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

[outstandingbalance]

Assassins. Same line of work then, but very different masters.

That also narrows down who she could be. Natasha didn't know her name before, but she knew by reputation—might even say rumor—of a female vampire assassin...

She chuckles a little.

"I think I've heard of your work."

[freelife]

Evie has to chuckle, too, raising an eyebrow.

"have you?"

Well, it's not unflattering, that's for sure. She preferred to keep a low profile. But in their line of work, it was a very, very small world. "All good things, I hope."

[outstandingbalance]

"That depends what you consider bad," Natasha says with just a little levity. "I wouldn't say it was all positive, but nothing bad about your work."

[freelife]

Evie gives a small laugh. "I can appreciate that. How interesting, of all the Beltanes in the world, we found ourselves here."

[outstandingbalance]

"Not exactly where I'd expect us to meet," Natasha says with real humor. The last few decades, she would have been surprised anywhere they ran into each other. Maybe in the 70s, when they were both neck deep in politics—often cross-purpose politics.

How was she supposed to handle this now, when she was one step removed from a fugitive and barely sure what she was doing herself? Wryly, she asks: "Work still good?"

[freelife]

"No, no it's not." And Evie has to drink to that, because it's absolutely true.

"Come to think of it, I'm quite glad that it is." Meeting in the field would have been a pity: one of them would have to die. Evie could already tell she didn't want to have to be the one to kill Natasha.

"It is- don't worry, if I was going to kill you, I'd have done it already." She means it as a reassuring statement.

[outstandingbalance]

Natasha takes it as one, though she hadn't given it serious consideration that she would. Not as a job, anyway. The people most likely to want her dead wouldn't have hired an Assassin to do it. Bounty hunters by way of a proxy would be most likely, if they couldn't do it by reaching out through the local nest and there were plenty of political reasons for that to be off the table.

"If you'd wanted to, I don't doubt it," Natasha says, not professionally offended.

"Hopefully you haven't changed your mind about that."

[freelife]

Evie smiles again. "No, I haven't." Not yet, anyway. She'll have to do her favorite thing in the world: research, but she wasn't anticipating having to kill Natasha. Not yet, anyway.

"How's your wine?"

[outstandingbalance]

"No complaints," Natasha says, willing to take it at that for the time being. She takes another sip, as though to prove her point.

It makes her no less thirsty than before, but the texture and flavor still have something to offer.

"It goes well with the rest of the evening.

[freelife]

"Doesn't it, though." She holds her glass up to Natasha for a small toast.

[outstandingbalance]

Natasha raises her cup along with her, tapping the rims.

"To tonight?" she suggests lightly.

[freelife]

"To tonight," Evie agreed, before finishing off the rest of her glass. An odd sort of friendship, sure, and perhaps that was the wrong word. But she wouldn't mind getting to know Natasha, not after her detective work was done.