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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!

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Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
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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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[autumn nox.

Maybe it's a bit childish, but when there's lectures after class and you've got nothing else to do other than hear those in the Silver Court excitedly talk about everything from germs to history to medicine, you tend to get a bit bored by it all after a while. Aurinn isn't a scholar by any means, but he's not about to throw himself many of these for the sake of curing his boredom. That would actually be useful, and why would he want to do that when he can instead just continue to be pleasantly friendly and also annoying? He might as well have some kind of fun.

Which is why, honestly, he's gravitating towards a group of vampires and novices as they seem to leave what must have been a recent gathering, one arm hovering against the wall as he leans over someone's shoulder.]

Well, at least someone can say they gathered some interest in the lecture. [Is that honesty or is he being a shit? Hard to tell. There is a bit of a grin, though.] So, what's next?

[Look, he's bored, and he really doesn't want to go off and practice Gold Court etiquette just yet, so at least give him something to do before that.

pumpkins gone wild.

This, however, isn't exactly something he'll disagree with. Getting to swing a weapon and cut things down physically rather than perhaps verbally? It's a nice change of pace. Aurinn has a rapier in hand, doing what he can to try and beat back the vines, though they really don't seem to like being cut to pieces. Don't be surprised if you get grabbed for tag-teaming it, since this is way more than he can handle.]

Mind lending a hand? It's gonna be tough otherwise.

[library clean-up.]

Think fast.

[That sure is a set of three books dropping suddenly from the rafters up above in one of the higher classrooms. Aurinn's stuck his head out a bit from the side, golden eyes practically laughing at the reaction given to him in turn. Did he miss or nearly hit whoever was below him? It's not like it matters to him, honestly.]

I've got about four more books up here, someone's been hogging them or forgot they left them behind. [A shrug.] Better to get them back then let the librarians hound us for the next few weeks, right?

[That still doesn't excuse him from nearly hitting someone with a book. He's not going to apologize though.

wildcard. Have an idea? Want to start something? Hmu! I can run with just about anything.]

[ Look, this may be due to being a silver court student, but sometimes the lectures can be interesting. The medically focused ones often had demonstrations, which came with the other curiosity as to whether the scholar would lose control or not as so many had been going longer than they should without a drink. It had happened earlier, during a delicate part of the demonstration that could've seriously risked the poor thrall's life had no one interfered.

So in looking over the last of the notes, and flipping over to the schedule, Eden had missed the first part- To be more accurate, it was heard, but assumed to be towards someone else. Until noticing the arm that belonged to the one leaning over. It was easy for most people to lean over, given her height, but it was only a moment before grey eyes looked up to the source. ]

There's options. One's on the interaction on common methods of detecting... toxins. The other is Miss Rosie adding court variety by giving a lecture on seduction.

[ Subtle jabs and suggestions? It could sound like that, and while she wasn't blind to Aurinn's pleasant appearance, this was genuinely a case of coincidence. Easily seen by the schedule that was over Eden's notes. ]

[Sure, interesting to nerds. Not that he'll say it, but it shows in his grin regardless. Aurinn tilts his head at Eden's reply, actually letting out a bit of a laugh before he considers answering.]

Toxins seems more of a snooze-fest, if you ask me. [Both of them are, but that's a given.] Not that Miss Rosie's class is always a plus, either. [Gods know that the court always needs to actually lighten up and change things around.]

If I said I was bored out of my skull, what would you think would be best?

[It's not a challenge, he's actually curious to see what she may think works best. Call it intrigue, or maybe he just likes wasting time when he can.]

It's only a 'snooze-fest' if you don't have to worry about coming across such things.

[ While Revar had instilled the tiniest of such worries in Eden, she already knew most of what would come up in such a lecture. So there was no actual interest there. Really, there were a few ideas, but they were talking about lectures, so that's what the tall and handsome peer would get. ]

If the options were only lectures that were starting next, I'd say you'll want Miss Rosie's lecture. If you're lucky, you can be a part of the demonstrations. If luckier, you get to watch them instead, and get out without needing help. Though I suppose it would depend on if you had that help...

[ To Eden's credit, she can bring all of this without going even a little bit pink in the face. She certainly knows what she's implying. If there wasn't a degree or two of separation between her and the implications, she'd be as red as some parts of the clothes she wore. ]

Are we speaking from experience, or just words of wisdom here?

[It's said with a laugh, because he knows he has no leg to stand on here. He doesn't know shit about toxins and really, that's not something he plans to focus on.

The interesting thing about all of this is that Eden seems very comfortable with her suggestions and her answers, which just makes Aurinn raise a brow. He absolutely knows what she's implying, and he can't help but lean in a little towards her face, grin curling up further in the corners of his mouth.]

I suppose it would, wouldn't it? You don't happen to know anyone who would be willing to volunteer as a sort of help, would you?

[He's an absolute menace when he teases someone.]

I was just told it could be a risk for anyone.

[ Thanks, Revar. Between two very different vampires, Eden had a shadow of concern about both her past and future.

There's also something else that happens when you bring yourself to the level of someone raised in the Southern/Red region, and tease them. With a smile as sweet as the pumpkin pies that'll be getting made until the Winter Solstice, Eden leaned in closer, going up on her feet enough to be closer to an ear. Just enough so the heat of her breath could be felt. ]

You're pretty cute, so I think you won't have any issues... Especially if you ask.

[ Not that she's done much so far, but the same smile was there. ~~Who's the menace?~~ Really, the teen's just gotten good at bluffing. ]

I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

[Oh, Eden's a keeper. Aurinn actually can't stop himself from laughing at that, breaking any sort of charm he may have had a moment ago. Anyone who goes toe to toe with him is someone he's going to have to keep an eye on for the future. He actually steps back and suppresses another chuckle under his breath, a little fascinated with how she keeps up with him.]

Aurinn. Aurinn Laurentius, to be exact, but the last name really doesn't matter to me.

Well, if last names don't matter so much, then I'm Eden.

[ She'll back up and start heading the way of the lecture hall that Rosie's 'lesson' was going to be. Just with walking backwards for a bit to see if Aurinn would follow along. ]

So with that laugh just now, were you just seeing if you'd get me blushing off into a corner?

Eden it is, then.

[Unsurprisingly, he follows after her, more out of amusement then actually wanting to attend a lecture. He diverts his gaze to the side at first, like a kid getting caught, then brings his eyes back to her, a coy smile emerging.]

Maybe. [A beat.] I suppose you could call it me being curious. There's plenty of new novices here, and sometimes people seem interesting. Depends on the circumstance, don't you think?

[ Ah, was that really what it was? The smile falls, just a tiny bit. ]

Ah... So it was more about being curious if every Silver acted the same then? Each person here is a different circumstance.

[ After an understanding nod, Eden turned to face the way she was going. The tone in her voice doesn't sound hurt. Just one of those 'ah, so that's how it is' accepting tones. ]

Here I thought you might've been attracted, even just a little. So I suppose you don't need a friend to join you, in case help is needed after the lecture? Though you didn't really seem interested in it in the first place.

Not every Silver, per se.

[He notices her reaction, though it doesn't really seem to plague him. Eden tends to roll easily with whatever is said, which is a good habit to have- the other novices and vampires alike would devour her otherwise.

Aurinn exhales in amusement, already raising an eyebrow as he continues to follow after her. Then he shakes his head.]

I never said I was opposed to having help. And I find it better to spend my time with a pretty face rather than be bored with nothing to do. [He pauses. Is there attraction? He's not one to give the answer away so easy.] Besides, maybe I'll actually learn something interesting.

I see...

[ Every novice, then?

It's very possible that others have already tried. If Eden couldn't adapt, she would've been dragged elsewhere long before ending up at Castle Courtsheart. The towns she visited in the south weren't full of sunshine and rainbows, even if she seemed to always have them herself.

Along with a pace that's easy to keep up with. ]

So you're coming along, then? I thought with the laugh it was all purely a set up. Besides, if I'm not the 'pretty face' you want, we can scan the area to find someone that is, and I'm sure I'll find someone as well. Not that it's a guarantee you'll need someone. Unless you're easily affected by watching.

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

aurinn laurentius // oc // student // gold court

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