Test Drive Meme: December 2016/January 2017

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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 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) STAY ANOTHER DAY. Maybe it's just for the holidays, but if you've come to London to reconnect with friends and family, now is the time to make the most of it. And it turns out, someone is pretty keen for you to stick around. Your loved ones? Or perhaps you've been noticed by one of London's supernatural factions. Don't go just yet, friend. The city may need you.

2) CHRISTMAS DAY / BOXING DAY. (25th-26th December) Whatever you think of Christmas, it's everywhere in London. Christmas songs on the radio, Christmas lights in the streets, carol singers, and presents under the tree. Of course, in the supernatural world, the presents may just have a magical twist. What's that strange little gift from an unknown sender...?

3) NEW YEAR'S EVE FIREWORKS. (31st December) The New Year's Eve fireworks display is always spectacular. Count down to midnight with Big Ben, then watch the spectacle along with the crowds. Or you could stay at home and watch it on TV.

4) STRANDED. Your flight got cancelled. A storm delayed your train home. The hotel made a mistake with your booking and now you have nowhere to stay. Whatever the reason, you're stuck in London with nowhere to go and it is cold. Depending on where you've ended up, it might be dangerous as well. Are your kind welcome here?

5) DRINK YOUR SORROWS AWAY. Look, it's winter, it's dark, not everyone is having a good time. Might as well buy a drink... and another... and another...

6) NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION. Goodbye 2016, hello 2017. New year, new you. You've decided to make a change, maybe for yourself, maybe for the entire supernatural community. How are you getting on?

7) CALL A TRUCE. The holidays are a time of peace. Maybe just this once you can have a drink with an enemy and put aside any bad blood.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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[newlyhuman]

Anya hardly notices anyone else, but the woman in front of the counter has clearly had enough. She turns to the public and starts lambasting the customer service.

"Listen, lady," she says, every bit the rude American everyone thinks of, "you don't like the rules? You can get out. Please leave." She makes a shooing gesture. "Now."

[reticence]

Faolan sees the situation progressing even further if someone doesn't stop the pair of them from conversing with each other, and so it is that he makes his way over to the counter where the two are bickering, gently guiding himself towards the counter and in between them, ostensibly because he needs staff help and she seems to be the only one around.

"Excuse me," he butts in gently. "I had a question, if you have a moment?" Intending to guide her away from the counter herself, before the confrontation starts to come to blows.

[newlyhuman]

Oh look, a distraction! Anya merrily welcomes it, turning towards the person that is probably looking to give her money rather than take it. A potential customer.

"Yes, I do." She gives a pointed look at her customer and steps out from around the counter before putting on her best Retail Smile. "Hello and welcome to the Magic Box, how may I help you spend your money?"

[reticence]

Faolan raises his eyebrows at her and her continued peculiar way of speaking, before gesturing her off to a quieter corner of the store. Waiting for her to follow him before he starts picking through the ware there on the pretense of looking for something while he quietly speaks up to start a conversation instead.

"I was half worried you were going to wind up with an incident on your hands back there," he comments, idly. "People don't usually take well to being treated in quite such a way you know..."

[newlyhuman]

Anya hovers at his elbow, watching him as he looks. One of her jobs was to make sure that no one bought a bunch of items that could be used in any sort of awful, dangerous, possibly (probably) illegal manner. That had happened before, and the results had been disastrous.

So far, Faolan was in the clear.

"In what way?" Anya challenges. "I'm tired of doing returns. They should respect that."

[reticence]

Faolan raises his eyebrows in response to her words and her bluntness, but he's not really the sort of man to continue pointing out social niceties, so he lets the comment slide. He picks through some of the items in front of him for a moment before turning back to the odd woman, a question on his mind.

"Tell me about this shop," he requests. "I'm not sure that I've ever noticed it before, if I'm being honest." Maybe he's just never walked by this way before. Or maybe he's just not been very observant.

[newlyhuman]

"It's called the Magic Box," Anya explains. She hated when people tried to explain how people were to her. She'd only been observing them for thousands of years. Except, well, observing as a vengeance demon was so much different than living amongst them as a human.

"It's new. I work here. We sell magical items." she knew better than to broadcast their magical little subculture to the world, especially as a human. Plus, she didn't know what Faolan was, or anything. Better not risk it.

"What else is there to know?"