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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!

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Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
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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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[He might not mind wiggling out of paying attention to a Silver or Red class, but for his own Court? Absolutely not. He takes this seriously. He arrives to class early.

He's still feeling out all the teachers. Fenris, he's learned, is no-nonsense and isn't usually charmed by his pleasant boy act. A shame. At least it means he can drop the facade.

He eyes the blade, making sure to keep a ways away to avoid getting injured because class even starts.]

I don't suppose we get to use one that big?

[Akechi was someone he's kept an eye on. The student seemed to take the black court seriously, unlike so many others who wasted his and their own time. He was tired of getting pointless blood on his blade.

But this one, he seemed like perhaps someone who will push until he succeeds. Or dies trying. Either one wouldn't surprise him.

At least he was smart enough to keep clear of the blade Fenris was swinging around with practiced ease.]

Early as always. And no, my personal blade is not suited for student use.

[For harming them, yes, for them to use? No.]

[Akechi's a walking tragedy. It's hard to say which outcome would be worse for him.]

Too bad.

[He'd love to use a weapon of such caliber. Though maybe it doesn't suit his style. Something a bit longer and lighter, maybe even serrated -- that sounds fun.]

Anyway, don't mind me. I figure I can learn something by just watching your form.

[He leans against the doorway, letting himself feel almost casual for once. He needs to learn to mimic his superiors, after all, if even only in their pre-battle stretches.]

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[Fenris wasn't someone who went easy on his students, in fact he was definitely one of the harsher teachers, so when Akechi thinks he can waltz in here and just watch Fenris do his routine to get a leg up?

Not happening.

In fact, while he had some pre-class stretches under his belt, he wasn't about to let Akechi get any in. No, one won't get to stretch before battle. So, he walks over to the weapon rack and kicks a sword into his hand before throwing it at Akechi's feet. It was a plain short sword.]

If you're here to learn something, then pick it up and learn.

[Hah. Shouldn't have said anything. He's always less careful about his words when he gives up the facade. Oh well.

He picks up the sword quickly, testing its weight for a second. He doubts he's walking away from this unscathed, and it'll give him a disadvantage if he's already injured when class starts.

But he just smiles, toothy and a little wild.] I guess a warmup couldn't hurt.

[He falls into a battle stance, but he'll let his teacher make the first move.]

[Fenris takes his sword and leans it up against the weapon rack. Akechi was a younger student, early in his seasons, so he had no concern for either of their wellbeing in this moment and it showed. No, all Fenris does it take out a dagger he has strapped to his thigh, giving him the range disadvantage.

He flips it a couple times, before holding it blade out and at his side, walking casually into position.]

Tighten your stance, I could disable you right now with a thrown dagger alone.

[He doesn't give him the time to do so before he's moving in with a blink, dagger raised as he closes the distance with impressive speed, not even bothering with shadowstepping or mistwalking.]

[He regrets not spending more of his human life learning to fight properly. Then again, maybe it would've taken him longer to get here.

He doesn't have enough time to move, but he gets a second to think. The dagger knocks his sword from his hand, but he moves with it, dodging to grab his weapon again and get some space. He has the advantage in length, but not speed.

This time, he takes the advantage. He moves slow, opting for a feint to try and just land any hit on Fenris. He's still playing it defensive, though, because it's early and he knows it's a long class ahead of him.]

[Unfortunately, he knows a feint when he sees one, but isn't scared of getting hit, so he uses it to his advantage, and grabs the blade with his hand, wrenching it to throw the other off balance and end with a the dagger to the neck.

It's close enough that it slices open the skin, but doesn't leave any lasting harm to the boy.]

You're dead.

[It's all he says before he lets go of the boy's blade - now dripping with some inhumanly black blood - and steps back, spitting into his own hand to heal it without even a care. ]

Again.

[He doesn't even take a stance, just standing there open with a dagger that has red blood on it.]

[He knows the dagger's going to strike before he feels it slice open his skin.

You're dead rattles around in his head. Anger uncoils within him, frustrating at his own inability to do better. Failure is a natural part of progress, but he loathes it all the same. He falls back and catches his breath, touching his wound briefly to tell how extreme it is. Not too bad. Probably won't even scar.

He knows he'll get sloppy if he lets his emotions take over. He reconsiders, assesses. This time when he makes a strike, he goes for Fenris' hand. To disarm him -- or wound him more -- will buy him some safety to make a more serious attack.]

[Going for the weapon this time it seems, or at least the injured hand - though it was almost fully healed now.

Curious tactic. For the moment, he lets the other have the "advantage" here, to let him cut at him and make Fenris drop the dagger, disarming him easily enough. Fenris doesn't need it to kill Akechi afterall.

He wanted to see what he was going to do next, wants to peer into the tactic he was going for. It would make it easier to correct it later. So he takes a leap backwards, bringing his arms up to block the next attack, watching with eerily pitch black eyes, inhuman and haunting, tracking every movement.]

[Good, the weapon's gone. He has a minor advantage, but now Fenris is on the defense. He debates.

He takes a lazy swing that he expects to be blocked, and then switches quickly to aim for the stomach. Not the most useful on vampire, but one day he'll have a dread blade...]

[Of course he blacks the attack, but quick switch to his stomach is seen as Fenris takes A dodge to the side and grabs Akechi by the wrist. The momentum of the swing is easy enough to turn back on the boy and have the tip of the blade pressing against his sternum now, other hand on the pummel, pressing through clothing until it's the bone that keeps the blade from digging any deeper into flesh.]

You're dead.

[This time he doesn't let up, he presses harder, enough that perhaps the fear of bone giving under his strength and sharpness of the blade. Fenris leans in, eyes black as voids as they stare into Akechi's own.]

[Tch. He's still too slow. He's sluggish, and he knows he's always going to be sluggish until he can graduate. He understands the need to prove himself, but it's agonizing. To see the power he might have one day, so close...

He waits to be released, but it doesn't happen. The pressure aches, more and more, threatening to case real harm. Akechi grits his teeth and scowls, but forces himself to make no noise except a strained exhale. The least he can do is retain his dignity in the face of death.

After all, it's a Black Court lesson. He's used to every moment being a near-brush with the end. He just has to keep pushing.]

[There is no cry of pain, no pleading or thrashing, if anything watching the boy bear it makes him want to press harder, to push further until he reacts. Fight for your life, he wants to say, show me it's worth keeping... but instead with a blur of shadows, Fenris is on the other side of the area in a blink and leaving both weapons behind in his wake.

He killed Akechi twice. That was enough. Class hasn't even started afterall.]

Clean yourself and the blades.

[He sounds bored, broody, not like he's done the boy a mercy, but he stays keenly aware of Akechi, just in case he decides to attack him instead of doing what he's told. He wouldn't put it passed that injured pride.]

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

ii. autumn classes

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