Test Drive Meme - New Blood

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DEC TEST DRIVE MEME

WELCOME, VAMPIRES!

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

Comments

[wonderland_vogue]

[Oh if she doesn't love watching their reactions to this kind of thing and she just looks so pleased with herself.]

Darling~ Did they not explain the Courts to you? My, my, do I need to teach you something so basic that your Maker should have done?

[draculaintraining]

N-no, I...

[ Huff!!! She had him all flustered now, and he had to take a deep breath to try and calm himself. ]

I-I know what Red Court is about.

[wonderland_vogue]

[He's precious and she's going to milk this for all it's worth, thank you very much.]

And you do have to take some classes from Red, so you might be better off coming to terms with pretty much everyone being quite open and liberally about the subject.

[Give her a moment, she's just going to casually climb down from her perch and, oops, she's tall.]

So I'd suggest working on that mindset~ [At... at least she's holding the book out for him to take now.] There's your favor.

[draculaintraining]

[ He's not sure if she's actually tall or if it's the heels she's wearing. Either way, he finds himself blushing again, because he definitely knows by now that he's going to have to take Red classes, and he has no idea how he's going to survive any of them. ]

[ Still, he managed another deep breath and a nod, reaching for the book. ]

I'll... do my best.

[wonderland_vogue]

[Eh, she's just a little shit of six feet, so it's kind of both. There's also just something hilarious about watching Novices that clearly weren't from her Court blushing this hard. Ah, the days of being human and innocent, funny.]

Who knows, maybe you might like it. Or find it a useful tool. Or both, like some of us. [She shrugs, not seeming terribly fussed either way.] I guess you could also end up boring and just not get involved with all of that, but at least being able to fake an interest can be useful.

[draculaintraining]

Fake an interest?

[ Soma gave her a bit of a blank look at that, not sure what to make of that. How could anyone fake anything involving sex? ]

Has anyone actually managed that?

[wonderland_vogue]

[... Oh sweetie, you are not ready for her entire lecture about it.]

You would be surprised at how easy it really can be. A little less for men, way easy for women. [Easier to just refer to things that way, really.]

But that's something you might learn later, so I can't spoil it~

[draculaintraining]

[ Women could fake it easier? That... threw what little he thought about sex through a loop. His mouth worked for a moment, trying to come up with a response, before he finally let out a faint huff. ]

...alright; I suppose I'll find out.

[wonderland_vogue]

[Welcome to having absolutely zero filter, Soma, she is perhaps one of the worst about it.]

If you get that far, certainly~ Lydia, by the way, obviously one of the Red teachers here.

[draculaintraining]

[ He is going to have so much trouble getting used to just how many people have no filter around here. At least introductions was something he could manage. ]

Soma Cruz, Silver novice.

[wonderland_vogue]

[In general he should probably avoid most of Red, but he's probably realized that by this point.

And of course he's one of Silver's.]

Thaaaaat explains a lot, actually. The only ones I've really seen that blush and sputter about this kind of topic. [She's not teasing about it, at least, in fact she sounds more matter-of-fact than anything.] But my point still stands~

[draculaintraining]

Oh... sorry.

[ He's... not sure why he's apologizing, it just felt appropriate. ]

But I mean it; I'll try my best.

[ He'll struggle, but at least he'll give it his best. ]

[wonderland_vogue]

... Why would you apologize for that? As much as I find the majority of Silver quite boring, it doesn't mean they're not necessary. [Hell, she can think of at least one off the top of her head that she does enjoy.]

Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, after all. Silver is all about the academic knowledge and the like and that's not my forte in the slightest, never was and never will be. So better they do that and I do what I'm good at, right?

[draculaintraining]

So... what you mean is, as a Silver student, I have one over you?

[ Listen. She got her digs in on him. It's his turn. It's only fair, right? ]

[wonderland_vogue]

[Oh, he's trying and her grin has come right back, though with a very clear look of those fangs.]

Not right now you certainly don't. But come bother me after you become an actual vampire and then, maybe we can discuss that.

[draculaintraining]

[ Soma smiled himself, a bit of his amusement reaching his eyes. ]

I'll hold you to that then.

[wonderland_vogue]

[How rude. But at least she's unruffling her feathers rather quickly, so there's... that?]

Sure, sure. Hopefully I'll actually remember. [She won't. At all. Ever.]

[draculaintraining]

Don't worry; I'll remind you.

[ He means it too. ]

[ He took a step back, holding up the book. ]

I'll put this back. It was nice meeting you, Miss Lydia.