Test Drive for February 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

[diamondlight]

Time works differently here. Mana and I were here for two months by ourselves, then Alice arrived. That was a couple of months ago now... I don't think about it too much. What matters is that you're here now, and... well... yeah.

I went along on a raid to break out the people that were kidnapped. It's been a rough month, and I had some, well, frustrations to work out of my system. Let's just say a small part of that place is probably still frozen, aside from the part Sasuke set on fire... I'm getting ahead of myself.

Yes, I was hurt, but that was in a previous battle. I'm actually down here getting bandages because I used the last ones we had when I tore it open again. [Depending on where Makoto's hands are, she can probably feel the hole in Rikka's shirt, and smooth cotton below that seems oddly squishy if poked. But, uh, don't do that. That's definitely a slowly-closing wound.]

Sorry, I don't want to scare you, but I think you should know what you're coming into. We're a little on edge, still, but we're getting better. And we'd be glad to have you with us - I think it'll help things a lot. It'll be good to have the team together, too!

[Makoto might also notice the shiny new bracelet Rikka is wearing, with several bead charms: a heart, a club, a spade, a crown, and a plain red gem. The symbolism is plainly obvious, but... it's not something she'd have bought herself. It's too flashy.]

[knightlyidol]

[As she listens and takes everything in, Makoto's face goes grim for a moment. All of that happened and she wasn't there. She hadn't been able to do a single thing to help her precious friends, when they needed her so badly.

Just once, it would be nice to not horribly fail at protecting what was most important to her.]

...I'm sorry.

[It slips out before she realizes, but she doesn't backtrack. Lying now would be useless.]

I should have been here, with you guys.

[diamondlight]

No, don't apologize. It's just how things happened. And having you here... I wouldn't have wanted you to go through what we went through. [Another pause, while Rikka makes her decision.] Makoto... we had to fight each other. Something made them think they were supposed to k-k- [she shakes her head, forcing the word out-] kill us... kill me. I never want to have to do that again. I didn't want to do it the first time, but... there was no choice.

[She closes her eyes, trying not to start shaking with remembered fear and sadness.] I couldn't bear having to ask you to help me knock them out... or having to fight you, too. You don't deserve that. So... I appreciate that you want to help, but you need to understand that before you offer to help us. This world is a harsh place, but it's what we've got. If we stick together... we might make it through.