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

[fourthsaken]

Uh...

[The conversation's taken such an unexpected turn that Jade's a little thrown. Wandering off with some guy she just met probably isn't the smartest idea, but he has a point. She's going to get in trouble either way. She might as well make the most of it.]

Sure? I mean, yeah, okay. But it's gonna have to be something else. I'm a vegan.

[iustitiae]

Okay, so what's something you can eat that's vegan?

[fourthsaken]

There's a coffee shop not too far from here that'll have something. They buy stuff from this vegan bakery. It's all really good.

[Jade fails to mention that she doesn't go there that often. She can't afford to. Part of her family's hesitation with sending her away for school was for financial reasons. But she frequents both the coffee shop and bakery when she can, makes it a treat every couple of weeks. They practically know her at both.]

[iustitiae]

Lead the way.

[he's surprised she trusts him, or that he's even offering to do this, really, but hey. this is apparently happening now.]

[fourthsaken]

[Jade feels like she shouldn't trust this guy. She doesn't even know his name. But she hasn't made any friends at school yet. She's lonelier than she'll admit and having someone to just talk to is kind of nice. She leads them toward the stairs, making small talk as she walks.]

I'm Jade, by the way.

[iustitiae]

[connor follows after her, smiling a little when she gives her name.]

I'm Connor.

[fourthsaken]

Have you, uh, lived here long?

[Jade winces slightly at her own question. It's such pointless small talk, she should find something better to say, something smart or interesting, but it's hard. She hasn't had much reason to talk to new people in what feels like years. She also knows that her answer to the question is obvious due to the Midwest accent she can't seem to get rid of.]

[iustitiae]

In London? Four years. [but his own accent is obviously british. he can hear hers, though, and while he can't really place it for where in America, it's definitely american] What about you?

[fourthsaken]

Three months. I came here for school.

[Jade hopes she's being vague enough that Connor won't figure out what kind of school.]

[iustitiae]

Long way to go for boarding school.

[but maybe that makes sense anyway.]

[fourthsaken]

If you lived in Iowa, you'd wanna go as far as you could too.

[She tucks a stray strand of hair behind one ear as they continue to walk. It's not the whole truth, and it's pretty obviously not. Jade's a terrible liar, even by omission.]

[iustitiae]

[he can tell she's lying, or at least he guesses, but they definitely dont know each other well enough to call her out.]

Yeah I bet. What's in Iowa? Anything?