Bloodlust OOC

[Mephistophelily]

[I love vampire threads. I'm not sure if this one may be a bit too complex, but its something that I've been thinking up for awhile. Let me know if you have any questions!]

There are rules within vampiric society, rules that are meant to be followed... Rules that keep the unwitting human public from being aware of the undead living among them, that keep the vampire bloodlines from becoming tainted, that keep the way of life for vampires to remain the way it has been for thousands of years, a list that is continuously altered by the Elder Council.


Rule One: Never reveal your true nature to a Mortal.
Rule Two: Mortals are food, not companionship. Drink and dispose of the bodies.
Rule Three: The creation of any to your bloodline must be approved by the Council.
Rule Four: A vampire shall never use their abilities for large amounts of personal gain.
Rule Five: Only Paladins shall have weaponry. Your skill and powers are the only weapon you shall ever need.
Rule Six: Taking the life of another vampire is your own death sentence. This law does not apply to the destruction of a Licent.


These rules are upheld by Paladins, enforcers of the vampire code. Most follow by these rules and laws... while there are others that do not, wanting to break free of the old laws and create their own way of life. Those who follow the Elder Council's rules are referred to as Vassals. Those who have shunned the laws and are hunted are known as Licents, the impure. A deep hatred of the other is shared by each side.

While living among the modern human way of life, both the Vassals and Licents struggle to remain seen as "normal" by mortals around them. Some have come to trust humans, while others still see them as nothing more than food. They attempt to create normal human lives for themselves, blending in with society.


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Name: Desdemona Nikolas
Age: Appears mid 20's. Real age unknown.
Appearance: See attached.
Affliation: Licent

Bio: Desi was once a loyal Vassal... until she broke Rule Two. She had been following a young man for a time, looking to create another for her bloodline with the Council's permission- and found herself falling in love with him. The Council denied her request, but Desi couldn't bring herself to stop watching him. The two became lovers, Desi never taking blood from him but instead enjoying the pleasures he gave to her.
When her lover was killed by the Paladins, Desdemona immediately joined with the Licents, swearing revenge on the Council. However, the pleasure she found in her nights with the mortal man has now left her with two appetites- one for blood, and the other for pleasures of the flesh. She is now one of the head Licents for the city, as well as owner of a gothic bar on the east side.

 

[caela]

Mephistophelily, this sounds like and interesting thread idea. I love vampires myself and will write up a character bio for your approval.

Name: Kiana Sullivan
Age: 215 (appears about 27)
Appearance: Jet black hair frames a gentle oval face with dark eyes the deep, rich color of freshly turned soil and soft coral lips that almost beg to be kissed. Despite being a vampire she has a natural bronze sheen to her skin that helps to make "passing" among humans easier. Tall and lean she moves with a dancers grace and her firm breasts, narrow waist, and gently curved ass seem almost made to fill out designer clothes.
Affiliation: Licent

Bio: Kiana had never been a Vassel. Her Sire had been Licent long before he'd taken her as a lover. They'd been together for her last seven years as a human, even celebrating her 27th birthday together - a memory that could still make her smile - before she gotten ill. What would have happened if she hadn't been struck ill she'd never know but she never regretted it having happened. Not ready to lose his love she'd been brought over and spent the next hundred years traveling and learning with her Sire.

Eventually their passion and love faded to a deep and abiding friendship and though they parted ways they still keep in touch through letters and now the more modern equivalent of email. She finds most of the Council's rules to be moronic and follows none of them instead having her own particular moral code of behaviour.

Let me know if this doesn't or doesn't work for you Mephistophelily. Quick question, your rules for Vassels mentioned powers, what sort of powers were thinking for the vampires? Standard mesmirism, speed, and strength related qualities or were you thinking something else?

 

[The_gladiator]

you accepting vampire hunters? those humans that know of their existance, or something of the like
Just considering to join or not, and if I did, who I'd play..

 

[JckHmmr_2000]

Johnny Saira

Please let me know if the following is OK, and if I need to change anything to join. Thanks!
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Name: Johnny Saira

Apparent Age: late 20's

Real Age: early 40's

Appearance: (see picture above) Asian male, 5'9" tall, 170 lbs., jet black hair, dark brown eyes.

Bio: After several years of diligent hardship, Johnny Saira finally realized his dream of graduating law school, passing the bar exam, and getting a job with the District Attorney's office, where he could finally "bring evil-doers to justice."

That was almost two decades ago. A criminal defendant turned Johnny Saira into a vampire during a deposition at the accused's large mansion.

It took Johnny some time to come to grips with his new "situation," but when he did, he decided that he would not be a "monster" who preyed upon innocents. Instead, Johnny chose to direct his vampiric hunger against "evil-doers who somehow escaped justice."

Unfortunately, too many of these "evil-doers who escape justice" also happen to be vampires. Furthermore, hunting vampires -- with a wooden sword, no less (as pictured below) -- violates at least two of the six laws of vampiric society.

 

[Mephistophelily]

Both look fine to me you two.
As for your question on powers- Immortality, Superhuman strength, Flight, ability to pass through solid objects, Shapeshifting, Teleportation, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Mind reading, Hypnosis, regeneration.

I basically just stole the Wikipedia definition of Alucard from Hellsing.


As for the Paladin hunters- I originally had the idea as Vampires that hunt the ones disobeying, but I wouldn't be turned off from the idea of a few humans being aware of them that are flat off Vampire hunters.

 

[JckHmmr_2000]

Cool!

Can we make it so that the only way to kill vampires is by driving a wooden object/stake through the heart? Otherwise, they regenerate injuries?

 

[Mephistophelily]

Stake, high amounts of holy water, beheading, dismemberment...
Those are the main things I think of for vampire death.

Main thread'll be up in a lil bit.



Anyone interested in being Vassals or Paladins?

 

[Dynosius]

Ohoh! Pick me! Pick me! I want to be a Paladin. Always different than playing a rebel (and the dental care is way better).


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Name: Maximilian Christiansen
Age: 223 (looks like 19)
Appearance: see above
Affliction: Paladin
Equipment: Crossbow (silver darts), Falchion

Background: Maximilian, or Maxi for short, never really grew up to adulthood. He always stayed in his mid-nineteen's after he was bitten (of which he doesn't want to remember much). Being care free of the world's sorrows and pains, Maxi never did really bother to "mingle" with non-vampires. Maxi was born as the son of a rich cotton farmer. One night, when the young heir wandered out in the dark, he was overthrown and bitten by a vampire.

After his rebirth Maximilian became familiar with his powers and the newly appointed rules to his existence. Maxi followed them, but why he followed them he did not know. He lived here and there, mainly feeding off humans. Maxi despises Licents, knowing that they were gifted, but threw their gift away by not following the rules.

He hunts them now as the youngest Paladin the Council ever appointed. And he has done so for quite some time, learning from other Paladins and his own experiences. Often, Maxi hides in the shadows, waiting for Licents to finish feeding upon pray. Then he strikes, immobilizing them with silver darts through their calves after which Maxi calmy slays the Licents with his Falchion.

 

[Mephistophelily]

Welcome on Maxi.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

Diana Sapir

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Name: Diana Sapir
Age: 29
Appearance:
Affliction: Human/Hunter
Equipment: Ruger .40 Caliber

Background: Childhood was hard enough for a young girl and a single mother without some asshole coming along and acting like it was ok to torment her mother with thoughts of livng forever and leaving everything behind. Her mother however let this go on and on... and on. Diana could live with that. What threw it all to hell was coming home to find that son of a bitch feeding on her mother. It didn't take long for the eighteen year old, then, to pull out a baseball bat from her closet and beat the shit out of that asshole.

Of course he didn't die.... But her mother did... Diana's been looking for him ever since, wanting to exact revenge for her mother's untimely death.

 

[Dynosius]

Guys and gals,

The IC topic is up for a day now: Bloodlust IC

You can start posting

 

[JckHmmr_2000]

BAH! Literotica ate my post.

 

[caela]

BAH! Literotica ate my post.

I hate it when that happens!

 

[Katamari Roller]

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Name: Vladimir Ivanovitch
Age: Appears mid 20s, but his real age might easily be centuries... or not.
Appearance: See above.
Affiliation: Licent

Bio: Vladimir has not been a vassal in a long time, that much is well known. But just how far his existance has extended under the constant threat of elimination is unknown. Some say he is just a couple centuries old. Others, that he might have been a member of the Elders Council once, beyond the memories of the current members.

The most fantasious even suggest that he might be Vlad himself, the Count. But Vladimir dispells this possibility with a mirthful laugh. And yet, he never denies so out-right. It seems he finds enjoyment in being compared to the Impaler, although Vladimir always strays away from such unsavoury topics as torture methods.

What is known about him, is that he is one of the greatest benefactors of the licents. He is something of an entrepeneur in cities in every country, through Europe, America, and Asia mainly (he does not like the heat of Africa, and Australia is just not to his liking), and he uses his personal fortune to aid those licents who prove themselves worthy of his attention in any way. This might go from those smart enough to survive to see him a second time (not that he tries to kill them, it is just that licents don't usually live too long), to those that manage to stir an emotion in him. But his presence tends to be ethereal, living there one month, then another elsewhere.

Seeing how he is one of the first in the Council's list, it is certainly sensible to keep moving.




Vladimir has lived for pleasure. Always. Being a vampire, and thus inmortal, is a very boring profession unless you spend your time thinking more on the present than on the tomorrow. Carnal pleasures are the ones that never get old, despite what people says. And to Vladimir, that is true. Every woman he meets, every enemy he fights... each is as original as a fine painting or a classic movie. He would know, being the actual owner of Casablanca, King Kong, and most of Picasso's collection, as well as a few other treasures that nobody would believe he could have... like the actual Holy Grail, which ironically enough, he donated to be used in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...

Jones chose the wrong one.

Vladimir does not carry any weapons with him, but for an extendable black plastic baton. What would otherwise be a fashionable instrument for a business meeting or conducting an orchestra, becomes deadly in his hands. But of course, such a classy fellow as Vladimir is most of the time above resorting to violence, and will often make an escape instead of fighting to the death.

What brings him to this city, anyway? Is it his lust for new experiences? Does he have a particular interest here? Or perhaps he actually needs something hidden here? Who knows... Vladimir does not give easy answers.

 

[The_gladiator]

Name: Kenjo taikohashi
Age: appears late thirties true age at least 400, probably older
Alignment: Vassal, retired paladin, member of the vassal ruling council
appearance: Short, quick, hansom, dark hair and eyes

A samurai to the tokugawa shogunate of Japan, Kenjo was captured, and made a vampire. With his sense of honor, he became a paladin, hunting the descenters, those who defied the laws of the vampire council. Eventually he retired, joining said council, and secretly harbors desires to rule the entire vampire race, and they would reign in terror over the humans, their food. He has sperned the touch of a woman for over 400 years, especially that of a human, he has had atempts to seduce him by the rebels, or other vassals in their turn, he rebuffed them all. Deciding that carnal desire was the fastest way to betrayal of the "Morals" of the vampire race.

ooc: hope this is ok
Thanks

 

[MilkManDan007]

(Removed Character)

 

[Dynosius]

More meat for the grinder! Hopefully you guys can get the story going and keep it going.

 

[Katamari Roller]

Hey, Meph, I'm guessing you are the "DM" ? Are our characters Ok? Do you want to have them changed somehow...?

 

[Jokas_Wild]

Hope I'm not to late to jump on the old bandwagon. I'm a sucker for Vampire stuff, scuse the pun, and so I'm going to leap head long into this. Hope this gets the stamp of approval!

James "Jokers Wild" Sutherland

Name: James Sutherland
Age: 100
Apperance Age: 24
Height: 6' even
Weight: 185 pounds
Hair: Coal black
Eyes: Blue/Grey
Alignment: Licent


James "Jokers Wild" Sutherland was just a mere 24 years old when fate decided to step in and send his "life" down a whole new and rather unexpected past. James had started his life as a simple street urchin, no real family to speak of, surviving off of petty theft and pick pocketing. Unfortunately, these acts landed him in jail a few times to many and James decided that there had to be an easier and safer way to earn money. It was on his final trip to jail that he had that epiphiany and was taught his way into a semi-legit life style. One of his cellmates taught him how to play Texas Hold Em, a new variation on poker that was catching on fast. The man taught James all there was to know and even gave him the advice that a snappy nickname would increase his street cred in the gambling world. In that moment, the whirling storm of bullshit and bravado that would become "Jokers Wild" was born.

The thing about playing poker for a living was that you didn't deal with the most reputable of customers, especially in 1920's NYC. While his skills were well known enough to earn him some regard, James still found himself playing in dark bars or back offices, far from the glitz that is today's modern poker. On a fateful night in a seedy bar, James earned himself a nice lil payday playing a head's up game against a german fellow, Adreas something or other. Except that Andreas was not particularly happy about his loss and decided to do something about it, that something being eating James like a snack cake! A whole lot of pain and a day or so of being passed out, James awoke to find himself not quite dead but in a whole world of shit.

It took a long while, 5 plus years to be exact, for James to slowly peice together everything that had happened and in what ways his life had been changed. He learned of the Council, their rules, the 2 different catagories of Vampire and of the Paladins. Now at first, James had tried extremely hard to be good, follow the rules, keep a low profile, eat minimally and not bond with many people, human or vampire. It worked too, for a lil while, except that there were just somethings that James couldn't help but want to do, rules that were simply to hard not to break. Namely, women and cards, in that order were the two things that James couldn't get enough of. Frankly, he blatantly bent, ok broke, the rules whenever it suited his needs and those times were rather frequent.

No personal gain my ass, that was always Jame's biggest contention with the rules he was supposed to follow. What was gambling if not personal gain? Why not gain as much as possible if he had an otherworldly edge? Why not enjoy a string of women who knew his "status" and were enthralled by that fact? Absolute power does in fact corrupt absolutely and frankly, James was having to much fun being corrupt to really care anymore! Oh sure, James knew better then to take his safety for granted and accordingly trusted few but he did know the safe haven's. His one safe spot besides his loft was a vampire bar ran by a licent named Des, a real looker in James opinion. She enjoyed his money and he enjoyed the place in general and that's where he spent alot of his time, eyes wide open and deck of cards always in hand. What's a better gamble then being a licent with a poker addiction and a brash streak?

 

[JckHmmr_2000]

Question

((OOC: Can vampires in this thread eat/drink as living humans do?))

 

[Vamprincess]

Mind if i join???

Name: Rayne
Age: 300
Apperance Age: 26
Height: 5"
Hair: Coal black
Eyes: light Grey
Alignment: Vassal

When Rayne had gone to work with as a governess at a rich man's mansion, she had been changed by the master of the mansion.
Ever since then, she has been a faithful Vassal and has lead a life with rules and orders, not daring to oppose the council leaders in any way.

is this ok?

 

[caela]

So what's up, the only ones posting are JckHmmr_2000, and ultimate_nerdslut...come and play people! lol

 

[Vamprincess]

I'm not sure if its ok to join, thus the hesitancy

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

I don't know why no one else is posting.... Just start and someone is sure to either jump your bones or lop your head off... *smiles*

 

[Vamprincess]

LOL ok done deal, i'm jumping in..