Test Drive for September 2013 Apps

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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!

Comments

[hitorabu]

[Oh dear, touchy touchy! Rubber man indeed... Even apart from his skills at offense, it could be difficult to hurt him, then. Maybe fire...?

Well, that's all hypothetical for now. It's as well to be prepared, though. This kid could take over entire ships, if he wanted to - much as he just did.

Casually strolling over the deck, Izaya indicates those not part of the crew.]

That one can go... and that one... and -...

[Arriving at a guy who's been causing trouble for Izaya for a while now, he smirks down at him. The man in question is fully conscious and pushing himself up into a sitting position, trying to scramble out of the way. The display of the rubber man has suitably impressed him, and Izaya lets him stew for a while. Will Izaya declare him an enemy in revenge for all the times the man tried to get to him?]

... Ah, no, not that one. He's a terrible cook, and I'm sure he steals a portion of food supplies to fill his own over-sized stomach - but he's part of the crew, all right.

[allendsmeat]

[Luffy piles the passed out ones carefully in a small rowboat, and lowers them, keeping a rope tied which he stretches out an arm to hand to the other ship so they can pull their nakama back in.

He crouches in front of the scared guy who shrinks back and rips off a bit of the bottom of the guy's shirt, handing it out]

You can bandage your hand with this 'til your doctor wakes up. Sorry for startling you, I'm a stowaway but I think your food is pretty good.

[he stands again and looks at the guy who had helped him]

I don't like you.

[hitorabu]

Ohhh?

[Rather than being offended, Izaya's eyes light up with unadulterated amusement. That's humans for you: always interesting... presuming rubber boy still counts as human, of course. For now, Izaya will give him the benefit of the doubt. It's a such a typically human thing to do, after all, complaining about the little things when surely rubber boy's own crimes are far worse than Izaya's... well, as far as rubber boy knows, anyway.

Hypocrisy is one of Izaya's favorite things to deconstruct. After all, the bigger hypocrites people are, the more they care.]

That's a pretty rude thing to say to someone who just saved your life.

[allendsmeat]

Yeah. You helped me out.

[nod.]

But this crew has helped you out more. They've sailed the ship and shared their food and fought hard. It's pretty rude to laugh at them and threaten them just to have your way.

[hitorabu]

Hmm, it's true, I've worked and eaten with them. But I've sailed the ship, too, and I've shared my food with them, in return. You're the one who's snuck aboard, refusing to work, and stealing our food.

You're the one who's threatened both our crew and the enemy's, and you're the one who beat up every last person on this ship.

[The words are said very calmly, almost friendly - if you ignore their meaning. But, really, this is just the plain truth, isn't it?]

If everyone on this ship wasn't terrified of you, they'd be throwing you overboard without a second thought.