Toujours Pur

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 2 players, Female characters: 2

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Once there was an ancient noble house, purest and proudest in all the land. And to the master and mistress of that house were born three daughters, fierce as white lions, fragile as flowers blooming in winter, fair as the stars that guttered in the blackened sky. And they loved each other as sisters will, there in the world-that-was, and in time they all grew up. And the eldest, being wise, and the youngest, being sweet, married as their parents bade them; but the middle sister, being gentle, chose a common man, and was exiled from her home.

(Or perhaps they were not so wise, or so sweet, or so gentle, but merely all proud; for the pride of their house was incomparable, and it laid incomparable burdens upon their hearts.)

In time the middle daughter had a daughter of her own, and the youngest had a son. And the eldest -- the eldest had a cruel mission, and in time a cold prison cell in the shadows above the sea. And perhaps in this she was also a true daughter of her house.

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Disasters come as disasters do, and darkness rises as darkness does. And in the histories it is written that when the world turned black, and the dread lord rose--

--that the eldest sister escaped her confinement, and gave herself to righteousness and war, and slew even her own niece, and was slain for it in turn--

--and the middle sister aided the light for her family’s sake, and paid in their blood--

--and the youngest sister lent her hand unto the darkness until it dared to touch her son, and then for the sake of love abandoned it.

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Eleven years have passed since the defeat of Lord Voldemort. Bellatrix Lestrange lies unmourned in her grave. Her younger sisters live.

Were they of a different lineage, perhaps Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy would have very little to say to each other. But family is family. And the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, however small, goes on.

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Toujours Pur is a one-hour game for two players about memory, cruelty, legacy, and two women having tea. It consists of a conversation between Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy on the evening of August 31, 2009, during which time they will discuss the past and make pressing decisions about the future of their house.

Toujours Pur is a Harry Potter fangame. It takes as canon the seven novels (but not the epilogue of the seventh book, the play The Cursed Child, nor, necessarily, all content of Pottermore). All of the necessary background is explained in the materials, but the game will probably nevertheless be most interesting to players who have read the novels. Pregame reading is approximately thirty pages.

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