Evening of November 1st, About A Day After The New Travelers Showed Up

[thornsofmalkav]

Uh, hey. I've got a few things I need to talk to people about, that I've mostly been waiting on until we got a new shift of liminal space so I could share them with all the newbies and returning Travelers too. Uh, I'm Thorne, by the way, if you haven't met me before. Sorry if this gets to be long

Anyway, some of the shit I want to talk about is kinda heavy, so we'll start this out with a rage comic I made with an app on my phone to balance that.

[The voice switches to the viewpoint of someone looking down at a phone screen, in which the follow rage comic has been constructed on:]



[About ten seconds later, the sensory livestreaming switches off and everyone's back to voice.]

Okay. Now the heavy stuff. A lot of you guys know already that the woman I was Infiltrating as during the last Jaunt, Chouko, was killed the fourth week by an inexplicably insectile cyborg known as the Mantis. I came back as an Investigator and ended up 'haunting' my murderer.

What most of you don't know is that Chouko left a corpse behind, which Herr Doktor Blitzkopf found. He replaced her heart with a clockwork one, then used the lightning of the storms to reanimate her body, ala Frankenstein and his monster.

I didn't go back to being Chouko at this time, although she certainly did come back to life. I know, I met her when she came home to the embassy, where I was taking care of her brother, Min.

The people we Infiltrate as, our overlays... they have lives outside of us. Unless there's a Blitzkopf around, when we die as them, they stay dead.

[There's a short silence as Thorne lets that sink in for everyone.]

Uh, next thing! So, there's a secret I've been keeping from everyone, but my spirit animal, Selene, has been going around all doppelgangered and telling people anyway and I figured that if I made this announcement I could control how people found out.

So. Uh. I'm a vampire.

What this basically means is that I'm a talking, thinking, animate dead person. Well, undead person. Technically double-dead person. I got killed again after I got turned into a vampire.

I have to drink blood to survive, but you guys don't have to worry about that because I've already made arrangements with some people already to be regular blood donors and there's enough of them that nobody's should have to do it so often that it make them anemic or anything.

There's a lot of details about my condition, which I don't want to bore people with, but basically it's annoying but manageable. And so far as I know, I'm the only one of my kind here. [If you consider her kind to be Malkavians and now wodpires in general.] I guess you could say I'm a monster, but I'm honestly trying not to act like one.

And, uh, I just wanted to say to any other dead people here, if you need someone to talk to privately about it, I'm here.

Which brings me to the last thing I wanted to tell you guys about! As far as I can tell by the calendars people can agree on, it's gonna be November 2nd tomorrow. I'm gonna hold a Day of the Dead thing at Leo's and, like, build an altar in his yard and stuff and have food. People are welcome to come, living as well as dead.

Uh. That's all, I guess.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh thank FUCK. Sorry, dude, but if I'd known I'd have to do so much explaining about rage comics, I wouldn't have made... no, that's not true. I'd have still had made it. Just, I might not have shown everyone.

Anyway, good to meet you too! Do you know Hajime? He's from Jersey too. Maybe not the same Jersey. Anyway, uh, nice to have another undead bro around.

[professorwolf]

Hajime is a former student of mine. Now he's more of a good friend. We do actually come from the same Jersey, a city named Locke.

I'm guessing we either haven't met in person, or you smell differently from most vampires... I'm usually good at identifying other undead. I would have introduced myself sooner, if that were the case.

[thornsofmalkav]

We might not have! I've only been here since Questing Country. Oh, wait, but your 'voice' sounds familiar. We might have talked over the network like this.

Hajime's a bro. His bug juice tastes kinda weird, though, so he's more of a back-up blood donor and Guy To Hold Me Down If I Have A Freak-out person.

[professorwolf]

He's served, er, the latter function for me before. He is quite good at it. I'd offer as blood donor, as well, but my blood is probably not very palatable. It's apparently what one would expect in a man a couple days dead.

I do believe we've spoken before, yes. One of the few other modern Travelers who know anything about the internet.

[thornsofmalkav]

I'm so glad you do, dude. It's nice to have someone who speaks my language.

And yeah, he's said he's done it before.

[professorwolf]

Most of it, anyway. I don't think I've used the word "dude" in my life.

[There's a faint overlay of amusement, there. He might be teasing her a little.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, well, you're Jersey. Werewolf country. I'm from California and so the word 'dude' is my birthright.

[professorwolf]

Technically, actually, I'm from Iowa. I imagine that's probably worse.

[thornsofmalkav]

And technically I've lived in Brooklyn for like a year, so.

... also Iowa isn't werewolf country like Jersey is. (This is because New York is a vampire town.)

[professorwolf]

No, that's true, Iowa is sheep country, not werewolf country. But I wasn't a werewolf when I lived there, so I suppose it works out.

New York is a vampire town? That's new. I suppose it makes sense. Most of the vampires I know are fairly dramatic, so of course New York would suit.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. Vampires, I think maybe fairy types... and maybe ghosts? Yeah. Ghosts.

[professorwolf]

I would think a ghost would be happier in Las Vegas. At least there would be something for them to vicariously live through, and a more all-encompassing night-life for them. Then again, ghosts where I come from can only manifest at night, so their options can be a bit limited.

[thornsofmalkav]

Ghosts are everywhere, dude. There's probably some in Vegas too. And I think our ghosts can do shit in the day too.