pixieledmemes | 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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[Yusuke knows the drill. Everything here is trapped in some way, some mild and some much worse. He remembers the first party he attended, the way he forgot his true reality for a false world where he had always lived among the fae. But that had been around food. The flowers, despite his past experience with Narciso at a party, seem relatively safe.

So he had taken a boutonnières shoved into his hand, an orchid predominately on display, and then turned to see-]

Ryuji!?

[Pure shock in his voice as Yusuke fully faces his friend and he goes to ask something else, probably a question about when he got here... and that's when those little tricks he suspected could happen kick in.

It's a memory, that's for sure, but not one of his own. A strong body odor that has Yusuke wrinkling his nose in disgust as he suddenly sees multiple teen boys in a locker room. When not a moment ago Ryuji had been standing in front of him, now he is crumpled on the ground crying out in pain as a man that Yusuke has only seen once or twice stomps his thigh. The sound of cracking bone makes Yusuke almost nauseous but that is nothing compared to hearing his friend scream. He's never heard Ryuji like this. He's never wanted to.

There's barely any room for thought as Yusuke lunges towards Kamoshida, rage bubbling in his chest at the cruelty so blatantly on display and rage at those who would stand idly by as Ryuji is injured. He doesn't know what he will do once he grabs him, but perhaps a taste of the same pain Kamoshida has inflicted would be a great start.

But it is a memory. Yusuke cannot change the past. And so the lunge ends in Yusuke almost falling to the floor, with the vision gone in a flash. He's at the party again. Or maybe he never left? Quickly he catches himself and whips back around to Ryuji.]

Ryuji. You- you're all right?

Wha–?! Yusuke?

[It's beyond jarring, the memory of the worst day of his life suddenly interrupted by the flash of his friend barreling straight past him, a look of murderous rage on his face as he almost eats shit on the forest floor. Ryuji can't remember many times he's seen Yusuke look like that, but it's enough to rattle him as they whip around to face each other. What's gotten into him all of a sudden?

It's almost as if… But there's no way, that's stupid…

His hands shoot out to keep Yusuke steady, even as his own legs feel wobbly. The memory of the pain still feels so real.]

Yeah, man, I'm– [fine, all right, not totally the truth, but] I'm fine. What're you doin' here? What's the matter?

[Ryuji wobbles and Yusuke is now grabbing his shoulders to keep him steady. Two boys, holding each other in the middle of a party. Not 5 feet apart because they are bisexual.]

You're fine.

[Yusuke looks him over, sees that he doesn't look like he was rolling on the floor recently and lets out a sigh of relief.]

Good.

[Right, there's more questions to answer.]

I apologize. I thought I saw something terrible happening to you. I suppose I acted without much thought.

Test Drive Meme #2

Flower Power!

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