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HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

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.)

Here are some prompts to inspire you:

1) GHOST TOWN. (31st October) Ghosts, it's your chance to shine! Whether you want to or not, actually. Even humans are more sensitive to ghostly activity tonight, so be careful where you choose to make your haunts.

2) BEHIND THE VEIL. (31st October) Even the faintest disturbance of magic could disrupt the veil between worlds tonight. Will you stumble into the Other Realm? Or will they find you? It's all blurring into one...

3) SAMHAIN. (31st October) Known to the public as Halloween and to witches as Samhain, tonight is the night when all manner of supernatural creatures come out to play and the humans will be none the wiser. Of course, if you're a witch, tonight is much more serious business. The veil between the worlds is thin, and magic can easily reach through the cracks.

4) FANCY DRESS. Or you could dress up and go to a Halloween party, where you can revel in what you are without suspicion. Just make sure you stain your costume with fake blood, not actual blood, mm'kay?

5) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK. There's something behind you...

6) HOUSE OF HORRORS. Okay, whose stupid idea was it to venture into a haunted house tonight? Really, you're every horror movie trope waiting to happen. Hope you brought a comfortable sleeping bag.

7) BONFIRE NIGHT. (5th November) Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason and plot. Bonfire Night is a long-standing tradition in the UK, commemorating that time back in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (They failed.) Tonight, light a bonfire, set off some fireworks and watch your guy burn. Lovely, isn't it?

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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it really is gift season. Annie isn't fully sure what sort of holidays the Fae celebrate, but she knows Christmas is coming, and is already on a mission to look for the best possible gifts for what few friends she had. So, mostly for her grandmother and her boyfriend, which is precisely why there's a question about Fae running through her head.

Even if she doesn't find a gift for Finnick in the milliner's, it's still an interesting store she'd yet to enter. "Hullo," Annie says, with a timid wave. "Uhm, just, ah, looking- thinking about holiday gifts. My grandmother. And, uhm. My boyfriend." The very mention of her actually having a boyfriend sends a scarlet blush across her cheeks, nearly matching her hair.

Sophie thinks for a moment. She knows all these hats--has had a hand in the production of almost all of them, save the knit hats on the holiday display, which they get from a third party supplier. The grandmother will be quite a bit easier than the boyfriend.

"Could you describe your grandmother to me? What colors does she wear?" She already has her eye on a beige wedding hat that she had originally thought was rather helplessly dowdy and square and taken pity on while trimming. She'd told it that it looked youthful and fresh, and she doesn't know why but now that it is out on the display it suddenly looks quite fetching indeed.

"Our display of gentlemen's hats is over there." There are the standard assortment of trilbies (which people constantly mistook for fedoras), actual fedoras, a porkpie, a bowler, and several newsboy caps. There is even a single top hat on display, for morning dress. Those are custom built for the client (usually weddings), and take a few weeks to create.

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"Oh, she likes a lot of nature tones. Greens and blues, mostly. With some white." She offers a pained smile, trying to think of what her grandmother's closet looked like. "She's old, but she's still got a lot of spirit." You had to, to take care of a young woman like Annie, to uproot your entire life from Ireland and move to London to an old family house because you were her last remaining family member.

Because she'd tried so hard to make sure that her grandmother was the last surviving family member, and staying in Ireland was no longer an option. She was a wonderful woman, amazing and patient, not someone to cross, either. She'd been a hunter in her youth, and raised Annie's mother until her untimely death. "She's very active." She settled on, eventually. "But old fashioned. Think- think the Queen only with fewer corgis. And Irish. And I think a better sense of humor...?"

Sophie moves the customer over to the beige hat. Before she trimmed it, it had looked blocky and severe--almost like something the Queen would wear, actually--but now it has a softness and a radiance to it. It is a very clever-looking hat. "Will this do?" she asks politely, keeping her voice soft. She knows she doesn't have a very forceful personality. She tells herself that every day.

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She looks at the hat carefully, though she doesn't reach out to touch it. "Oh- it's beautiful!" There's a smile on Annie's lips. She doesn't know where her grandmother would wear it, but it is stunning. And with gifts, it's always the thought that counts.

"I- yes, that's wonderful."

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