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Test Drive Meme: December 2016/January 2017



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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Boxing Day

[personal profile] injectablefame 2016-12-27 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Party's bargain shopping, which has mostly equaled window shopping on the kind of budget he's living on right now, but this store had looked interesting enough to stop into. He's looking at some sort of fancy rock when he hears Anya yelling about returns and waits until she's finished to walk up to her.

"Are you the owner or something?"
newlyhuman: (uncomfortable)

[personal profile] newlyhuman 2016-12-27 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Was she the- Anya almost wants to laugh. "No, but he has bills to pay and would agree with my new policy." Goodness, she hopes so. Or, would, if forethought was something she gave much... well, thought to.

"May I help you?"
injectablefame: (lets me live my life like this2)

[personal profile] injectablefame 2016-12-27 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
He really can't imagine being so invested as an employee, but then he's chosen busking over getting a real job for just that reason. Caring about some hourly job just isn't in him.

"Yeah. What is this?" He holds up the thing that he's still pretty sure is just a rock.
newlyhuman: (well done. humaning is hard.)

[personal profile] newlyhuman 2016-12-27 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't in Anya, either, at first. Vengeance had been in her. Then that damn witch had gone and destroyed her amulet, and now she was stuck as human once more. It really sucked. But she was good at capitalism, so here she was.

"That's smokey quartz," Anya explains without a second thought. "It helps ward off negative energy."
injectablefame: (The amount of pills I'm taking)

[personal profile] injectablefame 2016-12-28 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Party makes a sort of uninterested sound and puts it down. Negative energy isn't really an issue for him. If anything, he kind of revels in it.

"You got anything that's good for energizing and focusing yourself? Like a Ritalin rock?" He raises an eyebrow. Growing up with only tangential knowledge of the supernatural world has left him still a little unsure as to what is and isn't realistic, but he can't learn if he doesn't ask.
newlyhuman: (well done. humaning is hard.)

[personal profile] newlyhuman 2016-12-29 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes." Anya reaches for two smaller stones and holds them out. "Amethyst," she points to the purple one. "And tiger's eye. There are no Ritalin rocks. Just cocaine rocks. But we don't sell that here, so don't think that we do, mister."

Look at her, so helpful.
injectablefame: (The amount of pills I'm taking)

[personal profile] injectablefame 2017-01-01 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
He smirks. "Couldn't handle your mark-up if you did, but I like the tiger's eye."

Some of this new age stuff seems like complete bullshit to Party, but a small rock is the sort of thing he doesn't mind taking a chance on. Worst case scenario is he's got a useless, pretty rock on his bedside table.
newlyhuman: (well done. humaning is hard.)

[personal profile] newlyhuman 2017-01-01 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Anya blinks, then after almost too long, laughs. "You're funny! I like you." But that doesn't mean you're going to get a discount. No discounts. Or any more returns.

"Here- we have many different sizes," she says, picking up a piece of amethyst the size of a mouse.
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