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.
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.
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.
I do miss the drabbles.
I suggest: New things. And: mist.
A twofer! Nice. Thanks, Liese.
Any other prompts? I have an obvious one: snow.
Based on a dream: unmixy things mixed - Superbowl anti-war demonstration.
OK far from a drabble prompt, a dream last night might make a good plot for a novel, though not one I can write. It is a sort of spinoff from Olive Twist, where at the end Oliver is happily situated and the Artful Dodger life is spared, but the Dodger is transported to Australia. So in my dream, the Artful Dodger has to survive the brutal conditions for Australian convicts. His survival instincts serve him well, but as his sentence finishes, he has to choose between true redemption and just becoming a more respectable type of predator. Meanwhile in an alternate steampunk Victorian era, the Dodger is transported to the Empire's moon colony where he faces a similar dilemma. In 21st century Bangladesh, still another Dodger, part of a notorious group of email scammers, who recruit mostly from the gigantic social medial "Like" click farms, escapes jail time after saving the life of undercover police agent "Twisty", but faces a decade long exile from the internet which is part of his probation terms. This 21st century Dodger confronts a moral dilemma of his own when he is offered a chance to return to the electronic world if he will become an agent for a corrupt and brutal task force jointly run by the NSA and the Bangladeshi police force. All three Dodgers dream of and learn from each other. Could all these worlds be real? Are any of them real ? Does some dark truth underlie the connection between the three "Artful Dodgers" in their three different universes?
