Test Drive Meme: April/May 2015

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Welcome to the first 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 in your subject line when you post, tag out, and have fun!

Here are some prompts to inspire you:

1) START. Welcome, newcomer! You've just moved to London. Go see the sights, enjoy the Thought of the Day at the Tube station, take pictures of Buckingham Palace. Just try not to lose your way.

2) IT'S A HARD DOUBLE LIFE. So, you're trying out this "normal" thing. Pretending to be human, paying the rent, working or studying, having a drink at the pub, etc. You're trying, that's the point. But anyone can slip up...

3) RUN/CHASE. Whether you're hunting humans or other supernatural types, there's always a thrill in the chase. London at night is brimming with life and who knows what lurks out there in the darkest alleyways, the bars and clubs, parks or tube stations. Perhaps you're the one being hunted after all.

4) LIGHT IT UP. (30th April) 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) SLIDING DOORS. (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) ENEMY ENCOUNTER. Bad luck. You've come across a member of an enemy faction or species in a place you wouldn't expect. Maybe you're waiting for the same bus. Maybe they walked into your favourite café. Maybe – horrors – you work in the same office. This is going to be awkward.

7) FULL MOON. (4th May) Uh oh, it's that time of the month. Werewolves, have you been feeling more aggressive lately? A little short of temper? Better start preparing for your monthly transformation and hope that you don't get interrupted. And then there's the morning after, which feels like a massive hangover. Wait, where are your clothes?

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

Comments

[seasaltkeys]

They just showed up one day. It's not like I asked for them.

[It frustrates him more than he cares to admit, and he finds it hard to believe they're anything other than bad right now. But some control would be nice.]

Where do you get the training?

[llywelin]

At school. I attend the Redbright Institute. It's for, well... People with unusual talents. [Lion offers a small smile.] We learn how to use them as well as the world they came from.

[seasaltkeys]

Redbright Institute? I've never heard of it.

[A school for people with powers? Wouldn't someone have said something about it? If it was common enough that they needed a whole school...]

What do you mean? What world?

[llywelin]

Ah, well... the world of the supernatural. It's all very secretive. And I won't blame you for thinking this sounds ridiculous but...

[Well, may as well just get on with it.]

Fairies, witches, vampires, werewolves... all that mythological stuff is actually real. I would have thought it was a bad joke, too, but it really isn't.

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas's face is impassive, almost disbelieving. If he hadn't suddenly developed these powers, then yeah, he would have said it was a bad joke.]

So my powers are magic? None of this seems real.