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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

[ Edward knows exactly what buttons he's pressing in this little outmatched novice. That's why he's that much more surprised, and delighted, when the student holds his ground, even gets angry. Fascinating. Ed's smile never wavers; if anything, it curls wider at the edges, even as his eyebrows knit together in the appearance of disappointment. ]

What a shame. Don't even see the problem with your trap, do you?

[ Vampires don't particularly need weapons to fight humans; that's what the pointy teeth are for. So, it might be a bit of a mystery as to why Edward reaches into his night sky blue leather jacket's breast pocket... Until it's clear that he's pulled out a journal. He sighs and shakes his head as he writes in it. ]

C+. Marks for the chaos, bro. But if you want to do well in Blue Court classes and become one of those predators instead of a human trapped in their own mind, yourself? You'll have to be a little more discerning than laughing at just anyone you happen to trip in a public walkway.

[Kevin opens his mouth and shuts it again a few times, as the realization that he has been had and is not sure exactly how settles over him. Where does he even start here? What problem with his trap? He glances at it. He wasn't trying? He just stuck a pumpkin somewhere with very little consideration? That this is some sort of an "assignment" at all is bullshit and he would bet money this vampire knows that which means if he admits it out loud Kevin has probably lost a game he did not know he was playing and this sudden turn of events has taken about five seconds?

No, he does not want to become a vampire, actually...? He's just --

You can practically see the gears turning in his head as he attempts to sort out just what bit of this he ought to care about. In the end, what really gets his goat is the C+. Kevin is the sort of person who has to be chased down and bullied into doing tasks he hates, but when he wants to do something well, he turns into a hideous perfectionist who can't stand to lose. The swordsman may not be completely clear on what he's just been graded in, but a C+ is mediocre, and simply cannot stand.

He fidgets like a bird with ruffled feathers and stalls for time by bitchily popping another jelly bean into his mouth.]

...then, may I ask how Mister Vampire Teacher Sir might improve upon it...?

[ Ah, the smell of mental wheels grinding. That's a good sign. For all of Blue Court's antics, Edward prefers the kind of students who think for themselves. Keeps things interesting. Also, generally, helps keep them alive through a full year. ]

It's just Edward. Edward Teach. Mister Teacher Sir was my dad.

[ Have to get the dad jokes out of the way. Plus it's fun to watch the bait wriggle a bit before it's cast to the depths. He isn't left waiting long, though. Edward gestures in the direction of the trap. ]

Would've been a B if you'd picked a more deliberate hallway. Those other novices are allies in your war, not targets, and they'll be through this door just as readily as any vampire. Now, if you wanted the highest possible marks... Well, there's more than one way to target a vampire that doesn't affect humans. Lots to exploit there, if you take the time to plan it right.

[Kevin is completely ready to stay mad about this entire interaction, and being a petty grudgewanker, he is certainly never going to forget it. But then Edward actually answers the question seriously, and in a way that piques his interest, and he feels his hackles settling despite himself.

The swordsman's hands are bloody and his life is worth nothing at this point; that's just fact. But there's still a knight hiding under all the gloom and grief and murder and nastiness, and what Kevin craves most in the world right now is a reason. Something to bother to keep going for.

He eyes Edward thoughtfully for a good long moment, and the wheels keep right on turning. When he speaks again at last, the snide drawl is gone, leaving him mild and soft-spoken.]

To be encouraging such a thing...are you one of the ones who gives a damn? About humans.

[ Look at this thoughtful little lad, puzzling through it. Teacher's pet already?? Either way, Edward is silently proud and looking just as serenely unbothered as ever... until he scoffs, affecting an offended voice. ]

Uh, yeah right. I mean, what vampire would care about humans? Gross.

[ Flawless delivery, incredible masking, 10/10. His expression evens out right after to a more genuine look, absent of the placating smile, even. His voice is quieter, head tilted slightly to the side. ]

But they've been tripped up enough already, yeah? Best keep that in mind.

[Kevin's been so wrapped up in his own grief and anger that this gentle comment is a much more effective chastisement than a pompous lecture could ever be. Of course he isn't the only new novice here against his will, and of course he isn't the only one struggling to find his footing. Hell, many of the youngbloods here were probably in the same boat, once upon a time. But for all that Kevin has seen that with his own eye, he's been too blinded by his own concerns to really acknowledge it.

Well, now he feels like a right prat.

This conversation won't change his behavior overnight. You don't simply get over having your life slashed to ribbons from two different directions simply because some guy reminds you that other people also have problems. But he'll start paying a little more attention. Taking note of it, if he spots other novices who seem to be struggling. For now, he doesn't really answer. Just settles himself a little further in with his nice new cloak and his jelly beans, forgotten in his hand as he stares at the pumpkin without really seeing it.]

...mm.

[ After a quiet moment, Edward inhales loudly and leans back, sets his hands on his hips and lifts his chin, full of teacherly authority. ]

Tell you what. Since this wasn't an actual assignment, we'll keep the grade off the books. Just the once, mind. I won't go easy on you for the next one.

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