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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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"I don't mean harm."

A Russian accent. Not a bad grasp on English, no, but the country of origin is far from hidden. Despite his large stature -- seen more easily now as he steps out from where he was, displaying his empty hands -- he does his best to look non-threatening.

"Unless, of course," he looks her over. His pale eyes are sharp, careful. After all, he knows all too well that appearances can deceive. "You mean to cause some to someone."

Not a vampire. He'd smell that. But there were still a great many things she might be, even if she was human.

Russian, which makes her think Bratva, because those are the only Russians she's ever had dealings with, but that's probably an extreme conclusion to come to.

It doesn't make her less wary, though.

"Would it be your business if I did?" She doesn't intend to, really, but she's curious to see what he'll say. Most peopled don't care what happens to strangers.

Illya shrugs. Which, really, only accents how tall and wide he is. His head tilts, and he watches her carefully. There's more intelligence in his gaze than most would expect given the brawn he can clearly display.

"Let us call me law enforcement. So, yes. It would."

Ah.

Max's demeanor changes almost instantly, her expression softening and a smile crossing her lips, as if her question was nothing more than a joke.

"Perhaps you can help me then, Officer, I'm afraid I'm a little lost," It's not a terrible cover, considering her accent marks her as being as foreign to this place as his does. Trust an American tourist to get lost in the shady backstreets of London.

His brows raise as her expression does. He's been around too many people, been working too long on too many things to be willing to trust even the sweetest looking face. Still, he won't outright call her a liar or anything. Just like he won't tell her he's not an officer. Not of the kind she's thinking.

"Where are you trying to go?"

The way he looks at her is fine, there's nothing wrong with a little doubt so long as he doesn't call her on it.

"The Kensington Hotel. I went to see a show at the Royal Albert and thought I knew my way back, but I've gotten a little turned around," She makes a point to look a little embarrassed.

"I do not believe you will find any hotel off the main streets."

Which... might be his way to sort of admit that he doesn't know where that particular building is. Or, really, where most things in London are. But that doesn't mean he can't keep an eye on things that look suspicious.

"It seemed it might be a short cut, and I'm hardly afraid of the dark," Or things lurking in them, because she might play at being many things, but she doesn't see the need to pretend to be scared.

If something tries to hurt her, she's more than capable of hurting it back.

"I find very few people are actually afraid of the dark," he remarks, almost casually. It is, rather, a fear of what is in the dark, in that unknown. But most people do not think of it in such terms. "But you would do well to be careful."

At the very least because she isn't hard to notice. Whether she's up to no good or simply out, being careful is hardly bad advice.

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