Obligation

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This Obligation is pulling me in deeper and deeper. Adele is asking for more and more information from me; some of it is not information I wish to give.

The terms she asks for the information with are still fluid enough so I can get around them and give her false information.

Other information she wants is fairly innocuous : information on the vampires held and what facilities they avail themselves of.

Information on vampires is the only information I am freely allowed to take outside the prison, as no-one would ever help a vampire in prison.

I am only involved in the prison as I have to work there and provide information to The Committee on the vampires in its environs.

I have still been unable to find out why Adele wants information on the prison. Apart from the vampires and werewolves housed in it, it is a human concern.

Adele is no longer inviting me to parties, so she must be concerned that I will find out.

She has spread the story that I have asked her for a loan one time too often and we have fallen out.

It worries me that, once again, I am being pulled into something deeper than I wish to be.

I have bled Obligatees deeply for information until they have been unable to give any more; whereupon I have sold their Obligations or used them until they are no longer of any use to me.

However, I will not yet be able to buy myself out of this Obligation and must do the best I can.

I have avoided doing anything that would lower my Status and asked an Obligatee to do it instead.

It seems that whoever we are, from time to time we all find ourselves in a situation that we are unable to escape.

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

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