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[eternallyoutrageous]

Who: Akeldama and you!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Marsiva, First Breath, and Iskaulit
When: Beginning of November

Marsiva
[Lord Akeldama had woken not long before. He didn't feel quite like himself. He couldn't tell what was doing it more: the strange pain in the back of his head or the fact that he had essentially been ripped from his territory.

It was... different still somehow than it normally would have been.

He didn't necessarily feel like trying out this new gadget they had been given just yet so he stood by the large window looking into the blackness of space. He had always looked at it from the ground. This is what it looked like up close]


First Breath
[All of this moving around was not doing the vampire any good. Didn't they know that a vampire needed his territory in order to be settled. First one ship and now another. This was most inconvenient.

Hopefully, the moving between ships had stopped. He needed a few days to settle in, for his head to accept this ship has "his territory". He'd do better once that happens.

However, this other ship seemed to be more to his liking. The style wasn't quite what he'd do with his own house, but it was close enough and he wasn't going to scoff at it. So much better than that other ship.

So rather sitting alone in that tiny room they called a cabin, Lord Akeldama made his way to kitchen, sitting quietly by himself for the moment]


Isakulit
[Finally feeling more the thing, Lord Akeldama decided to go exploring this ship called "the Iskaulit". It certainly looked like there was more space there than on the other ships. He was right about that and was quite happy to go exploring, to see what sort of spaces there were available to the Fleeters.

He's probably not too subtle, dressed in plum colored evening jacket, gold waistcoat, high heeled boots, and a cravat of a different shade of purple that still seemed to compliment both the waistcoat and the jacket]


Broadcast
[Lord Akeldama has found himself a rather pleasing looking spot to make his post. It wouldn't do to have it look poorly behind him after]

Good afternoon, fellow passengers of this thing called "the Fleet". As I understand it, we are all trapped this positively wonderful place as part of a farce. Am I correct in this assessment? Is there anything else that I should know?

Comments

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[ananym]

[ . . . huh. ]

I believe that is the gist of it.

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[eternallyoutrageous]

It certainly is, my dear. I do wonder though if there is anything else we should know.

[ananym]

[ more, hmm. ]

Perhaps so. Though I imagine many would hesitate to say so out loud, when we are being watched.

[eternallyoutrageous]

Hmm... would they? It is my experience that people will say anything when they forget they can be overheard.

[ananym]

I do not think the people here are quite like the people we know.

[ no one's tried to kill him, for instance. ]

[eternallyoutrageous]

Perhaps some. There are always ones more cautious and others who will tell all. I've spent many years instructing my drones in this.

[Normally, he could claim a much longer spate of someone not trying to kill him, but there was the Hypocras Club not even two years passed]

[ananym]

[ hmm. ]

Your drones?

[eternallyoutrageous]

[How surprising he didn't know]

Drones are mortals who attach themselves to a vampire's hive or household. For mine, they are receiving my patronage for their arts. A lot of sculptors though there was one who thought he was a playwright of all things. Many of my boys are also hoping I will select them for receiving the bite from a hive queen for their own chance at immortality. In return, they are my willing eyes and ears about the local gossip and political intrigue. They are also... how shall I put this... the reason I don't have to hunt down an unwilling meal.

[ananym]

[ that sounds . . . not great. ]

A hive queen?

[eternallyoutrageous]

A hive queen is a female vampire in charge of a group of vampires. Only females can metamorphosis new vampires.

[ananym]

Interesting. That is not the way things are in my world.

[eternallyoutrageous]

Really? How does it work for you?

[ananym]

Transference of vampire blood, usually.

[ alucard is the exception. ]

[eternallyoutrageous]

So the other person needs to drink the blood of a vampire or have it somehow put into them?

[If he is understands that correctly, that sounds like what the Hypocras Club had been trying to do...]

[ananym]

Drinking it is necessary. Some consent is important for it to work.

[eternallyoutrageous]

Are those metamorphosed that way more likely to survive? If someone who receives the bite does not have enough soul, they are likely to die in the attempt. It is a shame.

[ananym]

[ an interesting term. soul. ]

Soul has little bearing as far as I can recall.

[eternallyoutrageous]

That is fascinating that ours can be so different. The soul is everything to us. Only those with excess soul can survive metamorphosis. For either vampire or werewolf.

[ananym]

[ alucard hesitates. ]

The nature of the soul is usually under the dominion of the church. As such, we tend not to look at it too closely.

[eternallyoutrageous]

Hmm... the church likes to tell us that too. There are too many who believe we have sold our soul for immortality.

[ananym]

My parents were scholars and doctors. They did not care much for theology.

[ and you know. the church burned his mom as a witch. ]

[eternallyoutrageous]

Were they now? Impressive. Both important though the elite will try to put down learning, especially for ladies. I don't much care for theology either so I understand their sentiments.

[The fact that according to most religions, he's an abomination who sold his soul for petty and trivial things might be part of that...]

[ananym]

That was certainly a difficulty my mother faced.

[ but she knew she had to fight it. soldier on. ]

[eternallyoutrageous]

That is the way of the world, no matter how unfortunate. I for one do completely believe women are more than capable of anything. Finer feelings and modesty do of course come into play, but if they are willing.

[ananym]

I try not to hold opinions about women unless I am one myself.

[ that seems like the safer option. ]