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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 19:36:23 GMT -8
Alain- "Who is to say I have any?"
Alain- "A bit of comedie. I am sure, though, that things will sort themselves out." ((fixed a mistake in my blu text above))
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 19:49:06 GMT -8
Alain- "Progenitor was a clue. It's such a formal and ugly term, only real vampires use it. I know they are ones who rise as undead without consuming the blood." He was heading generally the opposite direction of the Sombreta Estate. Have him take two lefts?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 19:57:45 GMT -8
Alain- "I do not know any more what I will do." He made the turns and was generally headed the right way. There was still time to decide though.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:06:12 GMT -8
Alain- "I am getting an idea... Ah. If I remain, I do not become a vampire right away. The hound-nosed heat-seers will have no reason to suspect I am anything of importance to you..."
Alain- "You said you want to learn magic?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:14:08 GMT -8
Alain- "Even if they did, your magic will be of almost no use to you now. It takes sooo long to make the best magic. Do you still want to learn?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:24:49 GMT -8
Alain- "Not much, but just to be awakened is an experience you should enjoy. Now..."
Alain- "I think... I stay in town as an human, while we try to bring you into mystic knowing. Once we have achieved that, you will turn me into a vampire.
This works out to protect our interests. You get something you want - magic - but not enough to protect yourself well. I become a vampire, and then I craft protections for you of a superior kind."
They neared the old estate...
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:34:01 GMT -8
Alain- "Fire at will, Eli."
He wasn't slowing, but could handle the turns with a little direction.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:41:48 GMT -8
Alain brought them to park in the outer part of the driveway. The gate was chained and locked shut.
Alain- "The dead are gone, but there are ways to speak with what remains of their memory."
They got out of the car. Through the gate Eli could tell no rubble had been removed at all. A scorched out skeleton stood.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 20:56:14 GMT -8
Alain might be able to squeak between the bars, but not Eli. Then again, it was only about eight feet high. Eli could boost the man, then be over in a heartbeat any number of ways.
Alain- "Perhaps, depending on our fortunes."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 21:03:41 GMT -8
Alain- "It is a beginning." He was spry enough, landing on the other side in his sneakers. Eli's math was: athletic build + vampire lightness - daysickness = still an easy enough climb.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 21:21:18 GMT -8
but of course...
Alain- "..." They were over and in. It was easy to stroll the flat smooth concrete drive - damage to it had been mostly cosmetic. Lots of black boot prints and scorched streaks. The burned building had a few graffiti tags, mounds of blackened rubble, and not much to look at.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 21:29:47 GMT -8
He shook his head.
Alain- "I do not know of that. Who has died here, then? All that you know of."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 12, 2016 21:45:14 GMT -8
Alain- "Mmm no. Let me see..." He hopped over a crusty section of wall, landed balancing on materials so warped and dark that Eli couldn't even make sense of them in the day- light. It looked risky to follow him.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 14, 2016 17:03:38 GMT -8
Eli saw him settle into a creepy little corner, his coat punching up against the fragment of wall. Even through the daysickness Eli could hear homeless people or animals or something not very far away, but Alain paid it no attention. He withdrew a wad of amulets and such from a deep pocket and set to untangling it enough to withdraw the one he needed.
Alain- "What do you know about ghosts?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on May 14, 2016 17:21:25 GMT -8
Alain- "She was wrong. Seeing and under- standing are two different things."
Alain- "No one becomes a ghost. A ghost can be born from the passing of a human, but it is not truly that person. Just a sad reflection."
He teased out a string of prayer beads, with an arcane medallion in place of the usual scepter.
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