Test Drive for September 2013 Apps

[highseasmods]

Welcome to our first Test Drive for high_seas! Here is where players can test out their characters' voices, 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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Hector Barbossa ☠ Pirates of the Caribbean

[justguidelines]

[Finding a crew in this rabble is going to be a nightmare. He's already being forced into this little joke, and he's not remotely amused about any of it, to be honest, but if they're expected to be pirates...

Well, this one's in the bag, isn't it? And from where he stands, greenhorns abound, and not a single one worth signing on the account. It's a sad, sad day when he'll hope for Joshamee Gibbs or Pintel and Ragetti or...God forbid, Jack Sparrow, over the lot he's being forced to choose from.

And from where he's positioned himself to at least observe, he can only give a sigh, an eye roll, and a the question why. Surely he's done nothing so bad as to deserve all this.]

Saints preserve us. If this lot is going to be pirates, piracy be doomed.

/SQUEEEEEES

[echo_of_light]

I'm not entirely convinced that's a bad thing.

[Hi, Barbossa, what do you think about a huge talking wolfman?]

/sobs into hands

[justguidelines]

[Have a once over. And a not very impressed looking pirate.

He's still coming down from the high of killing huge talking fishmen.]

Well, that be your opinion, don't it.

[With a heavily implied 'and no one asked you'.]

[totallynotanyancat]

[HIYA! HAVE A CAT WITH A CUPCAKE!]

You look like such a tough guy, nya! Have a cupcake!

[justguidelines]

What.

[Yeah, a cat with a cupcake. How about no.]

[elementofcupcakes]

Hi, Mister! Wanna eyepatch? [She's wearing one now! She's also tugging a red wagon with a bucket filled with crayons, paper, and her baby alligator.]

[justguidelines]

No.

[It's really a good thing he's fairly desensitized to the strange and weird and impossible, because a talking pink pony definitely ranks as all three. Along with disturbing.]

Got both me eyes, in case you very well couldn't tell.

[justicereigns]

Good.

[Folds his arms grumpily. Fight him, Smoker would love nothing more than to see the end of piracy as everyone knows it.]

[chocolateparfait]

Piracy's already doomed from where I'm standing.

[ Says the space pirate who was technically next in line to inherit a ship from her father, ended up working on her best friend's ship, and is faced with the idea of trying to figure out how the hell the ocean works. Even if she's got a stern face, she's got little idea of what's going on here. ]

At least with such limited horizons.

[ She wants to go back to space rtfn. ]

[sunofshiga]

[ Tenka fans himself with a fan borrowed from somewhere not really important. ]

As long as they don't get sea sick.

[allendsmeat]

They're pretty weird looking, huh? [but they'd all probably be pretty cool pirates. Also:] Yo.

Re: Hector Barbossa ☠ Pirates of the Caribbean

[greymelee]

"I'll take that as a compliment."

Despite Grey's frankly bizarre appearance, he carries himself like a type of person that Hector may not have met very many examples of. Namely, competent law enforcement.

[fierybluebird]

Piracy will only be doomed when people forget what it means to be a pirate.

[Glances around at this lot. Then just waves a hand.] Oh. Never mind, eh.

[Don't mind a little deadpan humor. This guy is definitely a pirate, however. From the bizarre anklet on his left leg, to the sandals and shorts, and his downright failure to button his purple shirt. Yes, purple. If it helps the look, the entire reason he wears his shirt open is to show off his own pirate mark, a crossbones in the shape of a plus-sign with a crescent moon slashed through it.]

[razor_hill_hell]

[ The green-skinned orc clad in mail armor raises his hand. ]

If it helps, I don't really want ME to be a pirate, either.

TL;DR = HI

[elissacousland]

[Elissa is not at all happy to wake up in this place, especially as she has yet to find any familiar faces amongst the other new arrivals. Thus far, the Grey Warden has seen no one to whom she would entrust her life upon the open seas and she knows better than to try to take command of her own ship. As the daughter of the Teryn of Highever in Ferelden, Elissa has plenty of experience sailing pleasure craft around the small islands close to the coast along the cliffs of Conobar on the Waking Sea, but her experience at crossing the sea is only as a passenger. There is far too much at stake here to be foolhardy, so the young woman has set her course on finding a suitable captain.

As her gaze assesses each new being that she sees in the crowd, the frown upon her features begins to deepen. Some of them look too young - despite her own age of twenty-two years, and knowing her own capabilities, Elissa is still guilty of equating youth with inexperience. Others that she sees are... too strange, too alien to her background, or just so eye-poppingly colorful that she feels ill-at-ease.

There, however, across the way, she spies a middle-aged man in a big coat and an even bigger hat. While his clothing and weaponry are not exactly the same as what would be seen in Thedas, she immediately knows that this man is a sailor. Maybe it is the way he shifts his weight upon his feet that tips her off, but her observational hunch is confirmed when she draws close enough to hear what he says. Discreetly, she approaches Barbossa and comes to stand at his side, folding her arms.]

From the size of the hat, I take it you are the captain. [Not a question. A statement. The captain versus A captain. Her brand of persuasion uses such subtleties to try to lure others into thinking what she wants them to believe. In this case, it is that she belongs. Maker - from this angle, his nose is even bigger than Loghain's own.]

[parleys]

<sub>[ you know what's better than living on a raft for the last few hours? watching barbossa talk to weird people/animals/things.

he doesn't even try to hide the incredibly obnoxious laughter as he paddles away on his raft. ]</sub>

[unbuyable_wish]

[Here, Barbossa, have one more newbie pirate. This one looks like someone took a particularly flat-chested figurehead and brought it to life, though the fact that sie's bedecked in as many jewels as sie is and hasn't gotten robbed blind yet might just be testament to something.]

A crew is only as weak as its leadership. Isn't that right?

[Crews are basically the same thing as armies or kingdoms, Ashura is pretty sure. Just... smaller!]

God this should be wonderful. DUEL OF THE EPIC HATS

[nogimmicks]

[ ... There is a woman in a rather bizarre outfit, actually, who looks nothing like a pirate. More like witch. She's even got a broom. Still, she can't be older than twenty-something, brown hair, pink makeup, odd flower-mark on her face (though, a good eye would note it is not a tattoo but a brand seared right into the flesh), yeah... she's the opposite of "seaworthy-looking material". ]

Oh? Is it the clothes, I wonder, Pirate-san? Should we all change into a uniform of swashbuckling adventurers? I'm not a pirate. I'm a magician. But you know something? Magic is far more valuable than fifteen good sailors. Know why?

[unionjackass]

[England's watched this spectacle from the side. With the money so... graciously bestowed on him by the powers that brought him into such a ridiculous mess he's bought suitable and practical clothes.

The tobacco on which he's puffing may or may not have been procured through pickpocketing, but considering he fancies himself a pirate as well as a gentleman there's no need to advertise this. Good taste and class aren't often acquired through favorable or moral means.]

Oi. Every man worth his salt's got to start somewhere. [But he pauses, regarding the rabble with a less than impressed expression. He mutters something about "greener than the countryside in springtime."]

Long as there's ill-gotten goods to be transported across the sea, there will always be pirates sailing across it to deliver them. The blackest of markets won't grind to a halt for the British Empire, nor this lot.

[morethanhonour]

With proper drilling, they might make a proper crew.

[Piracy itself could come in time. Not that Edward Burr had any great love of the fact. He had accepted his lot in life, certainly. He'd chosen the course of actions himself that led him into that title. But it was seamanship which was lacking, no different than pressed men. And they could be taught.

By God, they'd learn, too. If he had to sail with such men and women -- strange enough, that, but he saw how useful some of them might be -- they would learn. At the end of the cat, if necessary.]

Hey

[bootycalling]

[ That's a voice she'll never forget and Elizabeth's head turns, gaze falling on the familiar figure before she's moving through the crowd, basically any direction AWAY from said pirate.

Except that it's not so easy and she ends up closer to him than she'd ever want to be.]

Re: Hector Barbossa ☠ Pirates of the Caribbean

[thegreatgonzo]

Gonzo nodded vigorously in agreement. "Yeah, not nearly enough cases of scurvy."

[thatched]

Ah, don't be so sure, matey. [and he'll just casually sit down beside him, since, hell, he's got nothing better to do] You can't expect sea dogs in a rookie town like this. Gotta be prepared to train them up a bit.

hi fellow pirate~ o/

[silvergoldengun]

Hmmm~? [ Have a young-looking man peering down curiously from on top of the fountain. He's got his hat in his hand and looks very cheerful. ] They don't look much like pirate material, do they.

[fairtidings]

[ There is a little lady standing next to him, tilting her head. ]

Oh, I am sure it will be fine.

[ Ahim herself turned into a fine pirate, she will give others a chance, the way Marvelous had given one to her. ]