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Welcome to the Underground test drive meme! This is where you can try out the AU version of your character, start some potential CR and get a feel for the world of the game. Choose your character's species, read up on the available factions and you're ready to go. Put your character's name in your subject line when you post, tag out, and have fun!

Note to current players: Activity in this meme counts as game canon! So you can use it for activity check. If you end up playing anything that you can't or don't want to use as game canon, it's fine to ignore it. (In that case you shouldn't submit it for activity check.)

For prospective players: Thinking about bringing a character to the game? Feel free to comment to our Potential CR Planning meme for OOC planning and discussion.

Here are some prompts to inspire you:

1) BABY COME BACK. Is there someone you miss? Maybe you've come to visit for the first time in months. Maybe you'll even stay.

2) FULL MOON. (29th August) Uh oh, it's that time of the month. Werewolves, have you been feeling more aggressive lately? A little short of temper? Better start preparing for your monthly transformation and hope that you don't get interrupted. And then there's the morning after, which feels like a massive hangover. Wait, where are your clothes?

3) CARNIVAL. (30th-31st August) It's the August bank holiday weekend and that can only mean one thing: the Notting Hill Carnival! With the sun high in the sky, enjoy the parade, the music and of course the food. Jerk chicken, anyone?

4) SPECIAL EFFECTS. There's nothing like a touch of subtle magic to add to the occasion. Dress up and show off. Mind you, there could be other supernatural types around who see straight through your tricks.

5) PARTY ALL NIGHT. It's not over when the sun goes down. Get yourself to one of the bars or after-parties and keep on partying. Just don't drink too much. You know it makes it harder to control your powers... and your urges.

6) BRAWL. The police work hard to keep London's gangs away from Carnival. When you have supernatural gangs to contend with, their job gets a whole lot harder. Drunk and disorderly or simply looking for an excuse to cause trouble, encounters between rival factions can soon become hostile. Now are you here to cause a fight or to stop it?

7) NIGHT IN JAIL. Oops. What did you do? And who's that with you?

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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Carnival The sun beat down on Annie's pale Irish skin, looking all the more ethereal in her white sundress. One would think that the woman would have wanted to avoid the crowds, but there was something about being amongst a bunch of people, none who know you, who won't judge you, where you could just be somebody instead of somebody. Besides, she'd been having a string of good days, lately, and the smell of Caribbean cooking always made her mouth water. She'd be alright, she was sure.

If she wasn't, well... Hopefully it wouldn't come to that. But until then, Annie's happy to wander around, looking at costumes, taking in everything, and nibbling at bits of food.

Party All Night Now, being out at night was something Annie probably shouldn't have been doing. She tried to remain indoors, whenever the sun went down, and had preferred it that way for some time. But she took precautions, on her wrists she always had silver bracelets, as well as around her neck which supported a witch's amulet she'd been given by her father, before she left for The Fourth District.

She wasn't going to drink, or even go to any bars, but somehow found herself swept up in a crowd pulling her into a party where, very quickly, she'd had a fruity drink of something shoved in her hand. That was two of these drinks ago, and now a very petite Annie was stumbling through the streets. At least she had the good sense to wear flats.

Choose Your Own Adventure
[make it up yo]

Carnivals were a good source of money: Esmeralda knew that from experience. And knowing that, she had packed up early, and set up her little stage at the end of a row of food stalls. Not that her stage was particularly fancy: smooth plyboard set on the ground served as her platform, and the open carry cases of some of her friends' instruments, lutes and flutes and a clarinet or two, were used as receptacles for the audiences' money.

All morning long, the outcasts had been playing their music, generating interest. But Esmeralda waited and waited to dance, holding out until the parades had passed, so that crowds would flock.

As she waited though, she noticed the pale woman with the long red hair, and grinned over at her.

"Enjoying the carnival? Have you had a dance yet?"

[Annie shakes her head, when the beautiful woman called out to her.]

No- I'm not really all that great at dancing. [Admitted with a sheepish blush as she tucked her wild hair behind her ears.] But it's a fun carnival. I've never been.

[She glanced at the small stage, the musicians and nodded appreciatively.] You sounded lovely. [She smiles waterily. That, or it would have been a completely absent smile.]

I'm sure that's not true. [Esmeralda automatically makes her tone more gentle, kind. She's realised that, for whatever reason, this woman is incredibly nervous.]

Come on. [She extends a hand to Annie, whilst signalling to her friends to start again.]

Everyone needs a dance at the carnival.

Oh, I couldn't- [Annie tries before the music begins and Esmeralda offers her hand. Already people are starting to look as the music draws their attention. She shakes her head.]

Really- no, no, I can't. [She tries, all the while allowing herself to be dragged on to the floor. She could have stopped it, but it had been so long since she'd actually danced. Since anyone noticed her quite like this woman had.]

"It's easy, I promise. And you can even keep the money, if we earn any. Don't tell them that, though" Esmeralda laughs, jerking her head towards her friends, and, still holding both of Annie's hands in hers, begins to move her hips to the beat of the music, trying to jig Annie gently as she does.]

Do you want to try a turn?

[Alright, so that's got her smiling a little brighter now.] Oh, no- that wouldn't be fair.

[But the music is louder and Annie is slowly giving in to Esmeralda's movements. Okay, not that bad. Maybe this would be alright.] I'm just following your lead, miss.

And you're doing well.

[Esmeralda raises an arm, encouraging Annie to turn under.]

See. That wasn't so bad, was it? And of course you'll take your share. You've earned it!

[She's blushing under her light smattering of freckles, twirling under her arm. It could almost have been like a dance at home in one of the pubs. Too often there were rounds of drinking songs and Irish music to be heard, and it always lead to dancing.

She did dance, then. But was never really any good.

Annie comes back to face Esmeralda, giggling.] No way. You're the one doing all the hard work.

"Are you kidding? Look around." She stepped so both women turned in a circle, so that Annie could see the crowd.
"People are watching you too. And you're doing well."

She pulled Annie back into the jig proper. "What's your name?"

The crowd around them had Annie not only giggling, but smiling and blushing as she saw them. It was better, that the other woman had dragged her up here. She could never have done it alone, easily, and maybe it kind of helped that so many people around them were likely drunk.

At Esmeralda's indication, she moved back to the jig, copying as much as she could. "I'm Annie." A small, mild name for the small, mild girl.

Test Drive Meme: August 2015

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