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.

Comments

Annalise | Bloodborne | Vampire

[vilebloods]

1) CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS

Democracy is still a novel concept to Annalise. A millenium spent as sole monarch of Cainhurst lands, and now she's brought back to a world of democracy and capitalism and it's all so bizarre.

She sits in a bar — one of those classy wine bars that google had told her was nice — but people at the table next to her are arguing about this upcoming election. It's... Distracting. And annoying.

"Does it truly matter?" She asks, half inquisitive and half annoyed, "how truly different can the candidates be from one another?"

2) WHAT ANGEL...

An enchantment, you say?

This mortal smells... Sweet. Like sunlight and berries. Fresh dew settled on the first flowers blooming at the dawn of spring. Impossible to resist.

She follows, unused to hunting her own prey, but the way her body moves comes easily like a buried instinct. Smooth and slow as she approaches the source of the smell and slips up close to the delicious smelling mortal, voice honeyed and slick.

"Human," she drawls, quiet enough only the two of them can hear, "do you know you carry the scent of spring on you?"

WILDCARD come at me, yo

1) CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS

[fauxdysseus]

The concept of democracy was a very familiar one to Flint — a previous lifetime spent as a Nassau based pirate, whose captaincy was challenged on a nigh daily basis would do that — and he never saw anything very romantic about it.

He is not a part of the ongoing discussion at the nearby table, no, he prefers to be sit in a corner, cloaked in shadows. Discretion suits his purposes at this very moment, however, when Annalise speaks up (a fairly annoyed vampire, like himself), he smirks at the annoyance in her tone.

"In any case, leadership is a transient thing. Even among the unnaturally long-lived such as this crowd."

[vilebloods]

"Unfortunately." It's a sore spot for her, one that is fresh and raw. Perhaps if she'd had a chance to grow with this world instead of being thrust into it she'd be a little less bitter, but here she is.

She swills her glass and gives the wine in it a dissatisfied sigh, it'll be a while before she feels sated, she supposed.

"Still... This Millicent seems to have quite the old on her position."

[fauxdysseus]

Flint himself was quite new to London — while it had been the place where he'd been born and raised, it had been .... a very long time since he'd last been here. he recognizes and acknowledges the slight bitterness in the woman's tone.

"Millicent has quite the reputation overseas. The local nest, however, seem to quite enjoy an unchanging status quo, with a fondness for decorum that should, by all rights, not exist anymore." there's a slight bitterness to his tone that seems to matche Annalise's.