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

[runningonramen]

[Naruto blinks and glances Cody's way a second time and grins with a shrug.]

Yep, I'm looking for a ramen stand-ttebayo!

[model_prisoner]

Ramen, huh?

[He spends one entire turkey leg just thinking about ramen. He was the type who liked to remember each meal to the fullest. It was only after he finished his meal that he tossed the bucket into a nearby can and glanced around, searching for said ramen.]

Think they got that here. Somewhere. Maybe in...this direction.

[runningonramen]

Really? Can you show me where it is?

[Best news all day really.]

It's been a little while since I've had some good ramen!

[model_prisoner]

Didn't think they'd have much selection, but it ain't too bad around here. Got a little of everything.

[He yawns and scratches the back of his neck as he heads toward another section of the plaza, stopping at a small stall by an alley.]

This guy makes pretty good Eastern food.

[runningonramen]

That's okay, I'm not that picky!

[He pushes the cloth aside and steps into the stall to admire the menu. His stomach growls again. He's definitely hungry.]

[model_prisoner]

[He leans in, making sure nobody but the boy can hear.]

You do have money, right? I don't know if this guy is hot about freebies.

[runningonramen]

[Thankfully being a new arrival affords him a certain amount of coin and he tilts his head at Cody.]

Why, do I look untrustworthy or something dattebayo?

[model_prisoner]

Not much of an unbiased authority on that.

[He raises his arms, tensing the chain binding his wrists.]

I am a criminal, after all. I just like to know ahead of time if I should expect to run.

[runningonramen]

[He shakes his head, amused.]

No need to run, I think. [It's enough of a revelation though for him to keep half an eye on him. He orders two bowls of beef ramen and grabs a seat.]

What'd you do?

[model_prisoner]

[What the hell, he's got some time to kill.]

Guess. What do you think I did?

[runningonramen]

[Naruto leans back against the counter, looking at Cody.]

I don't know...did you kill someone?

[model_prisoner]

Once. Doesn't have anything to do with my sentence, though.

[runningonramen]

Huh. Well did you betray your village or something? I don't know.

[model_prisoner]

Not really. Guess I just like to fight a little too much.

[runningonramen]

Oh, is that all?

[The ramen comes and he glances at Cody for a moment from the corner of his eye before digging in.]

[model_prisoner]

Even if I'm telling the truth, the question is whether you'd believe a convict. How many people in prison ever really admit to what they do?

[runningonramen]

I don't really know anything about prisoners. [It's not the kind of lie that's really affecting his life so he shrugs it off.]

Probably doesn't matter, unless you're going to attack me or something.

[model_prisoner]

You don't look like much of a brawler. Don't see much point to it.

[He reaches into his jumpsuit and pulls out a handful of coins, plunking them down for some takoyaki.]

Definitely a change of pace from a prison cell. Nice to wake up in the sun, now and then.

[runningonramen]

[Yep, that's him, just another innocent teenager. He slurps some ramen.]

Yeah, it's a pretty good day when you get to go out!

I'm Uzumaki Naruto-ttebayo!

[model_prisoner]

[Oh yeah, introductions. When's the last time he ever bothered to do that? Jail is awful for remembering pleasantries.]

Uh...Cody. Cody Travers.

You're Japanese, then?

[runningonramen]

Huh? What's that? I'm from the Land of Fire.

[model_prisoner]

...What country is that in?

[runningonramen]

That is the country. The journal said this is a different world, so, probably different countries.

[model_prisoner]

...Journal. Right. That thing.

[He's not too big on a bunch of reading.]

[runningonramen]

[That's too bad, the book was pretty informative. Naruto pushes the empty bowl away and starts in on the second without a breath in between.]

Don't worry about it too much, since we'ere here, you can't go there.