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Test Drive Meme: February/March 2017



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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[personal profile] morevacant 2017-03-05 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, that's alright then!" Lydia grins. "You're better off than me, though. I swear my father thinks I'm a nun or something."

She takes a sip of her wine. "Not any more though. What dearest daddy can't see, his heart won't worry after." Lydia has very little plans of actually studying now she's reached London and freedom. As far as she's concerned, it's party time.

"So what do you do for fun? When you're not hooking up with your Cooper then?"
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[personal profile] stauncherhearted 2017-03-06 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Nancy beams at her, "Pity my father always thought the opposite." Fagin had been the one to toss her on the streets in the first place. It was only recently she'd managed to get herself a legitimate job, and she was proud of her job. Even if it was technically under the table.

She raises her glass at Lydia's declaration. "That's the way to do it, then." That's how she felt about most things. What people didn't know wouldn't hurt them. It was the difference between lying and never giving the information in the first place.

"Well, I work at a repair shop in Richmond," she says, "I'm in charge of inventory. Other than that, it's a lot of spending time with my brothers and friends. I've got a lot more free-time than I'm used to, right now. I need to get out running more, as well. But what about you? Other than accidentally shoplift."
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