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

[tomyfriends]

[The island was reported to have entire droves of treasure hidden in it, something a pirate king had left behind ages ago only to be lost to history. Nobody could find it so, naturally, Kidd took it upon himself to find it.

There was just one problem: there was a good reason why nobody had ever found this treasure before. The entire island was made up of coves and hidden caverns you would have to dive into to find. To top it off, a great reef surrounded the already rocky bottom - making it near impossible to traverse in order to get close enough to the shoreline.

The Horseshoe was the vessel she had taken up and whoever on board went with her was in the shore party now, as the boat was docked inside the reef - small enough to ease through it.

However, after hours upon hours of searching. James Kidd began growing impatient. He struck the wooden shovel he carried into the sand and sighed, staring into the thick treeline towards the center of the island.]

I'm beginning t'think this was a waste of our bloody time.

[manlionpig]

[Ryoga had been an expert at getting lost, but this was a situation that took the cake. At times, he could traverse the sea itself and land on other continents without so much as noticing he was outside of Japan. It grew worse after the left Isla Empieza--to the point that he'd been to three different islands without so much as seeing another human being.

Kidd wouldn't have known any of that, but he would have certainly noticed the hand sticking out of the sand right where he last drove his shovel. The hand twitched, bit by bit, until its fingertips found a bit more solid of a stretch of sand to latch onto. Then, the hand pulled up a body, a treasure chest coming up with him as well.]

...Gah! Where the hell am I!? [Exclaimed Ryoga, clutching the treasure chest without realizing what it was. How did he get there? He tried blasting apart some of the sand to make himself a shelter and ended up burying himself. The fact that he was alive was a miracle in upon itself, but--]

You! Who're you!? [So, the question was posed of Kidd, who was even less likely to know who on Earth Ryoga was in the first place.]