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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.

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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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There's definitely trauma there. Not that there isn't in the Blue Court lands, but... acting like Satoru does, amongst the Gold pricks and their stuffiness? Doesn't sound like a good time by Ed's estimation.

All the more reason to help Satoru forget about that shit whenever he can. Which is easy, because he's the kind of guy even someone like Edward can forget their own trauma around, at least for a bit. He opens the office door, only to turn around with a wide grin and bounce excitedly back to Satoru. "You... are a fucking genius! Incredible plan. Inspired, even." Ed grips his shoulder and claps his back, like it's not enough of a compliment without the added touch, before he calms and walks with Satoru the rest of the way side by side.

"It's a bit out there, but I have faith in us," Satoru says sagely. "If anybody can pull off an underwear heist, it's us."

On the way to the library, he regales Ed with a story about one of his latest entrancement classes and how a novice had mind controlled another novice into thinking he was a mosquito -- it had been particularly funny watching the novice try to bite everyone he came close to. Almost as funny as his stories about his hand to hand combat classes and the occasional limb removal that happens within.

Upon getting to the library, Satoru opts to sneakily peer around the doorway instead of just walking right in. "Okay, which librarian was it?" he asks in a stage whisper. "The one with all the hair? Or the one that's carrying all those books?"

The mosquito bit is hilarious and Edward decides aloud that he will convince one of his fourth seasons to turn into some kind of mosquito horror if it's the last thing he does. And as for the other thing... Well, it's not like limbs don't grow back. Eventually. For vampires, anyway. Leave it to the Silvers to figure it out.

Speaking of... Ed waits with Satoru outside the library, but instead of looking inside, he watches who's leaving. He pays particular attention to one Silver visiting scholar he recognizes from some seminar or another. His head turns to watch her go, following her path until she's out of sight. With a quick-or-you'll-miss-it shiver of body horror that'll leave him sore later, he suddenly is her. Well, physically, at least.

He leans past Satoru, squints and adjusts the thin glasses that keep falling annoyingly down his nose. Why don't Silver Court blokes ever have glasses that fit right on their faces? Fucking obnoxious. His eyes scan across the one with the books Satoru pointed out, the one with a frankly impressive amount of beard Ed feels a weird twinge of fear-envy about, and then... He points in their general direction and stage-whispers back in a voice that's deeper than his normally is, but decidedly more feminine. Also with ~~an American~~ harshly nasal accent, gross. "There, that's the one. Looks like they've already got something wedged up their ass." By which he means the librarian's face is currently pinched and flushed red as they grab a stack of books from a novice and shove them into another novice's arms before continuing on whatever tirade they're on.

There's not much that Satoru's impressed by. He has a high opinion of himself, and very exacting standards, so most displays of vampiric power are boring to him. But Ed's a friend, and he doesn't have a whole lot of those, so he always watching him shapeshift. It's just neat!

Ed's description is so on point that Satoru spots the librarian in question immediately. Problem one: said librarian is wearing a robe.

Problem two, Satoru discovers after a subtle intrusion into their mind.

"I can confirm we have a no underwear situation," he whispers, as serious as a soldier stranded behind enemy lines. He leans back so that he's no longer peering around the doorway, and strokes his chin thoughtfully. "We'll have to steal someone else's. There's two other people wearing robes in there; the big guy near the back that's reading about beetles, and the girl in the history section."

Friends or not, Edward's got an eye for talent. He enjoys witnessing another vampire flexing their skills, like Satoru does now. Humans are easy, but Edward couldn't hope to read a fellow vampire's mind, never mind from across a room like this. It's fucking impressive.

Ed's eyebrows lift in surprise at what Satoru reports, and he has to push the glasses back up his nose again as he looks between Satoru and the librarian. "Fuuuck, really?" Isn't it supposed to be cool, sexy people who go commando? Well, horny bastards pretty widely encompasses nerds, he supposes. "It's always the quiet ones," he laments.

Given the options Satoru finds, Ed decides for them, "Wedgies are one thing, but it's kind of a dick move for a guy to steal a girl's underwear. How about beetle boy— Is his package wrapped?"

"In the most luxurious of silk," Satoru confirms. Finding out information via mind reading about one's underwear is surprisingly involved -- it's not like it's a thought that's on their minds constantly, so it involves delving back through their memories of the day and finding the fuzzy, barely-remembered-because-it's-so-routine memory of getting dressed.

Easy for him, though. He's very much a specialist.

"How do we want to do this?" he asks Ed. "The funnier option would be one of us seducing him into giving up his underpants. Or I could just compel him--"

He cuts off briefly as footsteps approach, a Silver academic walking past. To avoid detection, Satoru pushes a perception of recognition into their mind; to them, he'll take on the bland appearance of someone they're sure they've met but can't quite place. They nod at the two of them, suspecting nothing, and glide on past.

"--which would be quicker, I guess," Satoru continues once they're gone. "How's your seduction skills, pumpkin?"

Ed looks more surprised than he's been all night to hear about silk underwear. That exists?! Fuck, that's going right on his Winter Solstice wishlist. Seems a waste to use silk undies in a wedgey prank, though...

As Edward continues contemplating this private crises, while listening to Satoru talk about seduction, a new plan begins to take shape in his mind. He nods automatically at the Silver who nods back to them, and Ed feels a proud tickle in the back of his head for Satoru's talents, as he so often does, though he's currently too distracted by ideas to put it to words—

How is Edward's seduction skills. Please. He's Blue, isn't he? There's a whole Ven diagram of overlap between the two courts, and Ed's a model Blue Court vampire if ever there was one. He gives Satoru an intrigued, almost heated, look over his current form's glasses. "No worries there, love. Watch an artist at work." He winks for good measure, then rounds the corner into the library proper, head held high, hips swaying.

He doesn't go towards Mr. Silk Undies, though. He goes right for the angry librarian, instead. He's a horny nerd, after all. Obviously hasn't been laid in a while if he's this ticked off. This'll be easy-peasy pumpkin pie. The librarian and one student saddled with books both greet him by (his shapeshifted form's) name, and he doesn't have any fucking idea who they are, but it's easy to fake with a smile and a touch to the librarian's arm. "May I have a moment of yours, alone?" Edward asks in an inflection that's studious, borrowed from a Silver friend, and therefore nothing like his own. "I require a consultant for an Autumnal research project I'm working on of dire importance. It simply cannot wait."

Doesn't seem to matter whether any of that sounds even remotely close to something his current mask would say. The librarian is immediately dismissive of their students, both of whom rush to get away, stacks of books in hand, and offers Ed his help, whatever he needs. His mental walls stay up, just in case the librarian tries to pry, but he's sure Satoru can hear him anyway, the little mind sneak, as Ed thinks singularly and loudly, The fish is hooked. Stay close and be ready for my signal. Meanwhile, he takes the librarian's arm and begins describing the "project," using flowery words for very horny terms as he steers the librarian between two bookshelves in a darkly-lit corner.

Belatedly, he remembers to think in Satoru's direction, Mmmmaybe not too close. Don't think you're into this kind of thing.

There's not a whole lot that can surprise Satoru these days -- kind of a side effect of traveling the world with his maker for a long time, and then another twenty years of being a vampire in a castle where bonkers shit seems to happen regularly.

And yet, as Ed in his masked guise leads the future-wedgied librarian into the shelves, Satoru's eyes go wider and wider.

Are you going to fuck that librarian?? he sends, on the verge of hysterical laughter. Oh my god. Ed. Your commitment to the bit is so impressive.

Dutifully, actually listening to someone's recommendation for once, Satoru stays at a distance, though he pretends to be sorting some books, expanding the mental projection to everybody in the room save for Ed. What doesn't Ed want him too close for, though? Is he certain Satoru's not into voyeurism? Or just not into straight stuff? Either assumption is funny.

It's a good thing for Edward that he's such an incredible actor, because with Satoru's hysterical voice in his head, it's a real struggle not to laugh himself, and he's pretty sure the librarian wouldn't take kindly to that. Shh, shhh, he hisses back towards Satoru with mental humor, Mate, I'm working. Hang on.

The 'kind of thing' he thinks Satoru might not be into is voyeurism of a kind, yeah. A really specific kind, though, as Edward's mask hasn't exactly consented to any of what Ed's doing with her image, or the librarian being spied on without their knowing either, which becomes especially voyeuristic as Edward presses the librarian bodily against the bookstacks and leans in close to whisper his plan, disguised as "research" against their ear.

The librarian flushes and stammers, "I'm not sure this is appropriate," questioning Edward in the kind of way people do when they want to be relieved of their responsibility for the bad behavior they really want to take part in, and Ed easily obliges with a smile. "The best kind of experiment rarely is."

Predictably, that's all the convincing the librarian needs. In no time at all after that, Ed's slid down those nice silk panties his mask has chosen to wear, dropped to his knees, and helped the librarian step into them. He doesn't even need to fuck them, which is great because the librarian's a dick who doesn't really deserve to have that nice of a time.

Once their robes are back into place, Ed whispers against the librarian's ear again, seals the deal with a soft kiss to the librarian's neck and a wink, and then he's walking back out of the stacks alone. As Edward goes, grinning in a sharp way that doesn't really suit his mask's soft face, he mentally signals Satoru again. The package is delivered. He's all yours, mate.

Satoru's about halfway through the third page of a treatise about the seductive power of the sword, and doing his best not to mentally overhear what's happening in the shelves, when Ed's message comes through loud and clear, with the military precision that this project deserves.

The fussy librarian walks out with a red face and a stammering excuse even though it's not necessary, and immediately proceeds to start lecturing some poor novice about turning the pages of a book wrong.

Wow, Satoru sends to Ed, I'm sure you did an impressive job, but his seven minutes in heaven's afterglow didn't last very long. He must be a natural buzzkill. Even kills his own buzz.

"Hello!" He cheerfully makes an intrusion into the lecture, still pushing the room-wide entrancement to disguise himself. "I notice you have a stick up your ass. Allow me to dislodge it." The librarian all but chokes on his offense, but before he can really work himself into a rage, Satoru has grabbed his shoulder and twisted his arm behind his back to immobilize him. He waits a second, lets go, hikes the librarian's robe up, and grabs a firm hold on the back of his brand new panties. "One, two--"

And yank. With most of his strength. The librarian's strangled shriek is music to his ears.

Still wearing his mask's appearance, Edward's found a comfortable seat far enough out of the librarian's way to be a distraction, but close enough to keep both eyes on the show. He hums in his mind at Satoru's assessment. Didn't pay any mind in his Revelry course as a novice, seems like, he agrees, and leans forward on his elbows, grinning as he watches Satoru get right to work, commanding the librarian's attention as quickly and easily as only a Gold fucker can. Ed's grin only widens as Satoru bullies the librarian into turning and then—

The magic moment at last, and it's perfect, as undignified and childish as any Blue Court bastard could've hoped, and Ed's cackle is loud and hooting. He's pleased to hear a few other denizens of the library joining in, so he goads them on. "That's what you fucking get—" Ed hollers in the Silver mask's voice. "—For being a dick!"

Even after his laughter has died down beneath the laughs and taunts of the others around them, Satoru can probably still heard Edward giggling in his head. Run! He urges, Run, man! even though it's entirely unnecessary, given the nature of their disguises. Edward's already a few steps towards the door himself, though he waits for Satoru, as any decent accomplice would.

"Justice reigns supreme!" Satoru cackles as he runs, catching up with Ed. They're not the only two laughing -- watching an asshole get a wedgie is universal entertainment -- and the spectacle helps cover their escape. When they're far enough toward the entrance of the library and far enough away from everyone's active perception, Satoru pushes the thought of invisibility as they slip out, so nobody knows which direction they're going.

He drops the entrancement when they're far enough away, and leans against the walls, still laughing.

"Your trophy, sir," he announces grandly, offering to Ed the scrap of silk hem he tore off when he used probably a bit too much strength in the wedgie.

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

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cw: sexually charged dubious consent + manipulation of these two poor npcs

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