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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
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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

New Arrivals
For Students:
It's because this is a Silver Court function that the school nurse has even bothered to come out of his office. Well, that and to get a look at all the students about to start their journeys. First steps into this world are often wobbly.

He's not about to take a novice. He rarely does. But he is about to go on ahead and try to learn every new face he can. It's only right to know who is who among this new flock of ducklings.

"Hello and well met. I am Halsin. I hope your studies here will lead you to great discoveries."

For teachers
The Becoming is always a bit of a nostalgia trip. The large man watches over the group like a proud father, a small cup of blood tea in his hand. As becomes tradition, he enjoys making little wagers about which courts will take which hopeful.

"A week of substitute teaching says that this is Silver Court's year."

Autumn Nox
No lecture series is complete without the most awkward class in the world. "Your changing body and you". It's the puberty talk. Only it's about the first year of Becoming. What to expect. What to worry about. At the front of the class is a walking barn on a man, his hair tied back in a mess of braids and piled in a bun. He's just finishing up. "Now, these new urges you feel may scare you but know that your nature is changed. These new urges are completely normal and you should not shy from exploring these new instincts, just as nature intended. And if you feel they are too much, do not hesitate to come to my office and speak to me about them. I want nothing more than your success in this new life." He pauses for a smile and concludes. "Any questions."

Pumpkins
No. Nononono. Of all the times... [The words are a near bear-like growl from what is usually such a gentle giant. It's rare to see Halsin angry. Annoyed, yes, but angry. It is just not something the school nurse cares to feel. And right now, Halsin is utterly pissed off. There's a sound deep in his chest that could have come from one of the Blue Court about to change. No change happens. It never has for him.

He still snarls at the vines and pumpkins that have all but blocked him from what he considers his realm. The nurse's office and the small sleeping chambers beyond are his. His territory. And he can't get to it to hide after too much socializing.]

I told them! I told them my office was off limits! [He has no weapons, so there's just a very big, very angry vampire tearing at vines with his hands, trying to clear a door to get inside.]

Library
"Do not worry. I will catch you " He promises. He's seen someone climbing something dangerous to get to a book. His initial instinct had been to yell. To tell them to get down. But they're already up there. So all he can do now is stand under them in case they fall.

Later Halsin can be found being put to work shelving books. His height is an advantage here and he's been instructed to shelve the top most tomes. Mostly because the Librarian terrifies him just a little and he'll do whatever the Silver Court Elder tells him to.

[Unethical experiments]
He absolutely cannot and will not go down there. Doing so would break his heart and make him ill. But he can also not ignore it. So, instead, Halsin can be found, looking decided pale, hands shaking a little, staring at a spot on the wall, wincing every time the door opens and the sounds come from below. He sits huddles at the top of the stairs, hugging his knees to his chest. At his feet is a veritable treasure horde of medical supplies. Bandages and sutures, ointments and salves. There are even bags of blood, sitting in a warmer to keep them fresh. He's there. He's there just in case something goes terribly wrong and he has to go and help keep the Final Death at bay.

If he sees any students coming, he'll simply mutter from his sad little spot on the floor. "Don't go down there. It's not for you." He won't stop them of course. There's others down below that will. It's not his job. His job is to make sure all the scholars that came here left in one piece.

Edited (HTML is my bane) 2023-12-02 04:31 (UTC)

[It's not meant for everyone, that much she absolutely believes. While she certainly doesn't mind everything that's going on down there, typically watching with a sadistic bit of glee and also interest in what's going on, she's not the typical. And, through the years, she's learn a thing or two about what to expect and who to expect or not expect down there.

But she can't be down there all the time, she has work to actually be doing. Which is precisely why she pauses when she sees Halsin huddled on the floor, looking... well, she knows precisely why he looks and is acting the way he is. Normally, normally she'd tease someone about this, point out their weaknesses and how can they be a vampire if they're bothered by blood and gore. But there's a few people that have made the exceptions list.]

Mm, they have you on standby today? [Nor is she going to ask if she can join him as she's promptly sitting down next to him and leaning against his side.] There's really no other option? It's been, what, years of this shit and they can't get it through their thick skulls that this isn't really your place?

[He knows her approach from the sound of her heels alone. Halsin knows that walk anywhere. Normally, he might stand to acknowledge her presence, usually because he knows he'll have to pick her up and move her out of his way. But now, he welcomes her intrusions. Her presence keeps him from dwelling even more on the activities that are going on below.

She leans upon him and his arm moves out of habit to drape about her shoulder and pull her a little closer. He might be clinging just a little because here is a little splash of sanity to keep him from going mad.]

They do. I was asked for by name. The Court insisted I attend just in case. [He has to agree though. It's like this every time. They keep doing this to him.] I think they want it to be...it's their way of giving me aversion therapy. Make me confront it enough times that I stop hating it. What sort of vampire am I that this stuff makes me squeamish? They're just trying to help me be a better member of the Court. [His voice says he doesn't actually believe that in the slightest. It's probably some psychological experiment from another Silver somewhere, watching him to see how many years he'll withstand it before he either breaks and joins the debauchery or simply throws away his medical vows and leaves.]

You'll be going down there today?

[Precisely the reason why she's not being as obnoxious as she might be otherwise, in fact she's shifting just enough to tuck against his side and let him cling as he pleases. She knows that this isn't something he handles well and given the noises certainly don't bother her, she may as well do her best to distract him instead.

There's not many she would do this for but he's lucky enough to be on that short list.

A brow raises at his words, knowing full well that that is an absolute load of horseshit and that's not really how aversion therapy is supposed to work.] That sounds like they're trying to explain away tormenting you like this. If they needed you on standby they could have had you further away from the noise and still be just as effective. But we both know they're shit at understanding or caring about others.

[If that day ever came she'd probably end up snapping on someone, so hopefully that doesn't happen for their sakes.

The question, though, she immediately scoffs and waves a hand.]

They don't like my methods down there, darling, and I don't much care for their's. Something about taking pleasure in it not conducive to science or something. As if they're truly doing any real science down there and it's not just a bunch of closeted sadists and masochists.

Halsin | Baldur's Gate 3 | Teacher I Silver

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