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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Lusamine || Pokemon || Witch (Daybreak)

[bellebete]

CHRISTMAS DAY

What are the holidays without a little corporate joy, right? The Aether Foundation makes a pretty huge deal about its philanthropic efforts-- 20% from this line to that charity, here's a lofty donation to this school, blah blah blah. For Christmas this year, they've bought out a large venue in the City and are hosting a fancy Christmas dinner; invitation open to all those in London without family or friends they can spend they day with for one reason or another.

For a fee of course, but all the night's profits are being donated to a prominent homelessness charity. And one only need cover the cost of entry, once you're through the door? Everything is free. From the food to the entertainment to the Aether Foundation goodie bags full of 'be good to yourself' style cosmetics and toiletries.

Lusamine herself is stylish as ever, and a gracious host. Gives a speech thanking everyone emphatically, exalting the virtues of friendship during the holidays and hoping tonight's donation really make a dent in London's homelessness epidemic. And during the evening she laughs easily, dances with friends, and makes herself available to anyone who looks uncomfortable or anxious.

Ever the picture of loveliness, that Lusamine.

STRANDED

She doesn't really do standing about on London streets, waiting. But here she is.

Traffic is backed up to hell — bad weather and holidays, what can you do? — which means her driver is delayed by god knows how long. The signal inside the restaurant she's just left is abysmal, or else she'd go back inside, but she can't rightly risk missing a call in this situation.

She paces back and forth over the square half-metre of pavement she's allocated herself, calling her driver every ten minutes for updates. Anyone nearby will hear her getting increasingly annoyed-- "are you sure you can't get here any faster?" "Don't you know any shortcuts?" "Why didn't you plan for this?" et cetera, et cetera.

or CYOA