>>25141541
1.
You are Isabella Katarina Markova, twelfth of the line of Carmilla, thirteen generations from Dracula, the First. This places you with enough blood and power to make you a minor noble in Shadescast, the city of the vampires, and possess your own castle- which does not necessarily have sensible geometry, and which is not always in the same place. Though your physical appearance is that of a young girl, you are actually three and a half centuries old.

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3.
You spend your time responding to requests from other vampires for lore, and holding tea parties and other social events, both with humans and vampires. On occasion, you indulge in adding one or two of them to your collection of porcelain dolls…

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Recently, you were attacked by a human vampire hunter who managed to temporarily kill you. Upon rising from death, you captured him and left him in the tender hands of your doll collection... but first he managed to majorly deface your castle and burn a portion of your library, including some hard-to-replace texts. Signs point to him having been hired by a rival vampire... and one who was here, and managed to take one of your dolls.

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Currently, you are working to turn the mayor of Mark into your soft, gooey servant. The process will take one or two weeks more. You also intend to invest in the airship trade- a process speeded considerably when the chattel you acquired to raise money were vastly overvalued by a vampiric noble by the name of Blackford. As a result, you gained control of his airship yards in Mark. When you returned from formally transferring control, you discovered that one of the slaves you kept had gone missing in your absence- So you had Scarlet, one of your Dolls' creations, drag her back to the Castle for you. In return, Scarlet has been given Rose as her servant.

>>25141549
Oh dear, formatting. Oh well.

An archive of all threads but the first may be found here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Vampire+Doll+Quest

(You can find the first with the tag "Vampire Quest", but you probably won't miss that much.)

I'm feeling filled with unwarranted importance today, because the quest has just broken the 20-vote mark on a few of its threads.

>>25141541
First, get some tea and ask if she'd like a cup.

When congratulating her turn on a tiny bit of our voice's power to make her feel more appreciated by us and a bit more loyal, take our time, we don't want to rush this in the least bit.

"You did a remarkable job Scarlet, you did as I wished and retrieved the errant girl with minimal fuss and great alacrity. You have performed beyond my expectations and I wish to reward you for that.

Firstly, Rose is yours now, she is to act as your attendant and assistant in all matters that you wish. Her life is bound to this rose that I am giving you. Feel free to punish and educate her as you see fit, though try not to break her.

Secondly, you have proven yourself competent, clever, and trustworthy, I wish to bestow upon you the honor of being my lady-in-waiting. To act as my companion and assistant and to be rewarded for your service commensurately."

Every proper noble needs a lady-in-waiting.

>>25141602
Whoops, I've forgotten our character sheet.
http://pastebin.com/Dz7QgMM0
Servants have been updated.

>>25141836
This sounds about right.

Rolled 16

>>25141836
>>25142064
Roll 1d100 for Eeriness.

>>25142158
And it would appear that you'd better roll low, because Scarlet has a degree of success.

Rolled 26

>>25142158
Oh shit, I hpe this is a 1.

>>25142193
we have what 3 degrees of success?

>>25142176
Scarlet's Acumen is 40. She has two degrees of success.

Your Eeriness is 65. You have three degrees of success.

You beat her by one degree, and your gentle compulsion is unnoticed.

>>25142207
We are awesome at mindfuckery.

>>25142176
Question, there have been occasional references to us getting more powerful personally. How do we do that?

>>25142193
Eh.... good enough I think. But does Scarlet get a roll since she has mindfuckery too?

>>25142240
She already got her roll.

>>25142240
The 16 was her roll, thankfully we're better at mindfuckery than her by a decent margin.

>>25142225
Eating nastier vampires than you is the fastest way.

Of course, training can help, and you have plenty of time.

>>25142240
She did, she rolled here
>>25142158
and got a 16.
She only gets that roll because she knows about compulsion herself.

>>25142264
Easy peasy, except not totally. I'm guessing all it takes is one fucked up roll to completely undue all the good will we've built. Maybe we can engineer some situation to drastically lower her acuity before trying it?

Oh yeah, and we also need to make that wing of themed rooms.

I knew there was something I was forgetting.

>>25142308
Most of the loyalty we get from her should be through more mundane methods due to that, treating her well, giving her toys to play with, having tea with her, and confiding in her and letting her confide in us.

A lady-in-waiting is more than just a servant, it's much closer to a companion or friend, and considering her own abilities we can't just throw magic at the problem without risking failure.

We'll teach her proper etiquette in time, how to dance, and all other things that a noble ought to know, doll her up, in the giving her nice clothes way not the other way, and perhaps even introduce her to proper society. We improve her station and earn her loyalty and we'll be fine.

We'll be slaymates, we'll torture, bend, break, and twist people, together.

>>25142308
Essentially, if she rolls successfully she catches you out. That will probably mean bad things for you.

>>25142390
You emerge from your black-and-red rose garden into the twilight of Shadescast. Scarlet is waiting patiently for you by the path, the waterfall of her bloody hair leaving a dark stain on the soil.

"Hello, Scarlet. I'm here to give you a very special rose."

You extend the rose up towards her, and she takes it from your tiny hand, leaving a stain of blood on it that you lick at absently.

"Careful, now. That's Rose you have there. Not the flower, but the girl. Her life is in that blossom you hold, so mind it stays healthy; you wouldn't want your new servant to die because you forgot to water her, now would you?"

Scarlet smiles, and braids the rose into her crimson hair, the deep red of the rose almost the same color.

"No, Lady Isabella, I would not."

Though you can't see Scarlet's eyes through her hair, you take a guess as you pour honey into your voice.

"You've done well, Scarlet. You brought back Rose alive and unharmed. I believe you would make an excellent lady-in-waiting. Would you like to stay here and become part of my plans for the future? Would you be my confidant when I have no others I can trust, and my red right hand when others stand in my way?"

Scarlet… You're not certain exactly, but you're fairly certain that she would have blinked if you could have seen her eyes.

"Erm, well…"

You take a risk and decide to prod her a little more.

"Please, I need someone I can speak to. Everyone else around me is too dull or too untrustworthy."

She considers. You have a feeling she can see the trap laid out in front of her, the promise of a place by your side you offered to so many others before her, centuries ago…

She slowly smiles.

It would appear that she likes it.

"Yes, Lady Isabella. What is your command?"

> Just what, exactly, is your command?

>>25142391
Which is precisely why I didn't want to use the power when giving the GOOD JOB SON speech. It's unnecessary and partly dishonest to need to use the power on something you're honest about anyway. It expresses lack of self-confidence if you need to power your words to say anything.

>>25142405
"For now, tend to the estate and check on your new ward. If I have direct need of your services and powers, make no mistake that I will call on you. For now, I have some research to begin conducting.

"There's someone in Shadescast who wants me either dead or royally peeved, and I intend to find out who that rat is."

>>25142405
First, ask her to bend down and give her a chaste kiss, not in any sexual way but to further cement our bond and show that we trust her.

Also, she's pretty much the only one of our servants allowed to call us Lady Isabella.

"There is quite a bit you have to learn, a lady-in-waiting is expected to accompany her mistress to all sorts of social functions and is expected to know of all manners of etiquette, dance, poetry, and other noble pasttimes. But I have the utmost confidence in you.

I shall start by teaching you of tea and you shall join me for a cup of the delicious brew. In addition there is a problem that has caused me no end of vexation.

Someone sent a Hunter after me, he is known as Fluffy now, and one of my dolls has gone missing, I believe there was a single entity behind both of these things and I intend on finding out who. We shall discuss the problem, attempt to determine who would do such a thing, and should that not bear fruit we will investigate further whether it be through mundane investigation or the usage of our magics."

>>25142405
What does Shadescast look like from the view of our estate? It's good to have an image of our surroundings. For that matter, how grand does our Castlevania look?

>>25142530
Keep in mind that considering Scarlet's nature, we can only really show her off during ventures in Shadescast. She'd be horribly out of place otherwise.

>>25142434
>>partly dishonest

I'll grant you the unnecessary risk, but after all the murder, slavery, and blood magick I find it a bit perplexing that we're drawing a line in the sand at partial dishonesty.

>>25142564
Even vampiric nobility has standards, particularly among their own staff, assuming they're nice to them.

>>25142557
Well yes, that bit is obvious, but the only ones with proper society that matters is Shadesclast and vampiric society. The rest are far from refined and elegant.

>>25142564
It's not that, it's just that it has a chance of throwing a spanner in our works, and gives us very little gain hen we could have accomplished these things normally.

>>25142530
this.

>>25142626
Hour's break before I have anything for you, I'm writing up shadescast and eating supper.

(Sorry for the delay!)

>>25142434
>It expresses a lack of self-confidence if you need to power your words to say anything.

Yeah, not really. We're trying to mold and shape her in ways that, given her nature, charisma, reason and temptation are insufficient motivators. If we gave her just the GOOD JOB SON speech, she gains a lasting measure of self-confidence and a temporary positive attachment to the act of earning our approval. We just reversed that or at least shifted the impact so that our approval is linked to her feeling of self validation. It's an important if subtle mechanism of control we're trying to establish in Scarlet and magic accelerates that process.

>>25142649
Just reiterating thoughts from the end of the last thread. The current train of thought is that whoever sicced the hunter on us wanted to ruin us to some degree, likely as reprisal for something we did against him/her, involuntary or otherwise. We should start by considering who we managed to piss off over the past couple years that could warrant a visit from a hunter.

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>>25141602
>mfw I bumped one of the threads from 19 to 20 and saw it get all gold

>>25142564
It's not about being immoral but more about being a good leader naturally without having to mindfuck everybody and risk disaster for little gain.

>>25142530
I like this.

Would anyone oppose us adding a drop of our blood to her hair as a reward for her officially entering our service (mild narcotic properties) and to mark her as our own?

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>>25142609
Ok well we got away with it and wedged the door open with magic, now we can move from there. The question is whether future attempts will become easier. If we can degrade her resistant then molding her would be an acceptable risk. If not, best to leave her be. As stated she -isn't- really fond of us, she just feels indebted. Remember, all fine speeches aside she was our prisoner before she was our friend.

What next guys? I vote sweet Shadecast party. We'll gin up some terribly auspicious excuse for us to invite people into our home and hold a gala ball. We can work the room and try to find out who is after us.

>>25142580
>assuming they're nice to them
I have no idea where you found this assumption? Also, what constitutes "nice" here?

>>25142784
We're gonna need a lot of live blood for a full blown gala. Time to kidnap more gangs of street punks?

>>25142887
Slow down. We can't just throw a bash and expect the target -- whom we don't even know -- to show up. We need to do our research first.

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>>25142887
PARTY PREP MONTAGE!

I'm imagining some wacky animated still frame montage of Scarlet and Isabella hunting hobos, set to saccharine J-pop music.

>>25142947
The party is for research! We'll get all the movers and shakers to come and hear the latest rumors, maybe mindfuck a few of the weaker ones in the back room. We don't need to do it tomorrow, but worth planning.

why is she wearing a diaper on her head

Lets just do the research thing. Remember, we have a careful reputation as a recluse, we can't ruin it now.

>>25142784
I'd prefer to investigate some more before we do that. We need to narrow the field before we consider doing that, we don't even have any guarantee that the person who fucked us over will even come to our little soiree.

>>25142771
I'm not sure, it could work out for us, but honestly considering how bloody weird she is magically speaking I have no idea what'll happen from it. Might backfire.

Hard to say.

>>25143032
Goddamnit Snapple! Now I'm going to have that image playing in the back of my head until Al updates...Well done.

>>25142710
Let's start with past 6 months, maybe year, we'll look further back if need be but this doesn't seem like a plot that would have taken years to concoct. We could whip something like it up in under a month.

We don't get out much so it shouldn't be too hard, there's the people who come to visit, hopefully we keep a log of the people who we have consulted or turned away, and other than that we remember the few times we've gone out and what we did those times. Try to find something that could have offended someone who knew who and what we are.

>>25143439
This seems a reasonable course of action.

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>>25143315
>mfw people mistake me for snapple.

>>25143246
>>25143246
The goal needn't be to catch the guy. That would be dangerous and confrontational. I just mean we can take a read on the city, hear rumours, and meet some new characters. And yes, we would plan it carefully with all the necessary precautions and excuses to maintain our facade of weakness.

>>25142771
Also remember feeding blood (her whole body eats blood) can turn people. That could be... complicated.

>>25143439
I think vampire tend to nurse grudges for years before acting on them. Time isn't exactly a motivating factor after all...What I'm trying to say is our window for recently pissing someone off is probably the last twenty years or so, and it could be much older than that.

>>25143501
If someone was nursing a grudge for that long and preparing for that long I don't think it would've just been some shmuck hitting us with a hammer, burning a few things, and breaking a window. That's impolite and inconvenient, but really not worthy of a decade old grudge. This feels like a quick and dirty 'fuck you', not the culmination of a long-term grudge.

>>25143484
I am aware. I thought the mechanic for turning some one was activated on their death, so yes feeding her would give her a probability of turning (one drop? I'm guessing a low probability) over the next few months. If she gets killed. That said, do the same rules even apply to flesh constructs?

>>25143564
I didn't say anything about preparing, just letting it fester until either some unexpected opportunity arose or something incidental pushed the culprit past their snapping point. The Hunter thing decks of recklessness, so we really should consider misdirection as another motive. Could someone have gotten into and out of the castle while we were dead? Or a mole in our staff escaping with something that we might not notice or assume destroyed in the fire?

>>25143439
One place we should look is the identity of our missing Doll.

Someone took the Doll, it's plausible that the Doll was the motivation for the attack. We should enquire if our missing Doll had any next of kin.

>>25143484
Sorry Tsunny, seems I mistook you for someone else. My apologies.

>>25143564
Yes, but that could just be to get our attention and lure us into something more. They could also have been riding on Fluffy's senses at the time to try to scout us out, while giving him a pretext to come here and do a small amount of destruction in the process.

When we checked Fluffy, did we find traces of that kind of tampering? Granted, if the vampire was stronger than us he could've potentially taken a 20 (or, well, 0) on his eeriness roll (or at least had an almost unbeatable amount of success).

>>25143651
That's plausible and something we shouldn't rule out but until we learn more, it's nothing we can work with.

The immediate avenues of investigation we have is: people we've had dealings with in the last 6 months-year and any next of kin our missing Doll might have.

>>25143727
If the missing doll had any living next of kin then we really need to be less sloppy in the future.

>>25142405
Do as you please for now, I will visit you later after you and Rose are settled, I must retire and think on some disconcerting matters. Send The Angel to me, I may have a task for him.

I think we should get the Angel out, have him inspect the castle, see if theres any breaches or signs of damage/tampering. If someone broke in and stole the doll that could be trouble, the next thing I think we need to do is contact our friend the Earl of Blackford. He's traded with us in the past, perhaps we can ask him for some assistance, he likely has a larger presence in Shadescast and can throw a wider, more thorough search if we ask nicely. Perhaps offer him a guest of honor position at the gala we should definitely hold.

>>25143837
You mean like how we captured all those cattle from the streets and didn't check to see if they had any family?

Granted they were hobos, and were liable to disappear anyway, but a similar instance of capture could've produced a doll with living family.

Hell, given that we recently did something that could've allowed next of kin to remain alive, this means that we may have done it before.

>>25143937
>contact our friend the Earl of Blackford and ask him for some assistance
Noooo! We just took his shirt in a deal.

It was a legitimate deal but he's still going to be a little pissed about it.

>>25144062
Oh crap. Yeah, support this post.

>>25144062
Wasn't he happy about the deal? That's why it was so effective, he thought he was getting the better out of it. It would be a good idea either way, if he is miffed, this will mend bridges, if he is still pleased this can help us squeeze him into our pocket.


Also Alucard, does Isabella have any relatives, siblings by the same sire? Actual blood relatives that may have been turned by another sire?

You look out over the city as you consider your answer, taking in the view from your newly-planted garden.

The spires and crags of Shadescast are wholly confined within a massive cavern in the bowels of the earth.
Distant 'stars' shine from within the stalactites at the top of the cavern, illuminating the city below.

Your castle, like most other parts of significant architecture in Shadescast, is made of the same rock as the cavern itself, carved and shaped into a grand, gothic architecture that is half-submerged into a massive stalagmite rising from the cavern floor. A steep, winding flight of spiral stairs leads downward to the shantytown slums where the commoner vampires and chattel live, but anyone of consequence will simply fly to your doorstep. Certain particularly high-ranking vampires have their castles in stalactites, completely divorced from the cavern floor.

From here, you can see a dozen distant points of light, the only marks in the darkness of the cavern to show the castles of other vampires worth speaking to.

Within one of those towers lies the vampire that stole one of your dolls. You can feel it in your blood.

> Continued

>>25144205

You nod to Scarlet.

"There is much you will need to learn. If you are to be presentable to the nobility of this great city, you will have need of etiquette, dance, and many other small necessities of the courtly world. But I am good at teaching others; and I have no doubt that you will be a stellar student."

You take one of her hands, and lead her back into the castle.

"We will start with tea. In Grand Victoria, tea is a practically a religion in and of itself; those vampires that adopt their customs, who are many, will expect you to know the careful rituals of the drink. To them, it is only second to blood in importance."

You gently tug on Scarlet's hand, and she obediently leans down to listen to you more closely. You whisper into her ear…

"And finally, someone has sent a hunter after me. You know the hunter as my loyal dog, Fluffy. That same person has taken one of my dolls. We will discuss this, and determine who is most likely to wish me harmed; and if we can come to no agreement, we will have to resort to detective work."

You Scarlet lightly on her cheek, enjoying the taste of blood on your tongue.

"I have no doubt that you will serve me well in this, Scarlet."

> Will you begin the investigation now? If so, where will you start?

>>25144212
The doll. Let's try to find her background.

>>25144129
>Wasn't he happy about the deal?
We took his fucking shirt. The only reason he was okay with it at the time is because he was paying attention to our pretty serving girl and not the details of our business.

>It would be a good idea either way, if he is miffed, this will mend bridges,
Going to someone you just ripped off and asking for favours is not the best way to mend fences.

>>25144212
go over people who don't like us.

>>25144212
How did she react to getting a smooch?

Begin the investigation.

Start by drinking tea with Scarlet, educate her while doing so, and look through any logs and recorded things about people who we have consulted for in the last year or so, especially anyone who visited us multiple times, if need be we'll look further, but let's keep it at this level for now. Hopefully we have this recorded or we'll have to look through our memory for the answers which will be more troublesome.

In addition rack our memory for any notable outings we've made in the same time period and people who we may have interacted poorly with.

>>25144302
Yes, yes, we did take his shirt. But where has Alucard indicated that the Earl was upset with the deal?
I just don't want to jump to conclusions if we have an opportunity available to us.

>>25144286
Second. Good as place to start as any.

>>25144129
Isabella has an older sister. Older by about a century, though like Isabella, she looks about 13. They don't get along. Their sire is dead, so far as they know, and they should, because they killed him.

>>25144129
He was distracted by a particular slave. Either he knows something we don't (unlikely but possible) and actually fleeced us, or he will recognize that we shafted him once his interest in that slave has waned. Whether that would lead to greater respect for us or a desire to tear our throat out for the loss of face is debatable. My guess is both.

>>25144404
All of Isabella's human family are centuries-dead.

>>25144404
Gentleanons, we have a suspect.

>>25144212
Beginning the search as soon as possible would be good, do we know which doll was taken precisely? Perhaps we should visit the dolls and see if they can direct us to some clues or at least we can gain some insight by the ones left behind. Perhaps there was something special about the doll, like the other one that seems to have a good knack for fleshcrafting as evidenced in scarlet, angel, and hunter.

As we're travelling, lets summon our head of house and begin laying out preparations for a gala too. If we find that it was one of the local nobles that did it, we can turn the gala into either a tribunal, an execution, or a diversion. Or any combination of the 3.

>>25144404
> like Isabella, she looks about 13
I take it our sire was a rather creepy sort of fellow?

>Their sire is dead, so far as they know, and they should, because they killed him.
Damn we were hardcore back in the day.

>>25144404
>So far as they know

That seems like an awful thing to not be sure about. Wouldn't we have had to personally murder him in his casket?

>>25144404
Definitely prime suspect, here. Though it's too early to discount other possibilities of course. We need to consolidate all info on her, and see if we have any clues.

>>25144437
Possible, hard to say for sure, we'll investigate further, don't count anyone out at this juncture or get too attached to it.

And I think she'd go for something bigger than just burning some books if she really wanted to hurt us.

>>25144404
Did our sire have a thing for 12-13 year old girls?

What's our sister's name? Is there a particular reason why we dislike each other?

>>25144404
What is our older sibling's name?
>inb4 Francesca
that's my vote anyway.
We're linked by blood to an extent, would we have noticed her presence if she visited covertly or otherwise?
>>25144476
I think killed here is referring to a full on stake in the box. Alucard can probably provide details if we take a trip down that memory lane.

>>25144410
This is what I'm talking about, the Earl might not be upset with the deal, I agree here, he might have even developed a healthy respect for us.

>>25144464
Yes, and that is the direct reason why he is now as dead as a pair of very, very pissed off vampires can make you.

>>25144476
Yes. You did. You staked him, cut off his head, doused the body in holy water, burned what was left, and scattered the rest under a sunlit sky.

But he was older than you, and very old vampires have a bad habit of living through things they really shouldn't.

It's as sure as you and your sister could make it.

>>25144450
>begin laying out preparations for a gala too.
1, inviting a Large group of Vampires into your home sounds like a terrible idea in general.

2, Being civilised and respecting the Guests Right is a big thing for us. Issuing an invitation to our home, only to use it as a trap sounds most uncouth.

>>25144450
No gala. We are a recluse.

>>25144523
The laws of hospitality in Shadescast are enforced with a great deal more vigor than in other cities, given that half the inhabitants have this thing about thresholds.

>>25144516
Alucard?
>>25144520
Alucard

I think an anon is reading your mind, I wouldn't mind finding out more about the Earl's current relation to us.
>>25144544
Even a recluse has to have a social event from time to time, just something once a century to let them know we're still breathing...

>>25144520
Man... our dad must have been one fucked up guy.

>>25144544
We can still have a gala while being a recluse. Like Bruce Wayne at the start of the last Batman movie.

>>25144572
Before or after we staked him, cut off his head, dragged his corpse filled coffin outside doused it holy water and let it catch a sunrise?
>>25144568
>>25144575
Reclusegalamind

>>25144506
Vampires are fucked up 'people.'

Our sister's name was Evangeline Fransesca Markova when we knew her, but since then she's moved up in the world and is now Evangeline Fransesca Scarlet, eighth of the Line of Remilia.

That was about when we stopped speaking to her.

>>25144568
We don't breathe.
Also, I think it's a pretty bad idea.
We're an eccentric recluse with a penchant for the occult, we should keep up that image.

>>25144575
>>25144544

Could we come up with an excuse? Some reason why we're obligated to throw a party? Maybe dad's birthday memorial for extra irony.

>>25144596
I see what you did there

>>25144550
>The laws of hospitality in Shadescast are enforced with a great deal more vigor than in other cities,
So, hosting a gala should be mostly safe, because the guests would play nice.

But turning it into any sort of trap would get us fucked.

That about the sum of it?

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>>25144568
>just something once a century to let them know we're still breathing...

>>25144601
Didn't we just acquire and reorganize/reopen an airship yard, perhaps it's a launch party?

>>25144596
Okay, it seems unlikely that she'd go after us, given that she's up to 8th of the line she's got 4 generations on us now, she's going to be busy with her own politicking rather than going after us. If she was going after us to tie up loose ends she wouldn't just go to inconvenience us I don't think.

>>25144636
It might send the wrong message to the dude we got it from. Like, sorta rub in what a good deal we got.

>>25144636
>That would play well in Mark, but it would be more than a little incongruous with our image in Shadecast.

>>25144615
Yes. Only the insane break the laws of hospitality in Shadescast. The punishment is... inventive. By the standards of a group of vampires who have been trying to come up with ways to kill each other creatively for hundreds of years. You just don't screw with the Host Right.

Of course, that's not to say that the particularly stupid or clever don't occasionally do it, but you sure as hell don't get caught.

>>25144636
Why should everyone know what we're up to?
I say keep our businesses to ourselves.
No gala

>>25144608
The lines of vampires are named after significant figures from other works.

Remilia is a significant influence here so she gets a shout-out.

>>25144596
Bitch totally stole our Lady-in-Waiting's name.

>>25144636
Let's wait until we have more information and investigation on this subject before we start throwing parties willy-nilly, it might be justified for what we're doing, or it could not help at all or get in the way.

We start with some old-fashioned investigation before we consider bringing people over, we need some leads first.

>>25144722
I wonder what she'd think that we named our new minion Scarlet?

>>25144722
Other direction, actually.

Scarlet, aside from being rather red-colored herself, rather reminds you of your sister- at least, the parts of her you liked.

>>25144722
or, we could see it as naming our lady-in-waiting after her for shiggles

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>>25144757
So Scarlet is basically a sister surrogate?

>>25144754
>>25144757
I'm not sure she'll take it very well...

>>25144753
Agreed. No damned parties.

>>25144464
We still are, we just focused our hardcore-ness into making bonemonster dolls. Now that our ire is drawn again, its likely that we will resume our hardcoreness in full.

>>25144596
What a bitch. in b4 she shows up to troll

>>25144596
>Vampires are fucked up 'people.'
OP, I don't thik I've said this yet, but thank you for running this and don't tone it down. You've hit that sweet spot of horror and humor, I look forward to what's to come.

>>25144757
>>25144777
I know, it was a joke.

Could we get a basic timeline on how long ago we offed Creepy Lolifucker Markova, eleventh in the line of Markova and how long ago we stopped being on speaking terms with our sister and she started moving up in the world and joined the Scarlets?

Also what was Creepy Lolifucker Markova's name?

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>>25144757
We are just a big ball of blood rage and daddy issues in a frilly dress aren't we?

>>25144753
Fine fine let's wait on the party (not letting it go) and investigate our doll. Where was she from? Who knew her? What did she know?

>>25144808
Pretty much, yep.

>>25144840
I mean eleventh in the line of Carmilla.

>>25144850
Daww, I wonder how many sister surrogates and ladies-in-waiting we've gotten and then disposed of by this point?

Probably a lot.

>>25144844
Add in some dashes of adorable, fleshcrafting, gardening, and a strange love of dolls and that seems pretty accurate.

>>25144844
The daddy issues were settled about when you ate his heart to take his power for your own.

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>>25144836
I agree. It's got a certain macabre humour to it.

Also, it occurs to me how similar the dolls and fleshcraft shtick is to phyrexia.

>>25144836
Seconding this OP. Don't let it go friendly neighborhood vampire on us, friend! Though that'd be tough with our dolls and fleshcreatures.

Also, HOW THE FUCK DID THE DOLLS MAKE SCARLET? Seriously, she's like a...blood elemental or some shit!

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>>25144850
She's a sister surrogate, and we just gave her a kiss and savored the taste?

Freud would have a thing or two to say about our relationship with our sister.

>>25144840
Twelfth in the line of Carmilla (the surname of which is Markova).

You are his heart and took that rank for yourself.

That was when you were about a hundred.

Then Eva started wrangling her way into power and spending less time with you, you had a falling out, and a century or so later she's in the higher courts and you're still a recluse sitting in your sire's castle.

You never really forgave her for that.

>>25144894
I still say we should at least let the staff begin work on preparations for the gala while we ourselves and perhaps with some assistance from team A.S.H. (whut, angel, scarlet, hunter, it's like some really bad cartoon team name), lets start the investigation with the dolls.

>>25144973
Freud was a hack and doesn't exist on this world so his things to say count for shit.

>>25144973
He'd probably ask about our relationship with our father first.

>>25144974
One day we'll catch her with her guard down and eat her out, see what she thinks about that.

>>25144989
no galla

>>25144973
Yeah, Isabella needs a therapist badly.
I'd name all the issues she's got, but I don't want to spell them all out for you and it'd take too long.

>>25144974
>sitting in our sire's castle
Oh shit, what if HE sent that hunter on us? As revenge.

>>25144989
No fucking gala!
Bad bad bad idea.

>>25144974
So, either sis is trying to break us out of our shell (hahaha, no) or we actually have attracted someone's notice? Whose's the fourteenth in our line?

So, right now, sister dearest is at the top of the suspect list? Seems like the sort of person who would want to annoy the unliving shit out of us but isn't necessarily dead set on having us killed.

How do we go about investigating without bringing down the wrath of vampire politicks?

>>25145011
um... phrasing?

>>25145025
then he survived without a heart. which is impressive

>>25145011
eat her heart out, her heart

>>25145016
>>25145027
christ, it's not like we're inviting all of markova in right now, even if we begin preparations we don't have to announce anything. if we do decide it's in our interests, then we're good to go, if we decide we need one later then we'll have to go through the preparations all over, besides what else is the house staff doing?

>>25145004
Freud was good at observation and description, not so much at prediction. So his theory is shit but the symptoms and defense mechanisms he cataloged are pretty okay.

>>25144989
No galla. Stop it. We'll have a coming out party eventually, but not now.

>>25145056
Oh, I meant he was a spooky scary ghost.
That works, too.

>>25145068
Agreed

>>25144989
No gala. We've got a job to do now, let's get on with it.

Maybe later we can have one. Right now, it's just sidetracking us.

>>25145056
Or any other organs.

Did you not get the memo about "reduced to ash and then left to scatter in the sun?"

>>25144973
Freud would probably have a lot to say about 350 year old little girl vampires, because I'm pretty sure they would all be screwed up in their own unique way.

Though I find the Scarlet thing to be somewhat endearing, more than anything. Creepy as hell, but endearing. Though that last sentence basically describes the entire character.

>>25145058
im with this camp, why not prepare, as anon stated, we don't actually have to announce anything, we can handwavium the important bits later, just let the staff know we've got plans.

Again, we don't have to announce anything to the public of Shadecast

>>25144333
anyways, let us get back to the story, and begin our investigation.

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>>25144974
Pretty fucked up mang.

OK, anons, let's get down to business.

1. Find out what our sister is up to.
2. Research the missing doll.
3. Quality time with servants. Chat with Scarlet, mind fuck Rose some more, see what the other goons are up to (especially Slab, we miss him!).
4. AIRSHIPS. Let's get that up and running. We were buying a trade fleet right?
5. Fuckyea Gala. Look, people keep assuming it's going to be a rushed out front for an attack but it needn't be. We'll hold a memorial service in honor of our poor departed father (taken from us too soon). Our sister will HAVE to come to that and behave. Neutral territory, good spot to scope her out safely. This is long term.

>>25145058
If you prepare for a gala you can't just..... hold onto the preparations.
Shit doesn't work that way.
Do you even elegant party?

>>25145124
i'm alright with this, just no major renovation, or something attention getting like ordering 500 trays of shrimp

Lets get down to the doll house and see what we can discover there, that seems to be the start of the disappearance, and may be our first clue.

Also, I like the idea of at least asking for the Earl's advice

>>25145101
Minor irritants that were soon fixed. On a side note, once fixed, it let him mingle on the Dark Continent for a time!

>>25145148
> a memorial service in honor of our poor departed father

I like the way you think, anon.

>>25145148
Our sister is irrelevant save for the objectives numbered two and five. Two is actually number one though.

>>25145058
>preparations we don't have to announce anything
>f we decide we need one later then we'll have to go through the preparations all over,

The preparations would mostly include decorations, food and hiring entertainers.

Sooo, you want to hang up all the gala decorations and just leave them out. Put out a load of food to spoil and hire entertainers to sit around and do nothing.

Just stop it. You've just got attached to you pet idea and are pushing it when it makes no sense right now.

>>25145159
Nah. No gala at all.

>>25145148
No goddamned gala.

>>25145148
>3...give Scarlet lessons on mindfuckery using Rose.
We gave Scarlet her own pet, she has to take some responsibility for training it.

>>25145148
I actually like the idea of a mock memorial service. Would that be frowned upon in Shadecast, or seen as sort of amusing and quaint? Because amusing and quaint would be the perfect tone to investigate.

>>25145194
>>25145209
>>25145156
>>25145093
>>25145068
No gala, it would appear.

> Would you like a quick rundown on who else might want to kill or inconvenience us?

>>25145187
what he said.

>>25145031
My guess is that she's got more important stuff on her plate than her recluse little sister who hasn't done shit for hundreds of years.

>>25145025
Unlikely, he's probably dead, and if he was back there's no way he would be that polite about taking his house back, it'd be messier and a lot more effective, not just burning some books.

People, start with >>25144333
We first look into who has grudges against us or reason to fuck us over, then we investigate the dolls and determine who was capable of doing that and we narrow it down that way.

No need for a gala, at least not at this juncture. If it ends up with us needing one we'll deal with that, but until then don't bother.

>>25145187
>>25145194
>>25145209

Nobody is proposing we do it now. Let's just table it and keep it in mind. Research time is now.

>>25145220
Who said it needs to be productive? I just love screwing with her. Also we should keep an eye to see what Scarlet is doing.

>>25145254
yes.

>>25145228
Not frowned upon, no. Particularly for those who knew the deceased. It'd be seen as a grand joke.

>>25145254
yes please. it's best to know our prime suspects

>>25145254
Please. We're sort of floundering here without any guidance.

>>25145254
Yes! As Monty Python put it best, GET ON WITH IT!

>>25145272
The timing might be a bit off though.

>>25145287
>>25145280
>>25145278
>>25145271
Good, it would appear we were all waiting for the others to get on with it.

> Getting on with it

>>25145272
Well, the memorial gala idea is worth keeping in mind for the future then, even if we aren't planning to put it into action anytime soon.

>>25145254
>Would you like a quick rundown on who else might want to kill or inconvenience us?
That would be good.

>>25145159
So, vampire appetizers would translate as what, selectively feed humans? Or is there an age criteria I don't know about?

>>25145187
the gala wasn't my idea though, I just thought it was clever, no need to be anal about it.

it's like that deal with the names, a lot of people in this quest get butthurt so hard when they don't get their way,

that said
>>25145254
a list of rivals, problems would be nice, but lets get to the investigation first. Having a list of suspects now without any evidence might lead us to chasing the wrong lead

>>25145254
Yes, dear lord yes. I wrote >>25144333 earlier and still support it.

Get info, we'll move from there.

>>25145272
Excellent. If/when we ever do decide to throw a party, we have the perfect theme.

Now, on with the investigation!

>>25145350
Supporting this post-murder list. Additionally let's take note of what she is doing to Rose. Could give us some clues as to her personality.

>>25145338
anon has a point, even if we get a murder list, we might start throwing knives in the dark and hoping we hit something instead of finding out an actual lead and direction first

>>25145338
We'll cross-reference this list with other leads we pick up and investigation into the doll, we aren't going to just run off the moment we hear someone's name.

>>25145330
I dunno, frozen blood cubes on cocktail sticks.

Or maybe bread, except with blood instead of water.

With a little creative application, you could probably come up with a lot of appetizers that used blood as a primary ingredient, though I'm not sure how well guests would take that. It'd either be "Oh, how stylish.", "Bleh." or "Holy shit, what the fuck are you doing?"

>>25145446
A champagne fountain, except you know, you cut someone's throat and have them bleed into the arrangement of glasses.

>>25145418
I'm sure there are any number of information brokers in Shadescast which would be able to provide us with a list of suspects who have solid alabis.

>>25145446
red jello
never gonna look at it the same now

INVESTIGATION HO, discuss partystuff after the current thing objective is done

>>25145465
Cut their throat? Oh hoooooooooowwwwww gauche! And completely last season! Why back in my day, we threw bloodthralls onto a bed of spikes that ran through filters that added only the finest flavors! Bah, the youths of today!

>>25145483
we're a recluse, we're still in last century
>cutting throats
>1313

>>25145506
I really hope were friends with/at least one vampire who is campier than hell and doesn't give a single iota of fuck because he's so well secluded in the vampire power structure that his position gives Ventinari pangs of jealousy. Base it off the fun parts from that one vampire boss of that shitty vampire movie.

>>25145465
Oh man, I had a really dark response written to that, now lost to captcha...well, the general divergence was binding the bloodbag in a stress position over the arrangement of glasses and going for a slower, more excruciating for of exsanguination. Provide the guests with a decent conversation piece and all.

>>25145482
this guy has it right, it might be neat to discuss, but wait till after the thread is in autosage or attach something directly useful, like so

>>25145031
We should write our sister a letter later, asking what she's been up to, if she's been too busy visit her beloved sibling, ask if she's expanded her doll collection recently if she has one.

How are we going to communicate with the dolls, perhaps we can just ask them to show us any evidence they may have discovered about their missing number.

>>25145539
That's pretty nonspecific.

Though speaking of camp, David Bowie as a vampire might be chuckleworthy.

>>25145561
They might point at specifically interesting things, but their mindset is such that they don't really speak or write at all.

Either way, it'd only take 5 minutes so it's worth a shot if nothing else.

>>25145539
>Base it off the fun parts from that one vampire boss of that shitty vampire movie.
But there are literally hundreds of shitty vampire movies.

>>25145561
We're not on good terms with sister dearest. A letter like that out of the blue would scream "THIS IS A TRAP!", or possibly get burnt before being opened, depending on how bad that particular relationship is.

>>25145539
I think you've just described big daddy Drac when he's indulging in a little recreational pixie juice (yeah, uncreative when it comes to vampiric drugs, help me /tg/, you're my only hope!).

>>25145562
Okay I meant Micheal Sheen in that ONE movie. Get dragged there and it was the one redeeming feature

>>25145561
Do you want our sister to eat our heart, burn our body and turn whatever ash and spirit is left into a trophy of some sort (I don't think we rate dollification in her eyes)?

>>25145658
Does she even have a doll collection? I thought that was just Isabella's thing.

>>25145615
If our sister was behind it, then the letter is the first shot fired in vampire politik wars, and recovering our doll, if not, she might not even be bothered to read it, or reply.

We're 4 generations behind her, it seems to me that she would be more direct with someone that far down from her. Though she is our sister. >>25145615 It can't hurt to try.
>>25145658
Again, if she is the culprit, then it might actually tip her hand depending on the response, it will likely take a day more to get to her anyway. Why would she kill us anyway, she wanted our stuff, if she could bust in and take our shit without us knowing, then we should be dead anyway and the fact that we're not says that the relationship isn't that bad if she is the culprit that stole the doll in the first place at all.

Fuck grammar

>>25145328
You rack your brain for anyone who you might have annoyed in the last three centuries.

One century spent as your sire's personal attack dog, amongst… other things. You might well have made some enemies here and not known it. You hope not.
Two centuries spent consulting on other vampires' projects.
Let's see, who might you have annoyed…
People who you consulted with on plans to take down other vampires: six.
Plans that were tried: six.
Plans that were successful: three.
That gives you at least six possible pissed-off vampires that might want to hurt or kill you.
Let's see, how many of those were within the last decade or so… only one. A blockheaded vampire from the line of Nosferatu who screwed up the plan you gave him on a silver platter. Sending a thug to smash your things is just the sort of stupid plan that he might come up with. What was his name again… Oh yes, Nalus. Nalus what's-his-middle-name Blackford, twentieth or so of the line of Orlov.
Hm, did you ever go out of the castle in that time…?
There was that trip to the Republic of Mori where you accidentally started a riot. Maybe someone's after you for that one. How long ago was that again? Oh right, that was only four years ago. My, does it ever all blur together. When was the other time, the one where you had to consult on getting another vampire a seat in Eyesocket's nobility? Oh yes. Twenty-eight years ago. Still within living memory, at least. Who was that again…? You can't recall. Maybe you kept a record of it somewhere.

>>25145701
I daresay this might have been a reason for the split. Not THE reason but a further reason for the separation.

>>25145717
investigation time.

>>25145717
This disorder is most unbecoming of a lady. I demand we start organizing our thoughts on a journal....which we will keep locked up in a Tomb of Horrors that only we can get through.

>>25145717
Blackford? as in a childe of the Earl? or just a member of the Earl's house?

I wonder how that riot got started
>recalls Scarlet's rolls from yesterday
ah, I see.
eyesocket is a city? similar to shadecast? might be good to know the name of the one involved there, and the one who's seat was being taken

Lets talk to the dolls first though, ask them if they found anything, as usual it will be a one sided conversation but maybe they discovered some evidence we can use to kick-start our investigation

>>25145803
A member of the Earl's house, who may or may not be his Childe. If so he's his great, great, great, great, etc grandchilde.

>>25145717
Hum, Nalus.

The motive is about right. Not enough to flat out want us dead, but enough to want to ruffle our feathers a bit. Though, why wait till now? If he was as thick as we believe, then he probably would have acted recklessly and made a move right away.

Either way, it bears investigation. Find out what he was up to on the night the Hunter entered our Castlevania, any recent meetings, etc. Speak to an information broker if necessary.

>>25145822
Is there any particular bond of loyalty in the Blackford house? Will our friend the Earl come after us if we moved against this Nalus chap?

>>25145717
Okay, keep Nalus in the back of our mind, but don't automatically assume it was him.

It may have been the others before him, but as we don't remember much about them and it was a while ago we'll table them for now and pick them back up if need be. May have been Mori, unsure, doubtful that us helping someone getting a seat in Eyesocket led to this.

If we have a journal or notebook of this sort of thing dig it out of storage. I'd at the very least like more detail on Nalus Blackford, it seems relevant. How long ago was our deal with Nalus?

Share our findings and thoughts so far with Scarlet, get her take on it, then visit the dolls see if they can inform us somehow about the missing doll.

We may have to scry for it which'll not be the hardest thing in the world, we have some severe sympathetic connections to it what with having made it and having a chunk of its porcelain from the Hunter.

>>25145858
I'm guessing that if we're loud and public about it he will be forced to take action for the sake of reputation if nothing else, if we keep it on the down low or from being tracked back to us we're probably in the clear.

>>25145858
We know their house is not well thought of, although we don't know why (in meta at least).

>>25145858
more reason to call blackford to tea with us, or perhaps visit him, we can ask him about helping us with our problem, and investigate his relation with the Nosy. Hell, given how blockheaded this guy is, maybe the Earl wouldn't regret him quietly disheartening himself one bright morning?

>>25145885
After some more investigation and some actual evidence pointing to him we might do that.

>>25145880
I'm guessing that Nosferatu did something to royally piss off the other vamps and that's why they're not well thought of.

>>25145717
Okay, so that's one set of possibilities.

What about the missing Doll. What do we know about who it was and where we got it from?

>>25145885
Perhaps.

We'll have to edge around the conversation a bit, but I think inviting the Earl for tea at some point could be a profitable venture. Not in the capital sense this time, even.

Before that, though, let's get all the info we can on these suspects without putting into circulation that we're looking for info on them.

>>25145885
am alright with this, after we see what the dolls have discovered if anything, if it was a nosferatu, would the dolls have been able to even see what happened? can't they obfuscate most stuff around them?
>>25145885
vindication!
>inb4 Earl is mad with us because we took his shirt

>>25145908
Yes, missing doll now. What do we know. Let's put the pieces together.

>>25145908
The doll? It was once a young, cheerful man by the name of Selim. He had the most fascinating eyes... Well worth preserving. You don't believe he had any family; you took him in off the street. If he had any, they would be long since dead by now; that doll is one of your older ones, and would be almost two centuries old.

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>>25145947
linked to wrong post
>>25145873
meant this,

>>25145988
Good, we can scratch the possibility off the list. We shall miss his eyes if we are unable to get him back.

>>25145988
Which of the people we've wronged have knowledge that the dolls exist at all?

Also we ARE talking aloud as we teach Scarlet how to into tea yeah?

>>25145988
did that doll have any latent talents we were possibly aware of? like the fleshcrafting doll

Lets get down to the Doll House now and interview the dolls.

>>25145988
Do we have any ability to track him magically? We have a bit of him I think.

>>25146018
More or less, yes.

>>25145988
So... nothing of note there. At least outwardly. File that info and move on.

Servant time to cap off tonight's activities? I want to see what all our adorable sla- I mean experi- I mean cherished subordinates are up to.

>>25145988
How tragic that it has been removed from our collection.

If nothing else, we must find this interloper to ensure that one retains it's place in the dollhouse.

>>25146032
All the dolls are fleshcrafters.
They've learned by torturing people for hundreds of years. They just needed a spark of knowledge, that's all.

>>25146032
Also, people still don't understand this, so I'll spell it out.

Dolls cannot communicate beyond simple gestures. That's how they're made, so that Isabella can make-believe with them. They have no form of communication that Isabella knows of, because she deliberately built them to be empty playthings for her. Toys don't get to have opinions.

>>25145988
Well, that's one option down.

Can we get a list of our recent visitors to the castle?
Someone took the Doll and showed it to the hunter. (most likely as motivation to show how evil we are)

A list of people to visit in the last 6 months would be great.

We have the list of people we might have pissed off. Once we get the list of visitors, we can cross reference them.

If we find a name connected to both lists, we'll have a lead suspect.

>>25146124
The only people on the list of suspects are ones within a short period of vampire time (IE, within the last decade where not noted.)

>>25146112
When i said interview, I was meaning literally, we can just go down there, say, something along the lines of do any of you have any evidence that suggests who or what took selim, or if he wandered off on his own for some reason. then just let them hand it over.

>>25146167
You could certainly try that, yes.

>>25146167
wasn't...god damn I can't type tonight at all

>>25146124
Oh wait, sorry. Visitors.

>>25146036
Lets try this. It's the simplest option and give immediate results.

>>25146217
Any objections to this?

>>25146234
Supporting, for all the good it'll do. We can cross it off the list.

>>25146211
In the past six months, you've had thirty-five visitors. Any number of them could have had holdings in the Republic, but Nalus was among them.

Rolled 76, 33 = 109

>>25146239
Roll Eeriness + Acumen.

>>25146234
Not really, go for it. We'll cross-reference visitors in a little bit.

Make sure to take our time on the ritual and if need be nom some blood from somebody before we do it so we have enough blood to throw at the magic.

We want as much detail as possible, not only where it is but what its surroundings are like, if there's anyone around it, and if possible how it got there and when it left us.

Rolled 11, 68 = 79

>>25146290
ROLLAN

Side note: What is our number guy doing? We haven't heard from him for a while...

I think we instructed him to look over the books at our new airship works?

>>25146160
Oh, so those were our /only/ visitors in the last few years?
The most recent one was still a few years ago, could we have not noticed our missing Doll that long?

Option 1. We are retarded level unobservant and Nalus took the Doll years ago.

Option 2. Someone infiltrated our castle recently and stole the Doll then.

Nalus doesn't sound like the covert-ops sort. I think someone else stole the Doll.

That riot in Mori was only 4 years ago.
Can we get some details about that?
Did the riot kill anyone from a powerful family?
Did it wreck the holdings of anyone important?

Rolled 27

>>25146299
Success on Eeriness, failure on Acumen.
This will be fun.
Roll Discipline.

Rolled 82

>>25146324
Oh boy

Rolled 49, 34 = 83

>>25146299
Hmmm, a hit on eeriness and a miss on acumen. So we get muddled visions?

>>25146309
He ginned up four not entirely real holdings for us. They take acumen rolls to use.

>>25146315
see
>>25146273

Rolled 74

>>25146324
Gotcha. Thankfully only one degree of failure on the Acumen, that shouldn't make it too bad.

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>>25146333
SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL.

>>25146324
>>25146333
Writing up the scrying attempt.

>>25146333
Oh balls, we're going to be angry as all fuck.

>>25146355
My prediction for what happens
>You scry, the abyss stares back at you, san check go, or murder the closest servants in a hysteria induced rage.

>>25146336
Oh, very good then.

Sooo, try the scrying. If that doesn't work or just doesn't narrow it down enough.

We'll cross reference the lists and see who's connected to both of them.

>>25146335
Ah right; but he's not doing anything specific now?

>>25146375
My prediction for what happens.
>You scry, the abyss stares back at you, san check go, the abyss fails its san check.

We are one Eerie little girl.

>>25146400
Not that we're aware of. Man we really are not aware of a lot. I'm amazed EVERYBODY hasn't ran away by now.

Rolled 51

>>25146324

>>25146365
You and Scarlet decide that the obvious first thing to do is scry for the missing doll using the shard of its skin you hold.

Stirring the tea with the shard, you carefully cut your own hand and let the blood run down into the steaming-hot drink.

You focus. This kind of magic works best with a strong emotion behind it… And you have just the fuel in your anger at whomever stole your doll.

Focussing, you let words spill from your mouth unthought.

"Shadow, whisper; breaking chalice.
Flaring candle, blackened malice.
Casting circles, anger zealous,
Hatred kindles, devil jealous!"

The blood sinks into the tea, dying it deep red, and you clutch at Scarlet's wrist with your other hand as the spell takes you fully.

"I am your sweet regret
With protective shell
Gently drag you down
to this dirty hell!"

The saucer cracks under your grip, dropping the cup three inches onto the table, but somehow not a drop of tea is spilled.

"Scream out, treachery!
Everyone just likes to look
I just want to see you
Dancing on a meat hook!"

The spell smashes into your senses, and you are gone. Another place. Another room. The doll, lying on the ground of a cell; it turns to look at you, and then something from beyond your sight crashes into your magical senses. You scream out in your mind, straining against the enchantment that tries to force you from the scene, but it is futile.

You awaken after a few minutes, ravenous, and only a drink from Scarlet's blood-red hair prevents you from attacking her outright- but you need more!

> You gained 40 Hunger by failing an opposed roll!
> You then lost 14 hunger by drinking from Scarlet.
> Your overall hunger is at 61. Roll discipline immediately to prevent yourself from drinking more from the dwindling Scarlet and risking permanent damage to her!

Rolled 40

>>25146620

Oh shit rolling

Rolled 25

>>25146620
oh boy

>>25146639
>>25146646

Just good enough.

Rolled

>>25146648

Whoo!

>>25146620
So the only thing we really got from this is that the doll is imprisoned in a cell and whoever did this is decent at magic.

Fuck.

That's a problem with rolling against raw base stats without bonuses from circumstance or skill, and rolling against multiple things at once. Just by the law of large numbers we're going to fuck up some part of anything big.

Rolled 38

>>25146620
She's not dinner, she's our sister!

Go take some blood donations from a few servants.

>>25146675
It's time for Rose to contribute.

>>25146704
We'll want to spread the load out pretty wide, we're hungry as hell and don't want to hurt anyone important.

Or we drain from some dregs.

Rolled 17

>>25146620
After we've got something to drink.

Rolling Acumen to be smart and observant. Maybe we noticed some small details that could be useful.

>>25146648
You manage to stop yourself before taking another drink from Scarlet. She flinches away from you, and the sight of her frightened face- which for once you did not intend- snaps you fully from your stupor and back into full control.

The hunger feels like a pit of snakes on fire in your belly. It screams out for something, anything to fill it.

You can control it for now. But you know that the longer you go without feeding the more likely you are to let it loose.

> Your hunger is over 50. You are starving. All tests other than Discipline are at -10 to the stat until your hunger drops under 50. You must roll discipline whenever your hunger increases or immediately feed on the closest living thing. Other stimuli may also trigger this discipline check. When your hunger reaches 75 you will go into an irrecoverable hunger frenzy.

>>25146738
Oh yes, you also must roll discipline to only sip lightly or sip deeply (IE, if you don't succeed in your discipline when feeding you will risk permanent damage to the person you feed on.)

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>>25146738
Assemble servants immediately. Eat some of everybody. Eat somebody expendable first then move on down the line.

>>25146738
"I truly apologize Scarlet, I did not expect that level of defenses on the doll."

Bring someone completely disposable and useless to us, drain from them, it doesn't matter if we kill them.

>>25146738
We've got 40+ servants in the house.

Just pick an expendable dreg to feed on first in case we take to much.

>>25146738
We could always go and terrorize that village in the forest.

>>25146738
Gah, we need a dungeon full of expendable chattel for situations just like this!

I think another human 'shopping trip' is needed once our current hunger is sated.

>>25146795
Nobody in the house is expendable now.
All the servants are long-standing and more-than-mind-controlled.

There is someone, but I feel I should let you work it out yourself.

>>25146819
(The dregs are all gone, alas.)

>>25146819
How much blood does Fluffy have?

>>25146816
If its night-time there, I second this.

>>25146841
>>25146841
Quite a bit, but it's rather hard to get at it under all that armor. And it would be trying to eat you.

>>25146819
>>25146829
From the pastebin
>Servants: 39+3
>20 Castle: Dolls, House Staff, Dregs, Numberologist

Thugly will do if we don't have anyone else.

We now have our Toy Soldiers, Scarlet, ect.

A human that's only good for dumb muscle is of little use to us now.

>>25146819
Scarlet, Angel, Fluffy are all too useful.
Slab and Rose are less than ideal.
We could try to eat our tin soldiers, but not sure if it'll work.
Servants are the last line.

>>25146900
Dregs should be gone from there, my apologies.
Also, servant points aren't 1:1 with bodies.

>>25146890
>And it would be trying to eat you.
We will have to get round to Dominating him at some point.

But for now. Feed then see if we can discern anything useful from that scrying.

>>25146903
Hm. Well, you could always try
>>25146874
as it is nighttime in Ulvenwald.

>>25146816
Yes, lets abduct a villager and drink them dry.

>>25146945
With all the rolls we'll be failing stealth can't be guaranteed. Or safety even.

>>25146819
What has Maxwell been up to?

Also the numerologist's name is Thomas, Maxwell was named Knife, he wanted immortality.

>>25146929
We have things to do right now. Just eat in.

Going for a nice rampage in the woods sounds like fun, but we don't want to get sidetracked for 2 threads and forget to come back to important stuff.

>>25146945
Alright, this seems to be the consensus.
>>25146959
You're right, I've gotten calm-guy and numberologist-guy mixed up. My bad.

>>25146980
We can handle this quickly with an Eeriness and a Celerity roll.

>>25146980
Lets not do that then, make it a few rolls and a short description, then back to business here.

Rolled 92, 3 = 95

>>25147001

Hope this works guys.

>>25147001
Both of which are at -10, and we're likely to fuck at least one of them up terribly.

>>25146980
I'd rather not risk getting carried away and killing one of our prized servants.

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>>25147014
There were no survivors.....

>>25147014
>92
Epic fail.
>3
Massive success.

This should be interesting.

>>25147014
Bloodbath is seems...

>>25147014
we are eerie as all fuck, but our celerity is good

>>25147026
>prized servants.
Does thugly even have a use?

Rolled

>>25147051

We can catch them at least.

>>25147074
Does ambitious guy?

>>25147014
>Eeriness: 92
They will not be scared of us at all.

>Celerity: 3
We're a flying ninja Vampire. They really should have been scared of us.

>>25147014
You dash through the forest, and quickly come to the village Scarlet spoke of.

A man is coming back from out in the forest. You ambush him and stare him in the eyes.

"KNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!"

You screech, voice shrill from hunger.

The man looks at this tiny girl that has suddenly appeared from the forest and is squeaking at him to kneel, and doubles over in booming, chest-shaking, uncontrollable laughter.

So you tear his fucking throat out with your teeth.

Serves him right.

> You regain 50 Hunger from completely draining a healthy human.
> Your hunger is now at 11.

>>25147154

Can the dolls work with a used up body?

>>25147154
>> Your hunger is now at 11.
Not for long it isn't.

We came all the way out here, might as well finish the job.

Fill up, have some fun, head back and get to work.