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Test Drive Meme #2 - Overflow

🦋 Expand for Test Drive #2 Prompts
🦋 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.
One day I won't forget notifs oops
Unfortunate for her that that's not the case.
Though her ears prick when she hears her voice, shifting to look at her and... pausing a little when she truly listens to what's been said. "... The correct term would be alicorn." In fact she'll be happy enough to flutter her wings a bit to make them more obvious. "Nor do I bite someone, there is no reason to keep a distance from me."
Oopsies but it's all good.
"Please forgive my mistake. I've never met an alicorn before." The denial is strong within Kate. Soon, she'll be hit with a rude awakening but not now. "Do you have a name? I'm Kate."
\o/
"That is perfectly fine, we are not... the most common of types, after all." She can think of all of four, including herself, for that matter. A rude awakening is still an awakening and being angry at the Fae? It could always be worse. "Luna. Princess, if you're intent on titles. But it is a pleasure to meet you. Even if I'm... not quite sure what you are." What is a human? Why are they so... skin.
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"Oh you're a princess too? What are you or where are you princess of?" Kate is practically gleeful at this. It reminds her of something she used to play with as a small child... before she grew up. "I'm a human being. Have you really never seen one before?"
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"Ah. One of the princesses of Equestria, specifically. Though my duty is more to raise and lower the moon on top of going into dreams as needed." It's a lot more complicated than that, but there's not reason to get into all of that right now, she's fairly sure. Especially since it's probably going to be a moot point given how the skies here seem to function already. "No? I have never heard that term, either. Nor can I think of any creatures that are quite similar to how you look." Well, there is technically Ahuizotl but whether that actually exists or not is up for debate.
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"Equestria? How many princesses are there?" It's almost too much for Kate, the lore. "You raise and lower the moon? How? Do you pull it via a chariot across the sky?" Like a reverse Apollo raising the sun is what she is imagining. She can't immediately recall what myth there is of raising the moon but a horse raising it doesn't seem too weird. Certainly not weird enough to shake her belief that this is a dream.
"No humans? Do just horses populate your world?"
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She shakes her head slowly to get herself together again, those are questions she can answer. "Four, technically. One of an entirely different kingdom and another that is..." she trails off for a moment as she tries to find words to exactly explain what Twilight Sparkle's position could really be considered. "I suppose you could say she looks over a city but it's more complicated than all of that and is the newest among us." Oh it gets so much more ridiculous and complicated even if Luna finds it all utterly mundane and makes perfect sense. "No. Merely using magic. My sister does the same with the sun so that way it isn't something that is relegated to just one pony as it is... a huge amount of work as you may imagine." It can get dumber!
"No humans. Though it is not just ponies. There are other creatures in different places, off the top of my head there are dragons, griffins, yaks... Not including the different kinds of ponies as well. Technically there are three kinds of ponies and then technically the crystal ponies are also their own thing." None of it makes sense, of course, but it all makes sense to her.
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"Magic? Magic isn't real." Says the woman talking to a talking dark-purple horse with starlight glowing in her mane. Says the woman who was all to ready to believe that Princess Luna raised the moon with a chariot. "At least not in the waking world." Maybe it's Kate who should be sensible? However, that would require her believing that all of this is real.
Dragons. Griffins. Yaks? Oh my. She tries following along as best she can. It's all so fanciful, a land with no humans but other talking creatures. It might be more creative than something even herself could dream. She is set in her ways. It almost threatens to wake her up... almost.
"Wow." Is the first thing she can think of to say. "Do you all get along with each other?"
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Oh boy. She's tilting her head in question at the magic commentary, casually deciding that it'd be a better idea to just show how mundane it all is for her. Which means using simple levitation to bring herself a rather nice looking apple and setting it down into her hoof. "Perhaps it does not where you are from, but it is a very common thing where I am from. Unicorns and alicorns alike are able to use magic, something as simple as levitation even a foal can grasp." A world without magic? Boring, couldn't be her.
She could easily tell her this is no dream since she can traverse dreams, but why would she do that when she's not even aware that's what's going on? No big deal, it's not as if any of this is bothering her other than the possession of ponies part.
"For the most part. There are always some growing pains but for the most part everyone is able to talk to each other and work out whatever problem might arise. There have been... exceptions to that in the past, but usually from an outside force."
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"That's not magic, that's telekinesis. Watch this." She turns to the table and without using her hands, lifts a white rose out of its vase and floats it over to Princess Luna. It stays there afloat. The rose is so light that she doesn't have to use her hands to guide the motions. "If anything, I suppose magic is simply an ability that we don't fully understand yet." That is her being generous. Magic doesn't exist on her world but everyone has powers which isn't the same thing in her mind.
"It kind of sounds like you come from a utopia. That must be nice." She nods her head. "What kind of outside force?"