Test Drive for June 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

A

[uccellodifuoco]

There is an alternative, just not one anyone would really take. I wouldn't call this place small, unless you mean specifically an island or a ship.

[Ikki's somewhat amused, though, by the use of the word annoying. This is far more than "a little annoying" in his books, but to each their own.]

Re: A

[feewaytoogood]

[If you only knew why this was only a minor annoyance, Ikki; if you only knew]

I meant the idea of a ship. And what alternative?

[uccellodifuoco]

You could dedicate yourself to the noble cause of dying again and again until Davy Jones decides that keeping you here is too annoying and sends you back, assuming that can happen. As I said, it's not an alternative anyone would take, but it doesn't mean it isn't there.

Finding an island and hide on it would also be an option but you would be still stuck there until the gem is gathered and works or, again, Davy Jones decides to send you back.

[feewaytoogood]

[An audible sigh]

Yeah, no. I've survived too many zombie outbreaks to go getting myself killed over and over again for a possibility, and that's including if I could even come back, and there's no way in hell I'm sitting off somewhere waiting on others to find some item that may not even exist to get me sit him. And that one depending on, if said item exists, the person isn't a jackass who'd rather watch the world go boom.

[uccellodifuoco]

Guess no one has told you, Davy Jones wants us to get the job done at all costs, death isn't something that's going to keep us away from it. So you would return, maybe after a chance of meeting our "benefactor".

As for the gem... The shards exist, that's also true, some people already have one or two. Though that doesn't mean the gem itself may not exist after all.

[Maybe the shards can't be placed together for form a gem. Maybe some shards were destroyed and have been completely lost.]

[feewaytoogood]

You'll forgive me if I don't exactly believe one can die and return, I hope? Or at least return as a fully-conscious being that isn't trying to eat someone else.

And shards are shards. As you say, the gem may not exist.

[uccellodifuoco]

I do, but as I've seen it with my own eyes, not once but several times, I'll insist. Though, really, I'm not encouraging you to check yourself either personally or with someone else's help.

[Though Ikki doesn't sound as if he will stop Leon if he decides to do it.]

Well, there's always the whirlpools and the great Davy Jones himself. Though people may not know what to think of it when the other two ways back involve death or a risk for it.

[feewaytoogood]

[A few moments of silence, which probably involves some scowling]

Still not interested in randomly dying, thanks.

Still doesn't mean this is any less annoying.

[uccellodifuoco]

Don't remember saying that it wasn't or that you should be happy with it. But you should keep some annoyance aside, for when this place starts to throw even more shit at you.

[feewaytoogood]

Trust me, got plenty of annoyance. But what sort of shit are we talking? I've seen quite some bit.

[Why does he sound vaguely amused?]

[uccellodifuoco]

Well, you mentioned zombies and something about full-consciousness, didn't you? It's hard to say if we will get a repeat, but there has been an instance in which a bitch possessed people and twisted their minds until they attacked their own crew and friends.

And there are ghost ships around those waters, we encountered them before. They are quite a joy to fight with, what with being untouchable or even being able to instantly kill you by being close to you.

[A pause.]

And those are the ones I find the least annoying ones in retrospect. We have had candies that appeared everywhere and made you do things to do, from kissing, to headbutting them, to fucking them. There was this time most of us got turned back into children, some kept their adult minds but most didn't.

[And he was the odd cookie that kept memories of this place but got them screwed up because he didn't remember being an adult.]

[feewaytoogood]

Jesus... I'd ask if you were kidding, but you aren't are you? This is like Las Plagas all over, though thank God they didn't try to get me to kiss anyone!

[He isn't even going to think about that fucking part, thank you]

[uccellodifuoco]

If I was kidding it would be something with more humour on it.

[And probably something easy to take as an insult or something.]

I would advice in general to not trust candies or any kind of food that seems to come out of nowhere. And to avoid everyone if food starts to appear that way, unless you want to have someone throwing themselves at you.

[feewaytoogood]

Someone's got a sick sense of humor, don't they? Davy Jones I will guess?

[uccellodifuoco]

The witch was actually an enemy of Davy Jones, the one that possessed people, she did it to eliminate us as we are "working" for him technically. As for the rest... Who knows. No one really is taking ownership of those things, it could be Davy Jones, it could be the shards, it could be someone else entirely.

We have got even Scurvey Dog, the woman who is our only source of information in this place, even if it's limited, to throw shit at us herself. From making us talk in a stereotyped pirate accent to throw us a storm that almost makes us sink and then raise a mist that made some people basically be drunk.

[A chuckle.]

We're not really lacking in enemies here, or at least people who won't hesitate to screw us if we piss them off.

[feewaytoogood]

No wonder you're suggesting not to be agitated; sounds like the whole of this world is one big troll. [He laughs a bit] Why is this just my luck?

[uccellodifuoco]

If you ever find the answer to that question and can share it, then do so. Most of us would love to know what we did to get a free ticket to this glorious rollercoaster.

To add to what I was saying and finish with it, there's also the Navy, of course, but that's a given. And some islands have a special brand of shit of their own. And all this is assuming you and the people you sail with don't ever piss off another one of us and get a war declared on you. We have had that too because of someone who couldn't shut up and think.

[It was quite interesting, though ultimately it seemed to fix itself without an actual war.]

[feewaytoogood]

Well then, I'm fucked. Sometimes my mouth runs before my brain.

[uccellodifuoco]

Then the solution is simple, if you didn't do it already, start sleeping with a weapon close to your hands.

[Honest and serious advice here.]

[feewaytoogood]

Does a gun and a combat knife count?

[Also serious]

[uccellodifuoco]

May also want to see if you can invest in some sort of magical weapon, or something to fend off magic. A gun and a combat knife won't get you far against someone who can throw a sun at you.

[Aka Ikki's captain. Actually a gun and a combat knife hardly even works against Ikki himself, and there are far worse people around this world.]

[feewaytoogood]

[If you could see Leon, he's about close to face-palming here, completely]

Right... I have the first clue about magic. Any suggestions, Mr...?

[Oh hey, he doesn't know your name]

[uccellodifuoco]

Phoenix Ikki. And I don't really have any suggestions other than ask the store if there's anything generic enough. A lot of us have some type of magic or power that would cause you trouble if we become enemies, but they are too varied and different to make it easy to just pick something and be well protected.

[It's not a threat, of course. Ikki has no interest or intention of making enemies with this guy, but no one knows the future and if for whatever reason Ace makes enemies with this guy's crew or the guy himself... Ikki will fight. Warning him and suggesting him to find ways to protect himself is as much kindness as Ikki will spare about this based on their shared circumstances of being trapped here.]

Though maybe you will be able to get something if you focus on something that can protect you from a physical attack and something for mental attacks.

[feewaytoogood]

[He'd like to come up with a witty retort, but he can't find one]

I suppose I'll look around, then. Thank you. [A pause] My name is Leon if it's of any interest to you. Leon S. Kennedy.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki didn't ask, not because of lack of interest but because... He honestly forgets. Several months here and he still isn't really into social interaction. Most of his conversations back home were with people he was about to beat and usually they liked to announce their names by themselves so asking has never been something he had to do.]

Leon...

[There's a soft sound almost like an amused laugh, not at the name but at what it evokes. It's one of those chains that end with him remembering his world, what's not there anymore, what's left... And how he's not there to make sure that those things stay where they are.]

I don't suppose you would be American, huh?