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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

I. New Arrivals

[Thralls had always made Bellatrix feel uncomfortable but she had learned to hide the way her heart ached towards them. No one could know her family, or the vampire's lapdogs, as many people ignorantly called them, weren't the perfect servants they pretended to be and she hid her concern behind indifference as she was dressed in a white silk dress with golden embroidery to represent the court that chose her.

Bellatrix had been preparing for this day most of her life. The Bakhar family dedicated themselves to the vampires of the gold court and she had been trained to be chosen from a very young age. It wasn't a question of if she would be chosen, but when and she carried herself with the confidence she had earned through years of hard work and dedication. She wanted everyone to notice her. She would need connections for her family's secret plan to protect humanity from within the vampire's ranks.

Of course there was only so much she could prepare for. The strong metallic taste of blood caught her off guard and her eyes narrowed slightly as she silently finished her glass. She hid a faint sigh behind her cup. Thank goodness that's over and she left her maker's side to mingle with the other guests, both students and teachers alike.]

II. Autumn Nox

[As a new arrival Bellatrix didn't have any classes until winter. After mentally preparing herself for the difficult task before her all this free time was going to drive her crazy. She needed to do something so she decided to check out the silver court symposium. She shouldn't neglect any of the courts after all and she looked over the schedule with a curious hum.]

Which one are you interested in?

III. Pumpkins Gone Wild

[Bellatrix would have some choice words for whoever was behind this pumpkin infestation. She had to escape her room first. She could only open the door a crack and she blindly cut at the vines with a small dagger. This would be a lot easier if she could see what she was doing. She had an idea when she heard footsteps outside her door.]

Excuse me! Could you be my eyes for a moment?

[She wasn't a damsel in distress who needed saving. She could save herself as long as she knew where to cut.]

IV. Library Clean Up

[Bellatrix loved heights so she could understand why someone would want to read in a tree. What she couldn't understand was how someone could just leave the book there. She wasn't dressed for climbing but she wasn't going to be defeated by a tree either. Luckily the tree in question leaned against a building and she used the roof as a shortcut. She would often climb out of her window at night to view the stars and she gracefully balanced on the edge of the roof as she reached for the closest branch with a quiet mutter.]

Honestly, you would think scholars would take better care of their books

V. Unethical Experiments

[Bellatrix was exploring when she was drawn in by the faint sounds of voices. The inhuman screams of the thralls pierced through Bellatrix's heart. She shouldn't have come here. Her conscience was screaming at her to stop this torture somehow but she couldn't. She might ruin everything if she showed her true colors here, but how was she supposed to sit back and do nothing when someone was suffering like this? No amount of preparation had prepared her for something this cruel and she clutched her arm tightly as she froze with indecision.]

VI. Wildcard

[Feel free to surprise me with your own prompt! You can also plot with me on plurk

Nicholaj, Discord@2thNicholaj, or PM, whichever is easier for you.

Bellatrix has an info page on her journal here if you want to know more about her and her AU backstory can be found here. She already has a maker but I would love any other connections with her fellow students and teachers. Enjoy!]

[Stepping from the shadows, Karma now stands in front of Bellatrix. A tall willowy figure that is only distinguishable as femme presenting due to her chest. Even then, there was something unearthly about her manner and her silvery eyes as she looks at Bellatrix. She was a silver teacher and she doesn't shy away from how her fangs glint in the light as she smirks at the student.]

Little ones aren't meant to be here. Go on.. run back now.

((ooc: Karma is she/they so feel free to us either pronouns))

Edited (oops forgot subject) 2023-12-05 20:45 (UTC)

[The man blinks for a moment when he heard someone call out, staring at the vine-covered doors. Just wanting instructions and not direct help? Curious...]

All right. Angle your dagger a forty-five degree to the left and move it about an inch up - there's a thin part of the vine there.

Edited 2023-12-05 23:25 (UTC)

[ Reyson is here because one of the other Gold novices likes to tattle when they see people going in unusual places, and Reyson was looking for a non-suspicious reason to nose in around the basement. He wishes that he had not.

When he finds his wayward peer, frozen in a hallway, he will gently take her arm and gesture to move back to the stairs with him. He would love to look stern yet trustworthy, like a future respectable leader, but he mostly looks ill. ]

Test Drive Meme - New Blood

Bellatrix Bakhar | Original Character | Student | Gold

V. Unethical Experiments

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