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]

A rubber person... I-I'm sorry, I'm confused.

[Very confused. And still scared, enough so that the snow keeps whirling around them, and she can't even bring herself to care to try to control it. When he talks about making a snowman, though, Elsa visibly flinches and looks at him with wide eyes again. She speaks slowly as if trying to make sense of what's going on.]

A snowman? You are... In an ice palace, after gluing your tongue to one of the walls, in a room where it's snowing... And you want to build a snowman?

[allendsmeat]

Yeah. I stretch! [and he pulls on his cheek to show.

At her question, though, he nods]

It's a great place to do it! We could make them in front of the window so they can have a great view! [he hops to his feet and looks out the window a minute before turning around and grinning at her] What do you think?

[letthestormrageon]

I...

[The voice of Anna, asking her if she wanted to build a snowman, day after day, year after year. Begging her to come out the door, to play with her. The magic words that once had always worked to make her go to have fun, failing with their magic again an again.

Yes. Yes, she wants to build a snowman, to build an army of them. She wants to play with the snow and her ice. She has always wanted. But she couldn't, it wasn't appropriate. And though an empty island where she's settled may be appropriate, the circumstances aren't so.]

Aren't you scared? Or confused as to where the snow comes from?

[allendsmeat]

Who cares? It's snow. [he tries to catch a flake on his tongue.]

[letthestormrageon]

[She stares in shock for another moment before she... Lets out a laugh. And after that comes another and another one and soon she's just laughing in disbelief and confused relief at the same time. Just who is this man? He's so... So much like a child. In a way it reminds her of Anna when she was just five, the memory makes her laugh die in an instant, and the snow storm stops as suddenly as it had started.

No... No. She can't do that. Her powers aren't something she can play with along with others.]

I'm sorry, but you won't be able to make a snowman here. There's plenty snow outside, you could go there and play there if you wish.

[allendsmeat]

[he laughs, too, cuz he likes her laugh but then it goes and so does the snow and Luffy stops. Maybe it only snows when she's happy. She should be happy all the time.

He blinks at her words. He wants to make snowmen but...]

Wanna come with me?

[letthestormrageon]

Eh, me?

[Make a snowman the old way? With natural snow and not one created with her powers. She used to build them with Anna that way, after creating enough snow for them to make one, it would be the same, except that she wouldn't be using her powers.

That... Could that work? But it would be too dangerous if they got too close, wouldn't it? Her tone is very regretful when she speaks. She wants to but... She can't take any risks. It wouldn't be fair to him.]

N-No. I'm sorry, but it's safer if I stay here.

[allendsmeat]

Why are there monsters out there? That's okay. If they try to hurt our snowmen I'll just send them flying!

[letthestormrageon]

[She did not expect that.]

Monsters? No, no! There's nothing on this island! No one except me. And a bit of food, no treasure or animals.

What I meant is... That it would be safer for you if I stay here.

[allendsmeat]

Oh. [he doesn't get it but] I don't care about that stuff. Danger can be pretty fun! [but if she doesn't want to go out then] I can stay here. [yep. He folds his arms behind his head and looks around] This place is pretty awesome. Did you make it?

[letthestormrageon]

[She just stares again. Danger being fun?]

Danger? Fun? What if it's mortal danger?

[Because that's how it is with her. And no, he can't stay, he should go. She's dangerous!

She's about to argue that when he comments around the palace.]

Ah, yes. I did, I have ice powers. I can make ice and make snow, but I can't really control them, and they can be dangerous for others so when I found this empty island, I decided to stay here.

[allendsmeat]

[Danger is danger. He just gives a shrug and is about to explain when he's totally distracted by what she says she can do. She can make ice and snow? That's so awesome!]

Eh? Really?! Hey, join my crew! [they could have snowmen whenever they wanted! And even cold days when it got hot outside! It was perfect! Plus she seemed really cool.]

[letthestormrageon]

[This man... He makes no sense at all. Didn't he hear her? Or did he just not care?]

What? Why?

[She can barely aim to react adequately to that.]

[allendsmeat]

hahaha because I like you! And it'll be fun! [and since he takes breathing as a yes] Let's go!

[letthestormrageon]

[Because he likes her? He barely knows-, no, he doesn't know her!]

Go? Wait, go where?

[She really hates being so confused and lost, but she can't even bring herself to get angry or annoyed. Just overwhelmed.]

[allendsmeat]

On an adventure. [where else would they go?]

[letthestormrageon]

[She really can't follow.]

Wait, are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, returning to your ship with a stranger to join the crew, just like that. A person of whom you don't even know the name! Would your captain and companions accept such a thing?

[Please, no one in their right mind would.]

[allendsmeat]

haha I'm the captain so it's not a problem. [that's why its his crew and not anyone elses] And I guess I could learn your name first. I'm Monkey D. Luffy, the man whose going to be King of the Pirates.

[letthestormrageon]

[Who allowed such a kid brained man be a captain? Is he for real or is he playing a make-believe game and getting too much into the role?]

I'm Elsa... Do pirates have kings?

[allendsmeat]

Elsa. [he'll remember that] Yeah. I have to find the one piece first but I can't find it here. I have to go home for that.

[letthestormrageon]

["Go home", Elsa smiles at that.]

So you ar looking for a way back home... I'm sorry but then I definitively can't go with you. I have nowhere to go, no wish to return where I come from.

[She had already decided to live in solitude before being brought here, be it in the mountain or in another world makes little difference for her.]

If I went with you and you found your way home, I wouldn't be able to sail the ship back here by myself.

[allendsmeat]

It's okay. We can drop you off somewhere before we go. [it's no problem. It's the adventure that's important] Or maybe you can come with us if you want.

[he hopes she does. But maybe she'll find something really great here, too. But she won't find anything great up here all alone so he's not going to let it go]

[letthestormrageon]

Come with you? You mean to your world?

[She laughs softly in disbelief, that probably would be impossible. And it would be dangerous either way.

Though that he offers to leave here somewhere before leaving makes it really tempting. But no, it could be dangerous.]

I wouldn't want to harm you or your crew when my powers become uncontrollable, Luffy. You saw it before, just by getting a bit scared a snow storm raises, if I ever panicked while on the ship... Or if I ever hit any of you with my magic... I could kill you.

[allendsmeat]

Hmm. Well we're all pretty strong. So I don't think it'll be a problem but...

[he thinks about this]

We'll just have to make sure you don't panic. We have a really great crew. Oh, Brook is a skeleton but he's a great guy and Sanji's a little weird but he really likes ladies. [what else] Oh and Celestia can do magic stuff so maybe if you get scared she can help.

[nod.] So together it'll be easy!

[letthestormrageon]

[He really makes it hard to refuse. And his crew sounds oddly wonderful, even if the skeleton bit is confusing, but she's starting to accept that confusion is a normal mental state with this kid. She's about to insist in her refusal when she realizes something he said and decides to question that more.]

"Magic stuff"? Do you know what kind of magic?