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Test Drive Meme #2 - Overflow

TDM #2 OVERFLOW


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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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lunar_princess: (pic#2991548)

[personal profile] lunar_princess 2025-04-06 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ponies where she's from must be awfully boring or not the most intelligent of creatures, if you asked her. Especially since she visibly winces at the all they do is neigh part, that sounds like utter Hell if you asked her. "Barbaric." Every creature that's considered sapient can talk, why would it be different anywhere else? "Though flattery will get you far further than you think it might. What... sort of colors would they be if not a range and myriad of them?" What do you mean pastel and neon isn't a color that comes on horses? Sounds fake.

"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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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2025-04-06 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, the usual shades of brown, black and white. Sometimes they are gray. There's a rare species in Asia that looks gold in the sun but they are rare." Kate sighs, "My own pony was chestnut." Kate comes from wealth. Of course she had her own pony when she was younger. "Her name was Paprika but if I could have had a green one I would have named her Emerald or maybe Jade." Those names are not very imaginative despite this dream being very creative. What gives?

"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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[personal profile] lunar_princess 2025-04-06 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's such a limited range for them to be, in her opinion. Though she quickly forgets that entirely when she talks about her pony and she's opening and then closing her mouth before her expression turns into a thin-lipped head tilt. "... Your own pony? That you named?" This is not sitting quite right with her even if the ones in her world aren't talking or seem to be anything like her own kind. But it's still a weird thought.

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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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2025-04-08 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So limited that it's not fair. Oh, there were animal safe dyes. She could have dyed her horse's mane to be more fanciful but then green hair would have clashed with her riding ensemble. The best Kate could do was to braid Peprika's hair and tie it with a green ribbon to match her helmet. "Yeah. I named her after a spice. I was young so I misspelled it but the name stuck. I mean, who else would have named her?" Her mother who could not speak? Of course not, be sensible about these things Princess Luna.

"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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[personal profile] lunar_princess 2025-04-10 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly you can't clash with the riding ensemble, then everyone would be talking about it and that sort of attention isn't good for anyone, duh. It's less the naming her part that seems to bother her and the owning part that does. Pets exist in her world, certainly, but it's weird thinking of that context with a creature that is in some ways similar to her and her kind. "There is something, admittedly, unnerving about the context of owning a pony." They communicate, probably, in some way! Probably.

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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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2025-04-10 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. I can imagine. Especially if you existed on my world. You might get put into a traveling menagerie and exploited." Or worse but Kate is not going to bring that up. She has some restraint (but not much in this state.)

"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?"