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thetube2017-08-26 02:27 pm
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Test Drive Meme: August-September 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 potential players: Looking for an OOC space to brainstorm your AU? Head over to our permanent character workshop post to ask for feedback and share ideas.
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) WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE. Welcome to London! It's time to introduce yourself to your faction, to your fellow supernatural citizens, would-be friends, potential enemies... Will people quake with fear or awe when you enter the room? Or are you some nobody trying to make a name for yourself? Either way, gotta start networking.
2) THE RACE IS ON. The competition within your faction is even worse than the competition outside. That guy over there has turned sucking up to your boss into an art form. What about the woman who works out at 5am every morning and can probably punch through a wall? If you want to climb the ladder, you'd better start working harder.
3) THE WRONG DIRECTION. It's a big city and it's easy to get lost. Normally that's not such a big deal, but this time you've taken a wrong turn and ended up in hostile territory. If you're spotted by the wrong person, you could be in for a seriously bad time. Is there anyone around who can help?
4) NEVER LOSE CONTROL. You had one drink... or two... Maybe it's almost the full moon, or maybe there's some magic in the air messing with your hormones, but you're this close to going all out with your fangs or your claws or your magic. You need to get out of here, fast.
5) SWING IT, SHAKE IT. You've got a disco ball, a killer outfit and music so loud you can feel it pumping through the dance floor. Show the humans how it's done.
6) KARAOKE. It's karaoke night in one of London's favourite supernatural bars and that tone-deaf werewolf is hogging the mike again.
7) RUN AROUND. It seemed simple, right? One errand to run, just one. And yet the world seems to be conspiring against you. Your alarm didn't go off, you missed the bus or train, you got caught in traffic, someone spilled their drink on your brand new leather jacket, you tripped over and literally fell headfirst into a dumpster... Oh, God. Could this day get any worse?
8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.
Yasaburo Shimogamo | Uchouten Kazoku | shapeshifter
Yasaburo's used to Kyoto, a sunny city that embraces him like an old friend wherever he chooses to wander. Sure, there are dangers (like the kind that got him sent to cool his heels here in London), but he's always been able to count on his internal compass pointing him home wherever he ends up on his aimless wanderings.
London's not like that. London's foggy. The buildings are tall and block off the sun, which is rapidly fading behind the clouds (with very little visible sunset and hours before it should be setting, by rights). The crows at the Tower remind him of angry tengu. The babbling of the Thames sounds like frantic whispers.
Yasaburo can roll with that, bucks himself up with how campy/famous vintage detective story-esque it makes the whole place seem. He's not afraid of being murdered by a human.
Vampires are a different story, and he's just now remembering that this is their territory. Dare to help a nervously grinning tanuki out? How about when he drops back into his fuzzy, 'natural' form, moving with a quiet pitter-patter under bridges and through alleys? Or would you prefer to try to catch him?
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Other aspects of the London night are more to his liking though. Kyoto always did suffer a bit in the club department. It's 80s night, which means a sparkly vest and leather pants
that would make Draco envious. He dances uninhibitedly, swaying and spinning in time with the beat, loving every bit of attention it gets him. If you're watching him, he'll smile coqquetishely at you.[6]
You know what? The werewolf might have been a bit too howly but Yasaburo puts his drink down and claps anyway. Good on him for giving it a try, he thinks. Things would probably be a lot less tense around here if more people let off steam that way.
Oh, looks like he's up. He downs his drink and jumps up to the stage. The new kid in town proceeds to hit a pitch perfect version of a hit from last night. He's not at all embarrassed about hitting those falsettos.
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She waits until he's off stage and approaches the bar again before she nods appreciatively. "I think Prince himself would be proud."
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"Thanks. You've just gotta not be embarrassed easily." He glances up at the bar specials, then back to Laura. "What's good here that i'll still be able to make rent after drinking a few of?"
That's a little joke. Tanuki don't need houses.
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"Well, pints are always a good bet. I love a good scotch on the rocks."
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"Don't think I can finish this all myself." He says, sliding one over to her. This, he's found, is a good way to make new friends and scope things out.