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[deadthenred]

[ He is old and very bad at sarcasm over text. ]

Yikes.

[riskless]

i can use tildes to denote sarcasm if you really need it

decapitating a vampire isn't exactly out of line with some shit i've seen, so i promise it wasn't ultra traumatic

[deadthenred]

There are movies, right?

[riskless]

vampire movies? tons of them. but i meant in real life

[deadthenred]

Well, gee, nothing weird's ever happened to me.

[riskless]

so what's your standard for weird if the vampires don't count?

[deadthenred]

[ Uh. ]

I guess I can't pretend.
Be thankful you didn't see how that one ended.

[riskless]

well now i'm curious

zombies?

[deadthenred]

Not that time.

[ He doesn't elaborate for a minute, but then: ]

We found the original vampire, the one who was turning our men. It was a child.

[riskless]

a child? not being manipulated, just doing it on their own?

[deadthenred]

It was a vampire. Not really a kid anymore. Just something wearing the body.

[ He tells himself that, anyway. To make it easier to swallow what he had to do.

That's why he has the nightmares. ]

[riskless]

yeah. that makes sense. if they were alive for that long and wrecking that much havoc... they left childhood behind a while ago.

[deadthenred]

Anything else you want clarified?

[riskless]

you found me, sounds more like you wanted to explain for yourself

you go on to be a vampire hunter?

[deadthenred]

What? No. That's not a job.

[ Blade doesn't have a job. ]

[riskless]

apparently they run rampant in your world, i assume someone's gotta take care of them. no buffy the vampire slayers?

side gigs?

[deadthenred]

They don't.
Run rampant.

[riskless]

so what happened in the dream was basically a fluke? one and done?

[deadthenred]

Maybe three times.

[ A pause. ]

No, four.
What's the weird stuff in your world?

[riskless]

so there's at least four vampires

i got stabbed in the neck and woke up a few hours later perfectly fine

[deadthenred]

Most of it was different shit with the same vampire.

[ Baron Blood. It's always Baron Blood. ]

And?
I mean, was it Flash Gordon space science or a natural healing factor?

[riskless]

like a king of all vampires.

spontaneous healing factor. i can't die now. back home at least, this place took it away almost as quickly as i got it.

[deadthenred]

The king's another guy. Haven't dealt with him much.
Everything dies.
But maybe we should talk.

[riskless]

this vampire leader information keeps changing on me.

eventually, yeah. but for now i'm pretty much immortal. i came back from every injury sustained since the neck one.

pretty sure we're already talking.

[deadthenred]

I meant, in person.
If you want to.