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

[splendid_roman]

"Not exactly," he said slowly. "One of my students turned out not to be completely human. I was trying to help her and... Well." He waved a hand. "It led me to all this." And once he'd seen it he couldn't pretend it didn't exist.

"How about you?" he asked, because it wasn't fair that she'd been asking most of the questions. "How did you come across the supernatural?"

[outstandingbalance]

"Other way around," she tells him, and she considers leaving it at that. There are parts of the story that she doesn't want to dig up. Not now, not in public, and definitely not in an eight minute conversation with a stranger.

But it also seems unfair to hold it back completely. So she adds, "The nest in Moscow took a liking to me, and the rest..."

She waves one hand dismissively. "Story for another time."

[splendid_roman]

"Nest?" he frowned for a moment before he put two and two together. Then he sat back a little bit. "You're not human, are you?"

[outstandingbalance]

She inclines her head slightly, breathing eye contact, expression apologetic as she signals that, no, she's not. Not much more to say to it than that, is there?

[splendid_roman]

If she wasn't a vampire, she'd have said. Or so Ian assumed. So there wasn't anything else he could say, except to stand and move away, to await the signal for the next table change.

[outstandingbalance]

That stings. She can pretend it doesn't. Tell herself that he's allowed to spend his time with whoever he wants, and if he doesn't want it to be another two minutes or so with her, that's his choice. She doesn't have any right to try to stop him or convince him otherwise—and she doesn't really want to.

She taps the table top, lips briefly pressing into a taut line before she mutters, "Better get used to it."