The nights have been cooler than normal. But the flurries of snow at night are quickly melted in the morning; most of the thralls resort to wearing warm kitted sweaters most nights. While you survey the landscape from one of your most complete towers, laborers begin the work of lugging heavy scientific equipment to the top floor; each thrall knowing that it will be his life if he drops anything. An elevator runs through the center, as to load carts full of cadavers to the laboratory but hasn’t been completed yet. Bartholomew has done a fantastic job on the décor, gruesome gargoyles over look the grounds, while stone murals depict gory battle scenes from days gone by. All of the rooms of the castle are empty, without the trace of furniture. This makes any sound echo loudly down halls.
Your fallen foe, The Arrow, has been put under a spell to preserve his corpse from decay. Though you have had fun hanging his body from his tendons like a pig. But even this cannot dissuade your lingering worry about who sent this hunter to your doorstep, and so soon after you had awakened. None of the villagers could have known, and they suspect you less of your true nature after saving Maria.
You have struck up a correspondence with Maria, sending letters in fine stationary and receiving letters in return; some laced with perfume of lilac. You have found that she is a well read mortal, and not simply a wallflower; though you knew this after seeing her dispatch The Arrow. You will wait for the right moment before you present the choice of unlife, but for now, you’ll try to accumulate more power and influence over the town. You think that it might be easier to simply begin making more thralls, ghouls, and lesser vampires to take the town. But you also enjoy mingling mortals, and perhaps you can rule in such a way that is beneficial to the mortals(Many elders are slain, in large part, thanks to their cruelty).
>(Main choices) A. Try to improve Castle. B. Try to improve Weapons and Armor. C. Try to improve technology. D. Try to improve magic. E. Hunt for blood F. Your Suggestion G. Search area
Population: 1 Elder vampire(armed with a sword and pistol), 4 human thralls(armed with swords and bows), 4 human women(Armed with daggers), 8 human children, one skeleton(armed with a sword and bow). (Temporary: Bartholomew and his team of builders)
Blood: Full. Resources: Dead bodies form the town graves. Small farm on the castle grounds. Technology: None Weapons/Armor: Dagger Magic: Mind control, transform into Man-bat, Nightmares, soul binding. Architecture: Halfway-built gothic castle Defenses: High stone walls, semi-dug mote. Government: None.
Carson Richardson
Hey new guy!
F. Can we somehow start making money? We will need money to finance our unholy empire. Maybe start having the thralls pull their own weight.
Adrian Collins
>D Lets try summoning Skeletons again. We've had some time to regain some of our power, and I think our boney friend is lonely
Jaxson Sanchez
Bump for the people who expected me at 12pm cst. I started the thread a bit early.
Hunter Young
Supporting
Alexander Reed
Got any suggestion on how they do that?
William Lopez
Seconding.
As a bonus, we can use them as tireless miners. Start exporting tin, copper, silver, whatever we can dig out of the mountains.
Jason Harris
Hmm, wait instead of that, let's research alchemy or start making our lands fertile and suitable for farming.
Jordan Allen
One way for income could be us hunting animals at night. Then dropping off the hide to worked on. Less drain on the human workers and more blood for us.
