thetube | 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.

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Mab is, fortunately, patient in some things. Learning about mortals and how their current world operates cannot take up all of her time but she has set aside certain amounts of time to visit now and then. To learn. She shall have to find a mortal who doesn't call the police when she talks to them to really get her into the nitty gritty but Eames clearly is a good start.

The Night Council. Lead by a certain witch if she remembered correctly. She smiled as well, but hers looks more dangerous as her eyes drop from the marquee back to his. "Very true Mister Eames. We play by our rules." And while it wasn't bright to set the humans off, if the Night Council decided to raise a stink, Mab was not against raising one right back. The witches could not hide from frightened humans in the Other Realm if they had made enemies of the fae.

"Kensington." She repeated, letting the name settle in her mind. And then in an apparent non-sequitor she asked, "What, precisely, is a Boogaloo?"

The question completely throws him off and he looks at Mab for a moment like she's suddenly grown an extra head. He's about to ask her to repeat herself when the question processes and he gives her an answer that's less eloquent than he's used to being. "Uh... A type of music, I believe." That's right, isn't it? It's not something he's ever actually had to know. "Why do you ask?"

Something like amusement dances in her eyes for a moment as she catches him completely off guard. "Music?" She turns her head back to the marquee and points to the title of one of the films. Electric Boogaloo is top on the roster likely because E comes before M and the Mad man on the angry road has baffled her just as much as music played with electricity.

"How does one play a boogaloo?" She wondered out loud, it didn't look like she expected him to know. "Did you notice how angry the mortals seem to be?" Furious 7 was also displayed. "Perhaps it is because there are so many of them." A group of people brushed by them as if to emphasize the fact.

He laughs at the question, looking up at the marquee to see which movies are on this week. There's always so many action movies at this time of year, you'd think they'd get bored of that many explosions after a while.

"It's more than that," he says softly, "they love action heroes. Stories of revenge and heroism, people doing the-" Fingerquotes," 'impossible.' For two hours, it means they can forget they'll never be more than they are."

She lets out a huff of breath, not at him but at what he mentions. "Yes, it can be useful though." After all, who doesn't want to become a hero? Her head canted at the air quotes though. She may have seen someone do that sometime but it just looked like an odd tic then. Clearly it was a Thing.

"It is difficult for a human to realize their own insignificance, I imagine." She was quiet for a moment as she considers the people moving in and out of the cinema, and next door there was a small cafe with people seated at the window eating sandwiches.

"Perhaps I should simply visit some human establishments."

Test Drive Meme: April/May 2015

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I'm going to find a tense and stick to it LOL