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

[sunk_your_battleship]

Avatar. Not supernatural. Right.

[This is a bit of a hard sell, since the one Murasa knows of represents a god and all.]

I assume nanomaterials are "very small otherwise non-sentient things", yes?

[SHE DOESN'T KNOW THIS STRANGE TECHNOLOGY but she can guess!]

[tsunderseaboat]

[Sorry loser she's thinking of computer avatars]

More or less. They're nanomachines that don't have any internal operating programs, so they only function while under the control of a union core.

[sunk_your_battleship]

[They're going to talk past each other forever at this rate.]

Sounds like a magician and their spells to me, just with the names changed.

[Or an old ghost and a bunch of undead underlings.]

[tsunderseaboat]

Yes, except it's not magic, okay? It's just highly advanced technology.

[STOP CALLING HER GHOST SHIP]

[sunk_your_battleship]

[SHE CAN'T HELP IT SHE'S A SHIP GHOST]

Still sounds like magic to me, but if you say so.

[tsunderseaboat]

You just come from an era too early then.

[If only she'd read more Arthur C. Clarke she could quote him about "sufficiently advanced technology"]

Magic isn't even a real thing. [...] Where I come from.

[sunk_your_battleship]

I remember electricity and sonar and gods of little things. Not really nanomachines.

It's not like one ceases to exist in the presence of the other, you know.

[tsunderseaboat]

Well, I guess if you were a human, a lot of humans didn't know about nanomachines until the last half century or so anyway...

Most of what people think of as magic was just tricks though. Or things that were later explained by science.

[sunk_your_battleship]

Science and I don't really get along too well.

[A moment of thought, and one of Murasa's hands turns greenish and transparent, shot through with grainy static. The air around it becomes much colder, and the odd aura she emits intensifies, becoming strange and unpleasant and feeling uncomfortably like death. Even the other patrons start to lean away, though few take notice of it otherwise.]

A lot of terms under the 'supernatural' umbrella are better at explaining things like me.

[With a flicker, her hand re-solidifies again much more quickly than it went all film grainy, and that aura returns to an acceptable level of weird. She seems to be looking at her hand with idle amusement.]

That was harder than it should've been. Booze must be kicking in.