Still Around

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I know The Hunters are still around. They are waiting for the chink in our armour that will let them back in to terrorise us again.

They have been quiet since our Ruler had them taken down for killing our servants.

Many of them died that day. We do not know how many of them are left, but they are probably licking their wounds and regrouping.

Others say they have gone for good, but they are underestimating such creatures. It pains me to admit it, but when all is said and done they are still vampires.

No vampire would let matters be. It may take centuries, but they will come back to find us.

They will not rest until we are all dead. We started this a long time ago by trying to kill New Vampires, so they made The Hunters to stop us.

I have written this down in a report and sent it to The Ruler. That was only a few months ago so I do not yet know what he thinks of it.

I have not heard that they will be moving again. Even the New Vampire Representative on The Committee is not such a fool as to tell me their movements.

He has enjoyed letting hints drop that he knows something. I had my Obligatees look into it and he has been meeting with known Hunters.

They had The Hunters followed and it seems he was merely finding them a suitable place to stay.

They looked into it carefully, as it would be their necks on the line whatever happened.

It seems that The Hunters are not content with the usual New Vampire habits of slumming it.

This post is sounding as if I would lie down and let them walk all over us. Instead I want to be ready and waiting for them with stakes in my hand when they do come back.

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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