>>728220
-Barge out of your grave, he probably isn’t expecting that.

>>728220
>-Establish a mental connection with him, maybe you can convince him to just go away.
Hey, when cracking open a cold one you should make some pancakes. Bed and breakfast is the best. You're just be a rude otherwise.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>728256
>>728240
Rollin' to decide.

>>728256

The myths depicting vampires as blood-frenzied monsters may have a hint of truth in them but it doesn’t mean you can’t shy away from violence once in awhile.
Stretching your mental-limbs, you slowly push your senses towards the presence you felt earlier. You sense the connection forming and while you have no doubt that the human must have felt it too, you have the advantage of knowing where he is.
“Human, I wish you no harm. Just know that you have disturbed my resting place and that continuing forward will only bring you harm and misfortune.”
It’s a good thing that with this form of communication, you don’t have to translate. It would certainly be awkward if the man didn’t understand you.
“Vile creature, I knew one of your kind would be in this lair.”, he claims as loud as his mind allows him to. “Now that you have desecrated these holy grounds with your presence, my fire and steel will cleanse you and restore the balance!”

There’s a slight pause as you take in what he just said. Obviously, this man is a hunter, a well-prepared one at that. Hmm, this could be problematic. On the one hand you have your natural strength, magic and speed but on the other you don’t have anything to defend yourself beyond a short ceremonial dagger.

“Fire and steel, hmm? These won’t be enough, hunter… I am older than you, far older even and I was born even before your ancestors threaded these lands. Go now, before you anger me further.”
True, half of what you just said was just bravado since you spent a good portion of your time sleeping in the same grave you were woken from, but still.
>Wait for his reply, maybe you got through to him?
>Open the coffin silently, you may be able to sneak up on him.
>Jump out of the coffin and pounce on him, he won’t know what hit him...
>Mess with him using your magic, for all you know that could be enough to drive away.

>>728303
Magic!

>>728303
>Open the coffin silently
>Run awaaaay

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>728320
>>728324
Rollin' again...

>>728329
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin~

>>728329
If these picks are what our skill set become. So far we have social and stealth.

>>728336
Let's just hope we don't get eaten by the end of the thread...

>>728346
Not exactly. While I already have an idea of how the MC will be, this mostly determines how this encounter will play out.

I'm almost done writing the next post.

>>728346
Didn't pick it for the attribute, I picked it because it was funny and a good characterization I haven't seen before in a vampire. They tend to be all 'Fear me, for I am powerful,' and 'Uh, don't bother me please, I just woke up,' is new.

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Confrontation had never been your forte, even when you were a sanguine shaman in your tribe. Most of the tribespeople feared you and your magic but that was probably the only thing keeping you in power.

While your vampiric status granted you super-human strength and agility, you were never one for violence and hadn’t bothered to learn how to fight.

Having just woken up from slumber, you doubt your mortal coil would have been in condition to handle a fight, let alone against a professional killer. Those who knew how to kill your kind generally spent their whole life training, as one second could mean the difference between life and certain doom.

Moving is difficult after having spent Lord knows how long in a coffin, your muscles remind you of this fact when you ache unpleasantly while trying to push the lid off.

Fortunately, the smooth rock gives way and you don’t need to push too hard to open it, that is, before it falls over and crashes loudly against the floor to the side. Oops.
To his credit, the hunter must have good reflexes because you barely have the time to curse before he barges in and shoots a bolt in your throat with his crossbow, the rude man. You have to thank the vampire who turned you, your unnatural resistance to harm is definitely one thing you don’t regret.

The hunter, clad in leather armor covered in little trinkets, hurries to load another bolt in his crossbow. He knows better than to get in the range of your fangs and claws.

>Who needs a windpipe? You don’t! Tell him to calm the fuck down, he’s being a douche.
>Okay, that’s enough, time to whip his ass.
>Just shove him aside and get out of here, it’s not too late to escape.

>>728367
>Just shove him aside and get out of here, it’s not too late to escape.

>>728367
>Just shove him aside and get out of here, it’s not too late to escape.

>>728367
>Who needs a windpipe? You don’t! Tell him to calm the fuck down, he’s being a douche.

Switching to
>Who needs a windpipe? You don’t! Tell him to calm the fuck down, he’s being a douche.

>>728375
>>728385
>>728390
>>728398
Just to clarify, I usually wait about 10 minutes to start writing.
But I'll count it.

Writing for telling him off.

As it turns out, concentrating with a bolt jutting out from your neck is hardly ideal. Regardless, you discharge some of your pain through the link to stun him . You see him tense, as if he had been electrocuted, and he drops the bolt he was loading. Good, at least you’ll see him coming if he tries to use that.

“Stop, you fool!” you clamor. “Fighting will only bring you harm and misfortune! Wait… pain and misery!”
The downside to using a mental link like that is that your thoughts don’t wait for your tongue to move, they just happen, like that. Kinda ruins the style but it’s the message that counts.
“What I mean is that a battle between the two of us will simply result in us skewering ourselves and dying alone in this tomb. Not the best perspective, you will agree.”
His head raises up and he looks straight in your eyes. That shock must have been very unpleasant judging by his frown but he still remains defiant.
“You really expect me to drop my guard in front of a monster like you?” He pauses to catch his breath. “You must think me foolish…”

>Fine, keep your weapons.
>No can do, drop them.

>>728431
Let him keep his weapons. I want a Renfield. Lets talk him down and strike when able.

>>728431
>Fine, keep your weapons.

>>728431
>Fine, keep your weapons.

>>728449
>>728446
>>728440
Writing for letting him keep his weapons.

>>728357
Ah.

>>728362
Fair.

>>728480
“Keep your weapons, mortal. Should you earn my wrath, they won’t save you from me…”
Granted, the bolt in your throat says otherwise but you’re still standing and that’s what matters.
Still frowning, he leans against the wall right in your path should you decide to run away. He must really feel that he has a chance if he doesn’t end you here and there, but “chances” are not enough when you’re dealing with a vampire.
Now that he’s still, you can examine him closer. Strange, you’ve never seen this kind of clothes, your people only weared crude leather robes that itched all over, but this man is covered in some sort of shiny refined leather. Even stranger are the various pendants and trinkets, all made of metal, something unheard of in your time as it would cost a fortune to afford, enough to buy a village and some cattles… No, the strangest must be that his large knife, a sword maybe also looks like it’s made of metal.
How long have you been sleeping? From your last memories, nobody could smelt metals other than low-quality tin or copper, yet this is obviously something else!
The man sees you staring and uncomfortably shifts around, he’s obviously not used to having still alive vampires in his presence for so long.

“What do you want, bloodsucker?” he mutters, before spitting to the ground before you. “If it’s my blood, I will give it to you along with my sword…”
“Human” you answer, “tell me what this sword of yours is made off. It intrigues me...”.
Obviously surprised by your question, his hand reflexively goes to it but he stops when he realizes you’re still watching.
“It’s made out of steel. What else could it be?” he responds, looking at you with curious eyes.
“Steel? Never heard of that before…”
If the humans have learned to make weapons sturdy enough that they can make whole swords out of metal, you must have slept for a long time, maybe centuries…
“Do you have any other questions or do you wish to battle? I can’t tell which of these prospects frightens me the most…” he sighs softly, as if he expects you to laugh at his joke.

>Now that you say it, senseless violence looks good. I could use a bit of blood...
>Actually, no. [Write a question]
>Ask him to let you go. There’s no way you’re staying here any longer.

>>728532
>Actually, no.
What year is it? Where are we?

>>728532
"What tribe is yours, human?"

>>728549
First this
>>728541
Then this

>>728532
> Actually no
Hey bb, want sum fuk?

Did we even have a calendar when we went to sleep?

>>728549 I suppose

>>728532
>“Do you have any other questions or do you wish to battle? I can’t tell which of these prospects frightens me the most…”
I know right and here I'm thinking most people would just stab a person with out even giving them the year.

>>Actually, no.
Where can someone get nice cloths like yours?

---

I kinda wonder if we can feed on animals. Using that as a way to get more info out of the people. He can just keep an eye on us and we show him we can be alright.

>>728564
>Did we even have a calendar when we went to sleep?
No. As you might have gathered from the dialogue, we come from far-away times. The real-time equivalent would be just before the invention of "writing".

>>728577
>I kinda wonder if we can feed on animals.
Yes but it's way less useful.
As a vampire, you don't require sustenance beyond the innate blood magic contained within living organisms.
You can't produce your own, animals have a bit and sentient being have way more.
A whole cow would be a light snack to you while a young child could entirely sate a young vampire.


Writing the questions.

>>728600
“Before I went to sleep, people were usually polite enough to tell me from which tribe they came from before trying to kill me.”, you smirk, taunting him. “Perhaps politeness is a thing of the past…”

His eyes narrow and you instantly feel that you have hit a sore nerve of his. Ah, those religious nutjobs must be as hung over “honor” as they were before…
“You deserve none of my politeness and even less of my mercy vampire. The only thing preventing me from jumping on you is the idea that you might survive and go terrorise innocents villagers…”
“Oh really?” Your smirk widens further. “You mustn’t be very confident in your skills if you think a man armed like you cannot kill a lone disarmed vampire such as me. I surely don’t deserve your honor, that’s for sure!”

This time he almost pounces on you and it’s with an internal show of restraint that the man manages to stop himself from attacking.
“Enough of your games, beast. I’ll answer your questions and we’ll kill each other. Anything but your insults.”he spits out.
“If you won’t tell me from which tribe you come from, at least have the decency to tell me the time of the year.” You scratch your throat, that bolt is really annoying. “I haven’t the slightest of ideas of how long I’ve been sleeping…”
“We’re in the Holy Year 364 of the Griffin, blessed by our Lord Vedran.”

Holy Year? Griffin? Vedran? What is all of this nonsense? Surely someone must have been recording the periods of the moon, you’ll know what time it is when you go see an erudite…
Speaking of erudite, the man looks you over and squints.
“You look ancient, perhaps even more than any vampire I have ever seen. None had robes like yours.” he wonders aloud, searching for answers. “You claim to hail from a tribe? We haven’t had a tribe in these plains for almost a millennia, at least according to the priests…”

A millenia? Even in moon phases, this would be well over ten man’s lifespan. The world must have changed in your absence…

>But enough talk... Have at you!
>Even more questions swirl in your mind, though you cannot be sure he will agree to answer.
>Perhaps you could suggest an arrangement of some sort? You don’t kill him and he explains how the world has changed.

>>728679
>Perhaps you could suggest an arrangement of some sort? You don’t kill him and he explains how the world has changed.

>>728679
>Perhaps you could suggest an arrangement of some sort? You don’t kill him and he explains how the world has changed.

>>728688
>>728689

>>728679
> Enough talk
We can go to the village and kidnap a qt loli for exposition.

>>728679
>>Perhaps you could suggest an arrangement of some sort? You don’t kill him and he explains how the world has changed.
Play it cool and maybe we can save his life some day.

>>728708
>>728688
>>728689
>>728701
Writing for stopping the violence.

>>728736
“Human!” you declaim loudly, so much that he nearly jumps when he hears your voice in his mind.
“I have a proposition for you. Seeing as it’s obvious that neither of us would escape this fight unarmed, I suggest we lay down the arms and cooperate with each other. I gain nothing to kill you, except more of your comrades trying to kill me and I’m certain you don’t feel like dying today.”
“What do you have in mind, then? You think I’m gonna be your lapdog when I could take you to the unlife beyond with me, you must be crazy…”he mutters as he looks to his crossbow and sword, then back to you. “Then again, your lot usually is.”
You pause, he obviously has a point. You don’t really have anything that you can give him that would make him look the other way, especially if he’s ready to die to take you down.
“You’re a vampire-hunter, am I correct?”you ask, waiting for his response. As he nods, you quickly formulate a plan in your mind. “Then I believe I may be of help in finding my brothers of blood. After, I do know them rather well.” You formulate a few conditions so that he at least doesn’t completely own you. “You would allow me to travel with you and a limitless supply of blood and in return I would help you track and execute other vampires…”
He obviously didn’t think about that seeing as he starts to fall into a strained silence. He’s obviously looking over the flaws of your contract and concentrated enough that he can’t entirely pay attention to you.

>Wait for him to finish thinking and resume your conversation.
>You have the element of surprise, take it.
>With a bit of magic, he shouldn’t be able to notice you escaping the room, especially if he hasn’t been paying attention to you.

>>728796
>You have the element of surprise, take it.

There's the opening, let's take it.

>>728796
>Wait for him to finish thinking and resume your conversation.
Surely the fact that we're not actually attacking him right now will provide some measure of persuasion.

>>728796
>Wait for him to finish thinking and resume your conversation
We should be a sneaky bastard. I mean, we just woke up after a long time and we are probably weak.

>>728796
>Wait for him to finish thinking and resume your conversation.
>>728808
If not, get ready to fight.

>>728796
> Surprise him, with death

>>728808
>>728816
>>728820
Writing for Call of Diplomacy : World at Peace

>>728876
The silence is stretching and while you’re trying to pull out the quarrel out, you have to admit it’s becoming a bit awkward just standing there. You feel the inconvenience in your windpipe but try as you might, you can’t take it out without tearing the wound open, which would spill a lot of blood. And blood… blood is precious.
“I don’t see anything wrong with what you just said but that doesn’t mean I trust you, far from it” states the hunter, his message tearing you from your daydreaming. “In order to enforce this oath, I’ll have to use a seal on you, which will guide the judgement of my god should you try to break our pact.”

A seal? Hmm, you aren’t familiar with this kind of magic but you have no doubt that this could be used to control you or at least impede you. But you don’t really have any choice seeing as he possesses the upper hand.
“Tell me human, what prevents you from just marking me and enslaving me? I don’t believe you wouldn’t take this opportunity if you could…”. You gesture to the seal he has produced from one his pockets.
“It’s actually quite simple. I have to mark myself too if I want the magic to activate. But this also means that I will get smitten by Vedran if I don’t respect the terms of my engagement.”
“Now that we agree on this, how about sealing the deal?”
“I’m not sure I want to hear you any further but I don’t think I have the choice” he mutters as he presses the seal on his right hand. It must be searing since he winces and you can see smoke rising from the seal. Your weakness to fire will make this incredibly painful, and perhaps even more injuring, this might not be a good idea…


WARNING: This decision will have long-lasting effects.

>Time to end this… peacefully.
>No, this sounds like a trap. You’re not doing this.

>>728934
>reluctantly agree to his request, but when he comes closer slash his windpipe with our vampire claws

Gotta pay him back for the hole in OUR throat.

>>728934
>Time to end this… peacefully.

>>728934
>Time to end this… peacefully.

>>728965
>>728975
Writing for going through with it.

>>728982
Time for buddy cop movie shenanigans.

Probably good that the contract is vague. Yet it could hurt us later. For now the info would be worth it. Also gain us insight on how they work.

>>729020
>For now the info would be worth it. Also gain us insight on how they work.
I'll explain how it works in the following post, it's pretty straightforward.

You think of how easy it’d be to end this, just by tearing HIS throat but there’s too much of a risk. Even if it means that you’ll have to deal with him for a while, it’s better than dying like a fool in this place. Regardless of what most people think, dying is never a pleasant experience. That said, resurrection is even worse.
Sighing heavily, you hold up your hand in front of you. Might as well make it quick, you’l be able to find a way to escape it faster. As the smoldering seal start to near your palm, you almost start shaking before you remember that this pain means you will survive, a way of exorcising the innate fear of fire in you.
For your kind, most normal weapon don’t really hurt but fire is different. Fire attacks the soul and it rips it apart, a remnant of the life you’ve shirked away from when you choose the cold of a vampiric life.

When the seal touches your skin, you screech, an unholy sound that makes the hunter shiver. He looks like he is about to run away but his resolve is enough and the presses the seal even harder. You collapse before him and your arm limply falls to your side. Quaking madly, you rise up and glance at it before looking away in disgust: where your arm was fairly dark skinned, there is a pattern of burn scars snaking their way on your arm like a disturbing version of a white-inked tattoo.
The vampire-killer looks as disgusted as you but you’d wager it’s the overpowering smell of burned meat that causes him to retch and gag.

“Seeing as you’ve actually chosen to do this, I suppose there’s no harm in telling my name.”he says flatly, covering his nose with a hand. “I am named Daniel Hedoran, sentinel of the “Order of the Thorny Crown” and with this oath you have my word that I won’t attempt to kill you. Should I try, a column of holy fire would engulf me and destroy my very existence on the spot. It’s about the same for you, though I should add it won’t work if you try to take my blood without my consent.”

You look up to him and stand, lightly brushing your marked arm as if you’re trying to wash off the scars.
“Very well, Hedoran. You shall know me as Rektus Twice-Born then. I believe that what you just said still leaves a lot up to interpretation, though, which isn’t really reassuring.”
“I agree, which is why there’s a catch: should any of us feel that the other is unfairly trying to bypass the contract, we can evoke the fury of my god by chanting his name.”he explains before pointing at your arm. “In your case though, I’m not sure he’ll allow you to live should he hear you pray so I suggest you only use this in last resort.
“Very well, this does seem clearer, but I’ll have to ask you a few other questions before we set off, mostly pertaining to this era and this ritual.”

>I’ll answer a few questions and then close off for today. I’ll get back at it tomorrow, 4PM-GMT.

>>729085
Thank you for running. I like it a lot.

>>729118
My pleasure, it was nice brushing up my skills as a QM.
Been a while since the last time

Anyway, if you have any feedback/criticism feel free to drop it.

Haha I cannot believe we went through with this. Oh well, at least it has novelty. Good running QM, reminds me of the quests you would see 3-4 years ago on /tg/. That is a complement not given lightly these days. Only criticism I have is the random typo.

>>729143
>you would see 3-4 years ago on /tg/
How so?

>Only criticism I have is the random typo.
I should take more time proofreading. And also perfect my English.

>>729150

Back then there was, I feel, a greater variety in settings and approaches. Basically, it seems you attempted to characterize the vampire in a deliberately non-standard fashion, which reminds me of then.

Also helps that 3-4 years ago was the era I was most active on /tg/ and ran and played quests. What quest did you previously run, may I ask?

>>729163
Oh, and you respond much quicker than QMs do nowadays. Many only do 1-2 updates a day considering that /qst/ is a snail board compared to old /tg/.

>>729163
> it seems you attempted to characterize the vampire in a deliberately non-standard fashion
Eh, I don't know. It was an idea I picked up on the discord while talking with another QM and it seemed like a good one.

>What quest did you previously run, may I ask?
On 4chan, only two short lived quests that were of little interest. Otherwise, I mostly did it on forums, which obviously was a very different medium.
>>729172
>you respond much quicker than QMs do nowadays
That's mostly because I feel I NEED to be fast.
I know I could take my time but for some reason I don't feel right if I don't post fast, in the range of the 10-15 minutes. That said, I'm starting to progress on that, by allowing myself more time to write.
Still need to spend more on proofreading though.

>>729195

Hey man, the speed was a complement. I prefer your pace to only having input on a quest twice a session. I know from running mine back in the day it takes some effort, so it's appreciated.

>>729204
Actually, the reason I decided to stop this session is mostly because I saw how it started taking more time to finish my posts, which is likely due to tiredness.
And I really don't want tiredness to affect my writing: only the best for Anon!

>>729212
Well, thanks for running. See you in the thread tomorrow.

I'm a bit disappointed we didn't pull a Roadrunner while the guy was distracted.

Alright, new post in 15 minutes.

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>>729085

“Hmm, I see. This is most troubling indeed.” you project your thoughts to him, vaguely annoyed at the state in which you’re in.
While you were busy trying to tear off the bolt in your throat, Hedoran - the man you fought just moments ago - began to explain the situation to you.
Apparently, your slumber had lasted countless moon cycles, a shame they didn’t use these anymore as it would have given you an idea of how long ago you went to sleep. But moon cycles or not, the fact remained that you had never heard of a vampire hibernating so long nor had it ever happened to you previously.

And as if if wasn’t enough just losing all of your tribe, you were now in a world practically unknown to you. Who knew how much humanity had progressed in your absence? The hunter’s outfit was testament that they had leaped well above your expectations: apparently, they didn’t even live in nomadic tribes anymore and they had developed some sort of image-based language.
How it was possible to communicate without speaking was beyond you, especially when you spared a glance at one of the scrolls he was using to make sure you weren’t carrying some ancient disease.
A bunch of gibberish, like a child had scribbled on a hut, and it was supposed to mean something?

With a decisive pull and a victorious gargle, you finally manage to tear your neck even further allowing the quarrel to clatter to the ground. Strangely enough, the hunter does look nauseated at your wound, the mark of a novice not used to death and carnage. Perhaps hunters were less skilled nowadays, Hedoran certainly did look younger than what you expected. While his outfit and equipment betrayed his wealth and preparedness, it could also mean he was just some rich-kid trying to earn glory in his tribe, or whatever they had nowadays, by defeating a vampire.

Now that the bolt was out of you though, it was just a matter of finding some warm blood and letting the wound close by itself. One of the cons of being a vampire was that while you gained an incredible amount of resilience and endurance, as well as regenerating without help, it also meant that most conventional medicine didn’t work on, being a dead body and all.

“Alright vampire, if you’re done, I’d like to be on my way. There are persons awaiting my return and I’d rather explain this situation to them as fast as I can, if possible before beginning another hunt.”he states, picking up the bolt you left on the ground. You then hear him mutter something about “washing off the blood with holy water”.
“Very well, I’m behind you. Oh before we go, I had something to ask you...”

>Do you have a cloak or something like that? I’d rather stay inconspicuous
>I still have a few questions about this era.
>Where are we going?
>Alright, but we need to buy some equipment first. I don’t want to vulnerable.

>>731752
Ask for a cloak. We do have a ragged hole where our larynx should be after all.

>>731752

“Do you have anything we could use to conceal me?” You point to the gaping hole in your neck. “The fact that I’m a vampire is already pretty unnerving to most people and I don’t want to risk getting lynched just because saw me like this.”
Hedoran nods and you see him rummaging in his backpack. From there he takes out a blanket, large enough that it can be used to hide your face effectively without looking too strange.
“For now, it will do.” he says as he hands it to you. “But I’d rather avoid sleeping on the dirt tonight. I know there’s a tailor in the nearest village, we’ll go there to find you less… clashing clothes.”

He turns around and you follow him, memories of your burial playing back in your mind. You hadn’t really seen it from this angle that since most people here only went one way and weren’t supposed to come out later.
That said, the exit is closer than you remember. A few turns in where the tunnel would have continued, you see that part of it collapsed, exposing it to the outside. Rather than continue and go out the main entrance, the hunter starts to climb on the rubble and following you see a horse waiting, tied to a tree near a small cart full of equipment.
You advance but stop when your companion turns and looks at you expectantly.
“What is it, hunter?”
He sighs and point at the sun.
“No, it’s just that I thought your kind would dissolve in the sunlight…”he explains, looking at you with the mistrust that you’ve seen previously. “I know it has weakening effects on vampire but I expected the result to be more… dramatic.”

>[Lie]It doesn’t work because I’m that powerful obviously.
>You do know that vampires don’t get killed by light, right?
>Just shrug and continue walking.

>Laugh at the thought the sun of all things would hurt you
>Say it's because you're powerful/ancient

>>731806
Waiting for someone else to vote before proceeding forward.

>>731806
I'll second this

>>731806
Yeah I'll vote for this

>>731806
>>731824
>>731825
Okay, writing that.

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>>731827

“What, did you truly expect me to fade away in the sun? How foolish!” you mock him without holding back your laughter. “I was born before your civilisation even existed and you thought that I, a vampire of untold age, would just crumble to ashes?”
It’s a good thing he doesn’t seem to know lots about vampires, another weakness you can exploit. In truth, vampire despise the sun and it does have burn their skin but only if they stay for a long period of time, like an hour. Your laughter must be angering him because he just storms away without waiting for you towards the horse and the carriage.

You just stand there, smirking at him, before you realize he is leading the horse away without you. At that point you cut your laughter short and just start running after him. It’s only because he has to turn that you manage to catch up and jump on the cart.
From the back, you can barely discern the hint of a smile of his face but rather than give him a reason to mock you, you just wall yourself in silence.

It’s not a bad thing either, it gives you time to study your surrounding and look at the traces of the past. Where there were only barren plains, now stands a large forest that you can see goes for a least a dozen miles in front of you. The mountains at the base of which the burial grounds were established haven’t changed however, with the exception of a few boulders which have tumbled down, tracing large imprints in the brittle rock.
Unnacustomed to being in a forest, you only barely avoid being smacked in the face by branches and have to duck several times but at least you keep your dignity. By contrast, the hunter frequently has to brush his shoulders to keep off the pine leaves that accumulate.
After a short journey considering where you started from, you finally see the palissades, tell-tale signs of a settlement. Though your people didn’t make them quite as sturdy, the principle was the same.

“Alright, we’re there” says Hedoran before turning to face you. “Now, we have a few ways we can go about this. We can go to the tavern first, where I’ll leave you in a room. This way you don’t risk being seen too much.” He pauses before considering the other options. “Or I guess you could come with me to take your stuff. I must admit I’m not sure it’s a good idea, you risk drawing attention to yourself and will will ask why I’m travelling with a vampire.”

>I’ll stay in the room, it’s too dangerous.
>I’ll come with you, you should be able to convince them it’s okay for me to be with you.
>Something else [Write-in]

>>731864
>Well I'm not going to hide forever, and lying usually gets you into more trouble later down the line. That's more so due to the pact, so I'll go with you to meet your friends if that's alright with you. Perhaps I can finally engage in more civil discourse...

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>>731881
Just to clarify, Hedoran is just passing by this village. As far as you know, he isn't expecting anyone there, if he was he wouldn't have found you alone after all.

>>731864
>I’ll stay in the room, it’s too dangerous.

Let's not start rumors right now, we're pretty damn weak and if the people get riled up, we'll be in a real bad way.
Better part of valor and all that.

>>731887
>>731881
Okay, writing. I'm gonna take a shower, so next post should be in an hour tops.

>>731886
Meh, it'll still be better than hiding like a chump.

>>731887
Hmmmm. Fine, but as long as we veil it so as we don't seem weak I'm all for it.

>>731896
We could put it as we don't want go out in rags/blankets, gives us a decent excuse.
Also we should demand he bring us some booze.

I don't know if vampires like or are even affected by booze, but it's the principle of the matter.

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>>731864

After you both come to the conclusion that hiding is the better idea, Hedoran asks you to sit back in the carriage while he guides the horse near the tavern. Even from under your hood, you can see that it’s a small but stout building that looks like it has weathered some violent storms but you have no doubt it could withstand at least a couple more without looking worse for wear.
When the cart stops, you jump down and follow Hedoran as he makes way for the entrance. On the way you cross path with a young man clad in mail, with a sword on his hip, surely a guard. The man looks at you suspiciously but doesn’t stop you when he sees Hedoran by your side.
The inside looks about as rustic as the outside but it has a sort of simple charm that makes the whole thing look very quaint. A small fire burns to the side with a few villagers gathered around it but since the afternoon has just begun it’s not too crowded yet.

When you do arrive to the counter, a barmaid looks you up and down before starting to talk to Hedoran. You don’t really follow the conversation and instead choose to get a feel for the magic flowing around. To the uninitiated, it might just look like you’re sightseeing but you’re actually reaching out with your mind to feel the currents of mana, mana being magic potential in it’s natural form.
The first thing you notice is that the magic which you’ve known your entire life has shifted slightly. As you take it in, you suddenly realize that it’s the source of the weird smell you had felt when you woke up.
With possibilities racing through your mind, you think you maybe be able to use the mana-sight - a form of divination that involves projecting your mind through the mana stream to get a feel for the world - but who knows what effect it could have on you, now that magic has changed?
No-one has ever died or been harmed because of mana-sight but that was in your time and times have changed…

>Try the mana sight, you need to know.
>Leave it alone, you’ll do it when you’re sure it can’t harm you.
>Ask Hedoran if he feels something strange.
>Something else [Write-in]

>>731974


>Try the mana sight, you need to know
As we do it we can ask him if he kowns if nagic has changed or fells anything off?
But if his lived like this I doubt he would know a diffince

>>731974
>Try the mana sight, you need to know.
YOLT

>>731988
>>731995
Writing for use the mana-sight.

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I want to play this guy as slightly bumbling, prideful, but not too prideful to run away at the slightest conflict. Socially-oriented, so we like talking through everything, but possibly not great at actually getting people to do things we want them to do. Hapless. (Not that we can't be scarily competent, but that tends to happen outside the spotlight. More of a 'can enact powerful rituals, spells, plans, tactics, rather than anything that actually happens face-to-face.'

Does anyone else like this characterization?

>>732006
You breathe in profoundly, this kind of experience can get a bit intense and you don’t want to just collapse because you haven’t prepared for it.
You’d ask Hedoran what he thinks about the mana but he is still occupied with the barmaid, they are exchanging money and you hear the girl say something about “extra costs”... Oh well, fortune doesn’t come to those who won’t take risks, even if you’ve never been one to take risk. You prepare yourself mentally for it but when your spirit brushes against the stream and is quickly swallowed, you remember that no amount of willpower will get you used to the sensation.

Describing the experience is hard, a journey of dizzying colours and illusory perspective. Yet there is an odd clarity to everything you see, as if you were looking through a veil. Years pass by and rewind as you live the journey of the mana, from where it came and where it will flow. Transcending time and space, you jump from streams to streams without stopping and you encounter no souls there. It seems that aside from you, this kind of magic has either disappeared or mages have stopped relying on it to expand their consciousness. When the thought that you might have been here for too long surfaces, time seems to slow to a crawl as your spirit is stretched to it’s limits and propelled in your body.

“Uh, is your captive okay?” asks the barmaid, obviously concerned with you. You had forgotten that you usually stop breathing when using the mana-sight, an effect endemic to vampires, something that must look really creepy from an outside perspective.
“I think so? He’s not turning anytime soon, so maybe he’s just ill...” he responds as he turns towards you.
You finally stop the convulsions of your lungs - you don’t really need oxygen but breathing is an habit you haven’t lost from your time as a human - and look at Hedoran.
“Can you feel anything strange about the magic in this place?” you ask, eager to have an answer to your interrogations.
His eyes widen and a pained look crosses his face, you must have offended him in some way…
“I-I can’t feel magic around me. I wouldn’t know if anything is unnatural with anything around, especially with you nearby…”
You try reassure him, “Ah fine. There’s nothing urgent… That said, tell me, what was that about being captive and ill?”
To his credit, Hedoran’s recovery is very swift and you couldn’t guess you had somehow insulted him not a minute ago. “I told her you’re an early case of vampirism… They don’t know how it works here so I just told them it’s an illness and I’m having you treated.” he whispers you. When he sees your reaction, you can tell he obviously enjoys it looking at the twinkle in his brown eyes.
“So right now, you’re my “captive” until I get you out of here which means you better be careful of what you say.”

>Ah, understood. I’ll… uh… go to my room.
>What?!? I’m no mere captive, I’m a tribe-chief!
>Wait, I have a question, what about …
>Something else [Write-in]

>>732034
>slightly bumbling

I don't think we can manage slightly. Full bumbling or bust. So far we seem to be much farther on the joke character side of things.
We are not very strong, we are not very sneaky, we do not appear to be very charismatic, our only strength is our magic but times changing may have put things out of whack.

We are kind of the fuckup vampire. I'm actually 100% okay with this, it could be pretty fun to play.

>>732058
So far, you haven't really had the occasion to display your power, what with being ambushed by a fully armed man while you only had a knife.

In truth, your vampiric powers would allow you to pretty much wreck the entire village if you had time to warm up though Hedoran would probably be able to stop you.

Once you figure how this era's magic works in comparison to yours, you'll have access to some truly frightening stuff.

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>>732058
I assumed anons wouldn't like to be utterly bumbling. They tend towards 'Ultimate Power McCoolGuy.'

>Yet there is an odd clarity to everything you see, as if you were looking through a veil.
Aren't veils meant to obscure?
>Transcending time and space, you jump from streams to streams without stopping and you encounter no souls there. It seems that aside from you, this kind of magic has either disappeared or mages have stopped relying on it to expand their consciousness.
Does this mean that mindsight is like the internet?
>What?!? I’m no mere captive, I’m a tribe-chief!

>>732081
Being the strongest and waifuest is the general trend, yeah but sometimes it is fun to break the mold and do something different. Now apparently we are scary strong if we every realize it, so it's a moot point though.

>>732050
>What?!? I’m no mere captive, I’m a tribe-chief!

>>732081
>Aren't veils meant to obscure?
I suppose I could have formulated that better. It's like seeing through a veil because you can see clearly if you squint but it'll remain coloured by the veil. A bit like stained glass.

>Does this mean that mindsight is like the internet?
Nah, it's more like Time-Tavelling Google Earth.

>>732091
>we are scary strong if we every realize it
Thing is, pretty much everybody has access to magic, though few people ever try to use it.
While we are strong in comparison to a bunch of frightened villagers, even battling Hedoran (who may or may not be as competent as he looks) could spell your end, and that's without talking about a real fighter.

>>732091
>Being the strongest and waifuest is the general trend, yeah but sometimes it is fun to break the mold and do something different. Now apparently we are scary strong if we every realize it, so it's a moot point though.
We did kinda slave ourselves to a vampire hunter.

>>732081
>>732091
Writing for being an entitled prick.

>>732105
A novice one too.

Though he does appear to be special snowflake in some way given that he can't feel and thus most likely interact with magic when QM just said
>pretty much everybody has access to magic

So my guess is Hedoran is a crappy vampire hunter right now, but he's got his super secret eugenics power to even the odds.

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>>732112
We're not an entitled prick, we're an entitled chieftain! We earned that title!

>>732112
“WHAT?!? Are you out of your mind? If you think I’m going to let you humiliate me, you’ve got something coming!” you pulse through his mind as you take off your make-shift cloak.
Those by the fire to your right have already started looking at you and you have the feeling that some of them are beginning to suspect you might not be entirely human. But you don’t care. Hedoran wanted to make you look like a fool, he only deserves what’s coming to him.

You grandiloquently let your blanket fall off, revealing the expensive but age-worn robes you wear under. As you do so, you gather your mind and spirit to amplify your thoughts before you unleash a mental shout of great power.
“I am Rektus Twice-Born, Tyrant of the Razak, Wielder of Death and Master of the Arts, and no-one enslaves ME!

The effect is immediate as you see the barmaid slump unconscious to the ground and everybody around you quakes in pain. Hedoran manages to take the brunt of the mental assault and he quickly decks you in the jaw, cheapening your awe-inspiring display of mental power and tearing your throat even further.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU MORON?!” He follows through with another punch and you fall on your behind, rubbing your sore face. “We were
supposed to be discreet!”
You start to rise up but he kicks you in the torso, pinning you to the ground. Normally, you’d have no trouble rising up even with that kind of burden but your slumber has left you weakened and you only manage a few inches before being brought back to the ground.
“I’m warning you!” he bellows, “try my hand again and I will call the wrath of Vedran on you!”.
From the unnatural light that seem to gather in his hand, you are rather inclined to believe he’s right… But didn’t he say he couldn’t use magic?

>Try him, what’s the worst that could happen if he can’t use magic?
>Better calm down before this situation degenerates even further.
>Something else [Write-in]

>>732201
>Run away

This is always the best option.

>>732201
Alright so what we thought was going to be a quip ended up in us being a dangerous stupid moron. What. The. Fuck.
>calm the fuck down
Jesus Christ I thought we were better than this bullshit.

>calm the fuck down

>>732201
This is everything I could have ever wanted

>Something else [Write-in]
>Call his bluff, he smites us with the seal, then we both get smote.
>Instead bring up the fact that this is his fault for trying to cast us as a slave, this wouldn't have happened if he wasn't a dick.

>>729085
>“I agree, which is why there’s a catch: should any of us feel that the other is unfairly trying to bypass the contract, we can evoke the fury of my god by chanting his name.”he explains before pointing at your arm. “In your case though, I’m not sure he’ll allow you to live should he hear you pray so I suggest you only use this in last resort.
Then again, maybe he really can pull down the wrath of Vedran on us.

>>732222
>>732223
As you might have guessed, Rektus has a bit of a sore spot regarding personnal freedom.
I'll elaborate a bit on it later.

>>732216
The problem here is that he is still standing on you...

Very well, changing to >>732225 , though I'm not sure it really works that way. I don't think him calling on his god to arbitrate judgement on our oath will really get him smote.
>>732237
>“You would allow me to travel with you and a limitless supply of blood and in return I would help you track and execute other vampires…”


Gotta say, Rektus is not good at contracts. Christ, he wrote his own death warrant.

>>732222
>>732223
>>732225
>>732242

Writing for caling him out and chilling out.

>>732242
>Gotta say, Rektus is not good at contracts. Christ, he wrote his own death warrant.
All we need to do is kill two of our kin, then drink all his blood, and his god can't do jack shit.

>>732255
“You thought I would just stand down and let you humiliate me? You thought wrong, and to be frank I don’t believe you even have the contain me.” you spit at him. “Go ahead, call your god, if he can ever hear you!”
Gritting teeth, pulsings veins, Hedoran is the picture of anger and your final insult definitely hasn’t helped. For a while, he seem on the brink of calling his god, maybe he can’t or maybe he come back to his sense but as the silence continues to grow he turns away.
You feel his anger and it is with a icy look that he looks back to you.

“I won’t be able to call myself a vampire-hunter if I let you get so easily under my skin. But do not take this as a display of weakness… should the time come, I’ll be happy to burn you or let my god do it.” Without even waiting for your answer, he goes behind the bar to see if the wench need medical attention, leaving you to cool off. While it’s true that he did use this opportunity to mess with you, it’s undeniable that you were foolish and used your power carelessly.

Meanwhile, the patrons have started to rise up and are starting to make their way towards you and you doubt it’s with any peaceful intent. It’s a good thing you’re not as angry as you were previously or you might have tried to kill them - and most likely succeeded.
The apparent leader of the group is a burly fellow with a brutish look, the kind to hit first and talk later. On his face is displayed undeniable hostility and only the fact that you don’t entirely look human is stopping him from recklessly charging at you.
This time, you’ll need to be more intelligent in how you use your powers… if you use them at all.

>Take care of the leader, non-lethally preferably, and the rest should scatter.
>Maybe it’s better just to let Hedoran to take care of this one, you’ve already done enough.
>Scaring them away might work…
>Something else [Write-in]

>>732332
>Maybe it’s better just to let Hedoran to take care of this one, you’ve already done enough.

>let the hunter take care of this one
But btfo if they try to kill you.

>>732332
>For a while, he seem on the brink of calling his god, maybe he can’t or maybe he come back to his sense but as the silence continues to grow he turns away.
I wonder if maybe it's not that he can't, it's that his god can't find us guilty and burn us.

>>732332
Run awaaaay

>>732332
Violence isn't a good idea, it'll almost certainly encite a mob, and that's if Hedoran doesn't gib us if we accidentally the leader.

Hedoran is very mad at us and looking at after the bar maid. If we ask him for help he might just let them kick our ass out of spite since it will be obvious we're not fighting back.

If we can scare them, that seems like the safest route.

>Scaring them away might work...

>>732361
This is a vote, btw

>>732362
Come on, running away is even better! And it's totally in-character!

I'm gonna need a tiebreaker here.

>>732371
Okay then, I'll break the tie by changing my vote to this.
Let us brave sir robin our way out of this mess

>>732374
I think the Hedoran option has more votes

>>732374
It actually looks like >Let Hedoran take care of it is [s]winning[/s] tied.

Well, I'm gonna have to eat regardless so when I'm done I'll count the votes.

Wait a second, these votes are not mutually exclusive.

Why not ask Hedoran to take care of it and then cheese it regardless of what happens?

>>732393
BRILLIANT

>>732399
That's... an idea.

>>732393
>>732399
Trully, a scheme worth of a vampire.

Just read the thread... play a vampire, meet a hunter, become a slave to him?!

>>732332
>Maybe it’s better just to let Hedoran to take care of this one, you’ve already done enough.
Can we mindcontrol them to become our friends?

>>732444
It's part of the plan bruh.

>>732444
>Just read the thread... play a vampire, meet a hunter, become a slave to him?!
I was a bit shocked by that, too. Went to bed a free... man, woke up a slave.

>>732450
Will abiding by the terms of the pact keep us safe from Vedran, and is 'sucking all of Hedoran's blood out' a breach of the contract'?

>>732444
I came in after that happened so I'm just rolling with it.
It honestly looks like we're ending up in some sort of sitcom situation.

>>732466
Yes, it's a breach in the contract.

>>732473
Why? We said 'limitless blood'.

>>732487
Because he has a limited supply of blood.

If we drink all of it, then it's all gone.

Writing for running away/letting Hedoran take care of the mess.

>>732487
> you have my word that I won’t attempt to kill you. Should I try, a column of holy fire would engulf me and destroy my very existence on the spot. It’s about the same for you
If we kill him, we dead

>>732510
Booooooooooo

>>732520
But, when we help him find another vampire, the seal get lifted, I think. And remember the weird sense of the magic we got? We may just find a vampire even tho I doubt it.

>>732539
Well, one petty vampire can surely die in our stead. But how do we get more powerful? Drink blood, do pushups?

>>732555
Drink blood, I guess.

>>732555
>>732444
And nice trips mah boys

>>732509

Hmm, what a sticky situation… Sure you have your part of responsibility but taking part in this further would only endanger you needlessly.
“Hedoran, I think most people in this village now know that I’m not just a captive and some them look like they want to kill me…” You pause and look at him, he seem to have received your silent message in the middle of waking the barmaid. “Don’t worry, I won’t kill them. I won’t even harm them, actually…”

This time, it looks like he was expecting you to pull a sneaky one because you can already see him rising to his feet to stop you.
“Well, time for me to make my exit. Be a dear and calm them, will you?” you mockingly taunt him. Before he has the time to grab you, you use what remnants of magic you still possess from before you went to sleep to amplify your mental power and you scream in the way you had previously.
Your psychic roar is truly deafening and everybody except you and Hedoran just blacks out. At this power, you don’t doubt some forest critters might actually have died instantly but you don’t stop to find out. Before the fuming hunter has any chance to recover, you simply sprint to the exit of the village while stepping over the stunned villagers. Hardly the most dignified escape but it’s the result that counts, right?
If you did everything well, none of the villagers should have any lasting injury: if your previous scream was like an electric shock, this one was more akin to a solid blow to the head. If anything, they should wake up mere seconds after your departure, without really knowing what happened.

You stop and take shelter behind a tree, both to verify you aren’t followed and because a peculiar thought crossed your mind: while the contract did say you couldn’t kill each other, it never said anything about you having to stay near him. You could just flee to the end of the world and he would be none the wiser...

>That’s too much of a risk, who’s to tell that the contract won’t allow him to track you?
>This is probably the best occasion you’ll have until a while. Plus, he could be leading you to his brethren who wouldn’t have any qualms about killing you...

>>732606
>That’s too much of a risk, who’s to tell that the contract won’t allow him to track you?
Just hide in the tree or something like that and wait for him to come?

>>732617
Void that question mark

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>>732555
Practice our running-away skills.

>>732606
>That’s too much of a risk, who’s to tell that the contract won’t allow him to track you?
>See if you can track him.

We did contract to help him kill vampires, though.

>>732606
>>>This is probably the best occasion you’ll have until a while. Plus, he could be leading you to his brethren who wouldn’t have any qualms about killing you...
Run away, run like the wind! And find someone to drink from, getting thirsty here.

>>732606
If we wait for him then I highly doubt he's gonna take any of this sitting down.
It's entirely possible he'd decide that while he can't kill us, if we were to be made much weaker and incapacitated, we would still have all the same uses, but none of the downsides we have shown to have so far.
So basically he could cripple us without fearing the seal because he wouldn't be aiming to kill, while we really wouldn't have the same luxury, and thus be smote if we tried to stop him.

I do not think staying here and waiting is a good idea.

The contract seemed to be more of a peace treaty than anything else. It seemed to basically be there to force non-aggression. I THINK we should be safe from it.
So
>This is probably the best occasion you’ll have until a while. Plus, he could be leading you to his brethren who wouldn’t have any qualms about killing you...

>>732628
What kind of fucking vampire is true to their word.

I say we book it, deal with the hunter if he can track us. If not, good and well.

>>732630
>>732629
Run away.
>>732628
>>732617
Stay.

I'm gonna need a tiebreaker here, for real this time.

>>732638
>>732636

>>732636
So run away it is?

Writing then...

>>732642
Run away and get a snack asap! Yay!

>>732642
You hadn’t really planned on getting this far, and from the start the contract had just been a way to keep him from killing you. Now that you had the opportunity to get away and get strong enough, what was stopping you from simply running away.
Some doubts remained, maybe he could track you, what’s to say he wouldn’t just track you again to finally end you…

But in the end, the odds of getting another chance like that were slim… Plus, you’re a vampire, it’s not like it’s surprising for your kind to doublecross mortals, it was to be expected. Yes, it’s surely a better idea to just go away, especially now that you did taunt him.
Putting your cloak over your head, you carefully examine your surroundings to make sure he isn’t following… Nothing so far. Even if he was stealthy, that crimson armor of his would make him stick out like a sore thumb in the mossy forest.
It’s better to go now, the more distance you put between you and him the better.

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It had been a bit over an hour since you had escaped from Redrove. With all the haste you could afford, you were progressing steadily but the problem was otherwise. You definitely weren’t used to being in a forest and everything looked the same to you, leading you to be completely lost. While you had some doubt about the capacity of Hedoran to track you, the fact remained that he had a horse and probably knew how to navigate the woods better than you…

As you were pondering those facts, you couldn’t help but notice a strange glow on your palm, where the seal had been applied. Looking carefully at the scar, there was no doubt it was starting to glow more by the minute and-

Only your reflexes saved you. Where you once stood, a blazing pillar of fire was incinerating everything in it’s midst. Apparently, the “judgment of Vedran” was hardly an accurate spell and the fact that you were still alive was testament to the fact that it could be escaped… Still, it was worrying that he could use it like that.
Glowing once more, the seal pulses and you can see the pillar fade away, but not before a worrying sound come from above, leaving you only seconds to avoid the celestial wrath.
There’s no doubt that if this situation continues, you won’t be able to remain alive for long…

>If the source of the seal is your arm, why not cut it? It could always grow back given enough time...
>It’s not too late to go back and ask for forgiveness.
>Maybe you can try to dispel the seal on your arm but it’s very unlikely that you could just remove it like that...
>Something else [Write-in]

>>732723

Find something to feed on and then remove the arm.

>>732723
>It’s not too late to go back and ask for forgiveness.
Act confused why you are getting blazed and say that we were looking for animals to feed on

>>732723

>If the source of the seal is your arm, why not cut it? It could always grow back given enough time...

>>732723

It’s not too late to go back and ask for forgiveness.
Act confused why you are getting blazed and say that we were looking for animals to feed on

>>732759
>>732743
>>732736
>>732729
Need a tie breaker AGAIN.

>>732766
How does it feel to have your playerbase appear to be a group of fuckups that can't agree on anything?

On the bright side it looks like 2 entire sessions of a quest without waifus nor waifu wars, which is a pretty big accomplishment.

>>732794

We havent seen anything with tits save the barmaid we sent into a coma. Give it time.

Waifus...


... find a way.

>>732766
Alright, I think it's a good idea to stop now for today.
This way, I get to wait until everybody has decided on either options and it allows me to plan out a bit.
>>732794
Eeeh, it's alright. So far, this hasn't devolved into shitposting and namecalling.
>>732800
Little do you know that Hedoran is a girl! Dun dun DUUUUUN

Alright, I'll continue TOMORROW at 6PM-GMT this time and will probably end up later than today. That way, I don't have to wait until more persons join the thread.

>>732806
Forgot to say, but I'll answer questions regarding the setting in the meantime.
Or any interesting question, really.

>>732806
Alright man. Thanks for running the quest and sleep tight lil' QM.

>>732819

I want an overview of the capabilities of a vampire, or at least what they were as far as our character knows.

Also, a general idea of the physical attributes of our character in general would be good. Weapons skills, etc.

>>732840
Okay, I guess I can do that.

Now, a vampire is usually stronger/ more resilient than a human. As you might have seen, a bolt in the throat was little more than an annoyance.

On the other hand, everything related to fire is EXTREMELY dangerous to a vampire.
I'll elaborate further on why but before that let's continue on the advantages of a vampire.

Vampires possess very fine senses, enough that they don't to rely on their sight to navigate in the dark. They do have nightvision though, so standing still probably won't work if you're in their line of sight.

But what truly allows vampires to prevail is their tremendous willpower. This combined with the ability of all mages to project their mind gives them access to all sort of abilities.

Telepathy: Useful to talk to a person silently, but you'll need to be extremely skilled if you want to hide your thoughts. Communication is also limited to one person as trying to maintain a mental conversation usually requires all of your concentration.

Wail: This one is more about raw power. You simply short-circuit the minds of everyone by "exploding your mind". Less effective if the person expects it or is used to it.

Thought control: Someone asked earlier if we could do that... No is the sort answer, the long answer is tied to magic.

What about magic then?
Vampires traditionally use three school of magic, one of which we'll later specialize in: blood, bone and void. You'll learn later what each of these do, you just need to know that thought control is part of Void and is a VERY high technique.

These magics are usually part instinct/raw willpower part rituals. These rituals can be as short as just saying an incantation or as long as multiple century (though the latter are very uncommon).

Now, we delve into what makes a vampire a vampire: his soul/mind. Here, mind is just the application of the soul.
To create a vampire, you have to find someone who just died and "sew" back his soul into his corpse. These strings are what maintain the vampire "alive" and not taking care means certain death.
Fire is thus especially painful for vampires because it attacks directly the soul and burns the threads, severing the link between the vampire's soul and his corpse.
This is because vampires are being of cold that came back from the Desolation Beyond and heat is anathema there.

>>732939

Thanks, thats actually really helpful

>>732939
I forgot to mention that the blood magic that vampires drain from the living serves to fuels those strings, as they decay rather quickly.
In theory, a "perfect" vampire could be made that wouldn't need sustenance at all if a way to maintain the strings was found.
This means that a non-magician vampire cannot exists as it wouldn't be able to maintain it's strings.

But enough about vampires, time to talk about Rektus:
Without going too much into detail about his backstory (you'll need to find out), I can tell you that he spent quite a long time being chief to his tribe.
As stated previously, he wasn't really appreciated even though he greatly helped his people by being a mage mostly because he was a vampire.
He didn't really fight seeing as most threats he encountered could usually be stunned or magic'ed away. That means his combat experience is rather minimal.
In fact, other than magic, he doesn't really has experience doing ANYTHING.

In his tribe, he was more or less seen as a shaman, a priest of sorts whose role was to heal the injured, curse the enemies and officiate to the ceremonies. That means menial work was mostly beneath him. However, his experience as a healer with knife and magic (not that he usually needs it) has given him a great deal of knowledge about the human body but also of various creatures.

>>732983
Neat, you pre-empted my blood question about 3s before I posted it.

So then vampires were generally seen in a more positive light back in the day then?

I mean I can understand there being hunters due to rogue vamps, but to be the chief and shaman of a tribe means we must have been respected, and not only for our abilities (though healing must have been a godsend back then.)

Would I be correct then, in assuming that something caused a change in the views of vampires that lead to our death.


Also you said that revivification was incredibly painful.
What about a vampire reviving?
What are the requirements, how does it happen?

>>732766
>REMOV ARM

>>732983
In what fields of magic are we most skilled at? And do vampires have the abillity to raise undead creatures like zombies and skeletons?

Wow, Hedoran flubbed, like, all of his Social rolls.

>>733009
>So then vampires were generally seen in a more positive light back in the day then?
Not exactly. It's more like a witch deep in the woods. It helps sometimes, it has a great deal of knowledge and it can be pretty powerful.
But it's still something unnatural and it's only just tolerated.

Some are more liked, some have more responsabilities, but in general they are just there.

>>733009
I'm not sure what you mean by resurrection so I'll answer the two meanings that look likely to me:
1)Raising the corpse into a vampire. This is a very complicated ritual that you don't entirely know but could theoretically reproduce given enough time and test-subjects.
The thing is, only the being that have a VERY strong desire to come back to life can do so. As stated before, the afterlife is a pretty sucky place and while it's usually not enough to get them to attach to the body, it's usually a good part of it.

2)Resurrection when you're already a vampire.
Assuming a vampire dies somehow (because he hasn't fed in a while or just got burnt) the link between his body and his soul will be severed but assuming you prepared for that (the ritual usually has a preparation time of multiple days), you could theoretically put him back into the corpse he just left.
It would require an astonishing amount of chance though.

>>733026
>In what fields of magic are we most skilled at?
As stated previously, there are only 3 domains of magic we currently know. Since we mostly assumed a druidic role, we mostly have knowledge in void and blood magic.

>And do vampires have the abillity to raise undead creatures like zombies and skeletons?
That is bone magic and we could do it, assuming we got the required stuff and enough magic. It also depends on what kind of creature you want to raise.

>>733041
>Wow, Hedoran flubbed, like, all of his Social rolls.
As it turns out, being quasi-deified by your tribe won'tt make you very charismatic on it's own.

>>732723
>>>If the source of the seal is your arm, why not cut it? It could always grow back given enough time...
Enslave a vampire master? Nonono! Hack it off, how painful can it be?! This whole time sucks, would be best to gain some strength and then sleep some more till the natives are more friendly...

I have the feeling that choping off our arm isn't a really good idea because we have no idea how much it takes to grow back. And it's really hard without one arm, I guess.

>>733141

what else are we gonna do, dodge pillars every few seconds like we're in a WoW raid?

>>733141
Arms are overrated, we just have to force a human to hold stuff for us.

>>733071
>As it turns out, being quasi-deified by your tribe won'tt make you very charismatic on it's own.
Not Rektus, Hedoran. Hedoran flubbed every Social roll.

>>733141
>we have no idea how much it takes to grow back
While it depends on how much magic you afford growing it back, it also depends on your reserves, which are currently pretty low.


Also, I need to remind everybody: cutting off the arm isn't guaranteed (as far as Rektus knows) to stop the spell. For all you know, it would appear on your face next.

>>733160
Yes
>>733174
But those humans that hold out things, are using their hands

Could Rektus sort of feel out the spell and see where he needs to cut to get rid of it?

>>733180
I recommend slicing off the flesh of the brand, rather than the entire arm.

>>733241
>>733244
While the seal is still in one place, there's a pattern of scars that goes all the way to your elbow.
There's no guarantee it's part of the seal but you can never be sure.

>>733244

supporting this also

>>733256

well then fuck cut errthing off
we ain't gonna be no vampire hunter's bitch boy and betray our boys that's for sure

>>733271
>our boys

>>733271
To be honest, I'm pretty sure that the only people we cared about are dead for a millenia and they aren't some cool vampires, probably just a bag of bones deep underground.

>>733286

we may never know!

>>733314
I just want to have a kind of sit-com relation with the vampire hunter bruh.

>>733071
The reason I ask about resurrection is from

>Regardless of what most people think, dying is never a pleasant experience. That said, resurrection is even worse.

So then this is only referring to when we became a vampire, not any other time. It sounded like we had revived other times after becoming a vampire.

>>733395
Oh yeah, I see what you mean.
Regardless of the personnal experience of Rektus (which conforts what he said), most vampires (and by extension those who have known them) agree that it's an excrutiating process.

>>732723
If the vote wasn't already decided, cutting off arm seems a !great! plan, so I vote for this.
Great thread btw, enjoyed reading

>>735054
+1 for self amputation

>>735170
It's called an Armectomy

>>735269
Actually it's called a fantastic idea that could in no way wrong

>>735334
Nah, 'a fantastic idea that could in no way go wrong' is the one where we hide the arm in a house that has offended us in some way.

>>735354
Remotely-activated firearm. Even better if we sneak it into Hedoran's wagon.

>>732723

The thundering flame crashes to the ground and you barely avoid it by vaulting away. The damp ground starts steaming as the fire consumes it and a thick fog surrounds you. Great, as if getting attacked by a god wasn’t enough, now you don’t know where you’re going.
The telltale crackling sound of the now familiar rings in your ears and you have to make a decision, the quicker the better.

The forest grows silent as the impending doom you were dreading fades away. In it’s stead, your now severed arm rests at your feet. You took great care to excise above all the scarred tissue, no point in having the mark migrate to another of your body parts. For once, you don’t regret having that ceremonial dagger, which is still tacky in your opinion but hold a wicked edge. You have no doubt that your master would have beaten you up for using a “sacred vessel” like that but he isn’t there anymore so you don’t really care.
As you look back at the stump that end just above your elbow, you’re reminded of how painless the whole operation was. Looks like you’ll never get used to that…
It’s not like you can’t feel anything, though. Frankly, the sensation is just like when you lose sensations in your legs after sitting on them for too long, a weird sort of tingling that it’s really painful but definitely annoying.

Now, you need to get away. Since you’re no longer in immediate danger you don’t really need to hurry but that doesn’t mean you’re safe just yet. If Hedoran keeps looking for you, his brothers and himself will probably find you sooner or later, in which case you better be ready for a fight.
That said, you don’t need a direct confrontation, you can always widen the gap between the two of you and escape when he does pick up your trail.

>Wait for Hedoran to come and ambush him. This time, you have the element of surprise.
>Running away is always a safe bet, although he might catch up with that horse of his.
>Just find a nook or an empty tree to hide so he won’t find you. You’ll have a shitty night but you won’t be dead.
>You might have seen a hut earlier, but the fire distracted you. You might find something interesting there...
>Something else [Write-in]

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>>736565
>Wait for Hedoran to come and ambush him. This time, you have the element of surprise.

Alternatively/additionally, we could construct some kind of rudimentary trap- either mundane or aracane. Using the severed arm as some kind of bait perhaps? Perhaps scout the immediate area, could use the arm to bait him into a cave or some such and use our supernatural (although admittedly one handed) strength to close off the cave.

>>736565
Search that hut. Top priority is finding something to feed on.

>>736594
>>736602
Weeeeell, next time I'll remember to start later, especially if it's to have an empty hour like that.

>>736565

>You might have seen a hut earlier, but the fire distracted you. You might find something interesting there...

>>736565
>You might have seen a hut earlier, but the fire distracted you. You might find something interesting there...

Let's bro it up with witches
or eat them

>>736661
>>736664
Did you guys really have to wait until I said something, or was this just a really awkward coincidence?

Anyway, writing for going to the hut.

>>736565
>You might have seen a hut earlier, but the fire distracted you. You might find something interesting there...

>>736667

coincidence
or is it?

>>736667
It was before noon or at least 1pm, there's no way a normal person would be awake at such a time.

>>736667
Damn that fog, it’s making it really hard to know which way to go… At least you remember from where you came from so it shouldn’t be too hard to backtrack to that hut you think you saw when you were avoiding the fire.
After a bit of fumbling around in the fo mostly trying to see if there’s a trail or something you could use to find your way back, you do end up near the hut you saw. While it was just a passing glance, you had seen a shape that couldn’t be mistaken but now that you’re mere steps away from it you’re beginning to wonder if anyone could live in this… shack.
The mouldy and damp hut is covered in moss and how it stands just baffles you. Nevertheless, you do hear someone inside, making clattering noise by doing who-knows-what. Is staying there a good idea?
Probably not but it’s not like you have any choice. You sneak up to the log cabin and try to see if there’s any way to look past the ruined wall but it seem surprisingly watertight. Perhaps the owner is more nature-savvy than you had thought.

Before you have any chance to remark upon your find, you step on a branch that cracks in a very obvious manner. The man (?) inside must have heard it because you can hear him rushing to the exit.

>Time to taste some blood! You’ll jump him when he nears the corner.
>You could always try speaking to him, maybe he’s not hostile.
>Hide! You’ll figure what to do later, when you’ve had the chance to study this situation later.
>Something else [Write-in]

>>736565
Any chance of dragging the arm around with us? I really want to toss it into Hedoran's wagon when he's not looking. Next time he tries setting us on fire, he's in for a surprise...

>>736731
Ah yes, I forgot to mention you were taking it with you.

>>736715
>>Time to taste some blood! You’ll jump him when he nears the corner.
OMNOMNOMNOM
>Try not to kill him, yeah?

>>736735
Hopefully he's dragging it around on the end of a rope, like a particularly stupid-looking dog.

(How old was he when he died the first time? Might just be the direction we're taking his character, but he doesn't seem all that mature.)
((inb4 holy chieftains tend to be spoiled))

>>736741
>Hopefully he's dragging it around on the end of a rope, like a particularly stupid-looking dog.
What rope? Nah, seriously it's on our belt.

>How old was he when he died the first time?
That's something you'll have to find out~

>>736748
>What rope? Nah, seriously it's on our belt.
Um. It might not be the best idea to have the fireball generator right next to our fleshy bits...

>>736736
Writing for ganking whoever's inside the place.

>the best idea to have the fireball generator right next to our fleshy bits
I may have not been precise enough but the fire stopped being a problem when you cut your arm off.

>>736715
>Time to taste some blood! You’ll jump him when he nears the corner.

If we cant overpower some dude alone in a hut we don't deserve to escape Hedoran.

Also, OP, I get the feeling most of your players are EST. So starting before noon EST is not the best idea.

>>736781
Don't know if you've noticed but you dropped your trip

>>736715

He’s getting closer… Whether he knows what you are or not, that person must be pretty spooked because you can feel its fright. Should everything go well, he won’t even have the time to see you coming, no sense in taking risks.

As the woman crosses the corner, you leap at her and push her to the ground. At her side lies a hatchet but you don’t leave her the occasion of using it as you tighten your grasp on one of her wrists and break it. She cries but holds on, punching you with her remaining arm to try and get you off her. You takes the blows without shrugging, the blows leaving you absolutely unharmed as you let her now useless hand fall to bash her head with the pommel of your knife. Seeing the blow coming, her eyes widen and she tries to inch to the side, but to no avail.
While you did hit her pretty hard, it wasn’t enough to kill her but enough that she slackened under you.

Great, now you have a source of blood at your disposition, a better weapon than your knife and most importantly a shelter; you may be a vampire but no amount of power will stop a bear from eating your face while you sleep in the open.
Carrying the woman as best as you can with your missing arm, you open the door to the shack to find a surprisingly well-conserved interior. The place must have been a bandit hideout because it is way larger than it looks from the outside as it is extending into the ground with a satisfying amount of space, well enough to have about eight people live here.

This place is interesting and has good enough furniture that you could settle here for a while, at least until Hedoran stops looking for you.
At your side on a bench, the woman lies unconscious but she might wake up anytime soon…

>Try to tie her up. It’s gonna be difficult with only one hand.
>Drain her of her blood but keep her alive, she may be useful.
>Drain her completely, this way you’ll regenerate much more quickly.
>Wait until she wakes up and search/loot the cabin, you got off the wrong foot.
>Something else [write-in]

>>736791
Thank you, I hadn't noticed.

>>736838
>Drain her of her blood but keep her alive, she may be useful.

We have power over her, and still suffer a severe lack of information that she can help us with. Drained of blood, she will be in no position to resist.

>>736838
>Drain her of her blood but keep her alive, she may be useful.

This weakens her and strengthens us, puts us in a position of power for negotiations (as even if she's got magics or what have you, she's missing a nice amount of blood, so trying anything will be hard), and allows us to get information.

We attacked her and broke her wrist, normal friendliness ain't gonna work at all.

>>736838
Oh, OP. How does she look, age and build? The kind of person she seems to be will be pertinent information I think.

>>736862
I didn't describe her as I felt it wouldn't really bring anything if you just murdered her after.

>>736855
>>736859
Writing for draining her a bit.

>>736838
>>Drain her of her blood but keep her alive, she may be useful.

>>736862
She looks like
HEDORAN IN A WIG AND DRESS SURPRISE

>>736876
I was more concerned about what it might say about both the quality of her blood and the likelyhood of unwanted visitors.

>>736899
Among humans, blood quality is about the same no matter where it comes from, with the exception of magicians and/or magically inclined people who tend to have more magic in their blood.

>>736902
Bet there are blood snobs who believe differently.

>>736910
You'll get to find out later but strangely, vampires as a whole tend to be more grounded and level-headed (beyond their temperament) than you'd expect from blood-thirsting monsters.

>>736876

Now that you have the time to look at the woman, you’re surprised to find a young woman, she mustn’t be a day over twenty. Actually, with her soft features and fair skin, it’s no wonder you overpowered her like that, she must be a noble or someone who has never had to work by themselves, a bit akin to you without the vampirism.
But you could look at her face - a very pretty one indeed - and it wouldn’t really solve your blood problem. You bare her neck as well as you can and bite, her skin yielding effortlessly under your sharp fangs; her blood reeks of magic though the taste is as nauseating as it was the first time you bit someone. A mage, maybe, trying to study in the quietness of the forest and looking for something beyond the safety and comfort of the cities beyond.

Now that you’re sated, you can feel the magic rising - a most familiar and comforting feeling - in a rush of power. Some might call this bloodrush maddening but it’s strangely sobering as you feel your senses sharpen even beyond their conventional boundaries.
Now that you’re sated, nothing escapes your sight and you find a lot of details you might have glossed over previously.
For example, that lady you bit has a ring to her finger indicating her to be part of some kind of order though you can’t quite read what it means. An unfortunate point as it means she might not be the only persons living here, someone could barge at any moment… but now that you have your magic back it will be very hard to surprise you.

>Wake her up and ask her about her situation.
>Tie her somewhere and start looking for clues.
>See how your magic handles now that you’ve advanced a “millenium”.
>Something else [write-in]

I'll be making myself dinner so it might take a bit more time for the following posts.

>>736944
>Wake her up and ask her about her situation.
oh she will be pissed.

>>736944
>Tie her somewhere and start looking for clues.

I do not trust this building.

>>736944
So our magic doesn't require movement at all.

What about magic in general, are there physical components like waving hands or speaking shit for other types of magic that we may be familiar with?

If not, then I'd say
>Wake her up and ask her about her situation.
She'd be no threat if there aren't any.

>>736944
Gonna need a tie breaker here.

>>736944
>>See how your magic handles now that you’ve advanced a “millenium”.
desu, I didn't really understand what we picked up with the magesight last time.

>>736993
In that case, I'm useless.

>>736999
I'd really like to avoid rolling again, honestly.

>>736994
>I didn't really understand what we picked up with the magesight last time.
I guess it's my fault, I'll have to be more clear next time.
Don't worry, all will be explained when we use our magic again.

>>737019
I'll wait about 10 minutes, then roll.

>>737046
just do the wake her up choice.

>>737046
But it's
Wake her up-2
Tier her up-1
See how your magic handles-1

>>737046
Switching to Explore, then.

>>737059
>>737061
>>736991
>>736966
I guess it's time for milady to wake up.

Sorry if I didn't notice some votes, I must be lacking sleep...

>>737019

This situation isn’t normal, there’s something missing here... A woman living alone in a disguised hideout fitted for an entire group, apparently nervous enough to try and attack you with a hatchet; she is hiding something.
But before waking her, it would be a good idea to tend to her wound as she might not be able to talk if she’s too busy crying out. With the blood loss, there’s no way she could injure you, especially since you drained her magic along with her fluids.

You gather your mind and call upon your memories of previous similar interventions. With just a bit of blood magic, you see the fracture healing up at an accelerated rate, without doubt a very painful procedure. Seeing the bones and muscles squirming under her skin, you feel lucky that she’s still unconscious as you’re pretty sure the experience would make her faint, again. In just under thirty seconds, the whole thing is done and you feel a sizeable dent in your magic reserves (91%); it seems you’ll have to learn to control your output again, the hibernation must have taken away a lot from you and your grasp on magic. Another unnatural effect you’d never heard off with other vampires, you’ll have to investigate it later.

Now that the operation is over, you jolt her awake by “zapping” her with your mind. The squeal produced really makes you want to laugh but you have to keep appearances in mind. Luckily, having an armless armed madman in front of her seem to be enough and she doesn’t try anything suspicious.


>“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
>“Do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.”
>“Is there anybody else bound for this cabin or are you alone? I don’t want to have to kill your friends AND you.”
>Something else [write-in]

>>737157
>>“Do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.”

Most important info first. Final question's a terrible idea as we straight up take her survival off the table, meaning she'd have no reason to ever give us good answers.

>>737157
>“Is there anybody else bound for this cabin or are you alone? I don’t want to have to kill your friends AND you.”

>>737157
Is there anybody else bound for this cabin or are you alone? I don’t want to have to kill your friends AND you.”

>>737157
>“Do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.”

>>737167
>>737177
>>737183
>>737198
I swear, you guys must be doing that on purpose.

>>737216
Nah, but we've kind of had two factions on things from the start. Look at the regular IDs

>>737229
True but usually there's someone passing by to vote.

>>737216
securing the area is a prudent measure we don't want to be ambushed. It is most likely she will believe we are more than capable of killing her and anyone else. if she wants to survive then she will co-operate or we could just drain her and bluff with threats of undead slavery. However we also healed her so we have evidence to show we can be reasonable. Feeding was desperation. Plus if she is a mage we can teach one another stuff. Clearly we know ancient forgotten magic

I'd give a few minutes for the KMM guy to post, he's the other regular and should break the tie.

>>737254
I'll support securing the area instead of magic if we cut the
>I don’t want to have to kill your friends AND you

If we flat out say we're gonna kill her, she is not going to cooperate.

>>737268
the I dont want to implies we do not want to do this and would only do this if we have to, it is an implied threat if our hand is forced.

>>737157
>>“Do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.”

>>737287
Eh, I guess the tripfaggot has it.

>>737287
>>737296
I guess he has. Writing.

>>737313
>>737296
>>737287


Yes now let me keep talking and distract you whilst that stealth archer rolls up like a Bosmer

>>737157

“Do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.”

>>737313

You lean up towards her in your best attempt at looking menacing ; not that difficult considering the gaping hole where you throat used to be.
“Tell me, do you feel anything strange about the magic around here? Don’t try to lie, I know you can use it.” you whisper in her mind.

She shivers when your voice reaches her but she just frantically shakes her head from left to right, without even trying to say something. Actually, now that she’s woken up and is standing upright, the faint outline of a scar appears on her neck, the poor girl must be mute. This would normally be a problem but since you’re using your mind to communicate, it’s not gonna be that big of a barrier.
“H-how can you talk? You have no-” she begins to say before you raise your knife. She takes the hint and instantly quiet down, searching the surrounding areas for any magic anomalies.
“So?”
“No, I… I can’t discern anything out of place near the base. Please don’t kill me! ” she begs.

A base, uh? That means some other persons might be heading this way, maybe armed guards…
But on the other hand, she didn’t discern anything wrong with the magic, which means that the magic changed overtime and that it happened before you woke up. Very peculiar but it also explains why you didn’t encounter anybody on the mana streams, this type of magic must have faded out in favor of the one used nowadays. While your previous trip using the mana-sight didn’t give you much to work with, you now know that you might have to adjust your ritual to access so that you find more details.
“You said this was a base, I want you to tell me who lives there and who might be coming in the next days.” you command, using your most imperious voice.
“I-I don’t know... I’m just a maid and I was told to clean here, that’s it!”

She’s lying, it’s obvious. Even beyond the fact that neither of her hands bears the mark of hard work, you can feel her mind attempting to hide something from you.
She needs to talk, and you could do this multiple ways…

>Shock her with your mind until she tells you.
>Try to frighten her.
>Use good old fashioned torture, you’ll know if she’s lying.
>Just point out that she’s a REALLY bad liar without mentioning that you can read her mind.
>Something else [write-in]

>>737459
Shock her. Lies cannot go unpunished, we wuz chieftains an shiet.

>>737459
>Shock her with your mind until she tells you.
we vampire inquisitor now.

>>737459
>Something else [write-in]

Stand up tall and extend our fangs and hiss loudly in her mind. "do not presume to take me for a fool. I could have drained you like fruit. I have no time for this tell me who else is coming or their deaths will be on you.

>>737459
>Shock her with your mind until she tells you.

A diplomancer we ain't. We are good at hitting people with our brain, so let's keep at it.

>>737489
Not a good idea. She doesnt know we're a vampy yet
>>737459
>Point put shes a bad liar without alluding to our mind reading powers. Press our dagger to her throat.

Theres a medium to these things, anons
Control yourselves.

>>737491
>>737488
>>737467
Who's up for some good old fashioned Shock Therapy?

Writiiiiiiing

>>737512
lets let her know I'm sure the threat of us killing her companions one by one in front of her and drinking their blood like fruit juice will get her speaking. If not we can just break her instead. I all for diplomacy but you guys kinda forced this by pinning her down and feeding on her to start with. Also we don't know when we are gonna be chased down from our "companion"

>>737535
I was lurking since the tomb, actually. He rest of the anon are really moronic for attacking a possible ally. We could have just fell to our shins like a maiden to exhausted to walk-feigning weakness while concealing our dispatched arm. Nonetheless, Im dubious about the fact that she has companions. She could be a defect. And moreover, its not too late but stop this stupidity. Recall what happened back in the village

>>737459
>>Just point out that she’s a REALLY bad liar without mentioning that you can read her mind.

>>737562
We really weren't in the position to try anything against a possible witch. We were newly awakened, low on blood, out of magic, and missing an arm.
We're obviously some sort of not-human, so an act really wouldn't have worked very well, and the second she turned hostile we'd have been in deep shit. Sneak attack was honestly the safest choice.

>>737562

We aren't here to make friends. We needed blood, she had it. End of story.

>>737613
which is true but we should have hid first and analyzed the person. For all we know it could have been some one incredibly powerful who could have incinerated us in an instant. The character is taking stupid risks for some one who is an ancient vampire and used to be a shaman chief.

>>737592
Dude. Seriously? No witch wouldbe soa stupid or careless as to be overtaken by a suprise attack (via an anemic vampire), which wouldnt really be as much if you refer to their power (and seeing ourselves, magic seems to be able to enhance senses). What you anons did was reckless. But its in the past. Moving on.

>>737613
We could have still gotten it. You know without the bashing of our pommel to her cranium. Knock her consciousness when she gets close enough.

>>737636
There we go. Knowledge is power. And he who acts first is subject to his own whims.

>>737636
>In fact, other than magic, he doesn't really has experience doing ANYTHING.

>In his tribe, he was more or less seen as a shaman, a priest of sorts whose role was to heal the injured, curse the enemies and officiate to the ceremonies. That means menial work was mostly beneath him. However, his experience as a healer with knife and magic (not that he usually needs it) has given him a great deal of knowledge about the human body but also of various creatures.

Fact is, Rektus doesn't have that much experience with anything outside of being a priest/healer.

>>737651
>>737636

I try not to play quests like I am solving a math problem. I like the characterization of the arrogant, somewhat bumbling vampire. I will continue to be its voice. It's not about smart vs not smart, this is all role playing after all. I dont think quests should be played like we are all just computers seeking optimal solutions.