Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?

Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'


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Amy - Dec 20, 2013 1:16:20 pm PST #5899 of 6687
Because books.

I agree with Typo, Gud.

Anybody want to move to Detroit?


Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2013 2:27:42 pm PST #5900 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Dream last night provide - well not really a plot bunny, but a way to get a character into really deep trouble.

Universes with vampires often are magical universes where laws of sympathy and contagion work, true? (Often, not always.) So a magician character wants to temporarily become a vampire. He gets hold of some vamp blood, and puts some of his own blood into a vial. Then casts a spell using the vamp blood to transform the vial of his blood into vampire blood. That turns him into a vampire. All he has to do change back to human will be to turn the vial of now vamped blood back to human. Only, if somebody else gets hold of the vial of blood, not only has he lost his ability to turn human again. Possession of his blood means they can do all sorts of nasty things to him, including enslaving him. (A vampire-magician slave could be very useful to the ill-intentioned.) Of course character does not have to be a "he" - just the way I dreamed it.

As I said not really a plot bunny. Just a way to get a magic using character into really deep trouble.


Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2013 2:37:12 pm PST #5901 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Also, now that I think of it - a good way to give a villain a powerful minion who can be turned against him at a critical moment.


Amy - Jan 01, 2014 6:16:51 pm PST #5902 of 6687
Because books.

In the interest of "something small, every day," I'm going to write a drabble first thing every morning. I would love prompts -- either one word or a situation (a tall man in a bookstore or something) or even a link to a found picture, like Teppy used to do.

You get virtual cookies for every prompt. And possibly actual ones, at some point.

Of course, it would be great if everyone played and posted drabbles here again, too.


Liese S. - Jan 01, 2014 6:33:15 pm PST #5903 of 6687
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I do miss the drabbles.

I suggest: New things. And: mist.


Amy - Jan 02, 2014 5:24:29 am PST #5904 of 6687
Because books.

A twofer! Nice. Thanks, Liese.


Amy - Jan 03, 2014 7:02:44 am PST #5905 of 6687
Because books.

Any other prompts? I have an obvious one: snow.


hippocampus - Jan 03, 2014 7:36:08 am PST #5906 of 6687
not your mom's socks.

An empty band-aid box.


Amy - Jan 03, 2014 7:41:32 am PST #5907 of 6687
Because books.

Ooh, good one.


Typo Boy - Jan 03, 2014 1:08:35 pm PST #5908 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Based on a dream: unmixy things mixed - Superbowl anti-war demonstration.