driftfleet | 002 In Which Vampires are Silly

Who: Akeldama and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Planet side and Iskaulit
When: throughout December

Iskaulit library - actually more in late November ~~shh~~
[What was Lord Akeldama to do with himself when he didn't have the life he normally lived at home? No drones, no going out to the see the latest show at the theater. None of it. So he had headed to the library. True, he typically only read what appeared in the gossip rags now-a-days, but that didn't mean he was incapable of a good book.

Well... that's if he could find a good book...

Curiosity had compelled him to look at one of the books on Earth history, but he clearly hadn't gotten very far, sitting there, drumming his nails against the table as he stared at one section]

Planet side - shopping!
[At the first possible opportunity, Lord Akeldama was shopping! He was sadly lacking in clothes and he wanted so much to be able to burn those horrid jumpsuits that had been given to him. They were a travesty against all things fashion after all.

So he could easily be found in the formal section of a clothing store browsing different options that fit his taste... in as many colors as he could possibly afford. He didn't like not having funds to just do whatever he wanted.

He had also found a fabric store while he was there, browsing quietly. Not like he could do anything with it after all. An unfortunate side effect of metamorphosis, no more creativity.

That was until he had happened to find a blue paisley fabric. It was exactly his style!]

This would make the most perfect waistcoat! A shame though...

Open Broadcast
[Of course here is Lord Akeldama and he has to make this a post. Why? Because he's showing off in a way. So he'd seen all of this about "ugly Christmas sweaters" which why would someone do that to themselves. But he had found something else and he was playing this off as if it is completely normal.

So Lord Akeldama is dressed in dark brown trousers, a sage green jacket, a rose gold cravat, and this vest as if it were a waistcoat. Nothing odd to see here, just a vampire in an ugly Christmas vest...]

This truly is a remarkable place. It has been so long since I've had the chance to visit a city such as this.

So what have been your favorite things to do here? I would like to know what all I have missed thus far.

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Is she? I will have to meet her if she arrives.

I suppose any army, but the better the armor, the harder it is. A poorly armored army, it wouldn't really matter the arrow. With better armor, you would have to use much larger arrow heads or one that is more like firing a spear.

[Does he sound like he actually knows something about this?]

I'll be the first to introduce her. She's just the best. [Like the sweetest grandma to all the rowdy Tower folks.]

Heh. So, the strength and mobility tradeoff goes both ways, then? At least until you develop better materials for the armor or the bows.

I would appreciate that, my dear. I really would.

It is. Armor reduces their mobility, but increases the resources needed to take them down. Oh we have developed better things now, but bows and arrows are classic weapons.

When's "now" for you, anyway? Cause I think I'm from the future of most everyone here, and we still definitely use bows.

If I were back home, it would be the year of our Queen Victoria 1874.

So what is your world like? Sounds fascinating what little I've heard.

Oh, wow. Queen Mara's been around five hundred years and even that seems like forever. [Yeah, he...may have misinterpreted that.]

Let's see. We're taking back our territories on the other planets again now ever since the Red War ended, but humans still pretty much only live in the City or in isolated villages. Most of the Awoken [and he gestures to himself] live in the Reef, which is in the asteroid belt, but a lot of us live on Earth, too - same City, for the most part. We've got jumpships that can cover the distance in a couple minutes, but they really only carry one person. We haven't had ships as big as the Fleet ships for--since the Collapse, really, but there used to be colony ships that could hold ten thousand crew and four times as many sleepers, headed to new lives out in the stars. But I've only ever seen their wrecks.

My darling, 1874 doesn't mean how long she's been ruling. No, no. 1874 is the current world calendar. Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837 so she has been ruling for thirty-seven years. The rulers of England are not supernaturals, otherwise it might be possible.

Amazing. So you are used to space then? What does it mean to be Awoken?

Oh! Okay, I got you. I thought that was a really long time.

[He smiles and ducks his head a little bit. Honestly, that had been one of his questions ever since his Ghost had brought him to life.]

I am, yeah. Aside from the coloring, my people are pretty much like Humans, except that we don't really age beyond a certain point and we can kind of--sense things differently. Boundaries. Light and Darkness. Sometimes we feel pulled to a place or repelled by it.

We used to be Humans - or at least by ancestors did. And they were running from Earth because of the Darkness, but then their ships ran into something out there that made them change forever. So they built a new home for themselves from the wreckage and formed a society led by our Queen. Some of them broke away later and returned to Earth, but the Reef is still home in a lot of ways.

We're not Humans, but we're part of Humanity.

I do know there are not many supernaturals who have been around that long. Not to mention that the royalty does need to be out in the light of day.

Fascinating, darling. Simply fascinating!

Your comparison sounds similar to how we supernatural are. We used to be humans and we do sense things differently.

Edited 2019-01-17 02:03 (UTC)

The light of day? [That one throws him for a loop. Even the creatures of the Darkness don't have a problem with sunlight in his world - it's all much more metaphorical than that.]

Yeah. It's kind of hard to explain, you know? At least for someone who's not into all that mystical handwavey stuff.

Vampires and werewolves both cannot be exposed to the light of day. Older werewolves can take the exposure for a time, but it is always fatal to vampires.

Of course. I understand perfectly. There is only so much you can explain to others without them having some knowledge.

[Luckily he's already talked to a werewolf, so he has an idea what that is - and thanks to Warlocks, he knows what "vampiric" means. Extracting "vampire" from the adjective isn't hard, and his eyes widen a bit.]

That sounds really inconvenient for flying in spacecraft. Do you at least have some, I don't know, shielded armor or something?

The ship seems be protected from that at least. I do sleep during daylight hours, which was very difficult when first arriving, but with visiting the planet, is getting so much easier.

But there was no ill-effect for being awake during what are considered daylight on the ship, though I really was just not the thing.

Huh. Why's that? Did you synch up with its orbit or something?

[And he nods.] Right, because it's not actual daylight.

Yes, I do believe so. I am now following what this planet says and I feel remarkably better for doing so.

Precisely. We are far enough from them that the light isn't causing any problems.

It makes sense. [And then he laughs lightly.] As much as any of it makes sense, I guess. You did kinda get dumped into space without any preparation. No wonder things are a little crazy at first.

They are. Very much so. I never even dreamed being any closer to space than my roof would be possible.

Now... here we are.

[He has to grin at that.] We sure are.

But hey, if it gets too weird? Feel free to drop me a line. Space is a second home to me.

Will do, darling. If I have any questions about this fabulous new experience, I will be sure reach out to you for advice.

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