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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:

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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

i. arrivals

[There were...far too many people in the hall for Estinien's tastes, honestly, both ones yet living and...otherwise. He was simply observing, watching for any initiates who decided they'd rather take their chances running for the door than standing firm in a room full of predators.

No one was trying it thus far. Pity, that might give him a reason to leave.

Any initiates who try to approach him find themselves on the recieving end of a harsh glare, ink-black eyes and a flash of fang strongly suggesting that they try their luck with finding a maker or conversation elsewhere. He's fully aware of the reputation of Black Court and certainly doesn't plan to ruin it by appearing friendly and accomodating. Even if he were so inclined.

Any teachers will get a nod of acknowledgement--though he's not quick to speak.]

ii. pumpkins gone wild

Swiving gourds...!

[He almost snarls as a vine tries to wrap itself around his ankle, and swipes at it with the blade of his lance before kicking the remains off.

It's only a few moments before he has a window cleared and opened, foot up on the sill as if he's about to jump out - because he entirely is, he has completely lost patience with being in the castle walls with feral produce rampaging everywhere.]

iii. wildcard

[anything else? hit me on Plurk or Discord, or here is my emp post!]

Choosing death over pumpkins?

[ It's asked as he's poised to go. Christine is frazzled at this situation growing so completely out of control, especially since it was likely one of her students that had done this. Naturally she's been running around with her utility knife to destroy the vines, but she needs all the help she can get. Preferably help that doesn't require favors promised from her. ]

We're not that high up. And I do know how to land properly should I actually fall.

[It's like you don't even trust him to take an--oh, what, 30, 40 foot drop straight down? He'll be fine. Probably won't even break his knees.]

You do have an impressive leap; I'll give you that.

[ She comes over to the window and looks out at where he'd be jumping. ]

I almost want to say "take me with you," but running from problems never does any good.

Tactical retreats, however...

[He can already tell those words aren't going to hold much water, and the vines are already growing back over the window with shocking speed. If he didn't know better he'd think they knew of the window escape idea.]

Other plans?

[ He's right about that, but his acknowledgment of the growing vines has her stepping back and brandishing her little utility knife. ]

Just this, I'm afraid.

[ She grabs the vines and starts slicing. ]

The problem is they take root fast, so destroying the main root system has done nothing. My thought is cut them into pieces and burn them. The issue is the collection and carrying outside to dump in a pile. The timing has to be extremely fast to prevent a mass of vines growing out there. But I can't think where else would be safe to burn.

[His weapon has a larger blade at least, but it's also an over seven foot long polearm, so equally unwieldy in these small quarters.]

Well, the castle is stone.

[He can't seriously be suggesting they set the hallway on fire?]

Better a mass of them outside than inside, true.

[Fenris honestly feels the same way. The room is too crowded and the lambs - foundlings - are desperate for a maker. but luckily a glare from him seems to deter them from approaching.

Plus, as he steps to Estinien's side, they are given a wide birth. They both give each other a nod as they watch the proceedings. It's a number of long moments before Fenris speaks up, rather comfortable with the silence between them.]

It seems we will be getting new students this season. [His eyes land on a couple that are with black court makers... more lambs to the slaughter.]

[Looking terrifying does have its benefits.]

For now at least. If they make it, they make it.

[Though he knows that their band of maniacs will chase out those who can't deal with Black Court easily enough.]

It's not as if we can tell the first night. Though that one looks about to bolt.

[He tilts his head towards a straw-haired kid who's looking around the room desperately.]

[Fenris keeps his eyes on the black haired girl that seems determined while she stands next to a black court maker. The chances of her making it through... he sighs before his black eyes move to the straw-haired kid.]

No we cannot.. [He remembers his own first night faintly, but it feels like a distant memory now.]

I would not be shocked if they fainted before the night was out. [There seemed to always be one.] The white feather they drew must have been legitimate.

[Once more he's reminded how idiotic it is that the selection process has an element of chance to it, and the weight of threat. Though perhaps if they left it up to volunteers, all they would attract is people wishing for power and that would be just as detrimental in the end.

No one's asked him. But he's just a hunter, a sharp knife in the dark. No one's asked him about philosophy.]

Perhaps a kindly Silver will take him under their wing. Surely he won't end up our problem.

[Unless he finds an iron spine he wouldn't last two breaths in one of their classes, much less Vader's.]

[The Lamb looks ready to pass out as Fenris feels sure that a number of minds are probing into the kid's own to get a read on him, to try and figure out where he belongs. Fenris doesn't bother. He's too picky for that.

It was rare he took someone under his wing, they oft had to impress him from the start, which was a rarer feat.]

He would likely do best under a silver. If he is smart he will stay away from black court..

Test Drive Meme - New Blood

Estinien Varlineau (Estinien Wyrmblood) | FFXIV | Teacher | Black

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