thetube | Test Drive Meme: Feb/March 2016

"Pulp - Common People" (Watch on YouTube)

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) COMMON PEOPLE. What do normal Londoners do every day anyway? Sometimes you just want to blend in with everyone else. Make friends with humans. Talk about the weather. Go on, try it.

2) PENTHOUSE SUITE. But wait. Maybe you want to see how the other half live. The elite of the elite. You've been lucky enough to be asked to a meeting, or a luncheon, or a date. Find out what the most powerful people in London are really like.

3) GET OUT YOU FILTH. Supernatural prejudice is a regrettable fact of life in London. It doesn't matter what you are, there's someone out there who hates you because of it. They'll shun you, heckle you, even hunt you down and kill you. Of course, you're probably not immune to a few prejudices yourself.

4) SPEED DATING. Oh god. Why did you sign up to this. You should have known it was a bad idea when someone mentioned it was supernatural speed dating. Help.

5) THE REAL UNDERGROUND. Down in the darkest corners of the Tube, there are supernatural vagrants of all kinds, especially vampires. That friendly busker may well be a fae. That girl waiting for the next train is a ghost. Once you've seen it, you can't escape from it.

6) IN THE SUPERMARKET. On the other hand, you never know what you might find just walking around your local supermarket. You haven't forgotten how to do normal things like groceries, right?

7) A CURSED EXISTENCE. Maybe you literally are cursed. Maybe you just feel like it sometimes. There are things you can't do, weaknesses that normal humans aren't subject to, but they make everyday life in London that little bit more difficult. Try not to get too mad about it.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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I could promise not to eat yours.

[how well will he stick to it though who knows.]

Or since I'm already here I could just get some to deter you.

[You know, when he stops pretending he's looking at price tags on tupperware.]

Or, I could buy some and bring them over.

[he reaches over to take the Tupperware from Oliver's hand.]

Do you want this, too?

[hes joking but he will buy the Tupperware if called out on it]

[Oliver lets him take it, embarrassed at being called out on looking at something he doesn't want, but not quite sure what do without something to look at.]

No, that's okay. I was just looking.

[he sets the tupperware back on the shelf]

So tonight? Do you want me to bring food?

[He makes himself actually look at him then. He's nervous, but he tentatively wants to hope that maybe they'll have a nice night tonight.]

Thai? Or pizza. We could have pizza if you feel more like having pizza. I could rent a movie and we could eat with that?

[He kind of hates himself a little for how many times he's said pizza in the last five seconds. He has to bite back on suggesting yet another option or offering to cook. He looks ridiculous already.]

You said pizza a lot of times, so I'm going to assume you want that.

[totally pointing it out anyway]

I don't mind. You can choose. There's actually a new Indian place that's supposed to be pretty good nearby.

[He shrugs, trying to act like he isn't embarrassed.]

Just get whatever you feel like.

You're all over the place with these dinner suggestions.

Well, they're suggestions. It's not like there's a rule that says they have to be limited.

[connor's laughing, but he means it well. mostly.]

Just relax. We can do whatever we want.

I know.

[He wishes he could laugh. He makes it sound so easy. He does manage a faint smile for him, though being uncertain exactly what Connor thinks this is relaxing isn't the easiest thing to do.]

You know this isn't...

Isn't what?

[he shouldn't ask. he does anyway. it's probably not going to be good.]

[This isn't the place for this. He shouldn't have said that. But hey, at least in public it means he can't let himself get upset.]

Nothing. That's not what I... [He takes a deep breath.] It's just dinner, right?

[connor obviously deflates a little bit.]

Sure, yeah, just dinner.

[He hates how guilty it makes him feel to see Connor so obviously disappointed. Connor hurt him. He's allowed to be cautious about letting him in again. It's not like he even has to at all.

He starts to hold out an arm to nudge him, but he's not sure he actually trusts himself to touch him. Not even just for that. Instead he smiles, forcing his tone to be lighter than he feels.]

Come on. Dinner can be fun.

[it's less about the sex. i mean, it's connor, so it's also about the sex, but mostly it's the reminder that he fucked up and he's still trying to make up for it.]

I'm sure it will be. What movie were you thinking?

[Oh. That was something he hadn't thought of. He'd had an old favorite show lined up, but if Connor's coming over then a series is too long. Not to mention it wouldn't be his thing in the first place.]

I don't know. I've got some rentals, but it's not like I was thinking of you when I got them. I'll think of something.

Are you embarrassed? Is it something super lame?

[this is not a judgment free zone]

[Wow. Connor's the worst. He bites back a grin, pushing the cart onwards. Maybe he is embarrassed, put he can handle a little fun being poked in his direction.]

It's not lame. Didn't you have shopping to do?

[still gonna follow don't mind him]

Yeah? What's the title then?

[He wants to tell him he can't laugh, but he's probably never heard of it in the first place and saying that would kind of clue him in that, yeah, okay... it's not the coolest show on the planet.]

The Thorn Birds.

Thorn...birds?

[yeah hes never heard of it]

What is that?

It's a series. So way too long for one night.

[Which is why he's thinking of alternatives, definitely not because he's embarrassed at all.]

Okay, let's watch it.

[not at all because he thinks watching a series will give him further excuses to come over]

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