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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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[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!