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Vamp out
THE VAMPIRE MEME
Vampires are appealing creatures. They can be dark, mysterious, sexy, or just downright violent. They can even be hunky and sparkly in the sun! Vampires come in so many different varieties, it's hard to choose just one type. Whatever your brand of vampire, it's just hard to resist the draw of one of the oldest, most unsettling figures in horror to date. So why not try your hand at playing one yourself? Or offer your character up for bait if you're more inclined to do so. - Post your characters.Name/Series/Preferences in the subject field as usual along with whether your character is a vampire, outsider, or hunter(Unless you'd like to roll for individual threads!). - Others respond after going to RNG.Roll 1-3 for what your character is and then1-3 again for what type (if you desire). - Choose or roll for a scenario. You could make up your own after you roll for what your character's role will be if you want! - Have fun! Vampires 1 - Sire You're old enough to have created vampires of your own. Maybe one, maybe many, but they're all special to you in their own way. 2 - Sired You were once normal, human, but then you were changed into something more. Do you thank your creator or hate them for changing you into a monster? 3 - n/a Your creator is neither here nor there at the moment. You're just a vampire on the hunt or trying to fit in. Outsider 1 - Victim You're a victim, someone to drain and leave behind. Maybe they'll take pity on you and allow you to join, be one of them. 2 - Willing You've got the hots for vampires or just a morbid fascination. You're willing to let them drink from you and maybe so much more. 3 - Pawn You're being controlled somehow by a vampire. Mind control, blackmail, whatever. Hunter 1 - Born You come from a long line of vampire hunters. 2 - Moral Objection Vampires are abominations that deserve to be wiped off the face of the planet. 3 - Vengeance A vampire took someone dear from you or possibly made you into one of them. All you can think about is getting vengeance. Gen 1 - hunted prey. You're starving tonight and you're out scoping for just the right nighttime snack. 2 - newly made. You're a newly made vampire or you've encountered someone who's recently been changed. How do you deal? 3 - mind control. Some vampires have the ability to control humans' thoughts or actions and tonight is the night you have to do it. 4 - overpopulated. Vampires have taken over the world and now humans are treated like livestock or pets that you can feed off of when you feel like it. Not all vampires think this is cool though... 5 - injured. Not a lot can injure a vampire but there are those that will drain them for their blood or those that hunt them and know tricks that actually leave a mark. Do you help them? Or if you're the one injured, do you seek help? 6 - unaccepted. You were changed or you've met someone who was once dear to you and changed... you're not sure how to accept them. 7 - close call. It's too close to sunrise and you have got to find refuge with someone. 8 - player's choice. For anything that's been missed!
| Violent 1 - trail of bodies. Humans are nothing but food and you've gone on a spree lately. 2 - hunted. You're being hunted or you're hunting. 3 - outnumbered. A bar or a club full of vampires doesn't bode well for humans... 4 - ravenous. You've been starved or drained and you're going after the first person you see or you've stumbled across an extremely hungry vampire. 5 - entitled. You're entitled to this person's blood, whether they want to give it or not. 6 - self-defense. You have to defend yourself from those that want to hurt you. 7 - vengeance. Someone is after vengeance... 8 - player's choice. For anything that's been missed! Romantic 1 - real love. You know this is real, even if the other person is reluctant. Maybe it's not even a worry between you two and you just feel like being together. 2 - confession. It might not be the smartest idea, but you need to tell this vampire or human exactly how you feel for them. 3 - forever. It's time to make your lover into some a vampire or maybe it's time to ask your vampire lover to do it for you. 4 - making it work. There are obviously some problems, but you're going to overcome them. 5 - forbidden. Either no one can know about what you're doing or you just receive dirty looks for doing it. 6 - not exactly normal. Your attraction might not be normal or the circumstances surrounding your relationship might not be and it's time to discuss if you have a future or you're just kidding yourselves. 7 - defense. Someone hurt your lover and now they have to pay. 8 - player's choice. For anything that's been missed! Smut 1 - blood offering. There's nothing like a vampire feeding on you that gets you in the mood more. You offer them your blood in exchange for something else. 2 - coerced. Some vampires have mind control capabilities and some have blood that's like a drug that will make you crave more. 3 - no sex better than vampire sex. You're both vampires or one of you is dead set on becoming on tonight and you'll do anything to convince your lover it's time. 4 - pet. Similar to another option except that a 'pet 'entails so much more than being treated like livestock or cattle. 5 - touched the monster's heart. You're actually in love with each other even though you weren't sure it was possible. You just want to make love and show your vampire how you feel. 6 - so much stronger. The human or weaker vampire might not want it, but thankfully you're strong enough to take whatever you want from them. 7 - mine. It's time to claim what is rightfully yours and make sure they know it. 8 - player's choice. For anything that's been missed! |
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The archive for The Society for the Study of the Paranatural, Occult and Crypto-Scientific is a story and half beneath a busy street in Marylebone, accessed via a small black down below street level below some sprawling neoclassical edifice if academia. It is unclear if anyone in the building above even knows anything except the space has been used since the second Enlightenment and paid for in perpetuity.
One enters rooms of dark, dark paneled walnut made all the darker by two centuries of cigarette smoke and packed floor to ceiling with the imagines and artifacts of the strange.
A long hallway, lined with offices and then opening out into the library itself, a space the size of a ballroom, with the upper story comprised of a mezzanine with an iron railing accessed by spiral staircases at the four corners. Above, a little feeble light gets in via the small sidewalk level windows, grimey with the soot of the street. Eva does not clean them on the outside, for as they are it means the daylight does not trouble her. The rest of the space is lit by old lamps with warm bulbs as the bright, blue-tone modern light hurts her eyes, currently protected by glasses with color-treated lenses to ease the constant headaches. The walls are lined with enormous legal bookcases, the glass fronts pulled to protect them from the dust.
The most modern contrivence in here is a large, specialized book scanner. Dr. Nix dreams of digitizing it all before it turns to dust. Before she loses her mind and all the information about the archive contained within it. There is a card catalog for researchers, but it's largely faster to just ask her, most of the time.
That's if anyone is ever here at all to ask, which is rarer and rarer nowadays. There was a brief increase during the dark tourism boom of the early 2010s, when the library had appeared on the Morbid Anatomy blog and experienced a brief mention on Atlas Obscura. Harrowing time, really, for the deeply private woman who stewards the place.
It seems silly to keep adding to the collection, then, if so few people use it. But books are perhaps the only human vice left to Dr. Nix and the promise of an old book, particularly on the matters the library specializes in, is utterly irresistible to her. And Ms. Chandler had been so accommodating of her request to meet as the sun was setting, and in the library itself. Nix has lived here since just after the second world war, you see, and rarely leaves the dusty quiet. Going out into the teeming streets of London, full of vulnerable humans and sometimes other vampires (which frighten her, and in turn make her a target for their disdain), is simply too much for her senses nowadays. How good of the antiquarian bookseller to agree to terms, it means she might actually get to feel excited about it instead of having to work up her nerve to leave the library.
She moves the prewar pencil holder on her desk to a different spot for the dozenth time when the bell-- hoarse from disuse-- rings, shattering her delicate hearing for a moment with the harsh tone. The silence after it feels deafening, broken only by her little heeled shoes on the wooden floor.
She peers through the small window at the top of the door before opening it.
"You must be Ms. Chandler." She says, stepping back to permit entry. "Do come in."
She's certainly not a very impressive specimen, as far as vampires go. All of five foot tall, rail thin, bespectacled and with a wild nest of dust-brown curls piled on top of her head, dressed in tweedy wools you almost can't buy in a store anymore. Marble-pale skin with a blue-gray undertone and pale gray eyes that seem to simply lack any color at all, as if the whole form of the little archivist was itself a fading photograph from the dawn of the last century. Her smile is thin-lipped so as not to show any teeth at all, but seems genuine enough. Making an effort at social function, at least.