Test Drive Meme: August 2015

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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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[fatherswatch]

Stories got around quickly enough. The boy was either a master thief (unlikely due to how easily he'd been caught, and it didn't sound right) or something far more dangerous. To himself and others, if the police had noticed him. Secrecy was paramount, and that was part of his job. The other part was finding young people with 'potential' and funnelling them into the right places.

"Right then, you," one of the officers said as he unlocked the jail cell early in the morning. "Bail's paid."

The man only a few steps behind him was tall and exceptionally broad with a cabby's cap pulled down just a bit over his face. He looked over at the sound of the cell door and nodded.

"Good," he said, his voice carrying a strong Russian accent. "Come with me."

[paenumbra]

At first, Matt had expected to see Simon waiting for him outside of the cell. This really wasn't the best impression he wanted to give his new roommate seeing as he was the only person Matt knew in London who would bail him out. It surprised him to find the tall man with the Russian accent waiting for him.

"Thanks for the bail," he said with a smile, his own American accent equally out of place in London. "But I think I'll just be heading back to my apartment now. It's been strange enough for one night."

Matt's words weren't usual. There was a depth to them that seemed to push others in the direction Matt wanted them to go. It wasn't much, just a little nudge that told the man he should just let Matt go on his way.

[fatherswatch]

"No," came the reply. Short and simple but certain. "You will come with me."

But that would probably be considered too rude. He could hear Gaby in his mind even now, scolding him with something about honey and vinegar. Still, he had no time for any proper niceties.

Still, he'd offer something.

"You have a meeting with the dean of the Redbright Institute."

[paenumbra]

Matt hadn't been in the city long enough to hear of the Redbright Institute. To him it sounded as though the men in the clean white coats had finally shown up to take him away (ha-ha) which, to be honest, was even further down on the list of things he wanted to do this evening than spending the night in jail. He preferred jail over being locked up in a mental health facility.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

"Thanks," Matt said, polite but firm. "I'll keep that in mind. Do you have a card or something? That way I know you're legit. Can't be too careful these days."

[fatherswatch]

Americans. Why did it have to be an American? They were all so-- so American. Still. Illya shrugged his shoulders. It was a simple enough matter, and he was too used to commands rather than choices.

"I do not. However, you are now in a city with one surveillance camera for every eleven people. Going missing is very difficult here."

It was meant to be reassuring. He was trying. In his own very poorly thought out way.

[paenumbra]

"Seriously, Arnold, this 'come with me if you want to live' thing is so 1980s," Matt said, growing a bit more nervous the more the man insisted. "I appreciate you bailing me out but I've other things to do."

Like trying to figure out how in the hell he had managed to end up in that store. The last thing he remembered was leaning against the side of the building before suddenly falling through. But that had to be impossible - didn't it?