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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.



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fatedfinality: ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ɢᴇᴛ ɪᴛ ʀɪɢʜᴛ (Iᴛ's Dᴀᴅᴅʏ)

[personal profile] fatedfinality 2025-04-04 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Reggie, he says, and Ardyn can't help the small curl of his lips in amusement at the friendly nickname. Ah, he's being rewarded in such interesting ways for his deceit. No wonder he keeps up with it.

Even if he had been caught in the lie, well... Wasn't there some kind of myth about The Fae and not giving your name? He could probably use that, if he had to, but thankfully he doesn't yet. Granted, once Regis learns his actual name - or worse, his moniker of Adagium - he doubts his false name will be of any real concern.

"Me? Oh, no," he admits. "I was in the middle of waiting for someone, but it was going to be a while still before they arrived." How long had he been sitting there, after all? A few years, at least, but it was hard to tell after a while. When you're over two thousand, the flow of time gets a bit nebulous.
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[personal profile] chosenkingoflucis 2025-04-04 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Noctis grunts in pain as his arm is wrenched behind him, his weapon vanishing as he feels the cool tinge of metal against the skin of his throat. Still, he struggles against the hold, teeth gritted and eyes ablaze with hate.

No! It can't end like this! Everyone is counting on him! Dad, Luna, Iggy... too many have made sacrifices for him. He can't fail them now!

"You wouldn't dare!" He replies in a low growl, head tipped back to avoid the blade's edge.
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As requested

[personal profile] sod_off 2025-04-04 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Spike got along with Noctis well enough, he supposed. Didn't really care one way or another about what was clearly a personal matter. But he did enjoy a good fight.

Which is why Ardyn might be surprised himself as he's body-slammed from behind. One hand moving to immobilize the arm with the knife. The other arm is going to break that hold on Noctis. Spike is a vampire, and he's prepared for pain if the chip in his head activates.

"I wouldn't say allies so much as I just love a good fight. And you look like you can give a fun one." All sarcasm and attitude. Noctis might be surprised though, when he realizes what's going on. Because Spike doesn't look human anymore. He brought his game face for this.
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<3

[personal profile] piperofdeath 2025-04-04 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Normally Kai wouldn't give in to Spike's goading so easily, but his emotions fed the wild magic inside him that resented being caged. Bad idea or not, Kai felt himself leaning into his magical instincts and his glowing eyes burned brighter as a faint shadowy wind with the whisper of a flute swirled into being around him.

Kai focused on the whisper of the flute woven into the magical aura around him. Normally he could only resonate with the lingering emotions of the dead with his music, but a part of Kai was dead so he could use this little trick without his flute and resonate with his his own emotions. The shadowy wind around him shifted into a small burst of flames that he shoved Spike away with.

His eyes flickered with a panicked spark when he remembered where they were, and he quickly dismissed his flames. "Last warning. Leave."
fatedfinality: ɪ'ᴍ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ɪɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴀʟʟ ᴏғ ᴇᴍ. (ᴀɴᴅ ᴍʏ ʙᴏʏ ᴅᴏᴡɴ sᴏᴜᴛʜ)

[personal profile] fatedfinality 2025-04-04 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't I? You've seen what I can do whe- Oof."

He's only surprised by the force, which cuts him off, but not the actual save. It is a save, he'd say, even as Spike tries to make excuses for himself butting in. That's what he was looking for. Hm, an interesting person to have a fondness for Noctis but not entirely off-base. He wonders what niche from the princeling's former ragtag group of friends this one fills in.

"It's an art form I've polished quite nicely, yes," he agrees, unbothered and - Spike may be able to tell - letting him disarm the redhead momentarily. "Just ask Noctis, after all. We've had such fun before." Now he's just being an asshole.
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[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-04-04 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ There is a reason why Erik doesn't want Charles to see those memories. Well, several reasons, atually, but there is knowledge of loss behind that door that he doesn't want Charles to suffer through before he has to. Even the ways in which he changed, perhaps pushed to a limit in his own mind, led astray by his own goal of coexistence, to the point of putting his own people at risk.

It was difficult. They were all pushed to their limits, and with Raven's death...

And to Charles, Jean's loss on top of that. ]


No. [ Not that he needs to answer when Charles knows it already. ] It's still well in your future, and right now— it might not even come to happen to you. We don't truly know what happens now that we've been brought here.

[ Charles might go back to create an entirely different timeline, or they might not go back at all. They might go back and everyone is dead and gone. Erik has probably run all the worst case scenarios through his head at this point. ]
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[personal profile] chosenkingoflucis 2025-04-04 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
The sudden force is also surprising to Noctis, but if there's one thing Noctis is good at, it's coordinating with others. He takes the opportunity to tear free, even if he's a little stunned.

The voice sounds like Spike, but the feral creature before him looks more akin to a daemon than the blond tough-guy he knows. Well, without the miasma.

"Hey, thanks for the save! I owe you one!"

Regardless, he's not going to look a gift chocobo in the beak as he jumps back out of Ardyn's range, calling a weapon, the Blade of the Mystic, to hand and launching back at his adversary with a flurry of blows.

"I'll show you fun!" He spits with a fiery fury.

He's careful to maneuver around Spike, his movements short and quick; he's not going to let Ardyn catch him off guard again. But he's also not going to give the Chancelor any quarter, as he once more summons his Armiger, seizing weapon after weapon, and initiating quick successive strikes, finishing with a final arial slash imbued with the power of light.

Yeah, he's pretty pissed off now.
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[personal profile] earlylight 2025-04-04 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
"If they come from you, I'm sure they are wonderful." Aerith offers him a flower, "The best gifts come from those we love. It doesn't really matter what the gift looks like or how much it's worth."

The thoughtfulness behind it means much more.
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[personal profile] ljome 2025-04-04 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ When he takes the flower, he will notice that it is not made of flora and petals, but seashells, small and nearly weightless. His compliment gets a wink in return. But his question gets a thoughtful tilt of her head.]

Whim perhaps? Or to be better understood by our darling adopted? The reason changes as quick as the wind changes direction. [She chuckles.] Tell me, why are your lords high and your ladies not? Does that not seem unfair and disproportionate? A queen is no weaker than a king, a princess the same as a prince.
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[personal profile] gunsandrosegold 2025-04-04 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
(( continued here ))
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[personal profile] gunsandrosegold 2025-04-04 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Frida isn't exactly sure how to respond to that. It only seemed right to want to worry about not harming the others here.

Still, the king's presence somehow still eases them a little bit, and they offer a bow of their head as they're dismissed. ]


Thank you, your majesty.
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[personal profile] nuntius 2025-04-04 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
And that.

[ He would be SO OFFENDED if mb said that so it's best it just. Doesn't. He does not have a halo dammit (his wings ARE rather soft, but that's neither here nor there. ]

This is just a vessel. My true form looks much different.
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[personal profile] secunit 2025-04-04 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I once transferred my mind into the shared computing space of a company gunship's bot-pilot to keep us all from dying.

[ It's still feeling... for lack of a better word, woozy. From the not-poison, and from the restart. It would normally keep this thought to itself. ]

Almost deleted myself doing that.

[ It doesn't recommend. Going from a small form to a massive one all at once and then crashing back into your normal shape is... a lot. And it's not the physical size, it's all the raw computing power, and the different coding architecture, and...

Yeah. Not doing that again, thanks. It's not exaggerating about the deletion, it had had to rebuild itself using only its organic neural tissue for a long time, there. The other part of its brain had been effectively soft-bricked. ]


I have one reference to a lot of wings and eyeballs and fire. Something more like that? Or is that also inaccurate.

[ It needs to know, for science. ]
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[personal profile] nuntius 2025-04-04 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He understands that. A creature as large as the Chrysler building crammed into the tiny body of a human. It's claustrophobic at best, he feels trapped. He doesn't mind this body, but knowing he can't escape it here is crushing, and something he tries very hard not to dwell on. ]

That's more accurate, yes. Three sets of wings, spinning wheels, countless eyes. Three heads.


[ ]
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[personal profile] secunit 2025-04-04 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Going from big to small doesn't seem to be as much of a problem, Murderbot's allowed ART to flow through its code several times and the fucker didn't even pause the thirty other things it was doing at the same time. It's the going from small to big and back again that is... kind of... an oopsie. ]

I have a lot of eyes, too.

[ It only has two organic ones in its face. But it lifts the hand that still has its sleeve pushed back to expose the gunport, and points at one of the drones hovering overhead. Tiny, spherical little things with no visible means of staying afloat. They're all over the place in the party, staying well overhead and out of everyone's way.

Watching everything. ]


Those are also mine.

[ It's very out-of-it. ]
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[personal profile] elementofcupcakes 2025-04-04 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's probably why the cookies tasted bad. They didn't try hard enough to magic us. But I think their cakes are way better! The lady with the leaves and fur let me have as much as I want! I bet I can speak any language now!
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[personal profile] hybrid_king 2025-04-04 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not in my nature," Teddy says with a shrug. But he nods as he pulls out the Leaf. "Let me get your data for it?"

He wants to make sure that he can reach Harry if he needs to.
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[personal profile] silent_sacrifice 2025-04-04 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What a woman she is. How dare the world deny him the honor of knowing her before? Perhaps they all would have been better had they just known her.

"The world must be a gentler place in your eyes than I have ever known it to be."
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[personal profile] victorycurls 2025-04-04 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
continued over here
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-04-04 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[eating makes them happy. so they shove another snack in their mouth.]

I'd bee habby doo gedd tha fugg oudda here. [monch. swallow.

while licking their fingers:]
I got shit to do. I'd've come if someone asked.

[and given them time to pick a different face, god fucking DAMMIT.]
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[personal profile] earlylight 2025-04-04 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Each of them has something good to offer. Aerith considers herself one piece of a gigantic puzzle. Gaia has put her where she is most needed, she thinks. She hopes.

"We can make it softer, day by day, if we try. Just a little, that's enough. Even if someone is cruel to you, if you find them bleeding, why not help them? That could be the day they change."
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[personal profile] sod_off 2025-04-04 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Spike will hold Noctis to that IOU. That's a form of currency here that's more valuable than other things. Mind, when Noctis starts summoning weapons there's a startled "Oi!" yelped out in protest. Ardyn is free to move to dodge (as Spike could indeed tell the other was letting him be held), but Spike is keeping in close to him. A hand or something not far the whole time to avoid letting him slip away.

"You could kill someone!" Spike scolds Noctis. Which the dark haired man my want, but Spike wanted to fight Ardyn. That's why he intervened. It's why he's staying close to Ardyn now so the other can't slip away.
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[personal profile] formerabyssinian 2025-04-04 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Pass

[Still gonna be put on his radar but nopes out of the conversation.]
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Handwaved wrap up

[personal profile] tillimgone 2025-04-05 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
And then they slip off to make out, until Till says "later /winkwink" and slips away. Then shit hits the fan with Narciso~
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[personal profile] victorycurls 2025-04-05 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
(continued here)