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

[justoneword]

[Eeek! The box person is talking to her!

Why are they talking to me? What do they want? Who does this bitch think she is, asking me to leave my closet? I was here first! I should give her a piece of my mind, show her who's in charge here!

Tomoko makes a few choked noises before speaking in a quiet stammer.]

W-Why?

[rainbowcozy]

[What does she mean "why?" Is she planning on living in there? You can't live in a closet! They lock from the outside. If someone locks you in, you'll die and you can't lock anyone out. You never know when someone might open the door and see you.]

You can't stay in there. I left something in there.

[justoneword]

[Tomoko shuffles back and forth as she considers it. Well. This box girl can get her thing and leave then.

She steps back and presses herself against the back wall.]

Y-You can c-come in.

[rainbowcozy]

[Why doesn't she just get out of the closet? Akira doesn't want to go in there with her. It's too tight a space. She doesn't know this girl and she doesn't trust her, so why would she go in a closet with her? Still, she's going to have to get out of her box if she wants to get anything done. Deep breath. She's left the box before. She's let people see her before.

She slips out from under the box and edges over to the door, slipping just enough inside of it to not be easily seen from at least one direction of the hallway.]

There's not enough room. Y-you can't live in a closet.

[justoneword]

[Her breath hitches and she makes herself as small as possible. It's not like it hasn't worked for her before, most people couldn't pick her out of a crowd, truth be told.

She's watching Akira, musing.

She's kind of pretty this girl. I wonder if her hair smells nice.

Not expecting her to talk, she starts a bit and stammers her way through another answer, looking at the ground.]

I d-don't l-live in h-here.

[rainbowcozy]

Good. They'll lock you in.

[Out of her box and out of her element, she hesitates, trying to find some way to get in and out without coming into any sort of contact with Tomoko. WHY DOESN'T SHE JUST GET OUT OF THE CLOSET?

Finally, all she can do is just rush in, grab the bundle of blankets, and rush out.

But she can't carry them and stay under the box at the same time, so for a second, she's just frozen in the hallway with no idea how to proceed.]

[justoneword]

Th-The door's open a l-little. S-So they don't.

[Tomoko offers it weakly, but she really doesn't want to be locked in. She clearly hasn't thought this hiding in the closet thing through. She's just trying to avoid her crew, that's all.]

[rainbowcozy]

[Akira fidges with the blankets, sneaking glances at Tomoko out of the corner of her eye. This girl is a lot like her, but she doesn't understand how to find a place for herself. Maybe she lives at home back where she's from, with a family that will actually take care of her instead of being ashamed of her. She's kind of jealous, but at the same time she knows she shouldn't be jealous at someone else who's been driven to living like this.

It's not like they could live together, but maybe...]

They still could. I-I live in the hold. I...built something there. You could...

[What would Shoko say?]

W-we could be neighbors.

[justoneword]

N-Neighbours?

[Tomoko steps forward a bit, peering at her from the light of the doorway however, she isn't sure what to make of that. When people do notice her, they tend to move on. Quickly. It's not like Tomoko seems terribly open to conversation, after all.]

[rainbowcozy]

[Akira nods, not making eye contact.]

Th-there are a lot of boxes, so...

[She puts her blankets in her box and picks it up, looking both ways to see if the coast is clear before edging down the hallway. Tomoko can follow if she wants. If she wants to go get locked in the closet, that's her business.]

...we, um, we have to get to the hold.

[justoneword]

[Hmm, boxes might be a good alternative. She can't get locked in boxes. Hesitantly, she slips out of the closet, following after Akira.]

I-It's not very far.

[rainbowcozy]

[She knows, she lives there, she's not stupid. But she doesn't say that. That's the the sort of thing she can only say over WIRED.]

N-not too far.

[Not too far at all. They manage to sneak down there without being seen. In a far corner of the hold, there's a structure made of emptied wooden boxes and chests and some discarded sailcloth. At first glance, it just looks like a pile of cargo, but it's where Akira has been living since she came on board.]

I-I live here, so you can go anywhere else.

[justoneword]

[It's a really good suggestion, after all boxes are a good way to keep away from everyone else. Tomoko just nods and moves aside to find some boxes of her own. She'll even be sure to but some distance between their little homes.

If they were on the journals, she might be able to say things to Akira, but in person it's just not possible.]

[rainbowcozy]

[Akira crawls into her house and closes the flap behind her. A few seconds later, a flashlight rolls out, followed by a pack of batteries, then a blanket, then a few bags of chips, then a canteen.]