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!

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[blue_satin_shoes]

[Leliana spent a few days trying to find out about this place as well. She had no problems asking someone, but she still spent quite a bit of time observing. No one could lie to you then. She had to know this place wasn't a danger to her. She didn't think it would be considering she was left with her bow and arrows and daggers, but she had been taken from a very important battle. So far it had seemed like a normal port town. Ships docked and left and the town center was busy with business and stalls. The only weird thing she noticed was that some people avoided looking towards the fountain.

She, however, could not shake the poem from her mind and kept coming back to the fountain. That was when she noticed the young man trying to flag down whoever he saw. After seeing him get no success with some of the first people, she moved to talk to him.]

You're new here too?

[streetferret]

[Getting nothing aside from a few insults, offer for booze if he pays for it, and an offer from a female pirate that he managed to stutter out a decline for; Mako’s just about ready to hit himself with that black book that’s in his pocket.

Contemplating that is when he hears the question that makes him look up. First things he notices are the weapons. She didn’t have to be nice about anything, not with those, so he actually considers her before speaking.]

Yeah, just now really. [But he has to ask since she could easily fit in:] So you don’t live here?

:-D

[blue_satin_shoes]

If I did, I don't think I would be as interested in this fountain.

[She gave him a small smile, both answering his question and giving him some more information, however vague as it was. She looked at the fountain again, over the words that she couldn't forget.]

It's quite the poem, isn't it? Do you believe it?

had to tag~

[streetferret]

[Glad to have someone that's actually helpful, Mako gave a half apologetic shrug that had an ounce shame in it somewhere. Because really, no one else seemed to care about the fountain.]

Poem? [The word alone rings a bell, but it's a faint one and he has to follow her gaze to the base of the fountain. Murmuring out the words, he goes back to repeat one line to himself: Mayhap the chance to flee.]

That's- kind of hard to believe actually. Why, do you?

[blue_satin_shoes]

I've been here a few days now. I haven't discovered or heard any other way to go back. I don't know if this legend, this poem is true or not, but this place is definitely an island. The only chance we have of going back home is to get on a ship.

[streetferret]

[Turning the poem and the possibility of getting over his head, Mako studies the inscription one last time before raising his eyebrow to look over at Leliana.]

Even if it doesn't get us home, who or whatever brought us here would probably trade something for it. [That's a hard tale to swallow, and Mako's banking on it being fake. Expect the worst and let the best happen if it comes along.]

I've got a little money, don't know where it came from, and this book. [Fishing out the black book with skull crossbones on it, he holds it up.] Don't think that's enough to buy a ship though.