undyingcourt | Test Drive Meme

DEC TEST DRIVE MEME

Welcome to the Undying Court Test Drive Meme! This post will allow players to test drive their AU characters in the setting, as well as meet fresh faces or even connect with those they have preexisting CR with. As with anything involved in the setting, this post will likely contain: violence, enthrallment, torture, and sexual content.

Regarding continuity, all TDM threads can be taken as in-game canon if desired. Please keep in mind that the game proper will begin in mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as. This means that students planning to app as first season novices will be visiting Castle Courtsheart prior to their Beginning. In other words, if you plan to app a student as a second season, the TDM will take place during their first, and so on.

Feel free to brush up on the Premise, Vampire Powers, and head over to the FAQ/Game Info page if you have any questions!

Make sure you are aware of the Rules when posting your top-level. (Content warnings are always welcome!)
Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
As a reminder, a Test Drive sample is required in order to app.
If you have any questions specific to the TDM, ask them in the Questions thread below!

Top-Level Directory:

Chat with NPC: Revar
Ace Attorney - Apollo Justice (Student)
Alice in the Country of Hearts - Alice Liddell (Student)
Attack On Titan - Erwin Smith (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Halsin (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Raphael (Teacher)
Batman - Bruce Wayne (Teacher)
Bridgerton (Netflix) - Anthony Bridgerton (Student)
Castlevania - Soma Cruz (Student)
Castlevania: Nocturne - Maria Renard (Student)
Cosmo Warrior Zero - Harlock (Student)
Critical Role - Percy DeRolo (Teacher)
Daria - Daria Morgendorffer (Teacher)
Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha XIV (Student)
Dragon Age - Fenris (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Edgin Darvis (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Xenk Yendar (Teacher)
Ensemble STars!! - Mayoi Ayase (Student)
Fate/Zero - Kariya Matou (Kariya Makiri) (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Hilda Goneril (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Marianne von Edmund (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Sylvain Gautier (Student)
Final Fantasy XIV - Estinien Varlineau (Teacher)
Frozen - Prince Hans (Student)
Genshin Impact - Diluc Ragnvindr (Teacher)
Genshin Impact - Tighnari (Teacher)
Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name - Conrad Achenleck (Teacher)
Hannibal (NBC) - Will Graham (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Gojo Satoru (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Toji Zen'in (Teacher)
Lucifer (Netflix) - Lucifer Morningstar (Teacher)
MCU - Loki Laufeyson (Teacher)
Original - Aurinn Laurentius (Student)
Original - Bellatrix Bakhar (Student)
Original - Christine Delacroix (Teacher)
Original - Hanako 'Rosalina' Nurumi (Teacher)
Original - Jisu (Eden Woods) (Student)
Original - Karma D'Auvergn (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Edward Teach (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Izzy Hands (Student)
Persona 3 Portable - Kotone Shiomi (Student)
Persona 5 R - Goro Akechi (Student)
Persona 5 - Haru Okumura (Student)
Persona 5 - Ren Amamiya (Student)
Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet (Student)
Return to Labrynth - Sarah Williams (Teacher)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Snow White (Student)
Stargate: Atlantis - John Sheppard (Teacher)
Star Trek: AOS - James T. Kirk (Student)
Star Wars - Darth Vader (Teacher)
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Trilla Suduri (Student)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Kravitz (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Lydia (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Graduation - Fitzroy Maplecourt (Student)

NEW ARRIVALS

New arrivals will be starting their first season in the winter, but they're welcomed to the castle early, under the watchful eyes of the Silver Court. Upon arrival, they will be shown to a room by a human whose eyes glow softly from within, with vacant smiles. Thralls. There, the human thralls will draw them a bath and bring them new clothes to wear to their first meeting. These are rich, expensive things made of high quality fabric. Whether it's a silk dress and a heavy velvet cowl, or a fine pants and a vest made from a brocade, the servants will provide. The new initiate's old clothes will be burned after, in a symbol of the life they are leaving behind. If they are hungry, they will be provided food. If they need anything at all, they need only ask their new servants.

Later that night they are taken to a grand hall, with high arched ceilings and candles burning in chandeliers. There are figures painted overhead, beautiful and entwined. Some have their eyes are colored to match the courts, others are gracefully placed in their death, with blood dripping from necks and wrists.

Balconies line the hall behind a forest of pillars, and vampires all watch as the group walk through (some more hungrily than others).

"Welcome to your first undying season, initiates," a pale, silver-haired vampire calls. They have silver eyes are clad in silver robes, but command the attention of everyone in attendance. They have a beauty that seems neither male nor female. They are standing at the center of a wide semi-circle of other vampires, "As the Silver Court's acting voice at this end of the Autumn season, allow me to introduce you to the Houses that will be your new homes."

The vampire, Revar, gives the newcomers an overview of all of the courts—Blue, Red, Gold, Silver, and Black—and then invites those already claimed by their Courts to join the vampires who will be their Makers.

Revar offers the Foundlings who are left a gentle, knowing smile, and then allows them to be chosen. They are like the last sheep left at the auction, and the vampires who take them may not be the enthused about it. Nevertheless, Revar waits patiently until all have found a maker.

Now that they are paired up it is expected—indeed, required—that the initiate drink from their maker. That is their Beginning. Only once they have truly begun can they can be considered novices.

AUTUMN NOX

Silver Court is in season and for the Autumn Nox it holds a large symposium, inviting all the best vampire minds from around lands nearby and far. The whole castle is abuzz with new activity. The stables are packed full of horses, carriages litter the grounds, but somehow the castle has enough rooms to house all the new arrivals.

Novices will find that some of these vampires have not seen a human-novice in a very, very long time. These vampires might see the human-novices more like specimens, curious about their every move. They won't bite, but novices may find themselves observed as they wander the castle and its grounds.

The symposium itself is open to anyone at the castle. Scholars can present on any topic at all. Novices will find that these range from the incredibly mundane (you've always wanted to attend a history of bottom-feeding river fish, haven't you?) to the truly fascinating (new insights into how vampire hearts work) to the downright strange (the symposium has a range of lectures very close to dawn about the sharing of vampire...fluids). Seasoned novices with their own Autumn classes to attend are expected to keep up with their studies, but some teachers may let them out of a session to attend the lectures and workshops of the symposium.

The Silver Court vampires are incredibly busy between running the symposium and trying to help the new novices get settled in. They may need some volunteers to lend a hand with setting up rooms or helping scholars find their way around. In fact, volunteers might find themselves leading scholars down to the second kitchen for a bite to eat, a strong reminder that even these demure learners are still monsters who must drink blood.

PUMPKINS-GONE-WILD

The symposium isn't all that the autumn season brings. The Silver Court’s talents are on display in other ways—sometimes not in ways another had particularly hoped. An overly zealous youngblood in the Silver Court tried to grow a few extra pumpkins for the occasion and ended up with a few too many! The pumpkin vines break out of the green house and start sprouting pumpkins everywhere. These are no ordinary pumpkins, they will sprout and grow and become fully formed in the course of a night. Better keep an eye out for those vines or else your room might become full of pumpkins! Luckily, the pumpkins aren’t rotting any time soon (they’ll last until winter, or so the Silver Court vampires are saying), but it can be pretty inconvenient for them to grow everywhere. Start cutting those vines to pieces, and hope they don’t try to entangle you in the process.

LIBRARY CLEAN-UP

Meanwhile, with all the scholars in town are making a mess of the library, much to the Silver Court vampire’s dismay. Books are being checked out and not checked back in, passed around from scholar to scholar. You might find those lost books just about anywhere. Who was reading in a tree? Anyone who collects the books and returns them to the library is sure to get a little bit of favor with the librarians, and it’s never a bad thing to have a bit of an in with a Court. If you’re worried about failing Silver Court, it’s time to get searching! Although how you’re going to convince a 300 year old vampire that time is not fake and that deadlines are real (and in fact were two days ago) is anyone’s guess.

UNETHICAL EXPRIMENTS

[CW: Torture, experiments]

Those who venture towards the basement might hear something a little different than normal. The thralls who spend their time down there are normally quiet, commanded to keep silent and pleasant for the vampires they serve. But with the arrival of the new scholars comes disquieting, inhuman screams from the darker reaches of the basement. Novices trying to catch a glimpse will be chased away, but teachers might be invited to watch as these vampires experiment on one another, all in the name of science. What’s a little torture, when you’re undying?

Thanks for joining us for our first TDM! For any questions regarding the TDM prompts, please comment in the thread below. For general game questions, please check the FAQ/Game Info. Remember that the game proper will begin mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Arrival - For new students!

Kravitz watches the new arrivals, but he’s seldom been known to sponsor a student - he’s calmer than most in the Red Court, though some (read: Lydia) know that he fits in just fine with just a streak of mayhem. However, he’s more than happy to approach any who have been chosen already, if only to ask, “Do you happen to play an instrument?” Looks like the school’s conductor is poaching orchestra members!

Autumn Nox - OTA

Despite not being the ruling court, Kravitz is teaching a class - on music theory and its recent evolution through the art of symphony! It’s actually less dry than it sounds, as he demonstrates with his cello at each step along the journey. All are welcome to watch, and approach afterwards; this is actually an advertisement for his classes!

Pumpkins Gone Wild - OTA

[Kravitz stalks through the halls, annoyed. The pumpkins ruined his office, creeping through the window and soiling several documents. There is only one solution: Herbicide.

Fortunately, his weapon of choice, the warscythe, is uniquely qualified to slice and dice. The normally-sedate musician shows a side more in line with his heavy weapons class, anger in his red eyes as he takes out any vines he sees!]

Library Clean Up - OTA

Kravitz is a long-time truant when it comes to library books; there are several in his office that need to be returned, but the door is locked! They can be seen through his window, though… He’s nowhere to be seen. Yet.

Unethical Experiments - OTA

[An interesting change of pace, when Kravitz is guarding the basement, is that he chooses to drown out the screams. He has a cello, tuned, cradled against him, and is playing a classic piece, older than most students, with an original twist and enough volume to drown out even the most agonized yells.

He only stops if a student approaches the door, changing to plucking so they might hear the pain, and shaking his head.]

It’s not for you. Wait a while.

[Good grief, is he really getting this upset over vines? Just deal with the ones in your way and move on like the rest of them, Kravitz.

Though it is quite an amusing thing to watch and follow. Though at a safe distance by using the whole inner beast shenanigans for the margay and being able to follow through the banisters like it's absolutely nothing.

Perhaps he'll notice her, perhaps he won't. But either way, she's just more keen to see just how far he's going to go with all of this.]

[Eventually, the vines are cut far enough back that he hopes they'll not reach his office again. It took nearly an hour to fight them to the root, and then rip it out of the earth, and he knows there must be more - but this was, pun intended, the root of his problems.

As he turns away, still softly fuming, scythe slung over his shoulder, he finally notices the cat, and his eyes narrow. He knows that frame.]

Lydia.

[An entire hour and meticulous at that, exactly what she would expect from him when he's on a warpath like that.

Once he's looking at her and addressing her properly, she's flopping onto the banister nearest him, fluffy tail hanging off from her new perch.]

Did that get your aggressions out, then? Sure seemed like you were having fun.

Sarah definitely sticks around for the talk. While she herself has little musical skill you can't argue how important music and symphonies are. A theatre performance isn't quite complete without a good musical score as well.

She does help herd some of the students by the end, teacher duties and all. Once that's done though she does approach Kravitz with a bright smile. They might not be close but she naturally knows of Kravitz given they're both Red Court and teachers to boot.

"It's always a pleasure to hear you play."

"Ah, thank you, Sarah." He makes a point to know his fellow teachers' names, and has his own court's down pat, at the very least. "I don't get as many chances as I'd like to play, but conducting is wonderful too - if the orchestra wasn't largely indisposed, I'd have gotten them in to show a REAL symphony."

He laughs - a surprisingly legitimate and wholesome chuckle - and extends a hand towards his cello. "Can you play as well?"

Sarah settles down in a nearby seat for the moment with a laugh of her own. "Oh god no."

Okay that might have sounded a little harsh. Let her back it up a touch.

"The rest of my family were the musical ones. I can only just carry a tune to be honest." Here she tilts her head with an amused look. "Or so I've been told. Whether it was the truth or not, well..."

[Alice responds with a small shrug.]

I can play the piano. My sister taught me...

[She does spare just a moment to wonder how Lorina is doing in her absence. But... she's probably better off now. Either way, it doesn't bear thinking about.]

[He nods thoughtfully. The piano... that can translate well to dulcimer, or organ, and the pipe organ here seldom gets a workout besides when his own fingers dance across its boards.

Aside from that, he can tell she's got some mixed feelings about her sister - there's no hard feelings on his part there, but he's skilled enough in the skills of his court to know better than to pry.]

What is your favorite piece?

Hmm, when I was a kid I always really loved Country Gardens.

[It was light and cheerful and something Lorina played to cheer her up. Same as their mother did before.]

Took me forever to learn how to play it myself though.

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Kravitz | The Adventure Zone: Balance | Teacher | Red

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