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

what stranger so mysterious!

[thethundersaid]

So they were at a standstill, neither attacking or showing threat yet. That was a good sign for the recently-rebuilt marketplace, probably, though the fact that Kakashi had actually taken his nose out of his porn for a moment spoke to his expectations, casual voice or not.

"Almost two months." The answer was grating to give, the days at sea blurring into uselessness further and further from the war, the strange balancing act with his brother still creeping only slowly towards stability.

Shifting the bags he held, he added, "You can relax. I don't intend to attack you. I've already destroyed this place once, a second time probably won't produce a different result."

All the mystery~

[littleorangebook]

Kakashi simply didn't want to start trouble if it wasn't necessary. He had no back up here, and he had no idea what forces Sasuke had on hand. Two months. His visible eye narrowed a little and he finally pushed himself to his feet, casually tucking his book away. It didn't make sense, but a number of things didn't make sense.

Two months and the Uchiha hadn't found a way home. Perhaps there was merit to that rhyme afterall... That pointed comment had the taller man chuckle lightly, even as he tucked the information away. "Probably not." He'd bide his time, hold the peace as long as Sasuke did. And he didn't really want to hurt the other ninja without reason.

"So what will you tell me about this place?"

Re: All the mystery~

[thethundersaid]

There was something bizarre about facing down his former teacher in broad daylight with an armful of groceries given the last time they'd actually spoken to one another, but bizarre had come to encompass much of Sasuke's reality even before arriving here. Shifting the weight of hardtack and dried foods of all kinds, he gave a meaningful tilt of his head toward the pocket Kakashi had tucked his orange book into.

"Have you read anything other than your porn yet?" If Kakashi hadn't tossed it, his journal probably held the same message that had opened Sasuke's.

[littleorangebook]

Bizarre was one way to put it. Surreal was another. Kakashi glanced curiously at the bag of supplies, but didn't ask about what exactly the other had decided worth purchasing.

The pointed nod to his pocket earned a smirk hidden behind his mask, but still there all the same. Sasuke could probably still see it, he knew the older ninja well enough unless he'd forgotten.

"Yes. Is it true?" The ships. This 'Davy Jones'.

[thethundersaid]

That Kakashi had bothered to investigate his own belongings at least made things marginally easier, though the question of how much of it was literally true was somewhat less simple.

"Most of it is true." He paused, and then with an unavoidably annoyed sigh, added: "I haven't found confirmation about whether Davy Jones is real or not, though people claim to have met him."

[littleorangebook]

What about this place was actually simple? Kakashi dared a glance around, only Sasuke wouldn't be fooled. Or would he? His guard wasn't actually down, not here where he had no idea what was actually going on.

A myth, interesting. He looked back to his former student, slouching down comfortably where he stood. A lazy blink. "Maybe he just doesn't want you to find him."

[thethundersaid]

Sasuke had learned very early on that Kakashi's casual demeanour was not to be taken at face value, any more than the orange book was a sign of true distraction. He glanced across the square at the same time Kakashi did, though, taking in the parts that were still under reconstruction.

"I'd hide if I were him, too," he said, darkly, meeting the man's one visible eye with an assessing look. "I have no luxury to be away from our world for this long."

[littleorangebook]

Something some ninja never really figured out. But Sasuke was a genius wasn't he? If only things had turned out different. But Kakashi had learned the hard way 'if only's didn't do anything.

That cold look was nothing new, though for a brief time...He inwardly gave himself a shake. Dwelling would do him no good. He let out a sigh and took a few steps towards Sasuke, mostly to see what the other would do.

"No, we don't."

[thethundersaid]

Kakashi was testing him. Probably to be expected, given the last time Sasuke had seen him -- then again, now that he was thinking about it, the last time Sasuke had seen Kakashi could easily be decidedly different from the last time Kakashi had seen him.

Standing his ground, he raised an eyebrow. "What are you returning to?"

[littleorangebook]

Always a test. Poking at cracks. Seeing what needed strengthening, or what could be used. Kakashi paused at the question, gaze sharpening just a little.

Interesting, and unexpected, question. "It sounds like that's an actual question. How could it be any different then what you are?"

[thethundersaid]

How, indeed. It had been two months, now, but there were still moments when catching Itachi out of the corner of his eye made him look again, the sense of utter displacement of time sudden and thoroughly disorienting. You have no idea was a tempting answer.

"Those who arrive here from other worlds come from any time. You could be from my future or my past."

[littleorangebook]

His visible eye widened a little at that little bombshell.

Time. Here, it meant little. If Sasuke's word was to be trusted. And he saw no reason to think it a lie - what would it benefit the Uchiha?

Kakashi held himself in check though, mulling it over along with how to word his answer. Sasuke certainly looked like he had the last time he'd caught sight of him...but given how quickly events could change in the direction they'd all been going? It meant little.

"...Naruto caught your trail and we were on our way to get you."

Such a simple explanation to describe the whirlwind of attacks, finding and killing Akatsuki members one after the other.

[thethundersaid]

The surprise was to be expected, that moment where it was clear that Kakashi was weighing the likelihood that Sasuke was telling a lie. Anything deeper than that -- what conclusion the man had drawn in the end -- was hidden beneath the mask and the forehead protector covering Obito's eye.

The information made no sense to Sasuke, however, his brow furrowing in confusion. "Coming to get me? From where?"

Kakashi showed too much caution with him to be from any time earlier than his defection from Konohagakure, and if he had to place an age on him he would guess he was a older than that. It couldn't have been the one time his former team had managed to infiltrate Sound -- Kakashi hadn't been there as far as Sasuke had noticed.