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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

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Arrivals

[Should he find the thralls creepy? Yeah, probably. Does he? Absolutely not. These people got the high life, right? Like you're just below the level of a vampire and get to be involved in all of this kind of stuff, clearly it's a positive. Though he might find the whole... making him wear different clothes thing a little odd. But it's fine, he's fine, this is just how it should be where he's taken care of, right?

It's not until the whole "meeting" that he starts having any sort of doubts. He looks, well, better than he's looked most his life with black slacks and a red and gold colored brocade vest. He'd even been an utter annoyance and requested a matching cape because, of course, he deserves it. But the doubts start slowly setting in when he realizes that other people already have people claiming them.

And it's... a good chunk, it seems. Meanwhile, he's feeling entirely out of his element and his haughty exterior and snobbish air when he'd been brought in is slowly draining into him looking far more nervous about this. Someone will take him, right? There's no take backs once you're here before you've even a chance to prove yourself?]

I diiiiiiid not think it'd be this many people that got picked. [He's whispering to the person next to him, not particularly caring if they're listening or wanting to be chatty.]

Pumpkins

[Everything had been... going... for the most part for Fitzroy. Settling in, getting a lay of the land, actually not doing terribly on this whole classes thing. Until he ends up with, perhaps, the worst luck.

That luck? Him managing to get stuck in the bathroom of all things as the vines were just so kind in blocking the doorway.

Perhaps his banging on the door and yelling might get someone's attention and a little sympathy? Maybe? Or laughter, it's really a toss up.]

Come oooooon! I don't know what I did to be locked in here, but this isn't really befitting for me! [Or, you know what, maybe don't help him.]

Library cleanup

[An opportunity to be a suck up and curry some kind of favor this early? Oh hell yes, you better believe he's right on that. Which is exactly why one can find him looking in trees, under rocks, in the trash, really anywhere weird you can think of in order to find some kind of discarded book.

It might be reaaaaaaally tempting to push him fully into the trash while he's halfway in there already.

Or be a pal and let him take that book back for you. It's not like he isn't bothering everyone he sees with a book to please let him return it if they're done with it. Or when they're done with it. But without the please part.]

Wildcard

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I didn't realize either.

[ Eden's also looking around at everyone that seemed to show up with an assignment already, and how some people were getting picked up rather quickly. While not yet dismayed and still caught in the awe of the various decor in the hall, along with curiosity about the people getting chosen the fastest, the longer it was taking was a bit of an anxiety-maker.

Honestly, it felt a little better when she wasn't the only one waiting a bit. That way it wasn't because she was on the unhealthier side of skinny. Or that she chose simple and elegant, with subtle shining embroidery on just the suede belt. Not while next to the novice with a brocade vest. ]

It seems to be random on who chooses which new novice...

Did I miss a memo or something about how we were supposed to reach out to someone before getting here or what? [He'll be rather miffed if he did, but seeing as he's not the only one waiting around, maybe it's... just that he wasn't lucky in that regard. But he'd rather have talent than luck and if he was chosen out of all the options in Gold territory, then clearly he was doing something right, right?

That's what he's telling himself, anyway.

Probably not the best to be standing next to him at all with his whole being 6'4" and built like someone that could swing around a gigantic-ass war hammer with no problem what-so-ever. Even if his fancy looking clothing doesn't really match with that particular aesthetic.]

I... guess so? Not a huge fan of random selection, honestly. Makes the rest of us look ridiculous.

No one mentioned it to me, though I wouldn't know who to reach out to.

[ Look, Eden is used to people being taller than her. It's not like he's a full foot taller or anything. She can handle it. Though now she's wondering if she's really handling this current situation better than him.

Which is why she gives a hearty pat to his back. Which is a bit stronger than you'd expect for her height and condition. ]

It was already like that for us though. Think of it this way; wherever you end up, it'll be even more amazing odds that you did compared to others. You had to win a lottery and be chosen by a maker you've never met before, for whatever path you lead down.

[ It's the yelling that catches Sylvain's attention, although the banging certainly helps, once he gets close enough to make out what that noise is.

Puzzled, he rounds a turn in the corridor and then comes to an abrupt stop to find one of the doors in this hall completely enclosed in thick, tangled vines. Ah. So that would be the source of the yelling, then. He's assuming that's not supposed to be there.

Approaching it with a wary look, he calls out to whatever hapless person got themselves trapped by a plant. ]

Uhh. You okay in there? [ That's probably the wrong question to start out with but it doesn't hurt to check. He thinks? ]

Edited 2023-12-02 12:53 (UTC)

[Spotting a student rooting through the trash is a little weird. Conrad isn't the type to shove someone in a garbage bin, let alone a student, but he could see someone who's a bigger asshole than him attempt it. Maybe he should say something, though, in case he's stuck?]

Uhm. Excuse me. Are you in need of some help or...?

[Seriously, what is this guy doing? Something really valuable would have to go missing for Conrad to even contemplate going through the trash to find it.]

Edited (sorry, I forgot the subject!) 2023-12-03 00:33 (UTC)

Test Drive Meme - New Blood

Fitzroy Maplecourt | The Adventure Zone: Graduation | Student | Ggggggold (for now)

Arrivals

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Pumpkins

Library Cleanup