thetube | Test Drive Meme: April-May 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) STRANGE TOWN. So this is London. You're in the underbelly of the city, the shadow of the Underground where the vampires and the ghosts and other strange creatures come out to play. Still, at least the Tube staff take it all in stride.

2) NO ONE CARES. You're out on the streets and you're in trouble. Maybe you don't have a bed for the night, maybe you're injured and in need of aid, maybe you just missed your train. But that's the thing about big cities: people walk past. They don't listen. They don't help. Will some kind soul take note of your plight?

3) DON'T BE WEIRD. You may not be quite an ordinary human, but that doesn't mean you can't do your shopping or order a coffee, right? No accidental magic, no letting your fangs show or whatever supernatural appendages you've got going on. Just act normal.

4) WEAR THE RIGHT CLOTHES. You're at a fancy event with black ties and finger food. Fund raising for some supernatural cause or other? Better look smart.

5) FIND A FRIENDLY FACE. Go to one of the local supernatural haunts and sit down for a well-earned drink with a friend. You earned it.

6) BURN IT UP. (1st May) The fire festival of Beltane is a time of celebration for witches, marking the beginning of summer. Come along to the bonfire for music, food and drink, flower crowns and fertility rituals.

7) LOOK IN THE MIRROR. (1st May) Beltane is also a time when the barrier between the human world and the Other Realm is at its thinnest, making it easy to pass from one realm to the other by chance. You might even have an encounter with the mysterious and mischievous fae.

8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.

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Annie's fresh off a plane, too. This one from Ireland, bringing her back to London. Her boyfriend needed her close by, and she wasn't going to let him out of her sight, not with the witches trying to trap fae. She couldn't let that happen to Finnick. Not again.

She only notices Johanna out of the corner of her eye as she steps toward the curb, hoping to hail a cab to take her to Finnick's flat. She's a pretty girl, Annie decides immediately, and looks down on her luck. She begins to rustle through her purse when the girl holds up her middle finger.

Annie gasps, and abandons looking through her purse. "I'm- I'm sorry!" She stammers. "I didn't- I just thought- do- uhm- do you... need help?" Like that makes it any better, Cresta, she scolds herself.

"Because a few dollars will change my life." Johanna drawls, half amused and half just exasperated at the ridiculousness of the woman stood in front of her.

"I'm not homeless anyway, if that's what you mean." Her eyes narrow. "Do I look homeless to you?" She knows she does and she doesn't care in the slightest, but it's at least slightly amusing to see this woman squirm.

Before Annie can stop herself, she winces and nods.

"You, ah, don't look that great," she has to admit. "I just, ah, I want to help...?" Somehow it manages to be a question, hardly obscured by her Irish accent.

"So if you want, ah, maybe a sandwich? Something to drink? Cab fair?"

"Yeah, well, it's what cancers do to you." She obviously doesn't mean the illness, but rather Snow and the Games and all the rest of it. She quickly pulls the hood of her jumper up over her bristly hair. She knows she's a mess; she doesn't need the stares to remind her of what she's been through.

She can't help but snort a laugh again. "A bed, a house, some decent fucking clothes." She shakes her head and laughs humourlessly again. What is this woman even doing? Why's she even stopped? She doesn't even know Johanna.

"Are you getting some sort of weird kick out of this?" She asks, after a moment. "What do you want for the food?"

Annie shifts back and fourth. "Uhm- oh...?" She could get her all of them, if she wanted. Her family was wealthy enough that it wouldn't break the bank. And her grandmother had a very nice place with more than enough space for another person.

But she doesn't know Johanna. What if she's a vampire, even? She had no way of knowing.

"No. I just- I like helping people. Don't want anything in return. I just want to help."

"Right." Johanna scoffs. "Course you do." People just aren't that good, or that kind. She heaves herself to her feet, and approaches Annie. Johanna herself might be small and her baggy clothes certainly don't hide how skinny she is, but somehow, she is as menacing as a six foot, well built man. Once face to face with Annie, she looks the girl up and down, before saying, "Boo!"

And then she laughs, high pitched and mean.

Test Drive Meme: April-May 2017

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