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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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heavymetals: (1992 « you're asking me?)

[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-04-30 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
That prompted a smile from Erik almost immediately, somewhere between amused and sad. Oh, you have no idea, he thought but didn't say. Good thing she wasn't a telepath, like her brother.

"Not at the moment," he said. "Not that I want to worry you, but we have had a dragon attack, about a month after our arrival. So it's best that we stay alert." He had no doubt that issues would arise, whether it was a physical danger like an attack or something else. "But life here is largely quiet and peaceful. It's not hard to get used to it."
notsogroovy: (Changed: Hug)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-04-30 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"You can't worry me more than I already am," she promised him. Because she was already worried. Waking here. Getting an overwhelming urge to eat from the table of the people who had kidnapped her. Finding out there were people she knew here. It was all troubling. Adding more wouldn't make it worse; it would only make her better informed.

"You deserve a little quiet and peace," she said gently. "Even if I wish this weren't the place for it."

Raven had never really had a family outside of Charles. Not one she wanted to remember, at least. But Erik had. Twice. One he was born to and one that he created. And both of them had been taken from him. She only wished that they'd be able to trust that this place would stay quiet and peaceful. But if they were already talking dragons, she suspected it wouldn't remain that way.
heavymetals: (1992 « patience)

[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
He wasn't trying to worry her even more, to be fair. He just figured they're better off being alert, not that he expected anything else from her.

"We all deserve a little quiet," he said with a small smile. "I don't mind it here so much, all things considered."

He would prefer it if everyone got to leave if they wanted to, but he had people here he wouldn't want to leave behind himself. He'd even go so far as to say that he had some things here that he knew he wouldn't, back home. But it was too serious a conversation for right now, so he saved that for another time.
notsogroovy: (Default)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-05-01 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. I left quiet behind when I decided to go back to the school." Or at least had decided to stay at the school. She'd gone back because of him. Because she'd found out what had happened and knew that getting to him would prevent anyone else from getting hurt, including - especially - him.

"You know, I remember when that place used to feel impossibly big. And it wasn't just when I was ten. But now there are a few dozen students and I can't walk from one part of the mansion to the other without getting stopped half a dozen times."

She still wasn't sure if she liked that part of it. Not when they all knew she was the blue girl who had saved the President. But she liked what she was doing for the older ones. Turning their abilities into a way to protect themselves instead of just a burden.
heavymetals: (1992 « patience)

[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-05-04 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Some people did get hurt, despite her best efforts. She did manage to get to him eventually, but after how much damage? After how many people were attacked and injured?

This was an old story for him, at least when compared to her, or to Charles. Ten years since. Not that it didn't weigh on him, but what hurt most from that time was nothing that really related to Nur.

"You're a hero to them," he pointed out with a small smile. He knew Raven struggled with that, but it was good. Her being such a role model. It took everything in him right now not to linger on the thought that it was gone in his time. That she was gone. "You could always disguise yourself as someone else, they would be none the wiser."
notsogroovy: (Blue: Naked)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-05-05 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven rolled her eyes. "Only because they don't know the rest of the story. That the only reason I was there was to kill someone else." Not that she'd gone through with it. And in the end, Trask had been discredited. It was even better than killing him, really, since it meant he didn't become a martyr to some mutant-hating person like Stryker.

"I was disguising myself as someone else," she pointed out ruefully. Technically as the form she'd used when she'd first met Erik. Still mostly her face and body, but pale instead of blue. "And then Stryker showed up and knocked me and the rest of the kids out and when I woke up, I was..." She didn't answer in words. Instead, she shifted into her blue form.

"And here...it's better we know each other than not."
heavymetals: (1992 « patience)

[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-05-05 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't matter. What matters is what you chose to do in the end." And she chose to do the right thing. If not for her, where would their future be? How much harm would have Erik's own actions caused? He didn't even want to think.

He shot back a flat stare at her words. "You know very well what I mean." She was disguised as a face that was still her own, whereas he meant she could pass herself off as literally anyone else at that school. A student, a teacher. Anyone. Erik still believed she should never hide, but that skill was unique as well and part of who she was.

He smiled, though, seeing her again, who she truly was. "I'm glad we're all here together, at least. We have each other."
notsogroovy: (Blue: Soldier)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-05-10 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Kids are two things. Smarter than we give them credit for and incurable gossips. Any new person that stayed in the school was going to be talked about. They were going to figure it out. She gave a put-upon sigh. "Besides, once I'd decided to stay it would have been a bad start to lie to them, no matter what they thought of me."

If they were going to trust each other, it couldn't start out on a lie. There were already enough lies and half-truths among the adults. Wasn't the whole point of raising a new generation to try to help them be better than your generation was?

"Why is it always the tragedies that bring us together?" she murmured, though she really wasn't asking him. She knew why. They all had just incompatible belief systems to not be able live together for long without clashing. Unless one of them compromised.
heavymetals: (1992 « smile)

[personal profile] heavymetals 2025-05-11 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
That draws a small, fond smile from Erik, and he nods once, agreement evident on his expression. She's right of course. To build that kind of trust, a basis for a good relationship in a place where she hopes to stay, honesty isn't just important; it's vital. However strange and uncomfortable it might be for her to get that kind of attention.

Besides, she should not need to hide. Even less so among her own people.

The smile slips into a chuckle at her question, though he doesn't answer it. Oh, if only she knew. But if it's up to Erik, she never will. "Circumstances aside... I'm really happy to see you, Raven. Truly."