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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:35:00 GMT
"Anything you could do to help would of course be very... helpful." I wink at my good friend. "All that remains is to effect the enthralling of the Consul!"
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 21, 2021 23:36:55 GMT
"I confess, this makes me nervous Caoimghin. It is a high level of meddling. Are you sure you want to get involved in this way?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:39:13 GMT
I nod. "Absolutely. It's what we vampires do. I'm just now beginning to understand how much of mortal society is controlled by us."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 21, 2021 23:39:56 GMT
"Indeed?" I raise an eyebrow. "Anything in particular that I should know about?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:43:28 GMT
"Not particularly. Just that it's us vampires who rule, not the mortals. Look at Val's army, for example. There was evidence of vampiric control there."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 21, 2021 23:45:11 GMT
"Yes, I suppose I thought that was an exception. It makes me glad I serve Alaxton, King of the Dead. I don't think vampires would care to control us."
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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:48:28 GMT
"Priests aren't what we consider 'kine', for you lot are aware of many things and wield power commensurate to our own. But the rich and 'powerful' politicians of the world are merely pawns for us."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 21, 2021 23:49:50 GMT
"I suppose that's somewhat comforting." I chuckle. "Is my brother Lucius safe?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:52:16 GMT
"I've not met him since I was turned. I'd have to see him. But come now, Shepherd, your eyes are much like mine. You can read auras. You can tell if someone is enthralled, surely."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 21, 2021 23:54:54 GMT
"Yes, I was speaking more in the general sense of whether he might be a target or not. What kinds of reasons are there for enthralling mortals?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 21, 2021 23:59:34 GMT
"I'm pretty sure Lucius would not be meddled with, being as he is a mate to the Magister, a man whose power is respected among immortals. But a mortal might be enthralled for any number of reasons, most often because the vampire wants something to happen, and that's the easiest way to get it done."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 22, 2021 0:01:58 GMT
"That strikes me as a little . . . arrogant. Do all vampires view mortals as game pieces to be moved about at their whim?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 22, 2021 0:07:43 GMT
I blink. "It's not arrogance, Kestal. It's just the way it is. There are Kindred and there are kine, and that's just the way it is."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Apr 22, 2021 0:17:55 GMT
"Funny that the politicians and power figures view slaves as tools and they themselves are tools to those yet higher. Are we all then just tools in the end to some more powerful groups purpose?"
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Post by Diocles on Apr 22, 2021 0:23:12 GMT
"Not you. You say 'we', but we vampires don't count people like you among the cattle. Oh by the way, that reminds me! Perhaps it's best you don't ever try to attend Paradise. Vampires like to keep their identities secret, and if a non-enthralled non-vampire shows up, you'd be compromising their secrecy. So someone would eventually kill you or turn you."
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