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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
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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

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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[This is when Maria, ever the one to take up tasks others wouldn't (or perhaps shouldn't) glances out the nearest window. Naturally in a place full of vampires the window are either shaded or intricate stained glass but it's evening now.]

I could see about scaling the building if that would help.

[She's only half joking here.]

Are there many students who do go up there to begin with?

You're not the only one.

[Despite having hidden away to take a breather she seems to be in a chipper mood now. Maybe she just needed a break?]

We could go together some time. Surely between the two of us we couldn't get utterly lost I think.

[It's part light joke and part serious suggestion.]

I like being busy.

[ the smile turns a little wry at that, self-deprecating, but it's all in good humor. ]

A mix of both. A large chunk of them were in the library still, but there are always a few stragglers, it's just that there were more than usual this time. How have things been treating you with all the visitors?

[ see: has she also gotten tugged into endless meandering conversations with some elder vampires, because it keeps happening to him and he's a little delighted about it. ]

Mm.

[ an interesting response, though it's unclear what erwin means by it: an acknowledgment that levi is fine, a sign he sees through it and into the nervousness, or an agreement are all possible options.

he lets it lie though, not pressing since it's clear levi doesn't want to elaborate at the moment.

the question drags his eyebrows up nearly into his hairline though and he breathes out a little laugh before shaking his head. ]

No. I'm perfectly confident in my decision.

Some Blue Court people turn into bats and get up that way. I saw someone climb up by clawing up the side of the building, once, so it is certainly possible. If inadvisable. Castle walls are not known for their cleanliness, and now they are crammed with roosting pumpkins.

[ He's also doing math in his head, looking between Maria and the window. ]

If you started from higher up, it would honestly be safer. Most of the pumpkins are further down.

[ He's thinking about it. Never tell a joke to this man you're not willing to have him seize upon. He wants those books. ]

[The perfect question really. Sarah blows out a tired breath.]

I just spent the last three hours with one of the elders that desperately wanted to discuss the quality of the swordsmanship exhibits some of the Red Court gave at the symposium.

[With her dark red eyes and the red of today's dress it's little wonder someone wanted to talk Red Court with her. And while the court is very well known for it's weaponry... well. Three hours is a little much, particularly for Sarah. She's more on the arts side.

She picks up the topmost book on her stack.]

Also he gave me this to return.

[ he gets the feeling Erwin probably doesn't believe him, but if he's learned anything about this guy in the time since they met, it's that he can't always be sure what he's thinking. at first he thought it might just be a vampire thing, but no—it's definitely an Erwin thing.

that said, he also knows Erwin would never lie to him, and he's certainly not lying to him now. how does he know that? he's not sure.

he just knows. ]

If you say so. I guess all I can do is try not to disappoint you.

[ he shrugs. ]

Or ruin your reputation.

[He gets it. He can respect it, even. But being a self-destructive idiot isn't going to help anyone.]

I know, and I am not.

[Insulting his skills.]

Noble, but is this not suffering as well? Or does yours not count?

[He lets out a huff, shaking his shaggy bangs out of his eyes.]

I knew learning to read was a mistake.

[There's a particular quirk to his voice that indicates that he might be joking? Maybe?

Or maybe he's completely serious, who knows.]

I'd ask where you already covered, but I can't imagine that will help. Some scatterbrained idiot will have already hid one behind a vase somewhere after you.

[His weapon has a larger blade at least, but it's also an over seven foot long polearm, so equally unwieldy in these small quarters.]

Well, the castle is stone.

[He can't seriously be suggesting they set the hallway on fire?]

Better a mass of them outside than inside, true.

[Looking terrifying does have its benefits.]

For now at least. If they make it, they make it.

[Though he knows that their band of maniacs will chase out those who can't deal with Black Court easily enough.]

It's not as if we can tell the first night. Though that one looks about to bolt.

[He tilts his head towards a straw-haired kid who's looking around the room desperately.]

As she takes the view in, Satoru leans against the doorway. It's night time now, but the view of the surrounding forest in the moonlight is still pretty spectacular. He's spent many a night admiring it himself.

"Nah, I'll let them know," he replies. "I should probably know your name, first. That might help."

He's not a person that particularly worries about the novices, not like some of the bigger bleeding hearts here. In the end, if they're weak, he doesn't really give much of a shit if they die. But it is nice to see that some of them, including the girl he's talking to, seem to be stronger than they look. He's got all of his hopes pinned on the next generation, after all.

The dig at his court just makes his smile grow, amused. Because she's not exactly wrong. A lot of Gold Court vampires are prissy and prone to complaining, and they raise their novices the same way.

"If they can't handle a bit too much pumpkin in their diet for a bit, they probably couldn't handle anything else this castle throws at them," he says contemplatively, studying the vine he's got a hold of. They're growing fast enough that he could probably watch it grow if he looked long enough, but that sounds boring, so he just yanks it out by hand, tossing it over his shoulder.

He angles an amused glance at Eden. "Besides; enjoy it while you can. After your Becoming, everything will either taste like ash, or shit, or nothing at all."

Oh, Eden's noticed. Mostly by the way they order the thralls around, and what exactly those demands were. Always demands and orders it seemed like, and never requests.

"After being here for a bit, I thought that Gold and Black courts both had the most trouble successfully raising their novices," she mused, watching and tracking where the discarded vine went. Depending, it'll probably recover once reconnecting to the ground. It would depend on how strong the growth rate lingered.

"So that part's true? That's a shame," she'll nod with a bit of understanding. There were so many things she hadn't had a chance to try. The year here was her only shot then. "I never really enjoyed the taste of ash. Sometimes a strong wind would kick it up while cleaning the fires. Is bloodwine the same for you, then? Or would having blood change it enough to keep it appealing?"

I-I suppose not... [Conrad has to sigh and a rather crestfallen look comes over his face. It's not like he expected a different response from the man, but yeah... It is depressing.]

I guess we can all look forward to becoming ancient and forgetful. If we're lucky, that is. [It's not like Conrad presumes he'll get very old, something will probably get him before then...]

[That's how he managed to get through his classes on seduction, basically. He could pull off being cute and kinda endearing, in his own way. Some people found that more attractive than being a suave, captivating individual, right? Well, in any case, he is sincere.]

That's, um... Well... I'll remember that. Feel free to stop by anytime, then, for as long as you like... It'll be nice to get some one-on-one, hands-on practice.

[He quickly shuffles into the library with the books and utters a soft thanks. Then he turns around in a slow circle looking for a place to finally be rid of the book pile. Probably just plopping them down on the librarian's desk and letting them deal with it is a good plan, he thinks.]

[Fenris keeps his eyes on the black haired girl that seems determined while she stands next to a black court maker. The chances of her making it through... he sighs before his black eyes move to the straw-haired kid.]

No we cannot.. [He remembers his own first night faintly, but it feels like a distant memory now.]

I would not be shocked if they fainted before the night was out. [There seemed to always be one.] The white feather they drew must have been legitimate.

Yes.

[Her own tone echoes his, quiet and flat. There's no point in denying the reality of their situation.]

We can't go back so it's best that we figure out how to survive. And that's easier to do when you have friends.

[Now she offers a small smile.]

My name is Alice. What's yours?

[Not only the forest in the moonlight, but the stars too. Alice is already a big fan of this room. She turns around with a pleasantly surprised smile.]

Thanks, I'd appreciate that.

[Hmm, he seems a little irresponsible, but he's actually pretty considerate. Today is turning out to be a pretty good day after all.]

My name is Alice Liddell. I don't think I caught your name either...?

[ See! Hans can be nice. He isn't always awful. ]

I suppose that's true. They'll have all sorts of questions, I'm sure... And they might be intimidated to ask anybody with more experience.

[ Hey, that's not bad... people relying on him? Asking him questions? Might be useful... He considers this, any heinous thoughts clearly not showing on his face. ]

I guess the best we can do is help them, right? I'd hate to see anybody turned into a thrall if we can help it.

[ Ughhhh the "friendly" touch is definitely received as intended. Which is to say, Hans hates your guts too, Kirk. ]

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

[ He smiles, a really charming, friendly one too. Wow, how helpful! How kind! ]

I'm sure I'll find you. You're hard to miss.

[ He means that in the worst way :D ]

Oh. That's true.

[ Hans turns very serious. Of course, you have to worry about people getting injured. Of course.

Well, vampires aren't immune to fire, are they? ]

Have you, um... has that worked? Can you talk to plants?

[ Hans takes a tiny step back, slashing at a vine that happens to make it past her. He does know how to use a sword, but he's too busy being stupid and intimidated to step forward. Plus, he might get in the way, you know... ]

Right! I'll do that!

[ He's just going to keep slashing at whatever she can't reach. That seems helpful, right? ]

[ Don't worry, Levi. Vampires are really weird too, you'll fit right in. (They also love puns.)

Xenk thinks nothing of his strange little pause. He knows some humans aren't big on blood. ]

They are quite inconvenient, though I do not believe it has anything to do with female dogs.

[ I had to. I'm sorry. ]

In any case, some believe bloodstains add to the... "aesthetic" of the castle. I find I do not agree.

[ Honestly, Cal wasn't expecting that to work as well as it did. But he probably won't be able to keep it up with this many pumpkins, and he has no intentions of death by getting squished by one, thanks. ]

In your... boot?

[ Uhhh... the vines are still growing, however and so Cal moves to grab it, realizing halfway there that Han didn't specify which boot. The briefest hesitation on his part allows one of the vines to wrap solidly around his foot. ]

Let me go -- Which boot!?

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i'm so sorry for the delay, life ate me lmao

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no worries!

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