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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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More that they don't really appreciate my touch down there anymore. [Something about not taking things seriously and having too much fun while doing it. "Lydia, this is for knowledge and science!" they would say. Not that she cared.

Of course she'd seen him coming, even if she wasn't actively keeping an eye out for students trying to make their way down there. It could be worse, though, she's at least not the type to pick him up by the scruff of his neck until he promises to leave like a good wounded pup.]

Someone has to, darling. And it may as well be me so I can at least hear what's going on down there if they don't want my company anymore. [... That probably says more about her than it really ought to. Though she does raise a brow while studying him and that smile, good grief.]

Are you trying to kiss ass or do you actually mean that this time? Because one of those may get you a proper answer~

That's no fun, these scholarly types take everything so seriously.

[He makes a face at the idea that someone wouldn't want Lydia's touch and company, he would be open to both. Honestly, it's part of the reason he approached was because he saw her and thought he could keep her company while they listen to the... screams of agony the scholars were inflicting upon each other.

Maybe not exactly romantic, but he wasn't here to romance. At least it sounded like the scholars were having a good time.]

Aw, can't I do both at the same time? Because your ass is looking great and I'm not opposed to kissing it. [Smooth Kirk.]

Welcome to precisely why I hate this time of the year. All study and work, no play. It's utterly boring in every single aspect. We try to make it more interesting but there's only so much we can do. [And so many ways they can take fun potential topics and make them dry enough to kill a man.

Nor will she ever turn down someone's company, even if it's someone she doesn't care for, they still make fun targets to tease and torment. At least he's interesting.

It wouldn't be the worst come on she's had in this place, either.]

My ass is always looking great, but I appreciate the sentiment~ [It's the reason why she wears the pants that she does, hell, the reason she dresses like she does is always to be the center of attention while making sure everyone sees every inch of her body in the perfect way she'd want them to.]

Did you really come here just to flirt, then? You really don't want to go down there to see what all the noise is about?

See, I would be interested any other time of year, but I just can't imagine those scholars are doing anything of actual real interest. At least not to me.

[Sure, he came down to explore what the sounds were, but learning that it's just a bunch of scholars being nerds, naw. Not his jam.. well it was a little, if he could glean anything that could help him in his goals, he was always interested.

But right now what was actually interesting was the Red teacher before him.]

So, let's just say I heard the siren's song and found you, hm? A little bit of both but we both know the real reason I'm still here is for the beautiful vampire before me.

If you've seen it once, you've seen it enough, trust me. And unfortunately the screams are all noises that will be only temporary and with no real lasting effects. Such is the nature of vampires and healing. [And it's not like they even do it in a fun way, ugh.

Besides, this one trying to chat her up is far more amusing than being annoyed with guard duty. Especially if he's going to continue to heap praise onto her so easily, even if it's things she's all heard before.]

And just what do you intend on trying to do? I'm sadly stuck here at this door for another... [Give her a second, she's trying to remember how long she's supposed to be here. Time is such a fake concept at this point.] I think hour or so, depending on when the next person shows up. So there's not too much I can do until then~

[Might as well play with him a bit and see where it gets her, it's not like this is her Novice or anything, so where's the harm in it?]

Because kind words and a flirty tongue are lovely things, but words rarely get you far.

Oh, I imagine it's nothing worth seeing, not when the star is out here.

[Was he hamming it up a little? Absolutely but he wasn't someone who had a lot of shame and he wasn't scared to hit on a teacher. He his on Xenk of all people, he wasn't deterred by the fact they had not only age seniority but power over him. In a way that make this way more hot.

Especially since he was a healthy young man and she was a gorgeous woman. He's absolutely here for this.]

Well, if words aren't gonna get me far, I am happy to exercise my filthy tongue. [He licks his lower lip seductively.]

How about we make some screams worth watching?

[This one she might have heard about and kept an eye on here and there, so she's quite aware of what she's playing with. And doesn't really see a reason why she shouldn't find some amusement with him. After all, the ones who put her here and more than aware of exactly what's she's capable of and how she is.

Once he likes his lower lip she's actually laughing at that, at least he's offering to give something instead of take, she will give him that particular point.]

Do you know what tree you're barking up? I guarantee you I am nothing like the other women in this castle and have... different tastes when it comes to all of this. A reputation, in fact. [She wouldn't have said no to that offer, either, but if he's going to go so hard at this, she might as well see how far she can push him before he backs off or runs scared with his tail tucked between his legs.]

[Bold and brave are Kirk's defining features, going where no one has gone before one of his favorite things, so when she issues a challenge, he is all for it. In fact, it's exciting, so he can't help but grin up at her, as she was taller in her heels than him and he was glad to have her step on him.

He doesn't even mind being laughed at, he's more glad to get her to laugh. That's always a good step in the right direction.]

I'm ready and very willing to find out about this reputation and tastes, I'm not one to discriminate against such things. So tell me, what game do you want to play? [He leans in close, smirking.]

[He really wants to know and play this game? Well, she has nothing better to be doing at this juncture, so perhaps it would be fun to see just how far he's willing to go with whatever whims she might be in for.

In fact, she's reaching a hand out to grab his chin, nails lightly biting into his skin and making certain he looks up at her. Her grin might be a little more predatory than it has right to be, but it's fairly often that people get that look.]

For one, darling, I usually have control of what's going on unless I find someone adequate enough that I give them some temporary form of control. If I were to ask you to, say, lick my boots clean, would you? If I wanted to use you as a footrest, would you still be so willing to continue playing with me? [She tilts her head just a bit, grip tightening just a fraction.]

I might also have a habit of making people bleed and perhaps a bit of a known name to the Silver healers.

[Oh, so she played like that, not surprising. Predictable even but quickly shields that thought best he can because she's probably not going to appreciate that if she catches it. Still, the bite of her nails was curious, something he definitely was interested in. He makes something of a face at licking her boots literally clean, but then tilts his head in something of a shrug, clearly not put off enough to reject the idea.

Oo, and then he grip tightens and he raises an eyebrow. Still very interested.]

Oh, I don't mind any of that, some of it is more appealing than other parts, but if you bleed me too much, my maker might take up with that.

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