Test Drive Meme - New Blood

[undyingmods]

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!

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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.

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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

James T. Kirk || Star Trek: AOS || Student || Blue

[prizedstallion]

[Prose or Bracket Welcome]

I [New Arrivals]

[The scene was beautiful. Revar in their finest, all the vampires dressed to impress, those who came with a maker seemingly ready for a new world, and the bumpkins who look.. like they have never worn a silk in their life. And probably haven't but in all fairness, until last season he hadn't either. Yet now he wears such finery like he was born for the role, like he's never worn anything else.

Like he belongs.

You would think with a similar background that would give him more empathy for them, but no, Kirk just looks for anyone that gives off wayward puppy vibes. Someone he can snatch up in his plans. He needs a loyal crew one day if he was going to make his mark, was going to get a seat on the counsel.

For good or evil.. only he knew.

Regardless, his blue eyes land on someone who's maker has stepped away and he approaches with a smile.]

First drink is always the most unsettling.

II [Pumpkins-Gone-Wild]

"Dammit!"

Pumpkin vines everywhere! It was irritating, it took all morning to cut them away from his room, but now he was outside it trying to slash at the vines with a dagger to keep them from growing right back into it once more. It was taking way too much effort for something so simple.

Of course, some Silver just had to go fucking around.

So instead, of gracefully chopping away at the damned plants, the vine grows so fast that the next thing he knows his ankles have gotten entangled in the process. Trying to take a step forward results in Kirk stumbling and falling straight into another person in the hallway. Luckily, courses in Red have taught him enough weapon safety that he knows to keep his blade from stabbing the other.

"Hey, hi, thanks for catching me," he gives them a charming smile.

III [Library Clean-Up]

[Who was reading in a tree? At this point the original vampire is long wandered off without a care. So, better question now is who has the book now? Why Kirk is off course. He might look like a slack off most days, but he found this book about potion making sitting on a thick, sturdy branch and really, he might as well get a leg up. Both literally and literarily.

So if you're looking for this book? Well, look up, because that's where you will find him lounging while reading it without a care to his name.]

VI [WildCard]

[If you have other ideas you would like to play out with Kirk, Feel free to hit me up here, PM me, or @ ZodiacRockstar]

Arrival

[flagofbone]

[The scarred young man who had spent the entire time scowling and glaring at Revar turns when he heard someone speak, his brows raising slightly before speaking in a sardonic tone, giving Kirk a good look over]

And here I'd thought it'd be like a regular wine-tasting.

[prizedstallion]

[Kirk chuckles and gives him a grin.]

It is for some. But for the likes of us, not quite yet.

[He was dressed in blue finery that makes his blue eyes look like lakes by an ocean. At least they were naturally blue, so it was hard to tell how they were slowly changing.]

[flagofbone]

Hmpf, that so? I can't imagine I'd get used to it.

[He folds his arms across his chest, noting the finery and how at ease he seems to be in it. Harlock hated to admit he does have rather nice eyes]

So what's your story?

Pumpkins-gone-wild

[maplecourt]

[It's sure been some kind of adjustment period to not be weirded out about the whole pumpkins basically taking over everything situation. So Fitzroy was doing pretty good at mostly ignoring all of it unless they got in his way somehow or another.

Until there's suddenly someone falling into him and he's yelping in quite an undignified matter, luckily reflexes working to his advantage to not fall over himself. Not that it really matters too much when he's already pretty physically built at all of 6'4" and muscle despite the whole... attitude and appearances otherwise.]

Are these things sentient now? [Please tell him he just tripped and didn't just get thrown into him by a plant vine.]

[prizedstallion]

It would be just our luck if it were?

[And unsurprising for the little silverling who did it.]

But no, I hope not, that's not something I signed up for.

[Giving the other man a pat on the shoulder, he pushes himself up to standing, taking his dagger and grabbing a vine to cut at it. No, Kirk had just tripped over the fast growing vines that were doing their best to grow pumpkins on him now.

He was not a pumpkin patch thank you very much!]

[maplecourt]

I think we already have enough problems without worrying about sentient plants now. [... If only he knew, but he'll bask in his lack of knowledge for the time being.

The should part gets a brief huff out of him, shifting to cross his arms over his chest just to seem like this whole conversation is tiring because clearly that's what the Gold Court would want, right? Right. In reality he's just confused about the whole ordeal and not sure how to really react to what just happened? It's fine, he'll figure it out when his brain catches up.]

I... assume that if it came down to it, fire is always an option to deal with it? Sentient or not, they're still plants at the end of the day, right?

II

[serpendipity]

[ You help out with a little bit advice, and now that project had grown rampant. Literally. While nowhere near the only person to have thought of ideas, Eden was starting to understand why some people were wary of a Silver Court's experiments. At this point she was getting used to the tripping hazards, and had spent a while earlier helping keep the path clear for the poor thralls out there.

She had not planned on being the buffer for someone hitting the ground. It took a moment in the impact to realize there was a blade in the Blue novice's hand, but just as quickly noticed it was being held to avoid issues. So after steadying herself, grey eyes looked over the way the vines were growing around his ankles and offered a tired smile. ]

Hold on juuuust a moment.

[ Pulling a dagger out, which seems to have been tucked into a nice suede belt, Eden gently leaned and bent around Kirk to cut at different points in the vines, avoiding nicking a single fiber on his clothes and shoes, so nothing would be lingering to creep onto him. Showing the culprit with a little shake, it was tossed far out of the usual walking paths. ]

Rescue complete. Well, for now.

[ Given the coloration on her hands, she's been spending a good part of the day rescuing people. ]

[prizedstallion]

[Oh, he'll hold on. Well, not to her, but he will gladly watch this beautiful younger girl works her magic at cutting him free from the vines. There was zero shame in being saved by her, he in fact gave her a charming smile when she finished.]

My hero! No, Seriously, I was about to eat shit and you saved me.

[Not only from that but the vines that had entangled around his ankles like snakes. Not that he minds snakes, he always liked them, they killed the mice that usually ate the grains he needed to survive winter. But he did mind the vines.]

Kirk, Jim Kirk, and you are? [Was that a little flirty? Yes. Yes it was.]

[serpendipity]

You're in a better position to save yourself than the others.

[ The poor thralls are a good example of that. Kirk had a knife with him, which put him on top of things far better than most the people Eden had come across. With the fatigue in the smile, it's easy to believe she had come across a lot. There is noting, however, that there was some warmth added to it. Flirting effective. ]

Eden Woods. Do you prefer Kirk then, or Jim?

[ Without much care for the state of her clothes, Eden is already wiping the residue from the vines against the side of her skirt, almost absentmindedly. She doesn't need to really watch what her hand's doing to clean and sheath it back into underneath her belt after all, and it's clear that Eden likes to keep eye contact with whomever she's talking to. ]

III;

[juiceofthevine]

[ Edgin walks up and then just stands there hands on his hips staring up at the tree and his novice in it. ]

So you do study after all.

[prizedstallion]

Hardly, just some light reading while I avoid the actual task of taking it back to the library.

[He gives his maker his best shit eating grin as he closes the book.]

[juiceofthevine]

So you're saying to motivate you I should just leave the relevant information out like a trail of candy crumbs.

[ As if he doesn't know that Kirk is like...a fucking golden boy out here, passing all his classes but never trying. The teachers gossip, Kirk!! They're gossiping about his seeming-lazy-but-infuriatingly-good novice. ]

II

[partybabysitter]

[ Wow, Kirk! Knocking into a teacher? That's bad luck. Of course, Kirk happens to also be one of the students who does infuriatingly well in Xenk's classes, so it could be worse. Xenk catches Kirk before he totally stumbles, a calm, stony presence as he ever is.

Is there a hint of amusement in his tone? You're surely imagine it. ]

You're quite welcome, James.

[ Xenk keeps hold of his hand until he rights himself, always one to offer assistance to a student who does well. ]

Do you need some assistance?

[prizedstallion]

[Man, Xenk was solid. Like a slab of marble. Honestly, he could get used to this, cozied up close to this strong chest.. Hm, oh Xenk was talking. Of course he was talking. Something about the way he calls him James sends that pleasant tingly sensation down his spine. Hot.

Still what a gentleman to hold his hand while Kirk rights himself.]

Yeah, sure, absolutely, these vines got me all.. tied up. So any help you can give..

[He gives Xenk quite the smile, feigning needing more help than he probably actually needs because this vampire is gorgeous and Kirk wasn't gonna overlook a chance to flirt with him. Sure, he was playing the damsel in distress, but he has no shame.]

Arrivals

[philancer]

[ It hadn't actually been his Maker - Sylvain's not officially enrolled here yet, not until the upcoming Season - or so he assumes. Although the Gold Court vampire currently striding away from him in displeasure is one of the ones assuming - like too many others from his home territory - that Sylvain will be theirs for the choosing when the time comes.

And he might be, because he knows how little a say he has in this, but he's still strongly hoping for an alternative to present itself. Not that he isn't playing the polite and hopeful human here, because he knows better than to burn all his bridges before he has a solid way forward.

But there's a definite exhale of relief when the Gold vampire leaves him to his own entertainment for a while, shoulders slumping a little in tired resignation. Something he quickly banishes the moment he hears an unfamiliar voice speaking to him from behind. By the time he turns, his expression is carefully composed again into a polite and friendly smile, as if he hadn't been struggling with his own disappointment and frustration a moment before this student walked up.

Although he does arch an eyebrow in faint amusement at the statement - maybe with a hint of disbelief. ]

Are you sure it's the first one and not the last? [ He's quick to add after that quip, though, because it is something he's curious about. ] It gets easier?

[ He hasn't tasted vampire blood before - at least not that he remembers, even if there's the faintest glimmer of gold in his amber eyes that might belie that statement. But that doesn't mean he's not listened to a great deal of whispers and gossip back home from hopefuls trying to imagine what's in store for them, should they be fortunate enough to get chosen. ]

[prizedstallion]

Hmmm [He scrunches his face a little in thought before pretty much shrugging.]

Well...Did for me but I like my maker. [Probably one of the rare few that does, he really likes Edgin and enjoys having him as his maker. Honestly, the guy had some issues, but they didn't bother Kirk too much, mostly just glad to have a maker he considered a friend.

Or something like that. Maybe a father figure he lost, but that would be very human of him to feel, even if he was still more human than vampire.]

At least the taste gets easier, the more we turn the better it gets there.

[Whether you want to stomach the stuff is up to the person. He personally didn't mind anymore, it freaked him out the first time, drinking inhumanly blue blood, how thick it was on his tongue, just knowing it was blood.. at least now it was easier. Afterall, he needed to get used to the stuff else he was gonna be one sorry Vampire.]

III

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

[A Blue Court teacher squints up at the tree, back down at the list in his hands, then back up at the tree.

Like, he gets it, but…]

Potion making a real page-turner, huh?

[He waves up at the tree-reader, pointing to the list in his hands.]

When you’re done, the library’s looking for it.

[prizedstallion]

Huh? What? [He looks down and then smiles when he sees who's there.

Jumping down from the tree he thumps the book to the middle of the man's chest. Handing it to him.]

Hey teach! Naw, was trying to take a nap and was trying to bore myself there.

[He has no intention of returning it himself.]

II.

[onebadapple]

It's purely by accident that Snow White catches Kirk, but shockingly, she's holding him just fine despite their size differences. She smiles, gently, at him as she helps him stand back up.

"Not at all! I'm just glad you didn't get hurt!" she tilted her head and then gestured to his legs. "Do you need help getting out of the vines? They are rather unwieldy aren't they?"

[prizedstallion]

He's surprised that she catches him so easily, he's so much bigger than her, but she seems to do just fine. Well, he knows he's still a bit skinny, but he's not that light... right?

"Thanks," he gives her a charming smile before he stands up and looks down at his legs that are thoroughly tangled.

"Yeah, they really are getting out of control. If you could help that'd be great."

iii

[rechtvaardig]

[Most of time, Aurinn is a shit and takes his time with what he's supposed to do. It's a better alternative to his original actions, which were mostly scowls and causing a ruckus whenever he could. So when he's tasked with finding books for the librarians, well... he's certainly not in a hurry to find them. And because of said callousness at the situation, he's wandering rather aimlessly across the grounds until he notices Kirk in the tree.]

Funny, you didn't strike me as the type to be interested in that.

[Said cheekily, as he leans against the trunk and looks up. Gold eyes seem particularly interested in at least what Kirk is doing, surprisingly enough.]

Don't tell me you've decided to become a full-fledged member of the Silver Court now.

[He's joking, but this sort of banter from him is probably all too familiar.]

[prizedstallion]

[Jim chuckles before turning the book sideways as if looking for something in it that isn't there for be found. The banter is familiar and he welcomes it.]

Hardly, was hoping this anatomy book might have some nudes in it, but instead I'm on the verge of boring myself into a nap.

[With a "here catch" he tosses the book down to the other man before changing how he sits so he can better look down at Aurinn. Blue eyes catching those golden ones as he smirks.]

Though, I have to admit, the Silver Court has some lookers, so can't say I would be hurting if I did.

Arrival

[draculaintraining]

[ Soma was still processing everything -- from being dressed nicer than he had in his life, to drinking someone else's blood -- that suddenly being spoken to caught him by surprise. He stared at Kirk for a moment, as if checking to make sure he actually meant to speak to him, before he let out a faint noise, absently wiping at his lips. ]

I didn't think it was that bad.

[prizedstallion]

Well, that's good, because it happens often enough. Well, with your maker, shouldn't happen with anyone else until you become a youngblood and all that.

[He grins and leans against a chair, he seems like a cute boy, so he definitely caught Kirk's attention.]

At least that's what my Maker said.