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!

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The Hero Queen | Fable 3

[gnomekiller]

[STUCK ON AN ABANDONED ISLAND]

It would be easy for most to panic when faced with a situation like this; an unfamiliar world, an abandoned island, ruins filled with traps and some oddly cute but most definitely vicious wildlife? Even for the unusually tall, muscular woman currently poking at her signal fire, it was a little too reminiscent of a dark time in her past for her to really settle down.

But she was a Hero, and even when unsettled she powered forward despite the risks. This was how she had managed to clear out a convenient tower near the shore filled with some kind of huge, fanged bunnies with flaming tails; their corpses, which were dotted all over her newly acquired shelter, still smouldered slightly.

The Queen, whose golden crown had somehow managed to stay on her head despite being viciously tossed around in the waves a week beforehand before, had used several of the bunnies to help get her signal fire going.

Without access to her fire magic, it made sense!

"Three days, boy," she said casually, to the sleeping black-and-white dog at her side. "Three days of fire and nobody has stopped yet. If it carries on like this I may just go empty out that huge rabbit hole."

The Hero Queen could deal with nerves, but not with boredom; if something exciting didn't happen soon, she would surely go mad! It was lucky, perhaps, that this moment heralded the arrival of a someone on the stairs of her lair... or something. Clear footsteps could be heard on the stone, and in her current state of mind it was easy for her to be halfway down them in seconds, sword in hand.

Perhaps it wasn't a wise thing to do, but curiousity and the need to do something that wasn't sleeping and watching was a far bigger drive for the Queen than sense.

"Hello?" she called down, blade pointed outwards. Hopefully it wasn't just another rabbit...

[breakfastmetaphors]

Not another rabbit, but rather a teenage boy in a sharp looking military uniform was making his way up the stairs. He'd seen the signal fires from the deck of the ship, so after the landing party had arrived he'd taken it on himself to search out whoever had set them. The trail to the tower had been simple to follow and a deliberate trap seemed highly unlikely, so he assumed that he'd be faced with someone in need of rescue. Whether or not he'd offer it depended on whether he felt it was worth his time.

He didn't bother to try to hide his presence as he climbed the tower stairs and had only managed a few steps before the inhabitant of the tower rushed out. She cut an impressive figure, but even with the advantage of higher ground and longer reach, he didn't estimate her as much of an opponent. Bullets were expensive in this place, but he wouldn't need more than one if it came to it.

"Do you want to leave this island?"

No sense in prolonging things unnecessarily.