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[redstringed]

This world has such a stench to it... it's a wonder any of you can breathe.

In the interest of making this place more tolerable, where would one be able to acquire roses? I wish to start a garden.

Or are we incapable of having even that meager luxury?

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[consultmybooks]

Yes, it would. Fair point. Although our Dracula typically manages a fair bit of style. His ability to hypnotize his pray helps matters, of course.

[redstringed]

Relying on an innate power to enthrall others is far less impressive than to do it without such a crutch.

How did it work?

[consultmybooks]

No idea. For his prey, he typically used seduction combined with a low grade suggestion. For others, however, he could seriously affect them. There are rumors that he learned some of his powers from the gypsies - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[redstringed]

Hm. An impressive crutch, perhaps, but used as a crutch nonetheless.

[consultmybooks]

Agreed. He used it to hunt, and to attempt to elevate himself above the state of the average vampire. Who are, as you said, beasts ruled by their impulses.

The bit where he turned into mist upon being staked was a problem, however.

[redstringed]

Little more than pretense, it seems to me.

Then he was unkillable? *She can't help but chuckle a bit* How deliciously ironic.

[consultmybooks]

Unkillable, yes. Buffy kept staking him until he gave up, but he did eventually give up.

[redstringed]

Then a beast putting on a pretense at nobility and weak of will.

What a masterful combination. I find it hard to believe your kind is frightened of him.

[consultmybooks]

Did I not mention the part where he was unkillable?

[redstringed]

Unkillable. Not undefeatable, as you have so kindly illustrated yourself.

[consultmybooks]

True.

And he was a decent enough sport about it. We haven't seen him since.

[redstringed]

How interesting. If he did, in fact, have such power, then it seems silly to not use it.

[consultmybooks]

Oh, he does. But we quickly had bigger problems than a vampire who actually had a great deal of self restraint.

In the end, his arrangement with us wound up being quite similar to his deal with the gypsies. We left one another alone.

[redstringed]

"Live and let live," then. How toothless of him.

Have you any idea what he had done to become so invulnerable?

[consultmybooks]

Gypsy magic combined with his own nature as a vampire. The Master had a similar trick - he left his bones behind when he died, and those could be used to resurrect him - but it was nothing like as powerful.

[redstringed]

Hmph. Magic, magic, magic - is that all your vampires use?

Was this Master a glorified parlor magician, then?

[consultmybooks]

No. Dracula was unique in that regard. Well, him and a...few others.

The Master was no magician, however. He was religious fanatic, and that was worse.

[redstringed]

A religious fanatic vampire? How ludicrous. What on earth would their kind possibly worship beyond the hunt?

[consultmybooks]

True Demons. The progenitors of vampires. The worst monsters ever to exist and who, they believed, would eventually bring about humanity's downfall.

[redstringed]

Ah, a grim Messiah - or group thereof.

Though you said that your vampires were, in fact, demons of their own kind.

[consultmybooks]

Yes. Abominations even to other abominations.

I suppose they hope that worshiping the True Demons will give them some sort of amnesty.

[redstringed]

And I suppose it had not occurred to them that a truly Evil being would be unlikely to feel gratitude of any sort, much less show mercy?

The more I come to learn about your vampires, the less pleased I am to be identified with their kind.

[consultmybooks]

I can imagine that it wouldn't be at all pleasant for you, no.

The vampires from our world don't appreciate tea at all. Some of them don't even appreciate blood.

[redstringed]

I cannot imagine anyone would, foul though it is.

You said they needed to ingest blood to survive.