undyingcourt | Test Drive Meme

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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.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

New Arrivals

It hasn't been all that long since Haru was in the newcomers' position, for all it already feels like a lifetime ago, but that's not going to stop her from trying to catch a glimpse. It's interesting, after all, and she wants to see if there's anyone she recognises in the batch of fresh blood.

Autumn Nox

Being a firstie, Haru can't get out of most of her classes, and that's entirely reasonable. Luckily, the botany lecture falls during one of her free periods, and that's the one she was most interested in. Her father's not here to tell her 'playing in the dirt' is unladylike, and she's going to learn as much as she can.

She's probably one of the freshest faces at that particular lecture, but she's listening intently and taking detailed notes. Too bad the Gold Court has such a firm grasp on her, isn't it?

Library Cleanup

Haru's not feeling in danger of failing her Silver Court class this season - not when it's history, and she grew up hearing quite a bit of that. But currying favor with the librarians never hurts, and so she can be found corralling books at various points.

Wildcard

[Or bring your own! She'd help rein in the pumpkins for sure, but probably not want to investigate the screaming in the basement.]

Pumpkins

[Gooood grief, as if things couldn't get entirely stupider around here of course Silver Court has to do The Most (tm) and it ends up being something garden related. She's not surprised in the slightest, but she's huffing in pure annoyance as one of the vines has decided it's just a wonderful idea to try and cover most of the door into her normal classroom.]

Oh yes, we're the problem when they're doing shit like this, of course. [Is she talking to anyone in particular? Not really, she's not really against the whole talking to herself thing, especially when it might end up getting some sort of assistance or pity from a passerby.

Not that it's really needed given she's quick to pull a rather ornate-looking dagger that... was somehow tucked into the top of one of her boots, don't question it. And with that she's quickly hacking away at the vines, pulling them off, and tossing them to the side.]

Nnnnnow that that's solved, I guess I'm not teaching the whole time since that delayed things a bit!~ [... She's far too cheery about that.]

Library

[Help the librarian? Absolutely not. Chaos is her middle name and she's not about to make this easy on anyone. Especially when she's decided today to somehow be sprawled over a banister in some room or another. It's better to not question how she got there. All that matters is that she's dangling a book lazily downward.]

Heeeeeey~ Looks like someone left this here, if you want to do something about it. Free favor or something? [It will absolutely not be that easy, but she's not going to say the quiet part aloud.]

Experiments, CWs the same as prompt probably

[A chance to watch something she's already probably seen ten million times over and it teaching her absolutely nothing new? Count her out. But she's more than happy to be standing temporary guard outside of the doorway to the basement. The sound of the torture itself doesn't really bother her, it never had, if she were to be perfectly honest.

Hell, if she were actually honest she actually kind of enjoyed the sounds of people suffering. But she has an image to maintain so she might as well help them out a bit. It's not like her being dressed in a bright pink and gold corset, white leather (don't question it) breeches, and white and gold boots sticks out or anything.]

The most boring jooooob on the face of the planeeeeet~

Wildcard

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[ ooc: thing 1: in the emp meme I talked about Satoru's plan to gradually overthrow the Council, and as of now, almost nobody will actually know about that. Feel free to assume that your character knows he dislikes the Council, though, because that's very public knowledge and he often just talks shit about them lmao

thing 2: if your character was in a shitty situation in the human world in the past 20 years and was rescued and picked to come to the Castle, and you want a player character to be that rescuer, Satoru's your guy finger guns winkwink. He won't be a maker, but we can say he rescued a character and then essentially handed them to whatever NPC (or PC) in whatever Court you're going with! he loves collecting strays. if you wanna plot further, PM me or add me over at

cosmonautdelta!! ]

i. autumn nox

Scholarly symposiums aren't exactly Satoru's scene, but what else is he going to do around this Castle? Torture some newbies for fun? Get some thrall to bottle their own blood so he can have some takeaway? Annoy the Silver Court nerds while they're in full panic mode over all their stress? Okay, all of those do sound more fun than attending the symposium, actually. Why isn't he doing those things?

He stands out a little from the rest of the crowd -- that in of itself isn't unusual, Gojo Satoru is just kind of like that, much to the chagrin of many of the more traditional vampires -- but in the last couple of years he's taken to wearing the garb of a land far from Castle Courtsheart, clothes that just feel more familiar to him in a way he can't explain. The kimono is, at least, once of his more fancy ones, golden embroidery curling up the length of it. The food that's laid out for the newbies to grab inbetween talks smells appetizing, but it'll taste gross as soon as it hits his tongue. Nonetheless, he has some kind of fancy sandwich on a plate as he mingles with the crowd waiting outside one of the lecture halls.

In his other hand, he has a list of the talks offered. And he's not impressed.

"A Study on the Effect of Vampire Blood When Given To Beetles?" he reads out, cackling. "The Habits of Local Toads? A Most Rigorous Organizational Method: A New Way Of Shelving Your Books? Wow, do these nerds want everyone to die from a colossal snoozefest while they're too busy babbling?"

He gesticulates with the sandwich, and brightens, golden eyes bright behind his sunglasses. "Actually, if this is a cunning plan from the Silver Court to achieve dominance by killing us all with a bad case of boredom, I love it! That's so unique! I might actually attend one of these things just to see if I die." He grabs his company by the arm, and starts dragging them with gusto toward one of the lecture halls. "C'mon, we're going academic spelunking!"

ii. pumpkin-gone-wild

Aaah. What better activity is there to do on a boring Tuesday than watch hapless fools hack away with futility at ever-growing pumpkins?

While the useful go-getters are helping out at the greenhouse, Satoru has parked a lounging chair nearby, all lanky limbs as he relaxes back and sips on a mug of blood he got a thrall to give him earlier. To add insult to injury, he has a festive umbrella set up above him as if to shade him from the sun, except it's. You know. Night time.

"Hey, you over there, there's a pumpkin behind the mint bush that's making a break for it," he calls lazily, dunking a cookie into his blood. He has a thrall in the kitchens that makes super tasteless cookies for him; he just likes the crunch, even if being a vampire means he can't taste anything. "Better get on that, otherwise it'll terrorize the whole neighborhood."

Edited 2023-12-02 01:53 (UTC)

[Prose or Bracket Welcome]

I [New Arrivals]

[The scene was beautiful. Revar in their finest, all the vampires dressed to impress, those who came with a maker seemingly ready for a new world, and the bumpkins who look.. like they have never worn a silk in their life. And probably haven't but in all fairness, until last season he hadn't either. Yet now he wears such finery like he was born for the role, like he's never worn anything else.

Like he belongs.

You would think with a similar background that would give him more empathy for them, but no, Kirk just looks for anyone that gives off wayward puppy vibes. Someone he can snatch up in his plans. He needs a loyal crew one day if he was going to make his mark, was going to get a seat on the counsel.

For good or evil.. only he knew.

Regardless, his blue eyes land on someone who's maker has stepped away and he approaches with a smile.]

First drink is always the most unsettling.

II [Pumpkins-Gone-Wild]

"Dammit!"

Pumpkin vines everywhere! It was irritating, it took all morning to cut them away from his room, but now he was outside it trying to slash at the vines with a dagger to keep them from growing right back into it once more. It was taking way too much effort for something so simple.

Of course, some Silver just had to go fucking around.

So instead, of gracefully chopping away at the damned plants, the vine grows so fast that the next thing he knows his ankles have gotten entangled in the process. Trying to take a step forward results in Kirk stumbling and falling straight into another person in the hallway. Luckily, courses in Red have taught him enough weapon safety that he knows to keep his blade from stabbing the other.

"Hey, hi, thanks for catching me," he gives them a charming smile.

III [Library Clean-Up]

[Who was reading in a tree? At this point the original vampire is long wandered off without a care. So, better question now is who has the book now? Why Kirk is off course. He might look like a slack off most days, but he found this book about potion making sitting on a thick, sturdy branch and really, he might as well get a leg up. Both literally and literarily.

So if you're looking for this book? Well, look up, because that's where you will find him lounging while reading it without a care to his name.]

VI [WildCard]

[If you have other ideas you would like to play out with Kirk, Feel free to hit me up here, PM me, or @ ZodiacRockstar]

Arrivals

[Should he find the thralls creepy? Yeah, probably. Does he? Absolutely not. These people got the high life, right? Like you're just below the level of a vampire and get to be involved in all of this kind of stuff, clearly it's a positive. Though he might find the whole... making him wear different clothes thing a little odd. But it's fine, he's fine, this is just how it should be where he's taken care of, right?

It's not until the whole "meeting" that he starts having any sort of doubts. He looks, well, better than he's looked most his life with black slacks and a red and gold colored brocade vest. He'd even been an utter annoyance and requested a matching cape because, of course, he deserves it. But the doubts start slowly setting in when he realizes that other people already have people claiming them.

And it's... a good chunk, it seems. Meanwhile, he's feeling entirely out of his element and his haughty exterior and snobbish air when he'd been brought in is slowly draining into him looking far more nervous about this. Someone will take him, right? There's no take backs once you're here before you've even a chance to prove yourself?]

I diiiiiiid not think it'd be this many people that got picked. [He's whispering to the person next to him, not particularly caring if they're listening or wanting to be chatty.]

Pumpkins

[Everything had been... going... for the most part for Fitzroy. Settling in, getting a lay of the land, actually not doing terribly on this whole classes thing. Until he ends up with, perhaps, the worst luck.

That luck? Him managing to get stuck in the bathroom of all things as the vines were just so kind in blocking the doorway.

Perhaps his banging on the door and yelling might get someone's attention and a little sympathy? Maybe? Or laughter, it's really a toss up.]

Come oooooon! I don't know what I did to be locked in here, but this isn't really befitting for me! [Or, you know what, maybe don't help him.]

Library cleanup

[An opportunity to be a suck up and curry some kind of favor this early? Oh hell yes, you better believe he's right on that. Which is exactly why one can find him looking in trees, under rocks, in the trash, really anywhere weird you can think of in order to find some kind of discarded book.

It might be reaaaaaaally tempting to push him fully into the trash while he's halfway in there already.

Or be a pal and let him take that book back for you. It's not like he isn't bothering everyone he sees with a book to please let him return it if they're done with it. Or when they're done with it. But without the please part.]

Wildcard

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[Prose or Bracket Welcome]

I ||New Arrivals||

[Fenris doesn't plan to take on a novice, so he watches almost detachedly while the lambs stumble their way into the arms of their new makers. Part of him pities them, foundlings who were mostly unwanted and not here by choice, torn from their homes and lives. But mostly, he doesn't know what it's like to have a home and a life before becoming a vampire, what it would feel like to have that torn from him. No, he found freedom in this life. Even if his first maker almost seemed to want him to fail, was enjoying his struggles.

How he was livid when Fenris broke their claim and joined the black court instead.

That was neither here nor there this night. He was dressed in his nicer black clothes the ones that almost shown silver when it caught the light just right. A subtle hint at the season. The heels of his books are tall enough to give him a couple inches of height he normally doesn't have. His mask is up, making his hair long and messily put up, his body lined with black tattoos.

He doesn't approach anyone, instead his black eyes moving from each new lamb to their maker, assessing each one that is within the black court. More novices to test and scare away it seems.

With a sigh, he sips at his blood wine.

II ||Autumn Classes - locked to Autumn season students||

[CW: Possible violence]

He doesn't care that the symposium is going on, if you were in his courses then you were expected to attend class and give your all, anything less and he would fail you without hesitation. While perhaps not the most brutal of the teachers, he was up there in pushing until death was at his students' doorstep before pulling back, making sure only the very best students passed his courses.

If death scared someone, then they don't belong in the black court because everything they did was a dance with death.

A. Students can find him before class, warming up with some stretches and sword techniques, wielding a great-sword nearly the size of himself with ease. If you're not careful, you will get cut and he will not apologize for it. Just like he doesn't during class.

B. Fellow Teachers can find him after class when he's cleaning multi-colored blood off his great-sword with a cloth and oil, before sharpening it once more with a whet stone. He looks up when approached, his broody demeanor set on his face like an old friend. His mask is off now, what little skin that shows lined with thin whispy scars.

"If you're to tell me I was too hard on them, go elsewhere."

III ||Library Clean-Up||

[Since he was a novice, he's felt he owed the silver court a lot, if it weren't for their efforts with him and tutoring him, he might have flunked out and become a thrall all over again. But he squeaked by with tremendous effort. So when a Librarian approached him asking if he has seen some books, he makes it his goal to find those very books if possible and bring them back.

Unfortunately, he is struggling to find the said books. So he approaches the first person he's seen and asks:]

I am looking for the book, Horticulture of the Blue Court. Have you seen it?

IV ||Unethical Experiments||

[CW: Graphic Torture, experiments]

When he's invited in, he doesn't know what to expect, but this seems pretty par-for-the-course. The screams hardly affect him as he watches one vampire flaying the skin from the back of another vampire, inhuman blood spilling like liquid silver on to the table and ground around the body.

He hears some mention how surprised they are at the thickness of the skin on the back, how it doesn't cut as cleanly because of it. Fenris isn't surprised by that fact. No, he knows too much about the body and how there is a patch of skin on the back where the skin is thin, where if the arms are in the right position to move muscle and bone, you can stab straight through to the heart with your fingers alone.

But he keeps this to himself as he looks to the person next to him. Another teacher no doubt...

"He will need healing soon, at this rate he could almost become another court entirely with this much blood loss."

V ||WildCard||

[If you have other ideas you would like to play out with Kirk, Feel free to hit me up here, PM me, or @ ZodiacRockstar]

A. Arrival

[Snow White gently ran a hand down the front of the yellow skirt and the deep blue corset that. She had never worn anything so comfortable, so fine, not that she could remember. She watched the Thrall take the old ragged dress filled with patches and threadbare spots that had seen the most wear and tear. All that she really cared about, though, was that it was warm and also covered the scar on her chest where her stepmother had tried to cut out her heart after the poison apple didn't work.

She thanked the Thrall but they didn't respond and looked all around. She felt so... clean. After the long bath and the new clothes, she felt like a whole new her. She supposed she WAS a whole new her. Snow idly touched her hair to make sure as a last check before looking around. Perhaps someone else would know what to do next.]

Why hello there, [Snow's voice is high, eager but also hesitant. It's been some time since she's talked to anyone other than the wild animals that would roam around the manor grounds.] I'm so sorry to bother you, I was told to go to the grand hall but I'm not sure where that is. Do you know where to go? If you don't, perhaps we can look for it together!

B. Autumn Nox

Oh! That was very close! [Snow had gone to the symposium to try and understand more about her... well, her new state of being. However, she couldn't help but notice just how busy everyone was! She felt quite bad that everyone was running about for her and others without seemingly any help. As she went to the next symposium lecture, her ears picked up the sound of soft grunts and as she turned her head, she immediately hurried over to someone and caught the bottle of... some sort of fluid, she wasn't sure what, about to fall to the ground and smiled as she held it in her hands.]

I'm happy to help you carry those to wherever you're going! [She smiled.] Or at the very least perhaps open the doors for you as you go?

C. Library Clean-up

[Snow White found herself outside, wondering what animals might be out and about, if there were any at all. Would they still visit her in this new state? She hoped so, animals had been her only friends growing up and she wouldn't want to lose them now.]

My goodness! Just look at this mess! [She put her hands on her hips as she looked at the stack of books in a circle. Clearly, that had been some sort of study group going on but they just left everything there without a care. She looked up as she caught the eye of an owl who was watching her with interest. She smiled at it.] I suppose messes are everywhere? [She giggled.] Well, best clean it up and put these where they belong. [The owl let out a soft 'hoo-oo' as if asking her who would do the task.] I will clean up, it's not a problem at all.

[She began to stack the books, humming as she went. She always loved to hum a merry tune as she worked.]

D. Wildcard
[OOC: please feel free to make up a prompt or contact me at

snickersnack if you would like to discuss a specific idea!]

[The scarred young man who had spent the entire time scowling and glaring at Revar turns when he heard someone speak, his brows raising slightly before speaking in a sardonic tone, giving Kirk a good look over]

And here I'd thought it'd be like a regular wine-tasting.

Edited (oops, ignore that extra like) 2023-12-02 01:38 (UTC)

for characters who will be starting the game in their second season (and beyond), will the tdm be taking place MID-season for them so they've already been enrolled/students here for part of the autumn season? or is this more at the beginning of the season? the end of it?

{ autumn nox }

[ Christine may be a teacher, but she makes time in her busy schedule to attend the symposium on vampire hearts. Sitting with a notebook and pencil, she studiously takes notes on as much as she can and should anyone note her silver eyes and ask for assistance as it's the Silver Court's season, she purses her lips in annoyance at their interruption. However, she also won't ignore someone needing help. ]

What is it you need?

{ pumpkin-gone-wild }

Of all the ridiculous things to do, they pick this.

[ Carrying a small utility knife in hand, Christine walks through the halls and grabs at any vine she finds to cut it off from the main plant. It's a sorry sight for someone such as she who spends so much time in the greenhouse cultivating these plants. Of course one often has to prune and maintain things in an orderly manner, but she can understand the plant's desire to spread. ]

You there! Have you seen any vines from your direction?

{ library clean-up }

[ She is no librarian, but Christine spends a fair amount of time in the library when not teaching her courses or in the greenhouse. Ever since she was a child she desired knowledge and finding the answers to her burning questions. To see the library in such a state of disorganization is disheartening to say the least. She fully encourages the novices and her fellow teachers to go forth and retrieve books to put things back in order and she too is on the hunt.

In fact, she spots a book up in a tree and she stands at the base, looking up at it with arms crossed just as someone approaches. ]

Honestly, it doesn't look like reading up there would be comfortable at all, but I'm more impressed by how they got up there in the first place. There are no branches low enough.

[Kirk chuckles and gives him a grin.]

It is for some. But for the likes of us, not quite yet.

[He was dressed in blue finery that makes his blue eyes look like lakes by an ocean. At least they were naturally blue, so it was hard to tell how they were slowly changing.]

[Is she helping? Nah, not at all. But she can't help but be amused at the fact people are questioning the places books are ending up. Sounds like her type of person, honestly. But she shrugs slowly, looking up at the branch herself.]

Ehhh, seen weirder. It's not that difficult to get up there if you have enough arm and leg strength, especially leg strength. And isn't comfortable subjective? I like hanging out on tree branches, myself. [Of course she would, she's pretty much just a cat in a vampire body.]

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Hmpf, that so? I can't imagine I'd get used to it.

[He folds his arms across his chest, noting the finery and how at ease he seems to be in it. Harlock hated to admit he does have rather nice eyes]

So what's your story?

Arrivals

Among those watching the initiates get assigned their makers is a sharply dressed vampire with red eyes and a maddeningly magnetic smile. Raphael is always on the lookout for the very best prospects. He already has several vampiric bonds under his belt, and oh he takes such very good care of them. There is, however, always a chance for new favorites.

If you happen to approach him, he raises his eyebrows either in interest or pure scrutiny. Do you fit his criteria? Do you want to? He really does want you to want it. "Interested in the Red Court, are you? A fine choice, but not suitable for every little fledgling that's had a lewd thought or two." He smiles slowly, like a poison seeping right into your veins. "I am Raphael. A pleasure."

Autumn Nox

[ Raphael will most certainly be found in many of the lectures, though perhaps not the river fish ones. He does have some taste, after all. He himself is also giving a lecture. Yes he's in the Red Court and he knows all about the bedroom and the blade. But he is also an accomplished wordsmith. His lecture is on limericks and poetry. ]

And that, my friends, is why there is a lyric and a style for every occasion. Any questions?

Library Clean Up

[ He's not inclined to help people since he rather prefers you be in his debt, but if he happens to be in the vicinity of a book-hunter, he might decide to be a little helpful if he happened to have picked up a stray volume from the halls or the gardens. ]

Are you looking for this? [ He snaps it shut with one hand, his telltale smile coming upon his features. ]

It's quite an interesting study. Not sure it would do you any good.

Wildcard

Feel free to make up a prompt or ask about things first! My EMP comment is here and I'm happy to adopt novices/already have a bond or have backstories connect somehow. :> I will match brackets or prose!

[The scar was interesting, he was curious about the story of such a distinguishing mark, but for now he leans against a chair with ease. Time for him to tell his story huh?]

Unfortunately, it's a pretty common story.. grew up poor in the blue court lands, dad got taken in the finding and mom wasn't around much, got into a tavern brawl over the summer and Edgin saw something in me, now... here I am. [He makes a gesture to go with it.]

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[Of course Lydia isn't going to be helping clean up any of this, it's not like she has a reason or a care for anyone to like her. But what she does take interest in is watching how others are dealing with the students running around like ants desperately trying to curry favor with the queen.

... That's how ants works, right? Whatever, doesn't matter.

But it doesn't stop her from raising a brow from a nearby wall after that whole... interaction.]

Ohhhh, are you going to make them work for that all important favor? My goodness, that's just torture. [Even if someone doesn't know her by any means, the sarcasm in her tone is dripping from every word.]

Hah, I wonder how many of them pick out trouble makers?

[A wry grin appears on his lips, though it didn't reach his for-now brown eyes]

I came from a Gold court territory, but apparently the Lord owed -

[Harlock tossed his head in the direction of his would be maker]

them a favor, and I get to be out of his hair.

New Arrivals- The Beginning {Alice is a foundling so any potential makers that want to size her up are more than welcome.}

[All through the journey to the castle that would be her new home, Alice had been telling herself that this is fine. She's fine. This is for the best. Now her family no longer has to suffer her gloomy presence and she can get away from that stifling town.

It's fine.

She manages to keep telling herself that all the way though the bath, and the meal, and the incredibly wasteful burning of her clothes. But now she stands in a hall that feels at once far too big and somehow claustrophobic, wearing a silk dress that should probably be on someone much prettier than she is, waiting with the other foundlings to see if anyone actually wants them. She is at last forced to admit, this is not fine.]

Are they really going to make everyone wait until all of us are chosen? We'll be here all night if they do that.

[She says that to one of the other foundlings, hopefully in a voice too quiet to be overheard. How good is vampiric hearing again?]

Pumpkin Gone Wild

[She's only barely settled into her new life when the pumpkin fiasco occurs. But she's not one to shie away from hard work so Alice is going through the hallways, gardening shears in hand, cutting vines and collecting pumpkins. What on earth are they going to do with all these gourds? Jack o Lanterns? Pies maybe? Throw them at whoever's fault this was?

She likes that last one. When she hears someone else in the hall, she doesn't even look up to check who it is, but instead remarks dryly.]

You know, all my life I've heard stories and rumors about this castle. People called it grand, mysterious, and even terrifying. Funny how none of them ever used the word silly.

Library Clean-up

[Finally, something Alice actually wants to do. She is happy to collect books and return them to the library. Although several of those books will get perused a bit along the way. Who was reading in a tree?

Well right now it's Alice. She doesn't know who put the book up there originally, but after climbing up to get it, she couldn't help but take a peek inside.

A peek turned into just a few pages. Then just the first chapter. And now she's just reading it. At least she's responsible enough to turn it in when she's done.]

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Since prospective second season students will have started with early Autumn, they would have received a similar welcome and you may use that prompt with that assumption! (Essentially backdating it.) For prospective first season students, this welcome will be towards the end of the Autumn season. The other prompts can be assumed to have happened at any time during this season, (Autumn, to be clear.)

NEW ARRIVALS

[Daria always hated these. She left the comfort of her labs and the library to greet the wide eyed faces of those who actually wanted to have a life here.

Not that Daria didn’t. This place was her home and her tomb as far as she was concerned. But these people coming from the damned outside seeing the horrors out there to see the horrors in here was always a pill she was forced to prescribe herself each time a new round of flesh came. She’d claim she couldn’t really care less. But it was all added headaches when she just wanted to be with her research or her fellow scholars that she could stand to be around.

She wore decent robes, obviously meant for comfort more than anything else. Of course, as someone representing the court in some fashion, she had to sell everything as per their standards. Her own Maker didn’t force a damn expectation on her, but the others were a different story. They weren’t persnickedy about clothes, and they at least knew Daria would do the minimum. But it was the minimum they were owed, and they always got her research as a treat.]

Welcome.

[Aaand that was it? Yeah. Move along?]

AUTUMN NOX (warning: gore)

Alright everyone, today we’re going to test something. Not an actual test, mind you. Consider this a “test of your mettle”.

[Daria’s classes were always fair, and just in the knowledge given. It was up to her students to engage and think for themselves. Students actually interested in learning may actually get something out of her class that wasn’t miserable. Daria respected students that respected knowledge, why the Silver Court took interest in her results. Surely.

One particular class held had bare human bodies laid on sterile tables. There was one on her personal teacher’s side.

This biology lesson was about to get visceral. And Daria took this with the precision of any surgeon.

Cutting open the chest cavity with stone cold ease, she ripped the heart of the human with her gloved hands.]

Examine this carefully. There are two major arteries that go to the heart. Who can tell me what they’re called? Understanding the inside and outside of the human heart is vital. If you plan to live out there, you need to get used to the idea of your hands being dirty.

Do as I did. And then give me the answer.

LIBRARY

[Yeah, screw cleaning. Daria was nestled on a large chair with piles of books. Comfortable and reading, learning.

Not cleaning at all.]

WILDCARD

((Contact me at

Lizadow if there’s anything you’d like to shoot!))

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[ Christine herself isn't the type to go climbing trees, so she can't really refute how easy it is to get up there. ]

I would have thought the wood would be too hard and uncomfortable, like when one sits in their desk chair for too long. Regardless, they shouldn't have been so careless to leave the book up there.

New Arrivals

Ren has been having a rough time lately, and the worst happening where he not only got chosen, which his parents forced him to try it out, but publicly disowning him as the vampires took him away.

The ceremony where he had to pick his maker and drink from them had Ren both a little disgusted and scared deep down, but the french blue court vampire who ended up being his maker, Raoul Lupin, reassured him and showing him kindness for the first time since the incident with that high ranking noble he got in trouble with.

After that, Ren has been mostly quiet and keeping him to himself. Thinking back on his past actions and realizing he needed to change, but at the same time, he's still angry at his parents' betrayal.

He can be seen around, with small specks of blue in his eyes, and being quiet and a bit of a loner. Approach him anyway?

Wildcard?

[Would you rather than do something else than the prompt above? Just post here.]

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[It's sure been some kind of adjustment period to not be weirded out about the whole pumpkins basically taking over everything situation. So Fitzroy was doing pretty good at mostly ignoring all of it unless they got in his way somehow or another.

Until there's suddenly someone falling into him and he's yelping in quite an undignified matter, luckily reflexes working to his advantage to not fall over himself. Not that it really matters too much when he's already pretty physically built at all of 6'4" and muscle despite the whole... attitude and appearances otherwise.]

Are these things sentient now? [Please tell him he just tripped and didn't just get thrown into him by a plant vine.]

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Haru Okumura | Persona 5

Lydia | The Adventure Zone: Balance | Teacher | Red

gojo satoru | jujutsu kaisen | teacher | gold court

James T. Kirk || Star Trek: AOS || Student || Blue

Fitzroy Maplecourt | The Adventure Zone: Graduation | Student | Ggggggold (for now)

Fenris || Dragon Age || Teacher || Black Court

Snow White || Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs || Student || Silver

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christine delacroix | original | teacher | silver

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Raphael | Baldur's Gate 3 | Teacher | Red

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Library clean up

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Alice Liddell | Alice in the Country of Hearts | Student | New Arrival

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Daria Morgendorffer | Daria | Teacher | Silver

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Ren Amamiya | Persona 5 | Student (first season)

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