[walkabout] Seriously?

[leftbehindagain]

Dragons? Really?

[As far as tone is distinguishable on the network, that's muttered, and very, very frustrated - but anyone who remembers Misericordia probably understands. When Naoki resumes, it's at a much more normal volume and tone.]

Anyway, we might as well get a check-in going. This is Naoki. We are definitely not in Harrogate, unless something went very, very wrong with Earth's climate since the last time.

If it turns out we're missing a substantial chunk of people, I can try reaching out to the others later this week.

Comments

[highsteaks]

Yeah, it sounds like it.

[leftbehindagain]

That was the same thing where some exceptionally powerful locals managed to break into Liminal Space.

[highsteaks]

... okay, what the crap was with that Jaunt?

[leftbehindagain]

Oh, that wasn't even the jaunt. It was the side thing.

As for the jaunt, vampires were involved.

[highsteaks]

Wait, like that book Kanji got from Kou?

[leftbehindagain]

Not exactly. I heard something about an election, not high-school drama.

[And nothing about any sparkling whatsoever.]

[highsteaks]

It could be both. They could have been running for the class rep at vampire school.

[leftbehindagain]

I think it was a governmental election, not a school one.

[highsteaks]

How do we know that the government of the vampires isn't just basically a student council? I've seen some really powerful ones in anime.

[She is totally trolling him now.]

[leftbehindagain]

[Yeah, he figured.]

It didn't sound like these guys were spending their extremely long lives going to high school over and over again.

[highsteaks]

I dunno. I could see vampires doing that. Not good or interesting vampires. But vampires.

[leftbehindagain]

Why would you want to?

[Naoki may be the most academically-inclined of the original rescue team, but that doesn't mean he finds the thought of eternal high school all that appealing.]

[highsteaks]

... I dunno. They probably have a thing for high school girls. Isn't that a creepy otaku fetish or something?

[tookashirototheknee]

There was an utterly terrible book like that. Terrible writing, terrible story line, kinda creepy, kinda rape-y.

I think the vampires sparkled. And played baseball.

[highsteaks]

Wait, were they trying to get into the Koshien tournament?

[dino_zarf]

Having an election at all was new. Usually they went with a stabbier solution.

[highsteaks]

I think I saw an anime like that when I was really little.

[dino_zarf]

There's been a lot of movies and such.

Usually they were fighting with the werewolves though, not teaming up with them.

[professorwolf]

Oh, no, we were most certainly not electing a student council. Though I imagine occasionally even ancient immortals might act like children now and then.

No, it was an election because the previous prince had died without naming an heir. We were all quite excited about it, as it was our first for something so important. There were a lot of changes proposed.

[Guess who was one of the people being elected, Chie. Lyall actually sounds a bit fond, thinking back to that Jaunt.]

[highsteaks]

Wait, were you having democratic elections for a monarchy? Can you even do that?

[professorwolf]

It never had been a monarchy, really. "Prince" was just a title, it didn't connote being part of any royal family. It's hard to have a royal family when one is undead, after all, and live for centuries, and don't actually have children in the traditional way.

In the past, however, the previous prince had always named an heir. The vampire everyone had presumed to be his heir, however, was the one who killed him-- at his request, which kept everyone else from destroying her. But it did muddy up the waters enough for a couple of others to stick our noses in and demand an election.

[rustyhonesty]

It definitely wasn't a high school drama.

[highsteaks]

So none of the vampires were in high school? None of them?

[rustyhonesty]

At least not the ones I remember. I only ever served one family and knew what they did.

[highsteaks]

So some of the other families could have had vampires in high school.