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]

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.

[model_prisoner]

Another world.

[He glances up at the sky. Sun does seem a little larger than what he remembers.]

Didn't much think there were other worlds. These people seem human enough.

[runningonramen]

[Naruto shakes his head a little.]

I never thought about it either, but it's kind of cool! I mean, I've never been here before-ttebayo! They all seem nice enough. Ramen's okay. It's not Ichiraku, but it's pretty good.

[model_prisoner]

Ichiraku? That's definitely a Japanese name. Somehow your place sounds like Japan, but not Japan.

[runningonramen]

Ichiraku's the old man who runs the ramen stall. He makes the best ramen in the whole world! I've never found anyone better than him, and sometimes he gives me extra meat!

[model_prisoner]

Can't say I have a history with generous folks. Metro City was always pretty dog-eat-dog.

[runningonramen]

[His thoughts turn introspective for a brief moment and he just smiles.]

Well the old man is a good guy, that's all! I've been eating there my whole life!

[model_prisoner]

So, got any tips about this place? I get bored reading pretty quickly.

[runningonramen]

Not really, I just got here. The book mentioned something about finding a ship and sailing.

[model_prisoner]

...Ah, crap. I've never sailed before. Stowed away on a few ships, but never that kind.

[runningonramen]

I don't know anything either, so I'll just have to find someone who does. I was on a boat a few times, but never driving it.