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undyingmods ([personal profile] undyingmods) wrote in [community profile] undyingcourt2023-11-30 12:01 pm

Test Drive Meme - New Blood

DEC TEST DRIVE MEME
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.

Feel free to brush up on the Premise, Vampire Powers, and head over to the FAQ/Game Info page if you have any questions!

  • Make sure you are aware of the Rules when posting your top-level. (Content warnings are always welcome!)
  • Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
  • As a reminder, a Test Drive sample is required in order to app.
  • If you have any questions specific to the TDM, ask them in the Questions thread below!




Top-Level Directory:Chat with NPC: Revar
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 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.

enchantibiotic: (earth)

[personal profile] enchantibiotic 2023-12-02 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
We certainly aren't stopping you. Besides, we're collectors; we're not saying what's in this book is the way to do things.

[ But it should be available all the same. Gathering knowledge is about having it all available; not dictating what knowledge is and isn't available. ]
bleakdecember: (checkmate)

[personal profile] bleakdecember 2023-12-02 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good, you catch on quickly. You just might survive.

[Maybe he's just trying to scare him. Something about this foundling makes him want to dig his claws in and twist. How funny.]

Do you remember what we do?
unshod: (tumblr_por1gsfyJC1r05wk4o3_1280 by paexi)

[personal profile] unshod 2023-12-02 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Fenris raises an eyebrow at her, something curious. She was definitely soft if she thought vampires shouldn't bother thralls with little things. With that line of thinking she was going to have a hard time here since everything was made by and done by thralls.

Not that he disagreed with her but he keeps that very much to himself.
]

And I am Fenris. I take it you are one of the novices starting in the coming winter season?

[A lot of new novices just arrived, he would be more shocked if she wasn't one of them by how she speaks of thralls and complains to a Black Court Vampire. Perhaps she doesn't know better.]
flagofbone: (A pirate's gaze to the horizon)

[personal profile] flagofbone 2023-12-02 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
He leans against the wall, not caring if he gets his clothes wrinkled, arms folding across his chest. "It's not right," he mutters to himself as he felt the gaze on them, bristling.

"I imagine if there were some other way, they would make damn sure no one knows about it."
coolcustomer: (Default)

[personal profile] coolcustomer 2023-12-02 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Much better. And then they can deal with the shitty parents later.

"That's fair. It's a lot to take in, and you have a while to decide regardless."
bleakdecember: (unhinged)

[personal profile] bleakdecember 2023-12-02 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Hah. Shouldn't have said anything. He's always less careful about his words when he gives up the facade. Oh well.

He picks up the sword quickly, testing its weight for a second. He doubts he's walking away from this unscathed, and it'll give him a disadvantage if he's already injured when class starts.

But he just smiles, toothy and a little wild.]
I guess a warmup couldn't hurt.

[He falls into a battle stance, but he'll let his teacher make the first move.]
bleakdecember: (smile mask)

[personal profile] bleakdecember 2023-12-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Did you escape attending that lecture? Lucky of you.

[He just smiles.]

Maybe you should pay more attention the the happenings of the Castle.
prizedstallion: (How am I not surprised? (Amused))

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Kirk just grins and shakes his head. Because okay that was a step too far in ridiculousness for him. Surely this man didn't actually believe it. And if he did, then why was he just standing there instead of trying to help with the pumpkin problem?

At least this part of the hallway with his room was spared anymore gourds.
]

Maybe then you should help with their eradication before they can rise up?

[He picks up an armful of cut up vines and presses it into the other man's arms.] Here, we can start by clearing the hallway.
coolcustomer: (Default)

[personal profile] coolcustomer 2023-12-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm very sure about that, Goro. [He's one of the best friends she has here. The only one, so far, she feels like opening up to about her father.

Somehow, she thinks he'd understand.]
captains_hands: (8)

[personal profile] captains_hands 2023-12-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I was doing much more important things. More things than you can learn in a lecture.

[he'll tap the back of the boy's neck with a finger if he can]

Or is this avoidance a fancy way of telling me you don't know.
playing_hearts: (curiosity)

[personal profile] playing_hearts 2023-12-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Is it that obvious? Yes, I'm one of the ones who picked the lucky feather out of the bag.

[Her tone suggests that she doesn't consider herself all that lucky. And no, she doesn't know better but even if she did she'd probably still run her mouth. It's a bad habit.]

I'm still kind of getting used to things around here. Are you a student too?
maplecourt: (pic#14110385)

[personal profile] maplecourt 2023-12-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course he doesn't, but this is also a weird vampire school, so who knows what the actual capabilities of this place are. It's not like he'd really know any different.]

Oh, I for one welcome our new gourd overlords if they rise up. [Okay, his tone is very clear that he doesn't mean a single word of what he's saying at this point. But he does manage a grin in return, not complaining about the arms full of vines.]

I guess I could help with that, sure.
schrodingers_joker: (neutral)

[personal profile] schrodingers_joker 2023-12-02 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Too bad for Akechi, Ren doesn't scare easily. Hell, there's a part of him that wants to challenge him but he isn't sure why.]

Something about to do with shadows and hunting. And how there's not a lot known about them.

[Again, he wasn't fully listening at the time, but he got the gist of it.]
disdelusioned: (005)

autumn nox

[personal profile] disdelusioned 2023-12-02 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[After one such talk, once the novices and vampires who linger with questions have fully dispersed, a familiar voice rings out from the shadows nearby.]

It's a wonder you haven't run into the woods to hide for a few days.

[Was he there during the talk? Who can say.

Either way, he's currently leaning against the wall, body language more casual and less guarded than it is around most--although by no means fully relaxed. He's long forgotten how to do that.]


What whirlwind does the House of Autumn Twilight intend to throw you at next?
schrodingers_joker: (suspicious)

[personal profile] schrodingers_joker 2023-12-02 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything."

Even with the limited knowledge he has. It wasn't something he could completely avoid.
unshod: (46)

[personal profile] unshod 2023-12-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Fenris takes his sword and leans it up against the weapon rack. Akechi was a younger student, early in his seasons, so he had no concern for either of their wellbeing in this moment and it showed. No, all Fenris does it take out a dagger he has strapped to his thigh, giving him the range disadvantage.

He flips it a couple times, before holding it blade out and at his side, walking casually into position.
]

Tighten your stance, I could disable you right now with a thrown dagger alone.

[He doesn't give him the time to do so before he's moving in with a blink, dagger raised as he closes the distance with impressive speed, not even bothering with shadowstepping or mistwalking.]
coolcustomer: (Default)

[personal profile] coolcustomer 2023-12-02 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Is anything in particular on your mind? I don't know much, but I can try to help."
unghosting: (So many questions)

[personal profile] unghosting 2023-12-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[The vulnerable, almost frightened look he shoots her way, like an animal backed into a corner, would imply a yes. But it isn't quite the cloak itself, exactly. It wasn't given to him by a certain loved one or anything like that. It kept him warm enough during his nights on the streets, but it's not as though he wants a reminder of having nothing to live for anymore but the notion that those who wronged his family would end at his hand. Never prone to speaking his feelings, Kevin fidgets, struggling to articulate the real problem.]

...that old life, it was taken from me. Before the vampires. To burn this last thing left --

[He's already had everything he once treasured ripped out of his hands. That they would so casually take away the last tangible thing in his possession from that time and give it a violent end, it's hitting too close to home.]
serpendipity: (F1)

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[personal profile] serpendipity 2023-12-02 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ She had only just finished rescuing someone's ankles from a rogue set of vines when the new orders came from the nearby lounge chair. Straightening up, the second season student wiped her forehead with the back of the same hand that was holding the dagger she'd been using. One with a snake head embossed in the pommel.

It seems she's got enough situational awareness to move without being tripped up by the creeping vines.]


I'm fine with that, actually. It's the ones causing traffic issues that I'm catching as I go.

[ Which, if it were possible for this to propagate from cuttings, she genuinely must be fine with the rampant growth. Especially as she throws the cuttings she'd collected far off from the path and into other pushes. ]

We should at least get to see how big they get, right? Just so that the one who's project this was can have full results. They were so eager about seed conditioning and improving soils...
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[personal profile] veardant 2023-12-02 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
There are too many people in attendance for Tighnari to see individual faces while he's giving his presentations, but afterward, when he's mingling, he takes note of this first year with her notebook, and smiles. It's always good to see an active learner at a young age - he was much the same himself.

Approaching, he gestures to her notebook. "Did you enjoy it?"
schrodingers_joker: (feeling uncomfortable)

[personal profile] schrodingers_joker 2023-12-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Even though Ren just met her, for some reason he feels like he can trust her. So he lets a little of his guard down. But only a little.

"...I'm not sure where to start. I was pretty sheltered as a kid so I didn't get to learn much about vampires other than some basics."

His parents heavily sheltered him, so for the longest time, he could be rather naive. It was only recently that he lost that naivety.
onebadapple: (The little things to bring us joy)

[personal profile] onebadapple 2023-12-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Snow may just surprise him.]

Oh, Silver! I'm really looking forward to being a part of it. What about you? What Court are you in?
coolcustomer: (but i am le tired)

[personal profile] coolcustomer 2023-12-02 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Very much so!" she says, with a bright smile - that fades briefly as she continues. "My father has always said 'playing in the dirt' is unladylike. I'm glad to have a chance to learn more."
playing_hearts: (a little sad)

[personal profile] playing_hearts 2023-12-02 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, so it's not the cloak itself but rather what the cloak symbolizes. That makes it harder.]

It seems like they want to take everything from us. Everything we were...

[Her tone is gentle and a little sad.]

I'm sorry but... could you consider cooperating? I know it isn't easy but I'm afraid the thralls might be punished if we put up too much of a fight.
unghosting: (Lol you)

[personal profile] unghosting 2023-12-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[The accusation earns a smug little smile, though he doesn't really look up from the current potato. Kevin's always had a bratty streak, and while he really did try to behave in the old days, there is little that pleases him more than the joy of getting away with nonsense. The notion that he's starting to get enough of a reputation here that he'd get that as a greeting makes him feel a little more like himself.]

Too much excitement upstairs. All these bookworm vampires in tizzies, getting underfoot.