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

[allendsmeat]

[You might hear a distant call of 'hey! Get back here!'

But here comes a Luffy! Tearing through the streets, mouth full of food and looking over his shoulder for possible pursuers. He may not notice Aoko however]

[sapphireseas]

[ Hear it she does, and she looks up to investigate . . . just in time for Luffy to crash right into her. She goes down with a yelp and a flail, dropping the two pretty hairpins she'd been examining. ]

H-Hey!

[allendsmeat]

Ahh forffy! [he swallows and helps her up, swallowing the food. And then the shouts of hey come again] Ahh crap! Better hurry! [and without thinking he grabs her arm and starts to run]

[sapphireseas]

Wait—!

[ Instead of running, she grabs his wrist with her free hand and yanks, heels digging into the cobble. ]

What do you think you're doing?!

[allendsmeat]

[he keeps running but instead of taking her his arm stretches...and stretches. After a moment he realizes what's going on and looks back at her]

Running from those guys.

[pointing to the angry vendors plowing down the street]

[sapphireseas]

[ W. What. What is this. Aoko stares, bewildered, at arm she's still clinging to. ]

Y-Your . . . Your arm . . .

[ is probably a fake! she concludes; it's just like thieves to pull tricks like this, no matter what world they're from. With a thunderous from, she tightens her grip and starts trying to reel him back in. ]

You're not going anywhere! You took that food from them, didn't you?! You have to pay them!

[allendsmeat]

Yeah but I don't have any money yet! [he lets her pull on his arm but doesn't move and pretty soon it's going to turn into a kind of rubbery looping rope.]

[sapphireseas]

[ Those angry vendors sure are getting closer. When Luffy doesn't move, Aoko gives up on her attempt to reel him in . . . but doesn't let go of his arm. If anything, her grip tightens further. ]

Then pay them back another way! You can't just steal from people, you know! That's wrong!

[allendsmeat]

Hmm okay. [he's looking for his nakama, but--] What should I do?

[sapphireseas]

First, you stay right where you are and talk to those poor people!

[ She narrows her eyes, and adds, quite pointedly: ] You'd better include an apology, too! For stealing and for running away.

[allendsmeat]

Yeah okay. [not having any money was really annoying. Maybe he could write out an iou but he didn't have any paper. Or a rock. He pulls his arm back and it resettles back into shape with an elastic snap. Then he yawns. Well since she's going to talk to those people...

He settles back against a stall, pushes his hat down and takes a little nap]