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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 >

This was a bit too much noise for him. Not to mention the damn crowd. He felt like he couldn't breathe.

Beer in hand, Lucifer stayed on the outskirts and watched the party unfold around him with a slight scowl. This wasn't exactly his sort of scene. The only reason he was here at all was to people watch and even that was putting it mildly. If everyone decided to cluster here, then he was going to sit back and see why. Maybe he's not the best at socializing, but blending in is something he's good at.

He sipped at the beer, hoping to see a fight tonight at the least.

< Brawl >

Maybe he had one too many or maybe he just doesn't like to be touched or maybe his fuse is so short that it's actually a mental problem. Either way, whoever just shoved him in the back just got a fist to the face.

< Night In Jail >

Well, he saw a fight. It always winds up here, doesn't it?

Not that he could really be bothered with it or anything. The pigs said it would only be for a night - probably to just make sure they can't go back to the carnival - and he'd be out by morning. Which was lovely, honestly. There was a lot less noise in jail and he was surrounded by what could only be described as his people.

Not to mention he could probably get out at any point if he tried hard enough, so there was really no worries here. Especially with all that beer in his system.

"She's got a smile that it seems to me reminds me of childhood memories, where everything was as fresh as the ^{bright blue sky}! Everybody! Come on!" He clapped his hands, getting as loud as he can. It's nice when he's the one making noise for a change. "Now and then when I see her face, she takes me away to that special place-"

Drunks corralled in a meagre cage had been Killian's people, too, once upon a time. He'd been a rather notorious pirate, had spent time in a few prisons just to prove he could bust out in the end. This is far from the first time he's wound up behind bars for something or another, and he too could probably get out if he was willing to make a bit of a mess... but he'd need to feed and that'd likely be stupid when surrounded by drunks, albeit drunken ones.

So he was the only one currently in the drunk tank that didn't seem particularly drunk, more grumpily hungover, and that wasn't quite right either. Grumpy was pretty close though. He'd taken over an entire bench to lay down with an arm over his eyes, and didn't seem keen on sharing. Nobody had yet to be brave enough to try and ask him to.

"Would you bloody stow it?" he snapped toward the direction of whoever thought a bit of Guns n' Roses would make this dreary experience better. (It wasn't.)

Stow it? Stow it?

"Well, if you sang along, grumpy guss, I wouldn't have to." Lucifer enjoyed very few things, but annoying people was one of them. This guy who was dressed to the nails in what could only be described as goth-pirate attire, taking up a whole bench while covering his eyes from the masses was definitely a prime target.

Lucifer kept clapping his hands, keeping with the rhythm. "Time to let the light shine in, neighbor!" He was a happy drunk.

Yes. Stow it. As in, employ silence, instead of horrific yowling that seemed to be intended as some kind of singing. As if Guns n' Roses didn't yowl enough on their own. The pirate had not had enough alcohol, and he had also not fed particularly recently. It made him more volatile than usual, and apparently, less of a fan of classic rock.

Killian rubbed wearily at his face as the tosser decided the best course was to be louder, and more obnoxious. He should have known better, really. "I'm already in here, mate, don't tempt me to add an assault charge." Because it really was tempting, honestly. Hook hadn't cared for drunken singing even when he was a pirate, so why would he appreciate it now, mostly sober, and surrounded by far too many potential meals in a very well monitored jail cell?

Lucifer chuckled at that, his voice going a bit lower, a bit darker. "Oh, I'd like to see you try, hotshot."

Picking a fight was a horrible idea. Well, another fight. But anyway, it was still a bad idea. He didn't have all that much in the way of powers anymore, even if Lucifer did miss the good old days. His weapons were his wit and way with words. Fists? Not so much.

"What horrible thing threw you in here, anyway? It must have been bad if you don't even want to do a sing-along." Everyone hated sing-alongs. That's why he loved them.

"No, I'm very sure you don't." A fight was a bad idea. Just as snapping through what last margin of control he had left and draining every last fool trapped in here with him would be a very bad idea. It was just very tempting as time passed and frustration mounted. It'd been quite some time since he had to test his control so completely...

Well, sadly, that wasn't quite true, he just didn't like to think about the implications of the other instances he wavered.

"Resisting arrest." So he wasn't very good with authority, even now. The fact he'd even been caught was quite aggravating. If there hadn't been such a crowd that saw his face, he wouldn't be trapped here. "Your singing voice very well should be illegal, but I doubt that's what you're in for." Perhaps the pirate had decided that conversation was better than singing. So far the ploy seemed to be working.

Test Drive Meme: August 2015

Lucifer | Supernatural | Outcast Fae?

( JAIL ) please forgive how slow I'm definitely gonna be!

all is forgiven

broken computers SUCK sobs about it BUT I WANNA HELP TDMERS OK

omgosh broken computers DO suck, I am so sorry for your loss

it's in for repairs but I miss it like oxygen