thetube | Test Drive Meme: October/November 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) DEEPER UNDERGROUND. It's easy to get mired in the supernatural in London. There are places where you won't see a single normal human being. Once you've joined a coven or a pack or a nest or any of the other supernatural groups in the city, it's hard to back out.

2) IN THE SHADOWS. What is that in the corner of your eye? In that dark corner over there, was that a flicker of movement? There's definitely something. You should investigate.

3) DON'T PANIC. It's fine! So maybe you accidentally used magic in public or a creature of the night is following you down a dark alley or you can't get those blood stains out of your clothes or you're trying to work up the courage to ask someone out on a date. It'll be fine. You'll be fine.

4) SAMHAIN. (31st October) Known to the public as Halloween and to witches as Samhain, tonight is the night when all manner of supernatural creatures come out to play and the humans will be none the wiser. Of course, if you're a witch, tonight is much more serious business. The veil between the worlds is thin, and magic can easily reach through the cracks.

5) DRINKS ON YOU. (31st October) This Halloween there are a number of vampire raves taking place around London as the Islington Nest gets drunk and high on fae blood. Visitors beware: venture into the wrong place and you may well find yourself on the menu.

6) HOUSE OF HORRORS. Okay, whose stupid idea was it to venture into a haunted house tonight? Even humans are more sensitive to ghostly activity around Halloween, so let's hope the ghosts here are friendly...

7) BONFIRE NIGHT. (5th November) Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason and plot. Bonfire Night is a long-standing tradition in the UK, commemorating that time back in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (They failed.) Tonight, light a bonfire, set off some fireworks and watch your guy burn. Lovely, isn't it?

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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Should Bulma be taking a detour through Vamp territory? Probably not, but it's the best way to get from point A to point B. With a protective charm hanging from her neck and the earth's energy on Team Witch for the night, she's not particularly worried. She's looking at her phone instead of where she's going, and as she turns the corner she walks straight into Eponine.

"Hey--watch where you're going!"

She snaps as she looks up, and in that moment she knows exactly what she's run into.

"Watch it yourself!" It's a natural instinct to push this woman away out of pure principal. It's vampiric instinct to sink her teeth into the breather's neck. But Eponine prevents herself from doing either. Instead, she glances Bulma up and down, though her gaze lingers on the pendant she wears.

"You walked into me, Madame. I were just stood. P'raps if you weren't to have such a thing as your phone?" She holds her hand out. This is perhaps the most polite and least forceful mugging in the world.

"You're kidding me right?"

Self-preservation would dictate that Bulma calmly explain that, as a witch, she didn't have to do anything that this girl wanted, especially on Samhain of all nights, and that they could just pretend this never happened and move along.

Self-preservation was, admittedly, never her strong suit in the face of her own pride. She crosses her arms over her chest, phone in hand and thus against her chest.

"I'm not giving you my phone, it wouldn't work for you anyway. You should probably just get out of my way--and clean up your mess while you're at it."

Like she hadn't spotted the corpse right there.

Eponine sighs a sardonic laugh through her nose. "Worth a try, weren't it?" AtBulma's words though, she tries to wipe some of the blood from her cheeks. All she really does is succeed in smudging it further across her face.

"Is it so noticeable? I thought he were a bit hidden at least. Give me time, you know?" She shrugs, and goes to push past Bulma, shoving her with her shoulder to move the witch out of her path. As she moves, she closes her jacket tight over stained t-shirt, and holds it closed with her arms tight across her stomach. She puts her head down, letting her messy plaits hide some of the stains.

"Now move, breather. Let me past. I need to find a place to hide."

Keep moving Bulma. This vampire isn't your problem, and you have better places to be. Still she hesitates, looking around them at the empty street before sighing, lips in a twist of a frown. Curse her good nature.

"I'll hide you, just clean that mess up alright?" She drops her phone back into her purse, digging around for her wand. "Humans are looking for a good story on Halloween, you're not going to give them one on my watch." She adds quickly, like she needs a reason to do something nice.

"You?" Eponine laughs sarcastically again. "Why would you help me?" Still, Bulma's words have made her stop. She stares hard at Bulma, as if she's trying to work her out. And then Eponine's gaze falls upon the pendant that the witch wears.

"I know what you are, Madame! You're a witch! Why would you help me? My Pa - well. He said. that witches hate vampires. What do you want? I ain't got no money."
As if that fact wasn't obvious. Eponine must stink from the commercial bins she's been forced to hide in. It might be obvious too from her luggage, or lack thereof. She literally owns the clothes on her back and not a cent more.

But the offer of a hiding place is tempting, and Eponine sighs. "If this is a trap, Madame, I swear, you shall have the whole of Paris on you." Still, she does as requested, and goes back to the body.

"In Paris, it is that I put them in the Seine. Where is the river here?"

Bulma just rolls her eyes, still digging around in her bottomless purse. "We don't hate vampires, we hate the idea of you guys. You know, what you're capable of, what your kind usually get up to, and a lot of you are vicious assholes so I mean it makes sense--aha, there you are!" She frees her wand with an exclamation--a screwdriver with a wooden handle. She twirls it in her fingers, other hand firmly placed on her hip.

"I don't need the money you don't have, maybe I'm just a really great person who wants to help."

Glancing around again, she quickly gets down and starts drawing a circle around Eponine and the body with her wand. It doesn't show up on the concrete, but she knows it's there, just like her grimace at being this close to a corpse.

"The Thames is super close. Don't move--and don't try anything." She warns before she closes her eyes, tip of the screwdriver against the circle that can't be seen. And then it can, for only a split second, a faint glow. When she's done she stands, crossing her arms over her chest.

"As long as I stay with you--and conscious," She adds as another warning, "you and the body are invisible. You're carrying it yourself though."

Test Drive Meme: October/November 2016

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