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[stavros]

A number of days ago, some frankly unsettling things happened around campus, things which must be dealt with posthaste. While I've reported what happened, I have no choice but to deal with it as best I can beyond that, and so I would entreat anyone who knows anything to tell me. Even if you believe it unrelated. Any clue will suffice.

Alternatively, if anyone knows how one might deal with waking up to discover that an unconfirmed enemy knows where you live, I would appreciate that as well. Or how one might possibly concentrate on schoolwork whilst being terrorized by such a person.

Or how to apologize when you have no idea what you did. That one is unrelated, but remains pressing.

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[stavros]

Why would I make something up about an issue of grave importance? Dracula is the reason my family are Hunters in the first place! He's plagued this world for centuries, consistently reviving to plunge humanity into the despair he suffered at their hands long ago. If it's anyone, it's he, and likelier by the minute.

[unpocoloco]

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I don't know, doesn't it just seem a touch, maybe a little, say, completely insane???

We're talking about, actually fictionally infamous in book and film and more, Dracula




Also the friends I kept in the outlands and probably now would work me up just like this as a joke.

[stavros]

I assure you, I would not deceive you about this. He is real, extremely dangerous, and has a history of refusing to stay dead. Someone attempted to prevent his resurrection a decade ago and was never heard from again, and now this.

I'm sorry....

[unpocoloco]

LIKE ON THAT SHOW! I REMEMBER THIS! It was that American show, SuperblyUnnatual, with those two guys Bran and Jean!

Are they real too? Do you think we could call them?

[stavros]

This is a serious matter! This place is here to train and protect those who would fight agents of ill. If you need someone with expertise, I've studied this all my life!

I understand you probably don't take me seriously, but this is a fate I cannot run from. I'm reluctant to involve you all, but that ship has long sailed, and as I said, those stronger than I have fallen alone. I need whatever information you have and whatever support can be mustered. I am finding where his castle has manifested and I am going even if it is a trap, because you do not want to know what will happen if I don't.

[unpocoloco]

Okay! Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry. I'm serious. I'm taking this seriously. This is just, you know, it's a lot. It's wierd and it's a lot and one of my friend's has been kidnapped and I'm really worried.

I'm coming along to help. Ah. I only know fiction stuff. And there's a lot. Do you have more factual things I can work off?

[stavros]

I can tell you stories going back nearly a thousand years, but that may not help much. What may is that he's extremely powerful. They say he became who he is first to spite God, and then to spite humanity. His powers are tied to his castle, so it appears, moves, and changes over time. However, it should not take long to find where he is with the clues you have. After all, he wants to be found.

[unpocoloco]

[He's extremely powerful. He's... not actually sure that is helpful. Mostly it's just worrying.]

His powers are tied to his castle? Like, he can only use them there or it's the source of his power?

[stavros]

It's the other way around. He's the source of its power. Essentially, anyway -- the stories are somewhat unclear on that, since some of them I hear it appears when he's going to revive, and others when he already has.

[unpocoloco]

Oh.

[An enchanted castle... but in a real bad way.]

Would that put a drain on him, do you think? Revivals and the castle itself?

[stavros]

From what I've heard, not enough. His power is not to be underestimated. In my family, our power grows with each generation, but I have great reason to believe that that may not be enough. I would not burden you all with it, but the fact that he's taken two of our faculty suggests that one side of this dispute has no qualm with involving outsiders regardless.

[unpocoloco]

Things don't usually tend to work out when taken on alone.

So, what do his powers entail, exactly? Besides having a lot of them.

[stavros]

Much of what you'd expect from a regular vampire. Very fast, very strong, and he turns into bats. From the records, he has some manner of fire and darkness or chaos magic, so it would be helpful for any who join to know how to defend against those.

[unpocoloco]

I'm... partially inflammable. I suppose that's something.

[stavros]

Certainly helpful, but be aware regardless. And you have my thanks. I wish not to lead you all into danger, but your help is appreciated.

[unpocoloco]

It's fine. I'm getting used to danger at this point. The important thing is getting back our friends.

[stavros]

On that, we are agreed. Once we track him down and enter the castle, the rest should be straightforward.