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The Underground Mods ([personal profile] undergroundmods) wrote in [community profile] 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.
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fauxdysseus: (did u mistake me for a funny person)

[personal profile] fauxdysseus 2017-09-16 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Flint had quietly been in the process of acquiring a number of small businesses upon his arrival in London. He'd of course expected some level of competition in this endeavor, but he found himself pitted again and again against the same mystery buyer. Irritating, to say the least.

When diminutive opponent finally makes her entrance on the scene, small and fey and lovely and carrying a world of best forgotten memories around her like an invisible cloak that only he can see, he is struck dumb.

He'd never had the occasion to talk to her directly, but those once closest to him held her in the highest regard. This much he knew. He isn't quite certain why her presence would shock him so, but it does. Not so much her per se, but all she represents, with her delicate creole accent, her small frame, and so much of Nassau in her...

He's taken aback, and he stares at her for a long, quiet moment, bitter memories washing over him at the mere sight of her.

"You're right. We've never been formally introduced, you and I, have we?"
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[personal profile] succoeur 2017-09-30 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
This may be a mistake, but no greater mistake than leaving Flint at her back would have been. The pair of them had been part of a great dance, swept up and whirling in a course of events which they both tried to lead and yet which too often remained well out of their control. It was a dance during which they had many times stepped on one another's toes.

Very well then. If Max is to misstep, she will at least make her stumbles new ones.

There is only a brief pause, a moment where in she looks up at the vampire in all his imposing indignation. Then she squares her shoulders, tilts her head, purses her lips.

"An oversight, I assure you. One which ought to have been corrected long ago. Now it seems may be an opportunity to right that old mistake. And, perhaps, others."
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