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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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Fuck you, I save plenty. Not all of us can live with Daddy and not have to pay rent.

[ That's an elbow to Sollux's side, and as they pass through the doors back to the main area of the police station, Karkat seems to think he's completely safe and finally breaks away from keeping contact with his friend. He's curling away like the happiest turtle, right for the door, and is yelling his next words over his shoulder as he goes. Yeah, he's not waiting for Sollux to finish paying. Sure as fuck he's not. ]

Besides, you barely eat anything as it is! I'll just start packing a lunch, then you're not costing me shit.

[He's watching the other go and already laughing because the officer manning the security station is so not amused by Karkat's flagrant disregard and Sollux slows his pace to enjoy the dawning realization as it hits.]

Thee you thay that, but you're altho a thlut for junk food, tho you better not thkimp on my next order of nuggetth, otherwithe you're not getting out of that door.

[ Lucky for Karkat, the guard is much bigger than him and he's much too shaken by this whole catastrophe that he doesn't get much further than 'he's right over there paying as we speak, give me a break you-' before Sollux is done. And he shuts his mouth with a near comical click of his teeth. The guard's face is turning red.

He's on Sollux's arm again. It's safe there. He's not stupid, he won't test danger twice. ]

Fine fine, all the nuggethhhh you can cram in the damp garbage disposal you call a mouth, whatever. Just get me out of here.

[Her Majesties dues paid, Sollux manages to wrestle his headphones back around his neck one handed - the other is in Karkat's strangle hold - and with a last, casual salute to the officer on duty, navigates them out of the station without much fan fair.]

Tho all that talk about never inthulting my teeth again wath tho much hyperbole. Glad you're making the motht of your freedom, KK.

[It's late enough to start being considered early and Sollux idly checks his phone - a text from Mituna, two from dad - and gauges the time it'll take for him to catch the night bus and get home.]

You heading home?

[ Karkat is clinging to the little baggie of his personal belongings the guard shoved into his arms on the way out, incredulous with his past self and how he'd been about to wave sayonara to the station without his phone, his keys, his oyster card or his money. Good job, Karkat. You're an adult. ]

Yeah- probably. I think. God, I'd kiss the ground if I wasn't petrified I'd catch mouth-diarrhoea from this shit hole. I feel like that singing nun when she finally escapes the convent and runs away to marry the rich asshole with plastic hair and too many gremlins. [ Karkat is looking around like he hasn't seen the outside world for days, acting as though his sentence had been more than an overnight stay, and he... really doesn't look ready to face the tube home.

He looks back to his companion. Apparently he wasn't really listening to what Sollux said if his next words are anything to go by. ]

Wanna go for a coffee?

Test Drive Meme: August 2015

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