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The Underground Mods ([personal profile] undergroundmods) wrote in [community profile] thetube2016-02-27 09:49 pm
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Test Drive Meme: Feb/March 2016



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.
combatdoc: (fake it 'till you make it)

[personal profile] combatdoc 2016-03-18 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Well now, that's better. He watches Moran flex his fingers with pleased approval, then tapes a clean dressing over the row of stitches.]

And most people have no clue about it. I certainly didn't until I started poking around.

Probably wouldn't have believed it if anyone had told me, before.
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[personal profile] precisionfocus 2016-03-18 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I grew up in it, so I guess it never really seemed hidden to me.

[But most people don't know. None of his brothers in arms did. They never did figure out how he was so good a sniper in the night. But with a tiger's sense of sight and smell, it got easier.]

Only advice is: if you can manage it, stay the hell out of politics. Mundane is bad enough. Ours? Are a nightmare.
combatdoc: (bit of a smug bastard)

[personal profile] combatdoc 2016-03-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I try to stay out of politics as a rule anyway. Let the higher ups squabble over the nonsense while the rest of us common blokes do the real work and get things done.

[He gives Moran a quick grin and then starts to pack up his kit.]

Now, unless you want to stick around here a while...
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[personal profile] precisionfocus 2016-03-20 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[And get killed.

But it's a truth that doesn't need to be stated. So he smiles instead and offers a slight nod.]


Probably best to get out now. [He laughs a little.] Thanks for coming.
combatdoc: (no keep going)

[personal profile] combatdoc 2016-03-20 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
You can owe me one.

[A city like this, there's a good chance he'll be cashing that in sooner rather than later.]

Come on then. If we hurry we can still catch the Tube before it shuts down for the night.
precisionfocus: (Smile)

[personal profile] precisionfocus 2016-03-20 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
...The Tube?

[Sebastian actually laughs a bit and shakes his head.]

Good as you patched me up, I can drive. My car's 'bout a block or two away. If you don't mind the walk, I'll give you a lift.
combatdoc: (marching orders)

[personal profile] combatdoc 2016-03-20 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Driving in London? You're certainly a brave man.

[Not that he's going to pass up the offer of a ride home. Not at this time of night, anyway.]

Lead the way, then. If I can manage the walk from the station to here, I can certainly manage a block or two to the car.

[Although he is without his cane. It hadn't bothered him at all on the adrenaline fueled trip down here, but now that the danger is over with there are hints of it coming back into John's gait.]