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

8'D

[razor_hill_hell]

[ Tednug doesn't notice the laughter, he's too focused on GETTING EVERYONE BACK HOME! Yeah, you just keep laughing, wolf-man, you'll totally be singing a different tune once he unlocks the chain of events that'll reveal everything about this place and how to escape! Unless the golden exclamation mark is just a red herring placed there by the Narrator to make Tednug look like a fool, in which case the orc will never leave his room ever again ]

[ He finally runs over to Kurt and holds the piece of paper over his head, bringing with him the terrible smell of Troll Sweat and Oshu'gun Crystal Powder all mixed together into a vicious assault on the sinuses. ]

MY, YOU'RE A TALL ONE!

[ He pauses for a moment. ]

... so, you're not... getting any sudden revelations about some really important thing you need us all to do, are you?

/dying over here

[echo_of_light]

[The laughter is abruptly cut short by the smell. It's bad enough for normal races, but the worgen's heighted sense causes Kurt to reel, placing a paw over his nose and choking.]

The only revelation I'm getting is that you desperately need a bath, my friend.

[razor_hill_hell]

[ Yeah, that's what he THOUGHT, he KNEW Kurt would stop laughing once he understands the solemnity of what Tednug's trying to- wait, no, it's just the smell again. The orc steps back a pace to try and save the worgen's nose. ]

No can do- this mixture saved my life once. And here on the open seas, teeming with horrible carnivorous monsters and cartilaginous fish, I'm absolutely positive that it'll save my life again!

[ Tednug pauses. ]

'Sides, I don't think I can actually get this stuff off.

[echo_of_light]

Please trust me when I say that fish and creatures on the seas are not likely to have a sense of smell, while your crew and allies do.

[He nods a bit in thanks at the distance, though, shifting around to be upwind so the smell is less prominent.]

I'm sure there's some way. Perhaps with heavy soap, or some other scent. Or fire, if necessary. [He's kidding. Kind of.

But ahem.]

We do have a hint on how to leave, though. [He points at the fountain.] In short, the engraving there said that by finding all the pieces of a shattered artifact and putting them together, any wish could be granted.

[razor_hill_hell]

Tried it. Didn't work. [ ... it's not clear whether he means he's tried the soap, the other scent, the fire, or all of the above. ] And you mark my words, SOME of those creatures are gonna be amphibious or something- wait, what?

[ Tednug glances over at the fountain when Kurt mentions it. And then he looks back at the worgen. ]

You're... you're seriously telling me that we're going to stake our hopes on that? There's NO way it could be that simple.

[echo_of_light]

Well, at least you tried.

[Kurt shakes his head some.]

Yes and no. I'm certain that the answer is, in fact, that simple, in that all we need to do is find the pieces and put them together.

The complication comes from finding them, keeping them, and then actually figuring out how to put them together. There only seems to be a singular artifact, and you know everyone else here is going to be competing for it.

[razor_hill_hell]

And trying not to get killed by whatever horrible mind-bending, limb-rending, bowel-loosening monstrosities are guarding the pieces. You forgot that part.

[ Tednug cradles his face in his hands. ]

I STILL don't see why we can't just get everyone to agree that whoever gets that thing first uses their wish to send us all back home.

[echo_of_light]

Yes, that part too.

Because people, of any race, just aren't that willing to work with others. They may want something bad enough to give up ever going home to get it as well -- you forget that.

[razor_hill_hell]

... y'know, I never thought I'd say this, but I REALLY prefer when the situation's bad enough that everyone has no choice but to work together to survive.

[ Sure, the Broken World of Azeroth was filled with undead beings from another dimension, the embodiment of tortured hate, and a bastard sword-dragging demon that never stopped trying to find you and add you to his meticulously recreated town (crafted out of butchered body parts), but at least it didn't have any backstabbers. ]

[ ... Tednug holds up his musty flaxpaper with mysterious exclamation mark again. ]

I STILL think this is TOTALLY worth a try.

[echo_of_light]

It's... I prefer that too, yes. I'd rather work with someone than go to war with them.

[Kurt just. Bites back the laughter this time.]

Well, by all means, keep trying. I'm going to see if there's any information about whatever that broken artifact is.

[razor_hill_hell]

I know, right? Well, I mean, unless there's a REASON to go to war.

[ DON'T THINK HE DOESN'T SEE THAT EFFORT TO STOP LAUGHING- but he'll let it slide and keep up whatever wounded dignity he has left in him ]

Yeah, you do that. Let me know if you find any curious tomes or something, too, that'll solve THIS quest problem real quick.

[echo_of_light]

I'll do just that. How about we meet up back here in a couple of hours?

[razor_hill_hell]

Sure, fine. And if you see anyone else who'd be good on a ship, try to get him or her on board! Ancestors know we'll need all the help we can get.

[ ... and then he takes a deep breath before thrusting the flaxpaper over his head once more, taking off in a dead sprint toward where some NPCs poor, unsuspecting bastards might be found. ]

IYAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOO I GOT WHAT YOU NEEEEEEeeeeeed...!!

[echo_of_light]

[Riiiight. What Kurt is going to do, in fact, is switch to human because dear god that stench and go around asking questions. And maybe try to avoid the orc a little.

Just a little.]

[razor_hill_hell]

[ Don't worry, Kurt ]

[ Tednug's pet knows exactly how you feel ]

[ good luck trying to go anywhere that's out of earshot of Tednug's yells, though ]

[echo_of_light]

[Ahh, the suffering, it is shared.

The yells he can take. Sound, at least, can be ignored!]