glanced around, searching for said ramen.]

Think they got that here. Somewhere. Maybe in...this direction.

[runningonramen]

Really? Can you show me where it is?

[Best news all day really.]

It's been a little while since I've had some good ramen!

[model_prisoner]

Didn't think they'd have much selection, but it ain't too bad around here. Got a little of everything.

[He yawns and scratches the back of his neck as he heads toward another section of the plaza, stopping at a small stall by an alley.]

This guy makes pretty good Eastern food.

[runningonramen]

That's okay, I'm not that picky!

[He pushes the cloth aside and steps into the stall to admire the menu. His stomach growls again. He's definitely hungry.]

[model_prisoner]

[He leans in, making sure nobody but the boy can hear.]

You do have money, right? I don't know if this guy is hot about freebies.

[runningonramen]

[Thankfully being a new arrival affords him a certain amount of coin and he tilts his head at Cody.]

Why, do I look untrustworthy or something dattebayo?

[tsunderseaboat]

I'm not a spirit or another, I'm an avatar created by my Union Core using programming for my actions and nanomaterials for my body. There's nothing supernatural about it.

[model_prisoner]

Not much of an unbiased authority on that.

[He raises his arms, tensing the chain binding his wrists.]

I am a criminal, after all. I just like to know ahead of time if I should expect to run.

[runningonramen]

[He shakes his head, amused.]

No need to run, I think. [It's enough of a revelation though for him to keep half an eye on him. He orders two bowls of beef ramen and grabs a seat.]

What'd you do?

[model_prisoner]

[What the hell, he's got some time to kill.]

Guess. What do you think I did?

[sunk_your_battleship]

Avatar. Not supernatural. Right.

[This is a bit of a hard sell, since the one Murasa knows of represents a god and all.]

I assume nanomaterials are "very small otherwise non-sentient things", yes?

[SHE DOESN'T KNOW THIS STRANGE TECHNOLOGY but she can guess!]

[runningonramen]

[Naruto leans back against the counter, looking at Cody.]

I don't know...did you kill someone?

[moonbreaker]

[There was a faint breeze coming off of the sea. It ruffled the fur on Makoto's tail and made her hair sway. Leliana's greeting made one of her ears twitch, and she turned to look down over her shoulder. She blinked a few times before cracking a smile.]

I don't find them. They just keep finding me, that's all!

[Not the lamest excuse in the universe, but still. Makoto had come up with better in the past.]

[frostheartedrose]

Bridget glanced over at the other woman for a long moment with cat-slit eyes and nodded. "It would be rather difficult though. The stone probably had copper flecks through it. But imagining her polished and shimmering in the moonlight with the water around her..." Bridget smiled just a tiny bit. What could she say? She liked pretty things so it was sad to see time and neglect take that away.

"Let me guess, you arrived today as well?" Not that the other woman stood out in any odd way, but it just seemed like the locals either ignored or avoided the fountain. And THAT was odd to Bridget. In such a location in the town it was more likely that the source of fresh water wouldn't be passed up when it came to cleaning and cooking. So someone taking the time to study it must be like herself: a stranger.

[model_prisoner]

Once. Doesn't have anything to do with my sentence, though.