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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
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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( autumn nox )

Loki has mostly only let his students out of lecture for the day because of the guest lecturing and, because, he wants to hear someone speaking on compulsion and he does not want his students knowing that he's sneaking off to hear Gold Court lectures when he should be giving them tests. He suspects they'll know, regardless, but Loki supposes no one will be fool enough to bring it up to him.

He settles in a chair and crosses his long legs in front of him, taking copious notes. Someone settles in the chair next to him and he acknowledges them only by shifting just a bit.

"Shh, I'm learning more from this man than I learned from anyone in my entire formal education in compulsion."

( pumpkins gone wild )

They're everywhere. Loki has his appreciation for his Silver Court fellows, of course, but they can be very enthusiastic for what they do and that's how there's an abundance of pumpkins threatening to take over the entire grounds. He has the strength to break up the vines by hand, naturally, but he's chosen to do it with a hoe instead. All he'd wanted was a nightly walk on the grounds to clear his head, not to become a gardener, but here he is. There's a vine snaking around his left ankle while he chops at another in front of him.

"A little help, if you would? We need to get ahead of this madness."

( library )

Loki might have been one of the people who misplaced a volume here or there but because he has to live in this castle and use this library, he thinks it would serve him well to be on the good side of the librarians. Perhaps they will conveniently forget all of the books he's squirreled away in his own office if he helps track down a few rogue volumes from traveling scholars.

There's an elderly vampire who has a horde he's sitting on top of and while the vampire has ages on him and is, in all ways, his better, Loki has the advantage of being taller and has a longer reach. It is only this that lets him get some of the books away and he sees someone behind him.

"Help me, would you? He's asleep right now and if we get these back we can trade on that goodwill for at least a season."

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tessituras for further details. )

Anyone that's had Eden in their class would know that the Silver Court student was the type to have more trouble with the Gold Court's gifts over even the Black's. It was a struggle that she was doing her best to overcome, which was by attending such lectures. Maybe if they're doing it with the right frame of mind, and not because they think they have the right due to their position in society (there's subtleties) she could get past the hurdles in future classes.

Of course, catching as much as one can also meant missing parts of lectures. What a curious and fortunate find though, because there was someone she knew of that was paying more attention than even the most passionate Silver Court member.

Which is why, after quietly sitting down, she quietly returned that with, "and I'm learning where you might be if tests are deferred to a later date and classes are self study. I think it's good to keep passionate about things."

Which certainly sounds like she wouldn't hold it against him in the future.

"Cheeky," Loki says. Still, he has to admire the spirit of someone who is seeking out one of the lecturers in addition to their own classes and he moves his legs a little so it's easier for her to share his space in the crowded hall. He recognizes her face from around the castle but he doesn't know her name; with so many novices coming in for their beginning at the debut of the season and then the whirl of the symposium, faces and names have blurred even for someone as astute as he is.

"Learning is always a good thing. Especially if it is something you aren't good at yet," Loki says. He isn't admitting to a weakness in the Gold Court methods - he is passable enough - but he was not chosen as one of theirs for a very, very good reason and he was chosen for the Blue Court for a much better one.

With a bit of humor, Eden smiles to give a bit more cheekiness. Though amusingly enough, she uses the offered room as a chance to shift her legs around to cross better into her seat a bit more. Somehow it's comfortable; there's always those types out there that find it better than lounging laid out.

"I'll admit, that's why I came in here. The Gold courses are probably the ones I'm worst at," she said, waiting a bit for some of the lecture to go by before someone asked about something the scholar had just explained, but wanted different phrasing for. "Though I think it's also fine if you're good at something and still want to learn more about it. It's why I also take a foraging class."

See, no admitting weaknesses needed. Though... The Silver student had easily done so.

"So I see why a Silver student is seated next to a Blue professor, then," Loki says. He admires the spirit, though, and that's why he is more than happy to tip his notes over so she can see them in case she missed anything that was said before she got settled in properly. Knowledge is knowledge after all.

"Silver was not my strength when I was a student," he concedes. "You've done well to find your place there."

"That's purely because of amusement," she admitted with honesty, but it doesn't stop her from leaning over to look at the notes that had been written already. it's free information, and judging by the way she tracked her reading with a pinky, she was either a very quick read, or was looking for certain keywords to help herself out.

"It's easy to think someone does well in Silver because they want to know a lot," she started softly, though the tone remained light, as she noted a few things in her book from both the notes and also listening to the lecture. Then there were the 'nutshell' notes that had assumptions (presented as theories) about Gold Court's nature and why they rely on it. Like them being narcissists, or not willing to try hiring and actually paying people. "Really, I'm just aware that I'm behind in everything and want to catch up. Because I lived foraging and hunting for medicinal and food purposes, and was taught some emergency methods, I've got a slight advantage in this court."

That and her interactions during the ceremony with Black Court members had them feel she was too 'innocent' for touching their classes. Eden thought she'd do well because she understood the various sides of nature. That didn't convince them.

"One should always play to their strengths while shoring up their weaknesses," Loki agrees. "It's a smart thing to keep your skills honed while working at what you aren't so good at. I can shapeshift into anything I desire and it would be easy to rely upon it but it's more challenging to learn something new."

Someone is asking another inane and useless question so Loki turns a bit in his chair and offers his hand. "Loki Laufeyson. It's my pleasure."

Eden didn't realize how open lectures invited so many questions that even she, who was starting their second season, or about to, was understanding things well enough. Not enough to practice, but that was more about preference and personal strengths. So it's also nice to have a bit of a distraction in those times. Smiling wide, Eden accepts the hand with "Eden Woods."

"I'm actually excited for introduction to shapeshifting. Revelry... I don't remember much of," which spoke of her alcohol tolerance, even with a Maker's blood in her system. "Just drinking, drinking games, and I think there was screaming. Which is odd, because I don't recall anything dangerous showing up. I'm still not sure what skill that class was meant to develop or hone."

Apparently Night Terrors aren't scary to Eden when she's drunk.

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