Test Drive Meme: February/March 2017

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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) SOMETHING NEW. Welcome to London! Spring is approaching but it's still bloody freezing, the wind is howling (are you sure it's the wind?) and your umbrella isn't much use when the rain is driving into you from the side. Maybe the appeal of a new experience is what brought you here. Does the reality match your expectations?

2) RUN THIS SHOW. You are the host of an event designed to showcase the particular skills and power of your people or faction. It can be small scale or ridiculously lavish, but this is your chance to enter the spotlight and show the supernatural community what you're made of.

3) CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. The police are after you. Maybe you did it, maybe you didn't, but they're on to you and now it's your job to make sure the case goes cold. Don't want to leave a supernatural paper trail.

4) WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. London's many parks are a haven for those who like some greenery in their concrete jungles. Popular and peaceful during the day, at night things are different. When the moon is full or the wind blows from a certain direction, the balance of magic can shift and open up ways into the far wilder woods of the Other Realm. Alternatively... you got really really drunk and passed out in a field.

5) BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK. Let's face it: you have a thousand reasons to be paranoid. Maybe the powers that be have it out for you. A werewolf or vampire wants to eat you. You pissed off a shapeshifter just last week. There's a hunter trying to kill you, a witch trying to control you, a fae that wants to kidnap you, a ghost haunting you. Hell, maybe they really are all out to get you. Are you in real trouble this time... or are you scared of your own shadow?

6) FOLLOW THE LEADER. Take your pick: your boss has ordered you to a) threaten an enemy; b) approach a potential ally who might side with you against a common foe; c) dispose of a dead body; d) deal with a spillage at table four. Good luck.

7) GO GO GO. There's nothing like a morning run. Maybe you're training for the London Marathon in April, maybe it's a good way of working out your hunting instincts, maybe you just like to keep in shape. Wait, did that guy deliberately overtake you? Don't get competitive now.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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[cabins]

Adults do handshakes. Adults like yourself. You may be a young adult, but an adult never-the-less.

"Good to meet you, Ollie. And thank you for your input. I think you may have just created the perfect prize for the talent show." She gives him a warm, motherly smile. "Pick something." She gestures at the wall of relatively foreign candies in front of them. "It's on me." Everyone liked candy, right?

"I'd give you a Get Out of Homework Free pass, but I don't think you're in my first years' English class."

[ghoulaid]

He will never be an adult.

Case in point, he is still easily swayed by offers of candy. After a quick laugh and a comment of, "Pretty sure you wouldn't be actin' half as nice to me if I was in your class anyway," he turns his attention to the spread of colorful options. Hell, if she's offering...

He spots something soon enough. Something terrible. "You ever had a bag of giant shrimps?" Ghoul steps forward and plucks a cute pink bag from the display, looking it over. Apparently they're soft raspberry flavored candies. Shaped like fucking shrimp. "Why?"

[cabins]

Laura's been teaching for long enough to know that sometimes the kids who were the rowdiest were the ones who needed help- being ignored at home, for example. So she's learned patience. "There's one in every class," she says, "but you're not in my class. You're in the same candy aisle as me."

She watches as Ollie looks over the candies- so many strange things here, really, like, wine gummies? do they have alcohol in them? Y'know what, she's going to... grab one of those, anyway. Just out of morbid curiosity.

Laura raises an eyebrow at the shrimp, able to smell the raspberry from here. "I've seen scorpion gummies before. At least they're raspberry."

[ghoulaid]

He steals a glance at the package she picks up, laughing once he realizes what it is. What in the utter hell are wine gummies? Is wine a flavor? Why would someone want a candy that tastes like wine? That's nothing but a matter of getting all the awful taste and none of the buzz as a payoff. Horrible.

Maybe not as horrible as rhubarb-and-custard. That's the newest flavor he's got his eye on, his face scrunched up like he's not sure what to make of it. At the mention of scorpion gummies though, he takes a step back and looks over the whole display again, on the hunt. "No way. Not like, made from scorpions or anything, right?" They must be just scorpion shaped, which is pretty badass on its own.

But he did see little boxes of dried cricket snacks back in the States, so who knows.

[cabins]

It's pretty disappointing to note that there is no alcoholic content, according to the label. Just the flavor.

Laura was having a hard time hiding her disappointment, truth be told.

"Oh, this was forever ago," she waves the idea away. "I'm not even sure where I saw them anymore. But I don't think they were scorpion flavored. But if they weren't, I shudder to think of what else they'd have been made of."

She points at a bar of chocolate that seems to have air holes in it. "What's the point? It's less chocolate, for the same price."