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]

[Jade starts off aimlessly, keeping a slow pace. She's more shaken from the encounter than she'd like to admit, more grateful for his help than she'll admit too.]

Do you always come to the rescue of people who read the wrong books in public?

[devilsavocado]

[ He chuckles. Do you always help little old ladies cross the street, Matthew? Hadn't Stick asked him that before? ]

Usually. I try not to stand back when I hear bullies like that.

[fourthsaken]

That's nice of you. Weird, but nice.

[Jade's not used to people coming to her rescue. Definitely not random adults she doesn't even know.]

Most of the time, uh, people are afraid to step in. Things can get ugly.

[The qualifier of "normal" people goes unsaid, but she definitely implies it. Matt seems pretty normal to her.]

[devilsavocado]

Maybe if more people stood up for each other, we wouldn't have as many jerks like that guy.

[ Saving the world one asshole at a time? Matt is far from normal, he's all about truth and justice. A fact that totally doesn't get him in trouble or anything. ]

Plus, I mean, there's hardly a need for things to get ugly over some books.

[fourthsaken]

You, uh, know it wasn't like, a normal book, right?

[Jade hesitated, but she feels like she has to tell him. He couldn't see what she was reading. If he could, maybe he wouldn't be so willing to help her out.]

[devilsavocado]

Yeah, I figured.

[ He really can't tell the precise subject of the books themselves but the context of the conversation was something of a giveaway. ]

It's hardly your fault for wanting to study.

[fourthsaken]

[Jade stops suddenly, shifting from one foot to the other. Why doesn't he care? Why isn't he freaked out? Everyone is freaked out. Some hide it better than others, but Jade can tell.]

... You're not freaked that that's what I'm studying?

[devilsavocado]

You're not studying how to make people into newts, right? You're fine.

[ He turns around from where he's stopped a bit ahead of her. ]

I won't tell anyone. It's not like I saw anything.

[fourthsaken]

... Thank you.

[Her voice is quiet and sincere. She rushes the few steps to catch up to him.]

Is there, uh, anything I can do to really thank you?

[devilsavocado]

I'm fine, really. Helping is its own reward.

[ This is why you're broke, Matt. You apply these principles towards law. ]

Do well enough in your studies and you won't need help from people like me.

[fourthsaken]

[Jade shrugs making a non-committal noise. She didn't actually need help if she'd used her powers. Could have easily set that guy on fire or something. But Jade doesn't want to hurt more people with her powers. That's the whole point of going to school and learning to control them.]

If I'd wanted to make him fuck off, I could've, but things would've gotten kinda messy.

[devilsavocado]

No, I don't mean...

[ Matt stumbles a bit. I mean, yeah, Matt's powers make it easy to mess with people, since they just assume he's blind. ]

It's about confidence, not hurting people. When you're confident, people can't mess with you.