Test Drive Meme: Feb/March 2016

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"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.

Comments

[catphishing]

[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?

[iustitiae]

[still gonna follow don't mind him]

Yeah? What's the title then?

[catphishing]

[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.

[iustitiae]

Thorn...birds?

[yeah hes never heard of it]

What is that?

[catphishing]

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.]

[iustitiae]

Okay, let's watch it.

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

[catphishing]

What? [That's not what he meant.]

It's four episodes. We'll only get part way...

[And he's going to think it sucks and he's going to make fun of him.]

[iustitiae]

Then we can watch more another time.

[please say yes]

[catphishing]

I...

[What does he even say to that? If he says no he'll think he doesn't want him there. Which isn't true. Not entirely. But planning for him to come over on multiple occasions isn't something he's sure about. There's a pretty high chance Connor isn't even going to like it and won't want to come over for other viewings, but that possibility kind of upsets him too.]

I lied. It's kind of lame, but if we do watch it you can't laugh. I like it a lot.

[And he likes him even if he knows those feelings are a really bad idea.]

[iustitiae]

[connor holds up his hands look no crossed fingers]

I promise not to laugh.

[catphishing]

[He doesn't quite believe that, but the sentiment's there. It does leave him feeling a little more reassured. Reassured enough he's picking up things he actually intends to buy now instead of using whatever's on the shelves as convenient distractions.]

Okay. Then we'll watch the Thorn Birds.

[He can't quite believe that's something he's going to do with Connor Walsh, but apparently he is.]

[iustitiae]

[connor isn't interested in pushing his luck anymore than he already has, and it's obvious that oliver is still awkward, so he gives him the out:]

Right, so, uh, I'll go find those cookies? And I'll see you later tonight?

[catphishing]

Right. Yeah.

[He nods, fingers tapping nervously.] Seven?

[iustitiae]

Seven's fine. I'll see you then.

[he'll, uh, head off to finish his shopping then, yeah.]