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Well, good for you. You find real love, you'd best hold onto it.

Never know when it might leave you for a fungus demon, or die and come crawling traumatized back out of the earth.

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That right? Is brain stuff your specialty?

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They really are all about the shag here, aren't they? Could be worse I guess

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Reputation. Used to kill people with railroad spikes.

[ u can roll Insight against his Deception to see if he's telling the whole truth, here ]

I take it you didn't beg to be made, then, did you?

[corporeity]

I hope that’s keen hindsight and not prescience.

[ but he files that tell of tenderness away, deciding against poking the wound for now. ]

I’ve an array of telepathic spells at my disposal, for a start, and a recent acquisition has only honed that skillset. If you would abide a look inside your mind, I may be able to assist you. Though I make no promises beyond my best, of course, without understanding the scope of the problem.

[thirsted]

You know, if you want to get away with a lie, it helps for it to be believable.

[ why bother with an insight check when you can just bluff ... ]

I suppose that means you did?

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Tell you what, if your boyfriend finds himself a fungus demon I'll off the slimy bastard for you on the house

Worth trying, anyway. Just don't go rooting around in my memories without permission. Last bugger who did that is #1 on my shitlist in this house.

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Not a lie, mate. But I wouldn't say we're good enough friends for the whole story. No offense.

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Wasn't looking for it, exactly. Not like all those groupies who hang around vampire towns dying for a bite.

Dru saved me. Found me miserable in a back alley and changed everything. She was the only creature in the world that understood me.

[corporeity]

So you’ve met the vampire Armand.

[ said affectionally. ]

I’ve no intention of intruding on your memories uninvited. One does not simply barge into the home of another.

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Yeah, I've met him. He dangle you from the ceiling and slam you into stone walls so hard you've got a rib that'll never set right, too?

[corporeity]

Not when he’s in his right mind, no. I should think he’s fond of me — at least to the extent a cat can favour a mouse.

[ self-awareness… ]

Are you two at odds?

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Pretty sure this torture was wholly premeditated, mate.

As a vampire who knows how we work... You manage to get on his bad side, or even his less-fond side, I don't doubt he'd cut your fingers off for trophies. Just a word to the wise.

[corporeity]

He’s been through a great deal, of late, but I’m sorry to hear you’ve experienced any violence at his hand.

[ guy who has experienced violence at both of their hands now apologising on their behalf. ]

Are you all right?

[thirsted]

No offense taken. I wouldn't, either.

[ Though it's funny that he'd keep that to himself, yet bare the circumstances of his turning. One intimacy withheld, another given. Odd little duck. ]

You were lucky.

[ More honest than he's trying to be, hence— ]

"Vampire towns"?

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Guessing that means you were unlucky.

[ Not a question. But he's not exactly being flip about it, either. ]

Well, Sunnydale's a Hell Mouth, so it's more than just a vamp town. We've got demons, cultists, you name it. Makes sense to set up shop where you can get good eats.

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You know, you lot are profoundly weird, excusing vampire violence due to childhood trauma or whatever.

Most humans who know about us back home are either staking us or running screaming. Or very dead.

Yeah, I'm fine. Had a god plunge her hands into my guts and root around not that long ago, so I've had worse.

[thirsted]

Sometimes one has to make one's own luck.

Do you all prey on mortal humans? That sounds like rather stiff competition.

[smudgy]

maybe it gives em energy
like a generator

[corporeity]

I was thinking of the rather more recent trauma of losing two lovers in the span of a month, but even that isn’t an excuse for violence, no.

A god! My, you are lucky to live through such an encounter. We are but playthings to the heavens and the hells.

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Well. Guess I've been homicidal for less, but that's vampires, for you.

He's still a tit.

No kidding. Was prepared not to survive that final showdown, frankly. Gods get all in your business where you're from, too?

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That's a nice way of dodging the details.

Yeah, you'd think, wouldn't you? Sunnydale's never low on fodder, for some reason.

[corporeity]

Oh, certainly. I myself was the Chosen and lover of the goddess of magic before I displeased Her so.

[thirsted]

Thank you — you can have it for free.

Are there any downsides, then?

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Most other creatures of the night would say the Slayer's a big one. Chosen girl who fights evil. Namely us.