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

[blue_satin_shoes]

It makes sense if it's something you have always lived with. People take comfort in the familiar, yes? Even if such familiarity is chaos. Change from what one is used to can seem mysterious or scary and is avoided at all costs.

[She looked over her crewmate, wondering what it was that he hadn't said. It was quite obvious to her that this was personal to him, and he didn't seem the type to just spill all his secrets to whoever would listen. If she wanted to know more, she would have to work for it... or stay patient. Surely their travels together would bring the whole crew closer.]

Even clarity of the mind is a strength. You can learn from the past.

[livethecreed]

The change was necessary. It was the familiar that was the issue. [He'll never admit it, but her attempts at comfort were appreciated.

Her lack of prying even more so. He doubted that one who had such a mastery of words wouldn't be able to tell he wanted to speak no more on the subject, and while her ease in reading him was unnerving it wasn't something he would protest at the moment.]

Learn from what was before to better shape what will be. We learn a similar lesson in my land.

[blue_satin_shoes]

But even though it's necessary, it doesn't makes it any easier, does it?

[But she knows that look. Even though she just met the guy, she had seen it on others before. So she'll drop it for now... they'll have plenty of time to talk later now that they were part of the same crew.]

Yes. These lessons, the lessons of the past and of life, they seem to be very similar no matter where we go. Or what world we find ourselves in. It's a little bit comforting. We find ourselves stuck here, with only one clue on how to get back to our homes, yet the basics of living remain.