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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.

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[ Okay, he cannot keep up his meditative state when Xenk Yendar is touching his cock. He draws in a breath and does his very best to stay still as Xenk binds him, but even he can't help the little shivers of delight that run through his body.

He hardly minds the tighter knots at the base. His cock had started to harden, but it would have a much more difficult time now--a denial that makes it all the sweeter, in his mind. Not that they were doing this for pleasure, but. ]

That's better.

[ It's still exciting to watch, the way Astarion twitches and is clearly affected now that Xenk has his cock under his full attention. Being bound so beautifully, it's no surprise that he's a marvel to look at, and while Xenk's really trying his best to do well here, some part of him wants this to be good for Astarion, too.

Still, Xenk fastens the knots and even ties around Astarion's balls, the whole thing set in such a way that Astarion's twitching cock will only tighten the ropes and squeeze him tighter. Xenk had paid extra attention to this part, clearly. ]

There.

[ It is undeniably good rope work. Xenk clearly paid attention, and Astarion can feel how the knots will end up tighter. They're dangerous knots, if you aren't a vampire. But one of the things Astarion quite enjoys is knowing that being a vampire makes him strong in ways he never could have been as a human. That he can take more, and endure more, and enjoy more.

He tests the bonds, mostly for show. The rope is tight and the knots hold. If he really wanted, he could rip them apart. This isn't chain that's made to actually subdue vampires, after all. ]

Well done. I'd give you...an eight out of ten.

[ Xenk really is proud of his work! He'd taken rigorous notes and put his effort into making it difficult -- even painful, as vampires often prefer the added experience of pain to the comfort found in simply human limits.

His face falls immediately at the score, brow furrowed and lips parting a moment before he remembers to steel that down. ]

I see.

[ Really the flash of emotion must seem comical, with how his shock is followed by frustration. With himself, mostly. He could have been better. Should have been better. Falling short is unacceptable. ]

How can I improve, for any future attempts?

Edited (more xenk) 2023-12-29 17:38 (UTC)

[ Oh. That's actually cute. He'd intended to rile Xenk up a bit, but he wasn't expecting this almost boyish reaction, with Xenk looking downright concerned. Astarion will remember this. ]

You should have undressed me first, so the knots would be against my skin. This all feels a bit ridiculous, I'm wearing far too many layers for it to actually be exciting for either of us. There are ways to leave people at least somewhat dressed, but the bulk of fabric here is a bit of a turn off.

[ Yes, he's just casually critiquing while tied up with a his dick in a rope vice. This is simply who he is. ]

And I docked an additional point for creativity. Your last knots were quite good, but your initial positioning and harness were something even the dullest of novices could have come up with if forced to make a decision. If it hadn't been for your finishing touches, I would've taken off more points.

[ Xenk has some problems and many of them stem from his need to be perfect. But he also knows that the road to getting there is... not won by force. He just would have hoped to have achieved perfection by now! But. He will take the L. ]

Of course.

[ He forgot to undress Astarion!!! What an easy mistake. For all his attention to the lecture, he'd missed a pretty vital step. And yes, this is totally a conversation to be having with someone who is tied up in red rope and looking beautiful -- but not comfortable. Xenk doesn't have any excuse for forgetting, but the last of Astarion's feedback is especially cutting. Novice work. Truly an insult. His maker, gone though he might be, wouldn't stand for this.

(Never mind that this isn't something that Szass Tam would give a single fuck about!)

Xenk clenches his fists, that frustration at himself growing, but held back tightly. Creativity has ever been a weakness of his. It's not like effort or practice will ever improve that one. Only time, yet after 30 years he's changed so little... ]

I understand. I will seek to improve, in the future.

Practice teaches creativity.

[ It's obvious what Xenk is struggling with here, even without being able to read his mind. ]

You make adjustments and over time you learn what you like and how to make it more uniquely yours.

[ Yeah, he wears his issues on his sleeve. Though to Xenk, he'd think he's done a great job of hiding it.

Still, he listens to what Astarion has to say, thinking on what he'd done, his own enjoyment, and perhaps even what the difference had been, between what he did well and what he didn't. Once he'd been taught to listen to only one person, one particular vampire. But he's at least moved well past that. ]

I will... try.

[ He says this almost owlishly. For an old man, Xenk takes to learning like it's required of him. But he does enjoy it too, in his own way. ]

Thank you for your honest critique.

You're quite welcome. Schooling you is cute. It's a pity I never got to be your teacher.

[ He shifts again in the rope, drawing a sharp breath as it tightens around his cock. ]

So what's your plan now, Xenk? You've got me tied up and at your mercy.

Edited 2023-12-29 18:54 (UTC)

[ Xenk levels Astarion a stare. 'Cute' is not something he's accustomed to being called. Astarion may be younger than him, but he is still a youngblood, same as him. ]

I would have been a poor student, unfortunately.

[ He basically parroted Szass Tam's teachings his entire time. Which isn't too far from how he is now, but just imagine -- it was worse. That said, he does still have Astarion at his mercy, as he said. ]

Does my work bore you enough that you wish to be freed? Or would you like me to pleasure you for your efforts?

Oh, I'm not bored. I just didn't know what end you had in mind here. But if you're not interested in pleasure...

[ He says it like he'd just walk away now, if that was how he felt. But he thought he'd made a pretty compelling case with his hand on Xenk's thigh throughout the lecture. ]

I am.

[ Yeah, Xenk was pretty sure he didn't misread this one! Watching Astarion squirm had been pleasurable, and tying him up at his mercy was good, but it wasn't quite enough. Xenk would see him desperate.

He gets down on his knees to meet Astarion face to face, yet bends down yet lower -- on all fours, to take the head of Astarion's cock in his mouth, ropes and all. ]

[ Okay, yeah, whatever Astarion was expecting it was not that. Maybe later he'll tell him he earned back his creativity points. That cannot be the most comfortable, but he hardly has time to think about Xenk's comfort when his mouth is suddenly on his cock. ]

Fuck.

[ His body moves to react, muscles jumping in reaction only to hit the pressure of the rope, constraining him where he's bound in his clothes. His cock tries to rise and get hard for Xenk, but as it does the ropes just tighten more and he chokes out a moan as he tries to figure out how to deal with his perfectly-laid trap. ]

[ It isn't comfortable, but Xenk wasn't going for comfortable, either. He presses his the flat of his tongue against the ropes, sucking a bit as he feels himself drool against the darkening material. Of course he can taste Astarion beneath it too, enjoying the slightly salty taste of his skin and the warm throb of his cock as it fights against its binds.

Xenk opens his eyes and stares up at him from below, golden eyes bright with building desire. It's good to feel and hear Astarion struggle. This is what Xenk had been yearning for. To see and feel him bound in place. Even boring craftsmanship can still hold the man in place. ]

[ There's something incredibly good about the way Xenk licks the rope instead of his skin. The absolute perfect denial, as if the material was more important than his own pleasure. His cock strains and the pain just heightens, sending sparks through his entire body. His toes curl and it does occur to him if that Xenk had stripped him, he likely would've given him the same treatment with the tightening ropes there--a minor blessing that it isn't the case now.

Xenk's stare is intense, like everything he does. Astarion must be quite the contrast, coming apart as Xenk holds himself so perfectly together. He's sure it makes for a good picture. ]

Founders, it hurts just trying to get hard.

[ But with the way his emphasis sounds, it'd be hard to mistake that for him saying he didn't like it. ]

[ Xenk shoots Astarion a quick look, as if gauging whether his words are intended positively or negatively. Considering the way his cock throbs and fights the rope, he's going to go with positive. Which is good, because Xenk is greatly enjoying watching and feeling Astarion fight against the ropes that bind him.

He's sure to be the perfect picture, fully dressed in his full, regal clothes and yet on his hands and knees, sucking on Astarion's trapped cock. He circles and traces the paths of each rope as he can, taking more of Astarion's cock into his mouth to hollow out his cheeks and please him further, perhaps coax more words from him. If he cannot have perfection in his rope work, at least he might have it like this. ]

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