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.

Comments

Wonderful!

[redpriest]

I'd hate to intrude.

[ Although she's walking in anyway, so clearly she wouldn't hate it that much. She reaches the bottom of the stairs and lifts the torch a little higher, to see Wednesday better by. ]

I don't think I know you. Are you a part of a coven?

[ And is that a coven fond of Sylvia Redbright? If it is, well boo to you. Sylvia Redbright can go cliff herself. ]

[outofthemanor]

Nonsense, we always welcome visitors, especially on this particular night.

[It can never be said that her family are anything less than welcoming. Granted, the way they welcome people might be a little different, but they are welcoming. She tilts her head slightly]

I am an Addams.

[redpriest]

[ Addams, Addams. She doesn't think the name rings a bell as any of Sylvia's sycophants, and the girl is clearly a little more fond of the old ways than most of the Daybreak coven. Summoning ghosts may not be dark magic, but it's an arcane tradition. Sylvia's group, and worst of all those left of Gilbert Norrell's coven, want every remotely dangerous tradition stamped out. ]

It's good to see some still keep with the old ways, so many have forgotten. My name is Morgause.

[ Which won't mean anything to anyone yet, but it will in time. She will make sure of it. ]

[outofthemanor]

[It's not technically a coven, but then again, many Addams women did partake in witchcraft, though it was somewhat more of a hobby for most than it was a true calling. Wednesday did feel somewhat of a need to connect herself with a coven, though. It would be nice, she supposed, to have like minded people to share posions and curses with.]

Wednesday. It has always been important to my family to follow tradition and keep to the old ways, though modernization is not without it's faults. But then again, a new knife will never have the same effect as a well maintained one.

[redpriest]

[ Oh she likes you. Anyone who speaks in knife metaphors is her kind of person. ]

Very true. A new blade may be sharp, but one does not know the way it moves. Its balance is a stranger to us, its binding untested.

[outofthemanor]

But people will insist on the new. Because it is new, surely it is better.

Personally I will always trust the well maintained blade.