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Welcome to the Undying Court Test Drive Meme! This post will allow players to test drive their AU characters in the setting, as well as meet fresh faces or even connect with those they have preexisting CR with. As with anything involved in the setting, this post will likely contain: violence, enthrallment, torture, and sexual content.

Regarding continuity, all TDM threads can be taken as in-game canon if desired. Please keep in mind that the game proper will begin in mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as. This means that students planning to app as first season novices will be visiting Castle Courtsheart prior to their Beginning. In other words, if you plan to app a student as a second season, the TDM will take place during their first, and so on.

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Ace Attorney - Apollo Justice (Student)
Alice in the Country of Hearts - Alice Liddell (Student)
Attack On Titan - Erwin Smith (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Halsin (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Raphael (Teacher)
Batman - Bruce Wayne (Teacher)
Bridgerton (Netflix) - Anthony Bridgerton (Student)
Castlevania - Soma Cruz (Student)
Castlevania: Nocturne - Maria Renard (Student)
Cosmo Warrior Zero - Harlock (Student)
Critical Role - Percy DeRolo (Teacher)
Daria - Daria Morgendorffer (Teacher)
Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha XIV (Student)
Dragon Age - Fenris (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Edgin Darvis (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Xenk Yendar (Teacher)
Ensemble STars!! - Mayoi Ayase (Student)
Fate/Zero - Kariya Matou (Kariya Makiri) (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Hilda Goneril (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Marianne von Edmund (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Sylvain Gautier (Student)
Final Fantasy XIV - Estinien Varlineau (Teacher)
Frozen - Prince Hans (Student)
Genshin Impact - Diluc Ragnvindr (Teacher)
Genshin Impact - Tighnari (Teacher)
Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name - Conrad Achenleck (Teacher)
Hannibal (NBC) - Will Graham (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Gojo Satoru (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Toji Zen'in (Teacher)
Lucifer (Netflix) - Lucifer Morningstar (Teacher)
MCU - Loki Laufeyson (Teacher)
Original - Aurinn Laurentius (Student)
Original - Bellatrix Bakhar (Student)
Original - Christine Delacroix (Teacher)
Original - Hanako 'Rosalina' Nurumi (Teacher)
Original - Jisu (Eden Woods) (Student)
Original - Karma D'Auvergn (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Edward Teach (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Izzy Hands (Student)
Persona 3 Portable - Kotone Shiomi (Student)
Persona 5 R - Goro Akechi (Student)
Persona 5 - Haru Okumura (Student)
Persona 5 - Ren Amamiya (Student)
Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet (Student)
Return to Labrynth - Sarah Williams (Teacher)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Snow White (Student)
Stargate: Atlantis - John Sheppard (Teacher)
Star Trek: AOS - James T. Kirk (Student)
Star Wars - Darth Vader (Teacher)
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Trilla Suduri (Student)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Kravitz (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Lydia (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Graduation - Fitzroy Maplecourt (Student)

NEW ARRIVALS

New arrivals will be starting their first season in the winter, but they're welcomed to the castle early, under the watchful eyes of the Silver Court. Upon arrival, they will be shown to a room by a human whose eyes glow softly from within, with vacant smiles. Thralls. There, the human thralls will draw them a bath and bring them new clothes to wear to their first meeting. These are rich, expensive things made of high quality fabric. Whether it's a silk dress and a heavy velvet cowl, or a fine pants and a vest made from a brocade, the servants will provide. The new initiate's old clothes will be burned after, in a symbol of the life they are leaving behind. If they are hungry, they will be provided food. If they need anything at all, they need only ask their new servants.

Later that night they are taken to a grand hall, with high arched ceilings and candles burning in chandeliers. There are figures painted overhead, beautiful and entwined. Some have their eyes are colored to match the courts, others are gracefully placed in their death, with blood dripping from necks and wrists.

Balconies line the hall behind a forest of pillars, and vampires all watch as the group walk through (some more hungrily than others).

"Welcome to your first undying season, initiates," a pale, silver-haired vampire calls. They have silver eyes are clad in silver robes, but command the attention of everyone in attendance. They have a beauty that seems neither male nor female. They are standing at the center of a wide semi-circle of other vampires, "As the Silver Court's acting voice at this end of the Autumn season, allow me to introduce you to the Houses that will be your new homes."

The vampire, Revar, gives the newcomers an overview of all of the courts—Blue, Red, Gold, Silver, and Black—and then invites those already claimed by their Courts to join the vampires who will be their Makers.

Revar offers the Foundlings who are left a gentle, knowing smile, and then allows them to be chosen. They are like the last sheep left at the auction, and the vampires who take them may not be the enthused about it. Nevertheless, Revar waits patiently until all have found a maker.

Now that they are paired up it is expected—indeed, required—that the initiate drink from their maker. That is their Beginning. Only once they have truly begun can they can be considered novices.

AUTUMN NOX

Silver Court is in season and for the Autumn Nox it holds a large symposium, inviting all the best vampire minds from around lands nearby and far. The whole castle is abuzz with new activity. The stables are packed full of horses, carriages litter the grounds, but somehow the castle has enough rooms to house all the new arrivals.

Novices will find that some of these vampires have not seen a human-novice in a very, very long time. These vampires might see the human-novices more like specimens, curious about their every move. They won't bite, but novices may find themselves observed as they wander the castle and its grounds.

The symposium itself is open to anyone at the castle. Scholars can present on any topic at all. Novices will find that these range from the incredibly mundane (you've always wanted to attend a history of bottom-feeding river fish, haven't you?) to the truly fascinating (new insights into how vampire hearts work) to the downright strange (the symposium has a range of lectures very close to dawn about the sharing of vampire...fluids). Seasoned novices with their own Autumn classes to attend are expected to keep up with their studies, but some teachers may let them out of a session to attend the lectures and workshops of the symposium.

The Silver Court vampires are incredibly busy between running the symposium and trying to help the new novices get settled in. They may need some volunteers to lend a hand with setting up rooms or helping scholars find their way around. In fact, volunteers might find themselves leading scholars down to the second kitchen for a bite to eat, a strong reminder that even these demure learners are still monsters who must drink blood.

PUMPKINS-GONE-WILD

The symposium isn't all that the autumn season brings. The Silver Court’s talents are on display in other ways—sometimes not in ways another had particularly hoped. An overly zealous youngblood in the Silver Court tried to grow a few extra pumpkins for the occasion and ended up with a few too many! The pumpkin vines break out of the green house and start sprouting pumpkins everywhere. These are no ordinary pumpkins, they will sprout and grow and become fully formed in the course of a night. Better keep an eye out for those vines or else your room might become full of pumpkins! Luckily, the pumpkins aren’t rotting any time soon (they’ll last until winter, or so the Silver Court vampires are saying), but it can be pretty inconvenient for them to grow everywhere. Start cutting those vines to pieces, and hope they don’t try to entangle you in the process.

LIBRARY CLEAN-UP

Meanwhile, with all the scholars in town are making a mess of the library, much to the Silver Court vampire’s dismay. Books are being checked out and not checked back in, passed around from scholar to scholar. You might find those lost books just about anywhere. Who was reading in a tree? Anyone who collects the books and returns them to the library is sure to get a little bit of favor with the librarians, and it’s never a bad thing to have a bit of an in with a Court. If you’re worried about failing Silver Court, it’s time to get searching! Although how you’re going to convince a 300 year old vampire that time is not fake and that deadlines are real (and in fact were two days ago) is anyone’s guess.

UNETHICAL EXPRIMENTS

[CW: Torture, experiments]

Those who venture towards the basement might hear something a little different than normal. The thralls who spend their time down there are normally quiet, commanded to keep silent and pleasant for the vampires they serve. But with the arrival of the new scholars comes disquieting, inhuman screams from the darker reaches of the basement. Novices trying to catch a glimpse will be chased away, but teachers might be invited to watch as these vampires experiment on one another, all in the name of science. What’s a little torture, when you’re undying?

Thanks for joining us for our first TDM! For any questions regarding the TDM prompts, please comment in the thread below. For general game questions, please check the FAQ/Game Info. Remember that the game proper will begin mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as.

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He shakes some roots from where they cling to him now that they are cut. She was cute, so he gives her another muttered thank you before she continues.

"We might have to get to the root of the problem," he grins at his own awful pun but nods and gestures for her to go first, following after her. "Whatever Silver thought it would be smart to take the school over with pumpkins will be thinking twice about that again next year." Or he hopes so.

[ He continues to sit there casually, as though he belongs there, one leg crossing over the other as he observes the quiet busyness of the rest of the library. She can pretend to have been hard at work all she likes, he knows she hasn’t been.

But some people weren’t made for plain labor. Simple as that. ]

Precisely. Overcrowding the incident would only fluster the Silver Court further. Nobody wants that.

[ He turns to look at her again finally, arching a brow. ]

Though there are better places to catch a nap as well, I would argue.

[It wasn't really meant as a joke, but she does laugh a little when he says she could have. Yes, they have vampire strength, but she was still a twig of a creature and she knows it. So while maybe she was teasing him, she also is truly grateful for his help. She would hate to make multiple trips.

Walking beside him in the hall, she holds the other two books to her chest protectively. Clearly she cares for these books.]

And I am grateful for the help, sincerely. [She gives him a beaming smile as she matches his pace easily, her heels clicking harshly on the stone.]

No, gave a lecture to the scholars about the importance of certain plants to the vampire salivary gland, so that we might produce more saliva for times of emergency. Most brought books to argue points, but then left them instead of returning them to the library.

[She huffs irritatedly, but then takes a breath and smiles again]

I'll be giving another lecture on the herbs and foods best given to thralls for their health and general upkeep, with an emphasis on the importance of feeding them liver, peas, and lentils. [A pause.]

[He did such a good job getting that blush under control just to lose all control again. Founders, he was a cute one. Toying with him was proving to be really fun. She has to cover her mouth from laughing outright, because it's too much even for her, but she keeps it to a melodious chuckle.

Especially at his next question. Was he considering it? Oh that was delightful.

Leaning in very close to him - she was likely shorter since she was still sitting on the desk, even with her willowy height - she lowers her voice to something sultry only he can hear.]

What the council doesn't know, doesn't hurt them, now does it?

[Plus she had her connections. Really, it was no problem at all.]

[ Being diligent, the second season student had been returning book as she was done with them, then returning to the others back at whatever table she had designated for studying at the time. ~~Just what you'd expect from a Silver.~~ She'd been looking into books to help with her gold court classes, but the last one that was on the table was to help out with her seduction classes.

Eden's trouble with seduction classes was that she was direct and had plenty of interest in people, but was more caught in thinking about how attractive there were (and there were some really attractive students ~~and teachers~~ she's seen, and appreciating it. There was the logic of seduction skills being for hunts, but the teenager was really bad at manipulation abilities. Not incapable, but it was so out of her nature.

Which is why there's a subtle flush when Raphael had snapped the book closed, though the rest of Eden's expression had more dismay of the book being taken. She wasn't all that embarrassed by the subject being studied. Just the fact that she needed help at all. ]

You don't know that. I just need a bit of help on the particulars...

[ Which is why Eden was reaching to get the book back. Even if, given her height, it was going to be easy to keep it out of reach. ]

It's not like experience or being on the other end of it helps.

Keep asking questions like you have been, and it won't be long before you know everything you need to and more.

[The statement is meant to be encouragement, although he quickly follows it up with a warning.]

But be careful who you ask, and consider whether or not the person has a reason to lie to you.

[Diluc watches her carefully. She's a skilled sweet-talker, but he doesn't miss the brief tell she gives that he's thrown her off somehow. He's well-trained in catching those kinds of signals by now.]

I'm originally from the Gold Court lands myself. The familiarity of the family name caught my attention when you arrived.

[He had intended to use her family's reputation to chide her, but suddenly he's much more interested in following the way she shifts the conversation.]

Now that you mention it, there was another Goneril who came here relatively recently. I assume they're one and the same?

What would be the main reasons a teacher would lie?

[ There's a lot that she'd look for answers from a teacher before a fellow student, that's for sure. Eden wonders if it was just a warning in general, in case she asked literally anyone. This didn't seem like a gambling situation where lies and bluffs were encouraged. ]

I thought everyone would want the incoming students to have a chance to do well.

I mean in general. Vampires are largely a dishonest lot, and part of thriving as one requires being able to discern between honesty and lies.

[Including him, at times, although he sees no reason not to be straightforward with this foundling girl.

Her latter question gets something of a bitter chuckle out of him.]

One would think, given that incoming students are vital to the survival of our kind. But there are those who would serve themselves first and foremost, even to the detriment of the rest of us.

[Diluc empathizes with the momentary show of sadness. As someone from the Black Court, he's has seen firsthand what the increase in interest in those classes has wrought. Cleaning up the remains of what was once a novice is something that he's had to come to accept, even if it's a part of his classes that he doesn't particularly enjoy.

He buries it down, same as he does with most feelings. He's a hunter and an enforcer. Emotions are not something he has the luxury of expressing. Honestly, his life would be much easier if he stopped experiencing them at all...]

I've been struggling to make sense of it myself. There are variables we're unaware of, I'm sure.

[ It's starting to dawn on Eden that she may be coming across as someone that believes literally everything. Sure, she may be ready to ask anyone, but the towns she lived near weren't exactly the most honest. It has her huff out a tiny laugh. ]

I'm not sure if you're talking about any teacher in particular, or if this is a general warning as it's happened before. I'll try to make sure that when I ask a question, even they would see no reason to not be straightforward.

[ In the case of black court vampires, she could assume it's an attempt to dissuade her from them due to how dangerous their duties sounded. She'll figure it out one way or another. ]

[Diluc returns the smile with a glare.]

I don't get off on my job, Edward.

[He does violence because it's an important duty!!!!!!]

[Diluc sighs softly into Tighnari's lips, opening himself to be explored inside and out. When he feels the point of his fangs, part of him wishes that the other would bite down and drink deeply so that Diluc could do the same. It's not the first time such a thought passes through his head, and he knows it won't be the last.

But establishing a blood claim like that is out of the question. Diluc has no inclination of inflicting his inner world on anyone, especially someone he cares about like Tighnari. So he lets the thought go as quickly as it came to him, instead focusing on the heat building between them.

Once the buttons are all undone, he pulls Tighnari's shirt down his shoulders and off of him, tossing the garment aside before he starts tracing a line up his spine with a gloved hand.]

[ It's a life sized painting, there's room for all sorts of sinister secrets. There's a little bit of discoloration around the edge, as if it has been moved before and wasn't put back into place the same way. ]

Just a century? In a century, they'll still be able to ask me in person.

[He bumps her back casually, with a huff of amusement.]

Next time all when all these pumpkins aren't in the way, I'll totally win.

[But he says it as if it's a joke at himself, he doesn't seem to mind making fun of himself in a way. Sure, it's probably true, but he's not really minding poking fun at himself, especially if it gets a pretty girl to laugh.

He whistles, impressed.]

You taking Black Court classes too? Yeah, I suppose so.

[In honestly, even the most skilled people can die shadowstepping wrong, so he's not actually gonna use it casually like that, since he's not really got a death wish, but he's not about to say that to her. She might take it as him trying to protect her and honestly, she can handle herself, she's shown that much to be true.]

Not at all... I used to scrape by on whatever I could find, now I can have as much of whatever I want.. feels like some kind of surreal dream most days.

I'm taking as many classes in different courts as I can. Did last season as well. I take the silver classes that I can go easy in, so it's not too much of a load.

[ Taking it last season was probably the only way she'd be allowed to go to a black court class this one, but she liked trying for variety. ~~Unsurprisingly, she did not excel in gold court classes.~~ ]

It feels exactly that way. Aside from exactly what we needed to survive, the rest of what I hunted and foraged would go to being sold. A lot of things could be used as medical ingredients or supplies and my grandmother was the only one that was significantly skilled for a couple of towns, so we needed to keep a lot of reserve for those times.

[ Yet those were still fond times. Probably because she missed that grannie. ]

[ Sylvain just jabs a finger down into the encroaching darkness lurking at the bottom of the stairwell. ]

Can you really not do anything to stop whatever is happening down there? Can you really just walk away and let it keep happening?

[ From the incredulous anger in his tone, it's pretty clear that Sylvain is pretty sure that's a 'no' from him.

He likes living just as much as anyone. But he'd assume that so does whoever that is. Unless they're not living but even then... ]

[Conrad isn't normally a very smiley guy, even though he will insist he smiles plenty, but with someone smiling at him like that it is a little contagious. The corners of his lips twitch a bit, at the very least. He'll just let her guide him to the library since he's a little busy keeping the big stack of books from lilting too much one way or the other as he carries them.]

Emergency... salavia? [What? He can't help but give her a bit of a questioning look, then.]

Wait. Liver and lentils? That's what the thralls should eat? Aren't their lives hard enough as it is? [Serving vampires night to day... The only reason Conrad is a vampire himself is because he needed to escape that miserable existence.] I mean, it sounds like an interesting topic, sure. You'd think most of us could remember what it was like to tuck into a decent meal, though.

[ Please. Every vampire is a potential threat when you're still a human, Gold Court or not. You just might be more of a threat, because he doesn't know what to expect from you.

But after another moment of eyeing Diluc warily, he gives a reluctant nod, letting his eyes flit back down to the combat class happening below. ]

Yeah. A little. I mean, I've had some training since I was little. My father thought it would be important preparation for coming here one day. Although I think the Gold Court might frown on that, in general.

...Your name is actually Teach?

[ That's... ironic. Or just very unimaginative. It was hard to tell with vampires.

He eyes the tower of books with a speculative look, head cocked slightly to the side as he considers his options here. The vampire had a definite advantage here, with his reflexes, but in theory, it didn't sound too difficult. Not until things get too wobbly, anyway. ]

Fine. But only if I don't have to clean all these up and tote them back when you're done.

[ He shoots the vampire a hint of a cheeky grin, even if trying to negotiate with vampires was a stupid idea. He was going to try it anyway.

He settles down across the stack of books and eyes it, trying to figure out the best place to start. Top, bottom, or middle? Hmm. ]

Who goes first?

[ He doesn't answer right away, giving a very pointed and deliberate glance around them instead. Trying to see if anyone was within vampire-hearing distance.

Not that that often mattered when dealing with the Gold Court, but it was habit. ]

Mmmm, there's a lot more differences than the vampire courts than I realized. They never really prepared us for that back home, huh. Do you like where you are now better than if you'd ended up in the Gold Court still?

[ A benign question, but there's a burning curiosity beneath it. ]

[ He's quick to hold up his hands in surrender, taking a step back when she fixes him with a cold black stare. ]

I didn't mean any offense. It's just... The silver vampire in the library is on a tear over books that are missing or out of place and he's decided to send whatever novices and humans within hearing distance to round them all up. Or else.

[ He hadn't bothered asking what the 'or else' entailed. He didn't think he wanted to know. ]

It's only normal, yes, and exactly what she's expecting. This isn't who she's expecting though, she admits, and tries not to let any disappointment show. After all, this can still be a lesson. ... Of sorts. Maybe! Probably! Look, don't worry about it. "Well, I admit this isn't my best performance. I didn't have the proper time to prepare!" she laments, giving an exaggerated sigh.

The sight of the knife is exciting though despite herself. While the woman knows it's only going to be used for its proper purpose (boring), she can still appreciate the device. She does note too that June seems to be doing her best to not pay attention to where her hands are finding themselves along Rosie's body. Cute.

"Oh, no need," she says though, giving a dismissive sort of wiggle as she's freed from the vines. "There's so many around, I don't doubt I'll have the opportunity again. Even if I might need a new pair of tights for the proper aesthetic..." It's fine, she has a 'clothes ruined for sexy purposes' fund. Of course, she does! "Though the ripped look would be fun to walk around in for a while, don't you think? Make people wonder."

She'd be touched to know he liked her. Not that she doubted he did, of course, because she's a little self-centered like that. Still, the reassurance is always nice! While she hasn't yet cracked the code of mycological seduction skills, she'll figure it out... eventually. Some day!

"Aw, thanks," she says, giving a little wiggle stretch as she gets free use of her limbs back. "It's not like I can't set the scene again with how these things are everywhere it seems. And, of course, all these cute new novices around."

Much better. You should smile more often.

[She can't help but tease him a little though and gestures down at herself.]

And look, not even the slightest bit of perishing.

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