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]

[Elsa watches the other girl closely from her spot, her full attention on her movements. She gasps when the flame appears and is shot, it hits a wall and a cloud of steam surges from it, the ice melting slightly, but remaining mostly intact.

It's something, but it's insufficient, in her opinion. When she asks her tone is polite, but there's a certain urgency and need in her voice. Hope that the answer is a negative one.]

Is that all you can do?

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie watches, wondering herself what her own magic will do against this different kind of ice. But it works, if barely. She raises a brow at the question, though, and shakes her head*

Nu uh! Watch this!

*This time, she pulls a fira spell, more than twice as powerful as the last one, and she lets it go with much more enthusiasm than last time*

[letthestormrageon]

[The Snow Queen gasps as the girl makes a much bigger flame this time, the fire attacking the ice viciously and creating an even bigger spiral of steam. Even when the steam cleans the ice is still visibly melting, giving up against the heat and creating a hole in the wall.

Elsa can barely belief it.]

It... Melted. The fire melted my ice... You can melt my ice!

[She brings a hand to her mouth which refuses to close due shock and disbelief, her knees seem to give up, and she slowly lowers herself to sit on the ice stairs. Her eyes don't move away from the melting ice even for a second as tears begin to crowd on them.

Her ice, the ice no one could control or do anything about... It's melting, melting as if nothing. By a girl who can use fire magic as if it was nothing. Like Elsa did with her ice. She had never even dreamed of such a thing being possible.]

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie panics when she reacts like that, thinking that it's because of the damage she made, so she rushes over,looking alarmed and concerned*

I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I told you that might happen! I'm sorry! I can help you fix it!

[letthestormrageon]

[Elsa shakes her head as she hears the other apologize, tears running down her cheeks as she keeps staring at the damage. She doesn't notice the girl coming closer until she's almost besides her, and she stands up climbing up the stairs difficulty, as fast as possible to put distance between them, raising a hand for good measure to signal for the other to keep the distance.]

No! No, you don't have to apologize. You don't understand, it's... It's the first time. I never thought there could be anyone with enough power to melt my ice, to stop it. Or that there could be anyone with a power similar to mine.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie stares up at her, feeling pretty useless as she watches her cry. And as she hurries away, that means that a friendly hug is clearly out of the question. She speaks up eventually, delivering the truth in a gentle, understanding voice*

There are many magic users in this world, and some of us can manage much more powerful than that. There's all sorts of magic here. We learned from each other, and look after each other. So... you're not alone here. You don't have to be.

[letthestormrageon]

[Many magic users? There are more? And people who can manage even more than that? That's... She would have never imagined that such a thing could be possible. Not even after being ripped away from her world by a strange magic.]

Then... When you said you could help, you meant that you learned to control your own powers as well? Were you born with them too?

[She had thought that the girl meant something like what her father had tried to do, something that hadn't worked. That, coupled with the way it had been worded, quite rudely, had made Elsa assume that it would be useless.]

[booyaka_boom]

Hmm... Not really. I learned and trained with how to use mine, but I did stumble across more power than I could handle when I was too young - that wasn't a good idea. So... in a way, I guess I kinda know where you're coming from.

*She's struggling to keep a distance when the girl seems so confused, but she doesn't seem to like contact, so she just wavers on the bottom of the stairs*

There are others here, though, born with stuff that they've had to learn to deal with. Maybe you'd be better talking to them, see how they've managed it.

[letthestormrageon]

[Elsa hugs herself, looking at the damaged ice before finally looking at the girl again. A small, but still unsure smile comes to her lips.]

What is your name?

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie offers the kindest smile she can manage and bows her head in greeting*

Selphie, Selphie Tilmitt. Yours?

[letthestormrageon]

Elsa.

[There's a brief pause before she shakes her head.]

Just Elsa. It's nice to meet you, Selphie. The people you mentioned... Those who were born with powers as well, are they with you?

[booyaka_boom]

Nice to meet you too, Elsa!

*She's a little surprised that there's not a 'princess' or something that comes along with that. But she smiles and nods her head*

Uh huh. There's all sorts in our crew! Some with powers from birth, some with things discovered by accident, and yeah.. I think maybe you guys could help each other out. We're all real friendly, too!

*Well...most of the time*

[letthestormrageon]

[There used to be. Queen of Arendelle, but she's no queen anymore, neither is she in Arendelle. Nor will she ever return there.]

If they are half the way you are I can believe such a claim. What kind of powers do they have?

[booyaka_boom]

Well.. we got people who can use different kinds of weapons, and magic, there's a vampire, a coupla phoenixes, and even a shark man!

*She smiles broadly and laughs, like she's just realised how crazy their crew must sound*

[letthestormrageon]

[Rather than crazy they sound strange to Elsa.]

I'm sorry, I have never heard about vampires or phoenixes. What kind of creatures are they?

[She can, somehow imagine how a shark man would look though.],

[booyaka_boom]

*She smiles a little and sighs - but in an amused way. She leans against a bar on the staircase and begins her explanation*

Vampires are... undead. They live forever, and can be pretty strong and do mind tricks, but they gotta drink blood to survive. Phoenixes, they're like... fire birds, humans that can transform, and they can come back alive when they die.

*Selphie scratches the back of her neck*

Well, that's the basics... Kinda.

[letthestormrageon]

That's... A really varied crew.

[Strange but not in a bad way, more like a curious way. Specially the phoenixes.]

Are the phoenixes really made of fire?

[booyaka_boom]

Yeah we are! But we have fun and we always help each other out, so it works.

*Selphie thinks about this for a moment*

Uhm... I don't think so. At least, not when they're in human form.

[letthestormrageon]

And when they are in bird form?

[She seems to have calmed down again, but remains sitting looking at Selphie with warm curiosity.]

[booyaka_boom]

I dunno if there's a rule for that. Or maybe each phoenix in each world is different. One of them, he's like a huge bird made of flames! The other though, he turns into a blue bird, who is also very cuddly. So maybe it depends.

[letthestormrageon]

Blue? I've never seen blue fire.

[She sounds amused.]

You care for them a lot, don't you?

[booyaka_boom]

Uh huh! And the thing is that it doesn't hurt. In fact, it kinda tickles!

*She smiles brightly at that and nods*

Yeah. My crew are really good to me, and we have a lot of fun.

[letthestormrageon]

What kind of things do you do?

[Elsa can't help to be curious, she didn't pay much attention to the people in the ship she was in before she arrived to the island.]

[booyaka_boom]

I use all kinds of elemental magic, and healing. I fight with nunchaku, and I also play guitar.

*She laughs a little at that*

That's pretty much what I do.

[letthestormrageon]

All kinds? So you can use ice as well?

[Her eyes seem to shine more brightly at the mention of healing magic.]

What kind of healing?