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[escardos]

hey guys! happy vday and stuff! quick q!

how much time needs to pass for grave robbing to become archaeology? like, if i pull a gold bracelet out of a pyramid, i've made an archaeological find. if i pull one out of the common graveyard, i'm a dick. whats the waiting period for looting the dead?

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[improbablenotimpossible]

Good question, actually. At least two hundred years, would be my estimate - long enough for most people who would know the person to no longer be around.

Or if you're an archeologist from the 19th and early 20th century, any time is archeology long as the grave you're robbing isn't from anyone you know.

[escardos]

i mean, i guess i could google it, but it is more fun to ask everyone.

huh, things really were wild in the victorian era!!! did you grave rob mister holmes?

[improbablenotimpossible]

This is an area I suspect would have some wildly different answers. Having permission is I believe another key point between grave robbing and archeology.

Yes, that era would seem wild by modern standards, wouldn't it? It's a time when the citizens of the British Empire were full of pride and arrogance, for the sun never sets on it and it seems every day a new discovery in the fields of science was being made, giving false confidence in that they are the Masters of the world, rather than residents.

As for graverobbing... yes, in a technical sense. It gets murky when it comes to vampires.

[escardos]

ahaha, mister holmes thats so deep of you! as expected from the world's best detective!!

but i think humanity is pretty prideful and arrogant still. i think thats how it always has been? but dw, i dont really think it's a bad thing www but i dont think things have changed that much.

also omg wait but if vampires sleep in coffins then isnt that more like breaking into a house and robbing them????

[improbablenotimpossible]

I just had a long time to think a few things over - there's wisdom in hindsight. Pride and curiosity are the main drivers of living, I believe.

Hah - you're right on that point, it is more burglary in that case. Though... as a word of caution, not all vampires need to sleep in coffins.

[escardos]

oh??? do you not sleep in a coffin mister holmes????

[improbablenotimpossible]

Not all the time.

[escardos]

amazing! so what's more comfortable? could it be that vampires are just naturally drawn to having creepy coffins as their bed?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Some vampires require it as they need to be near the soil they've been buried in. Myself? Easier to travel long distances by shipping myself.

[escardos]

NDJDJDKDKFNDKDKFJSJDJSJFN YOU SHIP YOURSELF LIKE A PACKAGE???????

[improbablenotimpossible]

Not my preferred way to travel, but sometimes nessecary.

[escardos]

that's so COOL!!!!!!!??? do you do it so you can sneak onto places? like undercover? fight the bad guys with your baritsu before they even know that you're there like a detective vampire ninja!

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes.

[And to get around his inability to be awake between dawn to noon, but no need to state that]

I wouldn't say I am a ninja, even if the other descriptors do apply.

[escardos]

you use disguises and you use martial arts! that definitely makes you at least 60% british ninja!