Test Drive for January 2014 Apps

[highseasmods]

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

[heartismyown]

I'm not a burden!

[He doesn't even know what to do, he's getting so angry. He drops his sword in a huff, it vanishes of course and he lets out an annoyed cry.]

[breakfastmetaphors]

Your combat ability is at roughly the middle range of those aboard the ship, but your fighting style requires ample space, making it ill-suited to shipboard combat. Your inability to properly process and retain information puts you at a disadvantage when it comes to operations of any sort of complexity. Your presence is a distraction to your comrades from your own world, especially Lea, who would have more promise as an operative if his focus could be redirected.

[He ticks each item off his mental list methodically, then pauses.]

Do you need me to continue?

[heartismyown]

[Roxas just stares at him.]

Did Lea say that?

[breakfastmetaphors]

It was easy enough to determine from observation. He'll be here to defend you in two minutes.

[Give or take 30 seconds.]

[heartismyown]

He doesn't need to defend me! I am NOT a burden! Lea doesn't think that, and I'm doing my best!

[breakfastmetaphors]

Discuss that with him.

[It would be to Roxas' advantage, anyway. The two of them were too dependent on each other.]

If you go now, you can be done before Thatch needs you to clean up the mess in the galley.

[That shouldn't happen for another half an hour, after all.]

[heartismyown]

I don't have to ask him. I know.

[breakfastmetaphors]

[Friendship. There was certainly something to having someone who trusted you implicitly, who you could count on to have your back. He didn't begrudge him that, but the two of them were going to argue anyway. They might as well do it belowdecks where he won't have to listen to it.

He makes a noncommittal noise and leans back against the mast.]