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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.



🦋 Link to Overflow Post




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cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Holding Up The Wall)

Seifer Almasy | FFVIII

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-15 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Party
So... Kidnapped by some sort of magical beings, satisfied his voracious hunger (not with hotdogs, not ever), and now standing in a damn field. This was not the turn of events Seifer ever would have expected. And he looks out of place.

Tired, frazzled, perhaps even roadweary would be an appropriate term. The long gray coat he wore with its crimson crosses on the sleeves was tattered and torn where it hung about his ankles. The blue and white vest under it showed signs of dirt, attempst to patch it, and clear damage from bullet holes and blades. The only thing clean about him was perhaps his face and the silver chain and tag around his neck. He doesn't belong here.

Doesn't mean Seifer's going to back down. This place already seems safer than where he was before.

"Anyone know what in Hyne's name is going on here?" he demanded gruffly. The answer would of course come in time with the Lawspeaker, but for now Seifer wants information. He needs to know if he should make a run for it or not.

And he's so damn tired of running.
2. Dancing [Good for all forms of music]
Learning to dance, in a few different styles, was actually a mandatory course at the Gardens. You never knew when a mission would mean you needed to pass muster in a club in Timber or at a fancy Gala in Galbadia. So of course, there is nothing wrong with Seifer's moves.

It's just that he wasn't normally the sort to waste time with dancing when there were other, more important things to do. Which was why it was so confusing for him when he stopped by another hapless victim of the party and held his hand out. He could feel it, the slow curl of the music around him, the call to move to it.

"Dance with me. Might as well, right? When in Galbadia and all that."

Not, of course, that he ever wanted to go back to Galbadia in his life. For obvious reasons.
3. GEIS
What do you mean tell us a time you gave someone a gift. Do I look like I'm made of money? I mean yeah I got things for Fuu and Rai, but the posse stuck together back in those days. Also what's the point of a bribe for a story? What's going on here?
bardische: (ba20)

2 - lmao any music pref? they're all funny

[personal profile] bardische 2025-03-16 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Basch, too, had had his fair of dancing lessons, first as a son of nobility, and then as he rose in rank to Captain and General. He did not like social events, but he liked shirking responsibility less, and so on occasion he had to adequately represent his kingdom in ways that supported his monarch.

Here, he was staying far from the dance floor, loathe to embarrass himself, or become stuck with some chattering partner. He still felt raw and somber; there was no reason for festivity. He was trying to skirt around the edges, but a couple passed in front of him and he sidestepped into earshot.

An odd sensation welled in him, a restlessness and need to move. Before he could consider it more deeply, Seifer's propostion met his ear, gloriously framed as an order.

He nodded, gesturing for the other to lead the way. "Do you prefer to lead or follow? I am comfortable with both."
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

i mean I could go any way. roll it?

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-16 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Orders are useful, and SEifer was happy to throw them out there. In fact...

"Better to lead than follow," he says, grabbing a hand and pulling the man to the music.

This was weird, right? This has to be weird. Why is he doing this?
bardische: (Default)

I got three -- tension (sexual or negative)

[personal profile] bardische 2025-03-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Basch readily takes the other's hand, perfectly happy to take the following position. Practical, perhaps; he is a few inches shorter than the other blonde, though they are built similarly.

Normally, Basch would be happy to simply follow until he was released, but he can't take his eyes off the other, a strange internal itch rubbing at him.

"Not very talkative, are you?"
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

hahaha given the other interaction, negative?

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Given the scene you staged earlier, why would I want to be talkative? You're here to stand around and make me look prettier."

By comparison that was. He looks younger and more polished, even with his clothes in a bad state.
bardische: (ba28)

perfect. hilarious.

[personal profile] bardische 2025-03-20 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"You didn't have to speak to me then, and you do not have to spend time in my company now," he snaps back. Uncharacteristically.

He also could walk away, and yet he doesn't. His feet keep moving in the steps of the dance, his gaze hard on the younger man, like he's a cadet trying to break his Captain's resolve.

Quite a pair they are, both their clothes in a sorry state and their glare obvious from across the dance floor.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

Re: perfect. hilarious.

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, he's a former cadet that had broken a lot of resolves over the years. Why do you think that you're that much more special than them? Who said you're that good? Seifer will break you, mister pretending at authority. Mister grumpy-guts.

"Oh, but who else is going to dance with a scarred man who can't seem to find the business end of a shaving kit? Gotta take pity on you, clearly."
bardische: (ba17)

Re: perfect. hilarious.

[personal profile] bardische 2025-03-21 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
He would be the first cadet to succeed since Basch had made Captain. The insults don’t land because he simply doesn’t care.

Even agrees.

“You’re a gentleman then, or a bully with a delight in a trapped target. I will serve either fantasy if it will soothe whatever wound had you hissing like a barn cat.”
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

Re: perfect. hilarious.

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-21 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Someone can be both," Seifer says with a grin. "Did you like your grass tea? Got to be great on a belly."

And oh, there is a sharpness to his smirk.

Re: perfect. hilarious.

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sod_off: (Spike 14)

(Seifer <3) Party

[personal profile] sod_off 2025-03-16 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Seifer is not the only short-slicked-back-haired blonde in a trench around. Spike's own is bleached blonde, and his trench black leather, but the similar look is there. He was passing by, when he heard the gruff demand. Turning on a combat boot heel, Spike looks the other up and down in an assessing way. Then tilts his head. "No idea who that is. What're you supposed to be?"
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

god these two in a place together is the perfect storm for a disaster <3

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-16 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh don't worry, Spike's getting his own appraising look up and down. And a twist of lips that says maybe the guy's coat is in better condition, but Seifer is not impressed.

"Hyne created the world. Self-righteous ass that we killed before history was history," Seifer answered with a shrug. "And I'm a mercenary. What the hell are you supposed to be?"
sod_off: (Spike 4)

This'll be great...

[personal profile] sod_off 2025-03-16 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Amused, apparently. Lucky for you--I am." Spike retorted quickly and with snark. "They" A jerk of his head to some of the Fae. "tell you it's a party for you?"
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

They'll get along with a house on fire. Spike can be the house, Seifer brings the fire

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-16 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, which is shit," Seifer answered with a nod. No one was throwing a party for a guy in his state.

He looked like crap and he knew it, and he wasn't going to call it any other way. But he was too proud to admit it out loud. Was it really his fault that he almost died while being sorta kinda mind-controlled?
sod_off: (Spike 4)

Burning everywhere!

[personal profile] sod_off 2025-03-17 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, it is. I was fed the same line. So've all of us here who aren't actual fae. You familiar with fae? Fairies and trolls and brownies and stuff?" Spike actually kind of approved of the other so far.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Chilling In Thought)

Fish love them women fear them. Wait. Wrong way.

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-17 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good question. The gunblader crosses his arms over his chest, tilts his head and closes his eyes to think about it. The mannerism is one echoed from his rival though he knows it not. But the thinking is needed because he didn't really grow up with the usual childhood background. Not many story books happened and all of that.

"Fantasy stories they tell to children to give them lessons. The ones that aren't 'behave or the monsters will get you'. Which are way more practical lessons all things considered."
sod_off: (Spike 7)

Oh I *like* you. We're gonna get along.

[personal profile] sod_off 2025-03-17 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
"That'd be them. They're real though, can be pretty nasty, and have kidnapped you pretty much. Just like a bunch of us here." Spike grinned, easy and almost friendly.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

You make my 'second application seems an easy choice' into a far harder one

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-17 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well that sounds like shit. Seifer sighs and his thumb comes up to rub over his scar.

"Cold iron? Salt?"

A general question of 'do those work or are those just stories?' Clearly the guy seems more adjusted to what is going on, seems right to ask.

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bestials: (XMFC 066 serum)

GEIS; @therealMcCoy

[personal profile] bestials 2025-03-20 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really get it, either. It almost feels like they're trying to eke information out of us. Though I can't see what use this sort of information could possibly be for them.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Default)

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Information is power. People tell you plenty in how they say shit as well as what they say. It's intel gathering 101. But it's a weird ass first step into it. That's why I'm bothered.
bestials: (106)

[personal profile] bestials 2025-03-20 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
It definitely bothers me, too. If only because the only answer I have for it is an embarrassing one.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Disrespecting The Table)

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh come on. You can't say that and not expect me to go 'oh, tell me more'.
bestials: (XMFC 026 Raven)

[personal profile] bestials 2025-03-20 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Let's just say, I tried to give the girl I liked a solution to a problem we both had. But it turned out she didn't think it was a problem that needed to be solved.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Healing Power of Lulz)

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Hyne. You thought 'I want to change you' was a romantic gesture? Shiva's Tits, I bet she didn't want to talk to you again!
bestials: (XMFC 041)

[personal profile] bestials 2025-03-20 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
She seemed on board with it at first! She just... changed her mind in between the development of the prototype and its creation.
cross_swords: Seifer Almasy from FFVIII (Holding Up The Wall)

[personal profile] cross_swords 2025-03-20 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you're saying that, but you just weren't paying attention, right? Don't know how to wine and dine. Man, I'm sure these hosts of ours have a lot to learn from you. What not to do is an important lesson too.

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