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]

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?

[allendsmeat]

Hmm I dunno. [he's sure Celestia told him some of it but he can't really remember much of it] I think she can do weather stuff and maybe other stuff too. You'll have to ask her.

[letthestormrageon]

[Weather stuff, that sounds... Promising actually.]

Healing stuff?

[She tries, to see if it rings something to him.]

[allendsmeat]

I dunno. [he really doesn't pay attention and they haven't really gotten that hurt lately so...] Why don't you come and ask her? And if it's not what you want you can go. [he nods] But we'll still come and visit you.

[letthestormrageon]

[That... Makes Elsa smile, sincerely happy again.]

Okay, I can do that. And if not, I wouldn't mind an occasional visit, if you tell me about your adventures.

[It seems like a fair deal. If this Celestia can do healing magic, maybe she could help even if the worst were to happen again. It's a cheap solution, she knows, it's not what her parents wanted... But she had tried, she really tried and failed. It was either this, or be alone forever. She's ready for it, for the isolation and solitude, but it's not what she really wants. She wants to go back, have fun with her powers and play with others, make a snowman even in the middle of July.]

[allendsmeat]

[she should smile more often. It makes Luffy smile too.] Yep! But I hope you can come with us.

[and to that end]

Come on! I'll race you!

[and with that he takes a running leap out the window, holding his hat on as he falls, then slams down to the ground, his rubbery body absorbing the impact. He'll look back up to make sure she comes out before he resumes running, though.]

[letthestormrageon]

[She screams when he jumps, rushing to the window and watching in disbelief as he's... Perfectly all right. If she stays she will have to ask again about what he is.

Elsa still hesitates for another moment, turning to look at her palace before she looks at the running boy. But she can return, if she doesn't see it as a safe idea for them, she won't go. And this is already a winter island so she can't cause much damage if she ends unleashing a snow storm, right?

With a gesture she creates the start of an ice walkway through which she runs, creating more and more of it as she advances and races him. No one said the race had to be on the same ground level, after all.]