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

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[iustitiae]

[with the way laurel keeps asking people if they're witches, due to her sudden tipsiness, connor does The Adult Thing and grabs her, pulling her aside.]

Hey. Stop asking people stupid questions. You're embarrassing yourself, and also me by associate.

[#squadgoals]

[insolidum]

[It's a struggle right now for Laurel to simply look away from him instead of rolling her eyes so hard. FLATLY:]

Oh no I would hate to embarrass you.

[She takes a sip of her drink and then shrugs, deciding to defend herself against Connor "no fun" McGee over here.]

I'm just making conversation! That's what you do at a party!

[iustitiae]

Yeah, but conversation doesn't really work like that. Like I wouldn't come up to you at a party and go, "Hey, you're totally Latina, right?"

[ the only person who would be worse at giving this advice would be asher, but connor makes a close second nevermind that he's not even actually a supernatural and shouldnt speak on their behalf but you know what why let that stop you ]

Can't you just be cool?

[insolidum]

[It's truly a struggle for her not to start giving him a hard time. Instead she holds up her hands in a gesture of surrender.]

Fine, I'll be cool so you can continue trying to impress all your friends, okay?

[She raises an eyebrow at him as if to ask if that's sufficient.]

[iustitiae]

I'm not trying to impress --

[ i mean, it sounds pretty fake as soon as he says it so maybe he just won't finish that statement out. ]

Why did you come, anyway?

[insolidum]

To have fun.

[She raises her eyebrows at him as she blows his mind with this crazy concept of doing things just because they're fun.]

[iustitiae]

[ what????? no way ]

It doesn't make you, I don't know, nervous? To hang with this crowd?

[ the only uncool person here is connor. he's 100% not chill ]

[insolidum]

[Laurel very nearly makes a comment about her family, about how it's hard to get nervous around a bunch of drunk witches when you were raised by the Mexican werewolf cartel, but Connor doesn't need to know about all that. She shrugs instead.]

Not really. Why, are you nervous?

[She doesn't need werewolf senses to see how very little chill you have Connor.]

[iustitiae]

A little. Because I'm a normal person.

[or an overly jumpy one, whatever.]

[insolidum]

[She is about to take offense to the fact that he is kind of implying she's not normal. She's not, but whatever. She cultivates an image of normalness and this is not contrary to that at all okay.]

You mean like, not magic?

[She shrugs and gestures at the intoxicated group around them, giving Connor a sympathetic smile.]

They're all drunk. They can't do much like this anyway.

[iustitiae]

Maybe that makes it worse. Like drunk driving, only casting spells. You never know what could happen.

[look this is great logic.]