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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[instagramfamous]

Charlie turns, expecting to be greeted by either one of her followers or maybe one of the d-level paparazzi that have taken to following her around in recent months. Seeing an older American woman makes her pause. There is something strange about her, though Charlotte can barely believe what it is.

She starts to laugh.

"Oh, it's you, is it? How's the vengeance coming?"

[newlyhuman]

Ah yes, that old question. Anya can't help herself, she makes a face. "Vengeance is on hold. My amulet was smashed." She's not happy about it, it's clear.

"So here I am. 100% human again. Ah- it's Anya now. What do you go by this time?" So many fae, so many names.

[instagramfamous]

Charlie can't help another peal of laughter at that. Oh, this is rich. "You're human. Oh, shit, the fireworks. Here, take a picture with me." Immediately, she flips her phone to selfie mode and gets a rather awkward-looking shot of Anya (she herself looks gorgeous) with the fireworks behind. Perfect. She already knows which hashtags to use.

"But you're human!" she continues, once she's chosen a filter. "That's hilarious. I'm Charlie these days, by the way. What's you username? I can tag you."

[newlyhuman]

Anya hardly has time to register what Charlie is saying before she's posing for a photo. The picture isn't too great, but before she can actually see it, it's gone.

"Yes- I am, some very nasty witch destroyed my amulet, and it's not something to laugh at. You should be pitying me, offering condolences. It's awful being human and- what username? Are you on Snapgram?" She'd heard people talking about it.

[instagramfamous]

"That was Instagram," Charlie points out, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, "but if you want to be on Snapchat I can post it there too." Either she doesn't realize her oversharing on social media is an invasion of the other woman's privacy, or she doesn't care.

"So are you...mortal now? Is that how it works? You're going to get old?"

Tact has really never been her strong suit.

[newlyhuman]

"Yes; I don't have one of those." It was still a bit beyond her. "Should I get one? Is that what all humans do now?" She looks to her phone, wondering where to start. And then she'll have to deal with coming up with a clever username.

But all of that was pushed to the side when Charlie's tact gave Anya's a run for her money.

"Yes- but- but not for a long time. And there are fantastic leaps in the medical world now, I've heard. That make it so you don't have to get old." She dreaded the day she got her first wrinkles, or worse: gray hairs.

[instagramfamous]

Charlie shrugs. "Most of them." At least in her experience, which is far more limited than she herself realizes. Her own little corner of the internet tends to be a bit insular.

She snorts. "You'd better start now." Even with her magic, keeping all this up is a full-time job. "Do you juice? I've heard very good things about juicing."