Test Drive Meme: April/May 2016

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"The Jam - Going Underground" (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 and canon 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) GOING UNDERGROUND. For some people, London is an escape. A place to be anonymous. A place to be themselves. Or a place to hide. Steeped in ancient magic, it attracts supernatural types from all over the world. Of course, that doesn't mean its inhabitants are always friendly to newcomers.

2) CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS. The Night Council election campaign is in full swing and on 5th May the supernatural community votes for its leaders. Visit any supernatural haunt and you'll find people arguing about who to vote for – not to mention the volunteers handing out badges and flyers in an effort to win your support. Try to keep it civil, folks.

3) THE PUBLIC WANTS WHAT THE PUBLIC GETS. (29th April) The Night Council candidates gather in a town hall in Westminster to explain why the supernatural community should vote for them. Traditionally a noisy and raucous event, it's your last opportunity to heckle question the candidates before the election. There are four separate Q&As: first up are the candidates for Shapeshifter/Meta Human representative; then candidates for Witch Representative; then Vice President; then finally the candidates for President will take to the stage. They each make a short speech and then take questions from the audience. Or if you want, you could just turn up for a free meal: in the room next door there's a sandwich buffet plus tea, coffee and fruit juice, so it's a good opportunity to mingle.

4) FIRE FESTIVAL. (1st May) The fire festival of Beltane is a time of celebration for witches, marking the beginning of summer. Come along to the bonfire for music, food and drink, flower crowns and fertility rituals.

5) SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. (1st May) Beltane is also a time when the barrier between the human world and the Other Realm is at its thinnest, making it easy to pass from one realm to the other by chance. You might even have an encounter with the mysterious and mischievous fae.

6) WHAT'S DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE. You've gone too far, done something you know you'll regret. Maybe you ran away, broke a promise, even committed a crime. Maybe you've been supernaturally transformed. Either way, there's no going back.

7) WHAT ANGEL WAKES ME FROM MY FLOWERY BED? Oh, sweet mortal. There's an enchantment on you that makes you suddenly, devastatingly attractive. Especially to more magical types.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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[dirtyredneck]

Daryl snorted and looked at the woman like she'd gone and grown two heads, "No."

He crossed his arms and leaned against the fencing he'd been happily observing the festivities from. Happily avoiding being actively involved in anything while still sort-of feeling included.

"'Sides, ain't nothing to buy," he went on to say, voice gruff but not as filled with annoyance as his first 'no'. His eyes moved back to the gathered masses, the dancing and drinking. "Drinks are free as long as you can stumble your way over to the bar." Said 'bar' being the long tables set up with as many bottles of booze ranging from light wine coolers to the hardest vodka that people just filled with whatever they brought as they'd arrived.

[freelife]

"is it?" Evie surveys the table and has to smile just a little bit. she wasn't the drinker her brother was- keep a clear head when business was being done- but she can appreciate an open bar. Not that she could get drunk easily now. It took quite a lot to get a vampire tipsy.

"That's new." but she's not mad about it. quite the contrary.

"Last time I was at one of these they were charging."

[dirtyredneck]

"Sounds like last time you went to the wrong party," he retorted, tone taking on a little more amusement. "Only one's I know of that charge have an entrance fee, too. Bigger ones in fancier places than this. Don't think most of those ones let either of our kind in, though, even for the dancin'."

Close as she was, and as far as everyone else was, he could smell that slight difference in her scent to someone fully human.

[freelife]

"I don't know about that," she said with a wistful smile. Evie had been to a lot of parties in her days. And many of them happened to have been pretty great. "I'm not usually one for witch parties, however." Yeah, she can tell. It helps to be over one-hundred years old. Goodness, nearly 200 now.

"You say that. But that's only if you try to go in the front door."

[dirtyredneck]

Daryl shrugged again, countering with: "Wouldn't want to go in at all to a place I can't go in the front door. Wouldn't be welcome and don't see the point in being where I ain't wanted when I'm tryin' ta have fun. Not usually one for witch parties, neither. Guy at work invited all of us. Figured it was worth seeing one of these things once in my life."

[freelife]

"They do know how to throw a party," Evie will freely admit. She's worked with witches before, and won't hesitate to work with them again when she knows it's beneficial.

"Usually these aren't my sort of parties, either." She had a fondness for a rowdy night in a pub.

[dirtyredneck]

"Then why're you here?" he turned to look at her, head tilting to the right as he eyed her. "Cain't really think you'll get a bunch of people to buy you drinks just so's you can have a free night."

[freelife]

"Because I like to keep an eye out," she explains simply enough. "And you never know what you'll hear at these sorts of things."