Video | username: bigbad

[idolpire]

[Say hello to an angular looking face that's not smiling. He is smoking, which is all part of the bad boy look. Maybe.]

Let's get one thing clear here, yeah? Last thing I need is a bunch of goody-goodies hunting me down out of some obligated sense of protecting the masses. Yes, I'm a vampire. Ooh. Scary, I know.

[Hands lift to do a little 'woo' motion, a cigarette between two fingers that he pauses to take a drag from before continuing in a thick, lower-class British accent.]

No, I can't eat any humans. Got me on that synthetic crap here. So unless one of you plans on dropping off a bag of type you on my doorstep, consider yourselves safe.

[And it pains him to admit that. It's obvious on his face.]

So instead of blaming me for being all terrible and mean -- which I am, try blaming whatever brought me here. I was just off, being a vampire in my own little word, then poof. I wake up here. Not my fault. Didn't sign up for it. So you hero types, you bleeding heart goody-goodies, you can all put your pitchforks down and go pet a puppy or something.

[He pauses for a moment, then points at the screen.]

Non-humans, however, I can still hurt. So if you're up for an asskicking, by all means, come a'knocking. I could do with a good fight. It's too... nice around here. Gives me the willies. And please, don't try to come back with some 'all bad needs to be stopped'. It's bollocks. Every world needs a bit of bad. It's what gives the goodies something to be all superior over.

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[dirtyredneck]

That mean you're dead?

[The only dead people Daryl's ever met were the rotting kind that wanted to eat whatever living flesh they could. This is... new.]

[idolpire]

Undead. Dead is a ghostie that can't figure out it needs to shuffle off the mortal coil.

[No, Daryl, he's not a zombie. Just blood, not brains.]

[dirtyredneck]

Dead ain't no 'ghosties'.

[He'll just leave it at that for now.]

So 'undead'... that mean you were dead and you ain't no more?

[idolpire]

Something like that. There's a process. But yeah, you gotta die to become a vampire.

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[soundsfishy]

Are there rules that predators can't eat other people here?

[idolpire]

Likely. The human types seem to look down on it. Get all defensive with their 'we're the top of the bloody food chain', when really, they're not.

[soundsfishy]

I don't blame them per say, I'm just curious how they'll enforce it.

[idolpire]

City might. Maybe other people brought in might too. I met one little bit who could hop a fence in a flash. Seemed to be all 'don't eat people' like. If a world's going to bring in monsters, makes sense it'd even that out by bringing in monster hunters.

I've already been 'warned' more than once.

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[franciscoramon]

CAN'T eat humans, or won't?

[ It's an important distinction after all. Is this guy abstaining for some reason, or is he prevented somehow? ]

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[idolpire]

Can't. I'm a vampire. Sort of like giving a fox the evil eye for nibbling on a bunny.

[franciscoramon]

so something's preventing you.

no offense but i also kinda wonder why they would bring a guy like you here. i thought the whole idea was they're trying to boost the population, make a happy worker colony or whatever. introducing a predator into the mix, even a defanged one, seems like a real dumb move.

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[suckstobestrange]

So are the vampires all automatically bad where you come from, or is it more like a lifestyle choice?

[Honestly, so long as Spike doesn't start massacring people left and right, Stephen's not going to go scaring up trouble where there didn't need to be any. And well, he's curious about world differences.

And thinking a bit about his brother what with the depressing as fuck theme of this month's festival still fresh in his mind.]

[idolpire]

Hard to be good with no soul and a demon in residence.

[That was answer enough, wasn't it?]

But... we're good at being bad. For the most part. Unless the person was a bloody useless bint.

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[valkyre]

Does being a vampire come along with any self-healing abilities?

( angela is a doctor. one who knows how to help robots and people, but not vampires. she figures they're not much different from your average person, but then again, he's from a different world entirely - that might not be quite true.

that would suck (pun intended). )

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[idolpire]

Yes.

[If she wanted an extension on that answer, he was going to make her work for it.]

[valkyre]

( thanks, spike. )

Is it merely accelerated, like in the stories? Or is there more to it?

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[howlongiwonder]

Unless you do something that makes you a target, I have no intention of fighting you.

[The response comes from a woman who is dressed strangely, but sounds pretty boringly no-nonsense. However she feels about Spike's message is at the moment hidden behind an unexpressive mask.]

Attacking others just because you don't like them would destabilize the situation in this place. We'd best avoid that.

[idolpire]

Continue to be still my unbeating heart.

[See this? This was his face at its most unimpressed.]

If you expect me to be grateful you're not willing to soil yourself by lowering down to my level and trying to beat me senseless, you can hold your breath on that.

[howlongiwonder]

Gratefulness is unnecessary.

I'm merely stating my intentions.

[Yet at the same time she frowned briefly. Not the most pleasant of conversations, this one. But it can't be helped.]

You're not a human, are you?

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[ragnarsson]

[Ivar's holding his phone with only one hand. The other has a beer in it.]

Say all that again. I'm taking a drink every time you say good, bad, or a variation of them. Also, what's a vampire?

[idolpire]

[Because Ivar was a little shit and Spike was also in the little shit club, Spike's response to that was to let his face shift, bony ridges appearing over his eyes, which turned a bright yellow as fangs showed when he grinned.]

I'm a vampire.

[ragnarsson]

[Ivar takes a chug of his beer before reacting to the sight. Well, there's something he doesn't see every day. He might find the sight more terrifying if he hadn't been raised on stories of wolves big enough to devour the sun, undead draugr that lurked in tombs, and frost giants.]

Ooo, scary. What do you do with those big teeth? Eat children?

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[adiuvio]

Can you live off that stuff?

[idolpire]

We'll have to see, won't we? If not, I'm sure there's a butcher here I can nip into and set up a deal with. Blood's blood, after all.

[adiuvio]

I know a decent butcher. He's always done right by me and my dog. Steaks, bones, you name it.

[ Attached is a small map with a circled location. Just a small, local butcher's shop in the neighbourhood of the communal living buildings. ]