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 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?

[booyaka_boom]

Uh huh, I can! But I definitely can't use it in the same way you are.

*She smiles at that*

The healing kind of healing? Protection spells too.

[letthestormrageon]

[There's a soft laugh at her words.]

Can you heal a frozen person?

[booyaka_boom]

*She raises a brow*

You mean like a snowman?

[letthestormrageon]

No, I mean someone who was hit with ice magic and who started to freeze from the inside.

[booyaka_boom]

Hmm... I dunno. I mean, I've never tried. Is there someone hurt? I can try to help them!

[letthestormrageon]

No... No there's no one hurt but...

[She pauses and takes a deep breath.]

A long time ago I hurt someone that way. Had it not been for a troll's magic... It would have been fatal.

[booyaka_boom]

You can make people cold, on the inside?

*Selphie frowns at this, reminded of that curse she had just lived through, and how horrible that was*

This might sound strange but... did anyone try hugging them, or being close, to see if that would warm them up?

[letthestormrageon]

[The suggestion is so strange and stupid that Elsa can't help but laugh sadly at it.]

Yes... We tried. Mother hugged her with all her might, and so did father, so did I... But it served for nothing. We had to run to the trolls for help, they were able to help and heal her.

They warned me, about the danger my powers posed. They said we had been lucky I hadn't hit her in the heart but in the head, the head could be healed. But not a frozen heart.

[She looks at Selphie, her arms around her tightly, pain showing in her face. She had never talked about it again, always keeping it for herself.]

I didn't want to do it. It wasn't my intention, an accident. And I almost killed her. And I have tried to control it, to avoid such a thing happening again but... I failed. I can't control it, I can't risk it happening again. Not unless I know that it can be healed, that there's a way to undo the damage I may cause.