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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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[ At some point, Eden was going to note to ask about those differences. There were some things that seemed like they could be better, but she knew she had no chance in achieving them. The things she thought, she was in the wrong court and would never make it to that court to achieve.

Oh, but the sound Kirk made. Did she sound like that? She's heard sounds like that from the brothel while making deliveries. ~~They were a common customer.~~ There's the faintest hint of pink in her cheeks, but that's from a bit of imagination wandering. It'll fade once her mind is on other things. ]

It really is, right? It's so sweet, and you can taste all these spices in there! Like-

[ She takes another bite, trying to change the pitch of the moan to sound a little less like before. More happy and not... pleased. Adding a gentle bunt against Kirk's arm. It would be the shoulder, but she'd have to sit on the table to have a better chance of doing that. ]

I'm so glad to be able to try things like this while we're here.

[He makes another sinful noise until she bunts him and he can't help but chuckle, he knew what he was doing, seeing the faint blush on her cheeks, but he doesn't tease any further, he said he would be good about it afterall. He might be self motivated, maybe a little selfish and manipulative, but he was good to his word when it suited him.

Now was one of those times.]

We should enjoy it while it lasts, soon we'll be on a restricted diet. [Blood. He means blood.]

[ She'll never realize it was on purpose, because hers wasn't on purpose. It just took him making the sounds to realize how 'bad' it sounded. Which is definitely going to get stuck in her head if nothing else was done about it.

But yes, the looming restriction. It has her nodding while having another bite. ]

It's why I'm going to try as many new things while we're still able to enjoy them. Though I guess that'll end up being mostly sweets.

[ It's something she's able to lightly laugh about, because it probably sounded very childish. Because sugary things were a luxury, which they couldn't spare money for. ]

Mm... I wonder if there's anything else to try before we 'graduate.' Aside from enjoying as much of the sun as possible.

Same, I want to try everything I can get my hands on before the end of it all. A year doesn't feel like enough time to try everything.

[Especially when he was allergic to a lot of things, but luckily his Maker's blood helps him get past that. If it didn't he would be sorely upset about it all. But instead he was quite delighted to get to eat all the stuff.]

Sun, food.. being human.

[He's glad to be becoming a vampire soon but... well there's something about being human too.]

You know, it isn't all it's cracked up to be sometimes, but they really want us to give it all up. So, whatever I can do to enjoy being human while it's still okay, I think I am going to.

Only a year, and this season's already almost over...

[ It really won't be that long before Winter started up. Would the cold feel the same the winter after that? It has her thinking, partially because she wasn't sure how much of it was about being human. There were a few things that she hoped to experience before the year was over, to know how it was supposed to feel as a human, but... She got a 'you did well in trying and handled being the target' star in Astarion's classes.

... She just also hopes that Kirk wasn't the type to read minds. Not because she couldn't block it, but she never bothered trying, and this would be an awkward time for that to be learned. ]

We won't be losing empathy, I'd imagine. Maybe for some it'll fade the longer they're vampires, but that could be kept all the same. I suppose in the physical and literal sense, this year will be the last of us being able to get our hearts racing and actually feel it in our chests.

[ Brain, please. At least she does a very good job that visually, she's talking about it all the same as eating as many different sweets that she can. ]

Anything in particular you're thinking of? I admit, I think I didn't get a very good idea of what 'human' really is. Aside from the literal, as you can imagine.

[Lucky for her he wasn't a mind reader yet. He would be one day, but not yet. For the moment, he just watches her carefully while he eats, reading her body language well enough. One learns how to survive people by watching them, reading them, understanding them. Maybe that's why he did so good in his Gold and Red courses.

The mention of the heart racing gets him to raise an eyebrow, smirking at her. Well then, he can help get her heart racing. Not that he says it yet, but he definitely thinks it. ]

Nothing off the top of my head... I don't know in what ways we change when we... well, change. I just want to remember this feeling. Like you mentioned, racing hearts, sweating bodies, panting breaths -- I want to remember what it means to need to breath and be alive.

[He shrugs and gives her a smile before he pokes at his pie some.]

[ It'll be quite a time when lessons do go that far. Eden's taken that advice to heart.

Even without blushing up a storm, and keeping that smile as sweet as it normally was, her words certainly weren't the only signs of interest. ]

Ah, right. They don't even need to breathe. It's probably just habit and more a sign of intensity for them...We should remember to make time to have those experiences. Enough so they last.

[ There's a small pull of the smile, a faint hint on the cheeks snitching on some of those thoughts. Something to just... Take another bite of pie. Mm. Yes. Pie good. ]

Every breath, heart beat, taste... There's a lot to commit to memory.

Definitely.

[He gives her a grin and a wink before finishing off his pie and handing the plate to a servant. It was still weird to have thralls like this, to have their every want and beck and call answered like this. He still ate every crumb like it mattered, ate everything he was given like it might be his last, yet--

He shakes his head.]

I'll see you around though, yeah? I should get back to my room and fight off the pumpkin invasion. [He chuckles.]

Thanks again for saving me.

[ They were alike in that way, though Eden was eating a little slower. Wanting to be extra sure every crumb and spice was picked up before handing it over, as if the sweet treat was still going to be a rarity that needed complete savoring. ]

I suppose I should be trying to help out by the greenhouse...

[ She can't spend too long over a single piece of pie, right? Though...

She doesn't have the courage to say anything too forward around the thrall, not right now, even if they were incapable of minding. So she'll get close enough to lean to Kirk (she can't exactly reach his ear, now can she,) and maintain that eye contact thing that she's been good at, and speak a bit more softly. ]

Maybe in the future we can enjoy... Well, something else that makes sounds like when enjoying pie.

[He notices her leaning in and leans down a little to let her speak softly and hear her just fine. The thralls won't mind, they have seen plenty worse than two hormonal humans flirting, but he gets the want for privacy.

And man does his eyebrows go up because yep, he knows EXACTLY what she's talking about because he might have put on a little show to tease her but damn girl yeah. He's super into this.]

Yeah, yep, absolutely. I would love to get you to make those noises without the pie to help. [He gives her a grin.]

[ Someday she might get used to talking without being embarrassed about the thralls hearing her. Especially with what she was saying. Eden was direct, but even she had a limit ~~right now~~, on how much people can see and hear her, that was about her interests. ]

You're saying you won't be making those sounds as well?

[ She gently pokes him, purposefully a little low in the abdomen, while backing back up to where she was sitting. There was still a bite's left on her plate, after all. ]

It'd be a shame if I'm the only one making them. The ones you made already sounded pretty nice to my ears.

Well, if you liked them so much, I would be glad to make them for you again sometime. Next time even if you so please.

[He can't stop the smirk, because the poke, the topic, all of it is very good. Real good even. SO he gives her a wink before doing a little stretch.]

Until then, you're welcome to dream about them, I know I will be.

[Her's that is, not his own. Well, mostly.]

[ By the smile, she definitely liked the idea of that. Though she was inexperienced, she felt she could pull those sounds out of him as well. Plus with admiring that stretch... Yeah, she likes how things could be. ]

It sounds like you don't get much rest when you sleep.

[ She'll give a small wave- one with the fingers wiggling back and forth- to let him continue off. ]

Good luck with the pumpkins, Jim.

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