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Test Drive for January 2014 Apps

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[She can't help but blink at the last part of what he says.]

I'm sorry? "Total package"?

[Who are you calling a package?]

You know, when a woman really has everything going for her. I mean, you're cute, you can do cool ice magic, and you obviously have a pretty nice sense of aesthetics. I'm not an expert or anything, but you've got a real eye for architecture.

[He points at the walls and ceilings.]

I mean, I can't even draw a straight line. If I had ice powers, my castle would look like a modern art disaster. Your castle doesn't have a wall or angle out of place.

[She had never heard that term but now she can see that it's not something meant as rude. Elsa laughs at the comment about drawing a straight line.]

I see, thank you very much.

To be honest I'm not sure if I really have such a nice sense of aesthetics, I just have to think, and those thoughts form in ice. I don't think it deserves such compliments when it's something so simple for me while other people have to work really hard for those things.

You don't have to do calculation in your head or anything? You just imagine it and it happens? Man, that's much easier than tao magic.

[She shakes her head.]

No, I don't. I was born with this power, it has always been part of me. I suppose that's why it works so simply for me.

If that's the case, why set up shop here? Nobody can appreciate it.

Because nobody is here.

[That's the whole point.]

This way I can't hurt anyone when my powers get out of control.

What do you mean? You must have some pretty nice control, to set all this up.

Not the kind of control that makes it safe for people to be around me.

[Elsa wraps her arms around her.]

My powers seem to be tied with my emotions, if I get worried or scared they run wild. I trust you can see how that may be dangerous for others.

Can't you just train them or something? Maybe wear some kind of limiter? I don't believe in unfixable problems. Could just be a result of technology being so sweet back home, but most everything has a solution. It's just a matter of finding it.

I feel all that scared of your ice powers. I've kinda' gotten used to a whole mess of really powerful people trying to kill me.

[The words make her frown, as does the tone used. As if it wasn't such a big problem, or as if she had not tried. The temperature seems to drop as her displeased expression grows.]

I would advice you to not make light of others' problems, Mister. You know nothing of me or my powers. I was born with them, do you think I would be so irresponsible to live my life without trying to learn to control them? Without training to constrain them?!

I understand that you mean well, but have you not considered that this is the solution of the problem?

I'm just saying, I don't think isolating yourself is gonna' help the problem.

It does. It keeps people safe and here I don't have to hide myself. I don't have to act as if my power is something to be ashamed of, something to fear.

[It's not her power what she fears, but hurting others.]

[Gene thinks it over, then crosses his arms and leans against the nearest wall.]

But that's just running away.

[She merely glances at him, displeasure still in her face.]

Maybe it would be better if this wasn't a decision that came from me, but was imposed by others in order to keep people safe? The way a criminal would be treated?

That wouldn't be right either. You shouldn't lock people away for being the way they're born, and people shouldn't sequester themselves away just because they're afraid of hurting people.

It's not like you're some sort of monster, you just have a special gift that you have some trouble with.

[That... Surprises her a bit and the displeasure vanishes from her face, leaving just confusion for a moment before she smiles and shakes her head.]

You just say that because your first exposure to my power was this palace. You wouldn't say the same if I had casted ice spikes around when scared or made you slip by accident.

Oh yeah?

[A small smirk comes over his face as he cracks his knuckles.]

Alright, then. I'll show you. Throw an attack at me.

[The sole suggestion makes her step back, away from the handrail as if it burned.]

What? No!! I don't want to attack you!

I'll totally block it. I'll show you that I'm not afraid of it, even after seeing the more offensive side.

No!!

[The idea is outrageous. What is he thinking?]

I won't attack you! Why would you want to do that?! Just to prove your point?

Absolutely. See how you're reacting right now? You're so scared to death of hurting someone with your powers, that it immediately stresses you out. I think the best thing is stop always thinking you're going to accidentally hurt someone.

I've talked to a lot of people here, and ice powers are far from the only unique ability out there. Some people have some REALLY out there abilities, and they don't let it slow them down.

I'm not made of snow. I'm not gonna' die.

[To stop thinking that she's going to hurt someone? Does he even know what he's saying? A snow storm begins to rise, and a cracking sound is heard somewhere in the palace.]

Are you crazy?! You could die!! I almost killed someone before! What do you care if I'm here alone or not?

Because if there's one thing I can't stand, it's seein' a good person bein' punished. Whether it's by themselves or someone else. As for death, that's an everyday possibility in my line of work.

I... I'm not being punished.

[She shakes her head, stepping back even more as the snow storm arises. Her voice is shaky, the fear and stress increasing inside of her.]

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