Servants

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 We have never had slaves as it is more practical to have servants.

A slave could try to escape and then we would have been exposed to the mobs when they had their revenge.

Then there would also have been the problem of making them Old Vampires.

If they were made against their will, then that would give them a reason to hate us and make life uncomfortable as only a servant can.

Since the vast majority of humans reading this do not have servants, I will spell it out : an unhappy servant can make your life miserable in a number of ways. They can mislay items you need, forget orders or carry them out badly.

This is why Old Vampires make sure that the servants are happy. If they are happy, then the castle runs itself.

If the castle is not running well and many things are not to your liking then ring for the butler and find out why the servants are unhappy.

It could be that there is one bad apple. Sometimes they have not been able to get their perks and wrongly thought that their employers had something to do with it.

This situation needs a lot of handling, but happens rarely as a butler will lose Status if we employers have to be involved with Servants.

I suspect that among servants, there is more than losing Status for this offence, but that is Servants’ business.

Sometimes after Servants have been turned into Old Vampires they have decided that they do not like it.

We used to kill such ingrates as these without a thought. Nowadays it is not the done thing, so we terminate their employment when it is found out.

I do not know what happens to them, but theorise that they have one of two choices: to throw in their lot with the New Vampires or to walk into the sun.

Glossary

Bonded Wedding Old Vampire marriage for political reasons

Common Status the point at where an Old Vampire becomes a real Vampire

Debutante Vampires before Dracula came out, vampires who had been newly turned vampire were taught the rules of society. They then “came out” when they were deemed presentable to vampire society as debutantes. They are the only Old Vampires who have a zero level of Status and are acceptable.

The Committee see The Committee to Regulate Non-Human Activity

The Committee to Regulate Non-Human Activity a committee that meets monthly and talks about affairs to do with werewolves, vampires and humans

Fence an Old Vampire fight in which they fight to the first blood using fencing

The Hunters see Vampire Hunters

Negatives Old Vampires with zero or negative points of Status.

New Vampires vampires who do not want to be Old Vampires, often live as Goths and hold down jobs. This started after Dracula came out.

Notice the Status Keeper serves a Notice on an Old Vampire whose Status has reduced to zero that they are in danger of becoming a Negative

Obligation when one vampire is under an obligation from another s/he has to do as they say

Old Vampires vampires who are polite society. Either turned vampire before Dracula came out or were turned after by an Old Vampire and decided to join the Old Vampires.

Parent the vampire who brought you up (if you are an Old Vampire) in polite society

The Ruler’s Men people employed by The Ruler to do anything she or he asks

Shun a vampire who has committed a sex crime is shunned on their release

Sire the vampire who made you a vampire

Status a ranking system which denotes whether you are an acceptable member of Old Vampire society, which is if you have plus points of status. See Negatives and Thousands

Status Keeper the Old Vampire in charge of the Status points

Thousands Old Vampires whose Status is over a hundred points

Vampire Hunters New vampires who hunt down those vampires who have committed crimes

Vampire Servants servants who are vampires themselves. Mostly Old Vampires, one of their functions is to repeat information and gossip to the Old Vampires they serve

Walk into the sun a euphemism for suicide