Test Drive for April 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

[cherrybombpie]

You are not making me get off this boat.

[She lifted her nose higher into the air. Who did he think she was? They may have reached a stalemate, but that was no reason for her to surrender and take to the water!]

[put_yur_guns_on]

But you might think about it.

See, you think I'm a ghost. So if that's the case, I've got no need for a ship. That said, there's nothin' stopping me from tearing this one in two.

[cherrybombpie]

I'm not one to question the doings of ghosts. They're strange.

[The martial artist sighed.]

If you're going to do that, then I'm going to really wish that I was a Japanese shrine maiden so that I could simply exorcise you.

[put_yur_guns_on]

[He laughs.]

If I were really a ghost, then I don't think even an exorcism could take care of me if I wanted to stick around.

[Idly giving his blade a few swishes in the air, he points it downward, electricity crackling along its edge as he eyes the deck below.]

One good slice down the middle. How 'bout it?

[cherrybombpie]

[She narrowed her eyes.]

You wouldn't dare.

[She raised a flower from her outstretched hand - a black rose, pointing it at him.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[Grin.]

That's a dangerous phrase to use around me.

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi braced one hand on her hip, the rose still extended toward him.]

Are you going to do it or aren't you? I'm getting bored.

[put_yur_guns_on]

[With a snort, he ignores the girl's impatience as he eyes the ship. He sheathes the one blade he holds, only to draw out three in its place.

And with another grin flashed in Kodachi's direction, he leaps up to the tiptop of the mast, swinging his claw up into the air as though to summon lightning from the heavens as electricity sparks across his blades. Without further hesitation, he launches himself downwards, pulling his claw back as he nears the deck.]

[cherrybombpie]

[She narrowed her eyes. Without another word, she propelled herself off the ship's wheel and into his path, bracing her knees down onto the deck and thrusting up with the steel club suddenly in her hand. Her aim was once again the space between his eyes, the only part of his body unprotected by armor.]

[The rose in her other hand disintegrated into shreds of black petals, laced with a powerful toxin that could paralyze a man with one breath.]

[She braced herself, waiting for the explosion of their weapons meeting.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[Oh, he was waiting for her move. That look on her pretty face didn't quite say that she was going to stand by and watch him do it, after all.

He sweeps his blades across him well before reaching Kodachi, sending an electric bolt charging the air as it flies towards her, simultaneously breaking him off of his initial dive. Masamune lands on the railing of the stern of the ship, still grinning.]

Huh, you're pretty serious.

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi didn't expect that he would feint. She tried to roll away, but not in time to avoid the crackle of electricity. She was fast, and she could move in the blink of an eye, but she wasn't fast enough to escape lightning. The bolt threw her across the deck, slamming her back against the mast.]

[She gasped sharply, clutching her side as she propped herself up into a sitting position.]

Where did you learn that? [She looked up at him from where he was standing on the railing. If she could move, she would have retreated; she knew defeat when it came, as much as she hated it.]

[put_yur_guns_on]

[Still kicking. She's a strong woman, if a little crazy, he'll give her that.

Masamune hops down, walking towards her.]

Self-taught. If I'm gonna rule the country, I ain't piggy-backin' off anyone, whether it's by techniques or alliances. You see?

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi stood up as he walked toward her, but not without difficulty.]

[She eyed him carefully. He was certainly wearing Date Masamune's famous armor, and the way he talked . . .]

Are you really him?

[put_yur_guns_on]

I said it before, didn't I? Although being around here is cramping my style. How's a guy s'pposed to take over Japan when they're nowhere near it?