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Test Drive Meme #2

TDM #2 - March/April 2025
🦋 Introduction

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🦋 The Party

You wake up at a party.

You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.

Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.

It's a garden party at the crack of dawn, with the sun still in its early stages of climbing through the yonder, casting a good mix of pastel hues of blue, pink, and beige on everything. Heralding the first day of spring, the Ruler of the Spring Court has found it fitting to arrange this gathering where guests can feel the blades of grass touching their ankles, as well as the rich soil beneath their feet. Flowers of all kinds surround the party as if they were carefully curated. With spring as the "dawn of seasons," which marks a transition from winter's latency to the resurgence of life everywhere, the Ruler of the Dawn Court has also seen it fit to host aspects of this party during the one time of the year that dawn occurs the whole day. Tall candles and torches grace the outskirts of the garden party, providing warmth and an orange glow everywhere. Not one flame goes out even with the occasional wind, the Duchess always makes sure of this.

There are also freshly picked blossoms and branches with leaves on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. This time, a lot of the food prepared for the Adopted guests are familiar to them with a little bit of a twist. Burgers might come in small packages and in toothpicks, while hotdogs in buns are also diminutive. Cookies look delectable but they have a flowery flavor to them, as if eating freshly picked daisies or daffodils. Fruits that may have been present in an Adopted's home, such as pineapples and watermelons, have seeds in odd places. Picking this selection of food is an attempt to be more welcoming and to appease the lovely guests the fae have invited.

As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.

I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.

As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.


🦋 Chance at a Dance

A party is not complete without dancing, of course, and while during the last gathering held for the Adopted, different fae danced to music exclusively for them around a glowing tree, this time they are insisting their guests to join in.

This is a party for you, after all.

If the prodding of the different fae hosts won't convince you, perhaps the music will. They play easily recognizable tunes that their wonderful guests must have heard before. These melodies have certain unique effects to their mortal attendees, which are as follows:

  • Upbeat Music: You will believe that you and your dance partner have been friends forever and have known each other a long time.
  • Romantic Music: You will become amorous and flirtatious towards your dance partner.
  • Slow Music: You will develop some tension with your dance partner. It may be negative or sexual; completely up to you.
  • Quiet Music: You will assume your dance partner is a threat and try to fight them.


🦋 Flower Power

At the Spring King's behest, every Adopted should wear a flower corsage or boutonnière to the gathering. After all, this is to celebrate the coming of spring and what better way to do that than to honor everything in bloom.

The thing is, though, the King of Spring, while amorous and friendly, also has a penchant for playing with mortals' memories, if not also affect their desires and despairs.

So, mischievous as he is, he made sure to enchant the different flowers present in every corsage and boutonnière for the party with the effects below:

  • Rose: You will recall a horrific trauma
  • Carnation: You will see a vision of your future, whether it's good or bad
  • Orchid: You will remember a time you lost someone
  • Chrysanthemum: You will believe someone among the Adopted is your soulmate
  • Dahlia: You will believe you betrayed someone important to you, whether you actually did or not

It is perhaps a good thing that no one but the Adopted are allowed to see these visions and memories, but everyone who wears a corsage or boutonnière will be able to see each other's memories and visions when in close enough physical proximity to the vision-haver, for better or for worse.


🦋 GEIS

You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.

Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.

Tell us all of a time you gave someone a gift. Perhaps a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Was it appreciated or not? A reward might await the most meaningful gift given.



🦋 Link to Overflow Post




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gossiptoilet: (pic#17739314)

[personal profile] gossiptoilet 2025-03-25 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
"In your lung?" He looks a bit aghast at that. "I guess that must be unpleasant."

He look at his plate of food. Having come from the Good Place to arrive here it had never occurred to him to be suspucious.

"Worried about what's in it? What could possibly be in it?"
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[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Empath?" Fangorn unknowingly has similar things to that in his world, but the term is unfamiliar. "Mm, it sounds as if she was wise."
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[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Mmbr, I agree. Therefore, I will stay for the time being. The Mother is a high sorceress indeed if she was able to bring me here.
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[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Treebeard nods his trunk again, pondering the words.

"Among the tricksters of my world, there is none more deceiving than Sauron, the Necromancer, the Lord of the Rings. His powers are fearsome, yet the peoples of Middle Earth are making their stand to defeat him. This may be called nothing less than open war."

That does not seem to be the kind of situation happening here. Fangorn knows appearances can be deceiving, however.
gossiptoilet: (pic#17739319)

[personal profile] gossiptoilet 2025-03-25 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, the yellow, you're right.

[ He picks that one up and holds it for now. ]

Did you decide?
nothasty: (pic#17749321)

[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you, but I do not eat. It was generous of you to offer."

He's been hearing other, similar things about the fae from others at the party, and he ponders it.

"There does not seem to be an equivalent being in my world."
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[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
"That is a common confusion." He gives a slight bow, as well as his ancient trunk will allow. "I am an ent. Fangorn by name, Treebeard in the common tongue."

The glowing eyes do not bother him or draw any kind of remark. It does make him think Kai must be some other race than any of the others he has met here, however.
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[personal profile] gossiptoilet 2025-03-25 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, you're sweet. I'd love to take you up on that, what's in a cosmo canyon?
elementofcupcakes: (Pony Pinkie: whoa...duuuuude...)

[personal profile] elementofcupcakes 2025-03-25 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...well, everypony but the Breezies speak Equestrian. Some don't really speak at all, like Ursa Majors or Bugbears. They just kinda growl in an angry way.
in_her_shadow: (that much stronger)

[personal profile] in_her_shadow 2025-03-25 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... well, she did demand an answer, so ]

why would you not lead with that
in_her_shadow: (you can do all i couldn't do)

[personal profile] in_her_shadow 2025-03-25 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
Aside from the basic kidnapping in general?

One guy got his weapon stolen after attacking them. Other than that, I haven't asked, and no one's talked about it. So I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised, though. Why else bring us here, if not to be pawns?
in_her_shadow: (now it's up to you)

[personal profile] in_her_shadow 2025-03-25 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ It doesn't take long for her to realize she's being followed. ]

What do you want now?
nothasty: (pic#17749318)

[personal profile] nothasty 2025-03-25 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
I have heard from others the term 'tricksters' for the fae. We don't seem to have exactly the same sort of thing in the world from which I hail.
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[personal profile] justbefore 2025-03-25 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
There! Much better. [ She purrs as the candle lights correctly. Sahar gives Lucien a pat on the shoulder for his part in that. ]

Now, before you go off and make a fool of yourself elsewhere, I should warn you: [ The duchess steps back, raises a single finger into the air for effect. ] Javora, our Autumn Princess, is not known for her love of children. [ Sahar says with a wild-eyed chuckle. ]

You might notice the magic here is slightly different from home. And you likely won't recognize any of our courtiers. [ Not impossible, though; stranger things have happened. There's a tight but almost-pleasant smile on her face when she says: ] Though, we'd happily Adopt you into our courts all the same.
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[personal profile] justbefore 2025-03-25 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sahar tosses her head back and lets out one of her cackles. ] I see the King is already out here making many, many friends. [ That Narciso, always a complete idiot. ]

If the opportunity arises, I'll not only give you the chance to prove yourself, I might even give you your glowing blade back. [ She darkly promises a moment later, pleasant smile on her face as if they were discussing the weather. ]
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[personal profile] justbefore 2025-03-25 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ She waves him off, but pauses the motion as he begins to walk. ] I'll look forward to that drink, sometime. [ Sahar quickly adds on before Spike can get too far from her. She did love a good story, after all. And these Adopted were bound to have some good ones.

Her eyes glow red in the dim light before she sighs overdramatically and says through gritted teeth: ]
You have my thanks. [ A beat. ] Is that satisfactory? I know you all have such a unique custom about thanking people. [ As in, they all did it entirely too often, at the drop of a hat. But Sahar does, to an extent, want her pets to be comfortable. ]
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[personal profile] justbefore 2025-03-25 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ The duchess arcs an eyebrow. Curious. Very curious. The blood would be fine she supposed, but-

Hmmm. This really would be just. So convenient.

...Plus maybe, just maybe, there would be a better account of her people; the Unseelie still very much have a reputation among the Adopted and Sahar genuinely would love the chance to show their true colors to the masses. ]


Fine. [ A quick beat of silence goes by before she tacks on a stern: ] Don't embarrass me.

I will make sure the others recognize how valuable your poetic position is to us all. [ She vows. ]
unseensmiter: @yevon (if they move too quick)

[personal profile] unseensmiter 2025-03-25 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
you're on a short list of people amused by akechi

...honestly i think it's mostly just
you
my big bro
and this really nice girl who deserves better
in_her_shadow: (but because i knew you)

[personal profile] in_her_shadow 2025-03-25 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
you're a big boy now, i'm sure you can get it
unseensmiter: @yevon (the blonde waitresses take their trays)

[personal profile] unseensmiter 2025-03-25 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
WELL I DON'T WANNA GET LIKE
EXPERIMENTED ON OR SOMETHING
I DON'T WANT MY BRAIN DISSECTED
SO I TRY NOT TO LEAD IN WITH "BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW LOVECRAFT...?"
earlylight: perserverance, longing (golden pothos)

[personal profile] earlylight 2025-03-25 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
"...they were waiting...for me to grow." Aerith does know that much, "The experiments... I could handle them better grown than I could as a child."

What gross reasoning. Do you see the face she is giving you, Genesis? That one is usually reserved for Hojo.
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-03-25 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Dragon ain't here. [beat.] Better fuckin' not be, or we'll all fuckin' die in the middle of some long-ass boring-ass lecture nobody gives a shit about.

[they take being addressed as permission to reach past Levi's plate and grab some snack nearby that may or may not be the sort one grabs with their fingers. whatever, man!]
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[personal profile] hybrid_king 2025-03-25 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Someone who can read the emotions of another with accuracy," Teddy explains with a smile. "And she can be wise. But all wise people can also be foolish."
silent_sacrifice: Genesis Rhapsodos from Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core (Default)

[personal profile] silent_sacrifice 2025-03-25 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Well that earns a look of annoyance and disgust from Genesis. That was most decidedly not something he could approve of. But he well knows that face. He reserved it for Hollander.

"My greatest grief and apologies, dear lady, for that which would have been inflicted upon you. And for what you lost."
nuntius: (SPN802HD_1258b)

[personal profile] nuntius 2025-03-25 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Likewise.

[ Something is very wrong with him, too. Angels, again, do not have souls, so the feeling is a mystery. Uncomfortable at best, and the worst, well. He isn't thinking about the terror that vibrates in his vessels chest, a heart that is not his thumping wildly against his ribcage. ]

Castiel. [ His hands fall, and the urge to take a step forward is only barely dampened. ] Angel of the Lord.