Test Drive Meme: August/September 2016

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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) HOUSE OF FUN. Whether it's your first time in London or you've lived here all your life, you hear that this is the place to be for someone like you. A place to let loose, have fun, and embrace your true nature, whatever that may be.

2) THE LION'S DEN. And this is not the place to be. This is the enemy's camp and if they catch you...

3) IT'S QUICKER IF YOU RUN. So here's the game: you run, they chase. You might even escape, with a bit of luck... or maybe some help.

4) THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF. Be inspired and make some cupcakes, attend a cake sale, or try home-baking with your friends. Who says supernatural creatures can't have a sweet tooth?

5) SUMMER = BBQ. Another great British tradition: the moment the sun appears, it's time to get out the barbecue and enjoy some slightly-burnt burgers and hotdogs. With summer fading, what are you waiting for?

6) THE CHEMIST. Even creatures of the night occasionally require a visit to the pharmacy. Bit awkward when you recognise a fellow supernatural being waiting for a prescription though...

7) STUCK ON THE TUBE. The Underground would like to apologise for the delay to this service. It's probably a signal failure. Not a supernatural trap or anything, nope.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

Comments

[stauncherhearted]

[Nancy frowns. Seriously, she is frowning.]

You sound like bloody Cesare.

I'm not showing anything off. He's my boyfriend, he likes me. I like him. If anyone else wanted to be in his position they could have bloody asked.

[It's a sore subject, and it shows from the way she snaps at him]

[knowntohisfriends]

[Dodger rolls his eyes]

Don't start gettin' high an' mighty at me, Nance. He's your fancy man? Then why did he talk you someplace he knew you'd be around regulars? Somewhere there'd be a lot o' important people seein' him make that statement.

[He rubs the side of his nose, shrugging]

I just reckon he was pullin' somethin' an' using you to do it. An' I don't like that.

[stauncherhearted]

Because he wanted to go on a date, Dodge! Everyone is acting like I murdered the Queen when I went on a date with my boyfriend like a normal nineteen-year-old!

[she doesn't like it at all.]

I already got the whole thing from Cesare, so I don't need it from you, too.

[she pauses, her green eyes flashing dangerously. A bottle rattles behind her.] He wouldn't do that! [if he was... no, he wouldn't.]

[knowntohisfriends]

[Dodger just gives a shrug, a very innocent look on his face. Don't look at me, that look said, he ain't one of the toffs who need to be making statements with everything they do.]

[stauncherhearted]

oh don't do that! [she hits the table in front of her.]

you can't say something then give me that look.

[knowntohisfriends]

Nance, I were just pointing out that it was odd, that's all. You grew up here, same as me. You know there's people what put a lot on appearances an' doin' little things c'n mean a lot more than we realise.

... I'm just pointin' that out, is all.

[stauncherhearted]

Yeah, well Cooper ain't like that. [she crosses her arms.]

He wouldn't use me. he won't hurt me.

[knowntohisfriends]

Didn't say he would.

Just sayin' that people could read into what he did. An' maybe some already have. [How else would the Dodger hear about it. He wasn't there]

[stauncherhearted]

Yeah? Like who?

[knowntohisfriends]

The old man

[Which is a problem. More than likely]

[stauncherhearted]

Well fuck him. The devil has no place in my life since January. [Dodger would remember her lovely trip to A&E that some of the boys had made sure she took. Fagin hadn't taken kindly to learning she would rather Eames' protection than his.]

[knowntohisfriends]

Ain't stoppin' him lookin' in.

[stauncherhearted]

or dipping into my pockets. [she would always give her money to the boys and their needs, however.]

[knowntohisfriends]

Devil never lets anyone go. You know that, Nance.

[It's soberly said. Even with his loyalty, he knows some things are true]

[stauncherhearted]

He'll be the death of me. [she drinks]

[knowntohisfriends]

Nah, won't get any money if he does that.

[stauncherhearted]

Oh, of course not.

I wish I could keep the money out of his hands.

[knowntohisfriends]

Don't work like that round here, you know that.

[Dodger pours some more gin into the glasses, because it's never a good idea to let them get empty]

He weren't happy, you know. With what happened.

[stauncherhearted]

I know.

That I went with Eames over him?

[knowntohisfriends]

He never likes people leavin' him, Nance. Says it's breakin' up the family.

[stauncherhearted]

Then maybe he should look at how he raises his family. [Cold and hard, there's no light in her eyes.]

[knowntohisfriends]

[And there's a dimness in the Dodger's eyes, as he half turns from her, annoyed]

Reckon some of us turned out alright. Even if you don't reckon it, anymore.

[stauncherhearted]

[She presses her lips together.]

That ain't what I meant.

[knowntohisfriends]

Sounded like it.

[stauncherhearted]

[She takes a deep breath.]

It's not.