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[wolfssegen]

[Posted on July 8, nighttime.]

Just a thought, considering our recent guests - what's your opinion on vampires and werewolves? Do you have them where you come from or are they just in stories? Monsters? Misunderstood? Just another type of creature?

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[wolfssegen]

Why vampires but not werewolves? Any reason in particular?

Makes sense, but depends on your definition of weird, I guess.

[earthborn]

Because once something tries to sexily kill you, it's a whole mission report, with the paperwork and a conversation about "cultural sensitivity" with a Justicar, and therefore much harder to ignore.

Otherwise, I'd prefer to maintain my current level of supernatural bullshit rather than escalate. I've had a tiring couple of years.

[wolfssegen]

Right, so you'd be in denial about vampires too if you could. Suppose I can understand that. Or at least make sense of it.

Oh yeah? What happened?

[earthborn]

She'd killed a bunch of people, which wasn't my business, but a friend asked me to help catch her, so it turned into my business.

I was informed that the best way to do this was to use myself as bait. I am, apparently, irresistible to sexy vampire women, skulking around nightclubs, looking for a target. According to the experts. She was pretty hot though; I can see how it'd be hard to say "no" when she asked you to come back to her apartment with her.

But that worked out fine. She's dead, I'm not, that's the whole story.

[wolfssegen]

Sounds dangerous. What kind of line of work puts you in that kind of dangerous?

Does sound sufficiently vampiric though. I hear they're pretty seductive.

[earthborn]

Well she did sit me down and try to make a sexy argument for why I should just lie back and let her murder me. I wasn't about to actually do it, as weirdly compelling as she made it sound, but it was actually a pretty relaxing day on the job, as things usually go for me. It's not often I get to drink on the job.

I'm a SPECTRE. Special Tactics and Reconnaissance. Basically, I'm the one-woman army the Council sends in when they can't make a public stink, but they need something done regardless.

But the whole... vampire thing was adjacent. I do favors for my friends, sometimes; it usually pays off in the long run.

oh god I typoed so bad in my last tag

[wolfssegen]

Okay, someone making your own murder sound compelling, that's pretty talented. Or did she have mind control or something? Then again, if I had to pick any way to go...sexy murder might be the ticket.

The Council? Guessing that's some form of government. So super special secret ops? You must be pretty damn talented yourself.

Doing favours for friends usually does pay off. At least in my experience.

[mulan meme voice] Now all of China knows you can't type.

[earthborn]

I'm told its highly technical neuological... It's been explained a few times, but I stopped listening. Asari are weird, and Ardat-Yakshi are weirder, that's the jist.

Point is, none of it really works on me; something about having a forceful will. I don't really know how it works, to be honest. You'd think that wouldn't matter.

But yeah, you could say I'm talented. I earned my place.

dishonor on me, dishonor on my cow...

[wolfssegen]

Asari and Ardat-Yakshi, I'm guessing those are the actual names of the vampire creatures? Are they...aliens or something?

Forceful will. I bet I'd have one of those myself. It's impossible to tell me anything.

Nice to meet you. What's your name? I'm Ches.

lmao i saw that

[earthborn]

That's right. I left Earth as soon as I could, and the only reason I ever go back is on official orders.

Shepard. Likewise.

this is what I get for sneaky tagging at work

[wolfssegen]

Really? I don't know if I'd ever leave Earth if I had the chance. Then again, I've lived my whole life on the same farm, so I'm not the adventurous type, at least not when it comes to travel.

And my world doesn't have a lot of space travel.

[earthborn]

What about you, then? You must have an opinon on the subject, or you wouldn't bring it up.

[wolfssegen]

Me? I think they should be left alone so long as they're not hurting anyone.

[earthborn]

So they exist where you're from, and you have enough personal experience to be defensive about it.

[If Shepard were willing to think about this at all, which she is desperately trying not to be, then the conclusion is obvious. This is not what she wanted to hear.]

You ever get accused of being subtle, kid?

[wolfssegen]

Defensive? I wasn't being defensive, that's just my opinion. Plenty of other people think the same thing.

[He's not subtle. He's never been good at keeping it a secret that he's a werewolf. Probably a good thing he lives in a town that's half werewolves.]

[earthborn]

Stop. Just, stop. You're not good at this.

I don't actually care who or what you are, so long as whatever it is you're doing doesn't get in my way or hurt my people. But don't sit there and pretend that whatever this is you're doing is going to fly.

It's insulting.

[wolfssegen]

Not good at what?

[Now he's just trying to annoy her.]

[earthborn]

Don't push it.

[wolfssegen]

So what you're saying is that you think I'm a vampire.

[earthborn]

Goodbye, Kid. Hope I don't have to shoot you.

[wolfssegen]

Who're you calling kid?!