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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8848263" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p><strong>Orléans, 1032</strong></p><p></p><p>The madness and bloodlust threaten to overtake me.</p><p></p><p>I go to seek Carnutes, to learn how he has managed this, since the last days of the Roman Empire in our lands. But I cannot find him anywhere; I know he sometimes retreats into caves in the hills and spends weeks there, sleeping and dreaming of his past.</p><p></p><p>Instead, I seek solace where I once did, in gardening. Our crumbling house has extensive gardens behind it, and I venture out in them at twilight, after the sun has set, seeking to bring order to the gardens and make something grow. Raum hops along beside me, watching curiously, unsure why I would waste my time in this manner.</p><p></p><p>I spent a week at this, planting vegetables and flowers and pruning back bushes and trees, envisioning a space I can walk through at night to escape the restless need to hunt and kill that's constantly with me, a slobbering hound waiting to be unleashed.</p><p></p><p>But I am a killer now and death is all I bring to the world.</p><p></p><p>The gardens sicken and die where I've touched them, plants withering away into shriveled husks as if poisoned. Those plants I didn't touch directly die too, days later, as though salt has seeped from my skin into the earth itself.</p><p></p><p>One more connection to my mortal life has been cut, leaving me more of the monster I've now become.</p><p>[spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 8 + 7 - 4 = Prompt 11</p><p></p><p><em>How did you find solace from the raging hunger within you? You may lose one checked or unchecked skill</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Guillaume d'Orléans</strong></p><p></p><p>Skills: </p><p>Literate in French;</p><p>Literate in Latin; </p><p>Bloodthirsty (checked); </p><p>Knows secrets he should not; </p><p></p><p>Resources:</p><p>a cowhorn inkwell,</p><p>engraved with a knight;</p><p>a small bronze crucifix</p><p></p><p>Characters:</p><p>Onfroi, my father, an ambitious farmer who has pinned the family's hopes on me (mortal);</p><p>Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal);</p><p>Carnutes, the center of the heresy and vampire, a melancholy figure often lost in reminiscences of Rome (immortal);</p><p>Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil (mortal);</p><p>Raum, a demon in the shape of raven, summoned by Constansia to serve as Guillaume's familiar (immortal)</p><p></p><p>Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times; my touch is fatal to plants</p><p></p><p>Memories (five, up to three Experiences each):</p><p>1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of (redacted), a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord; one of the joys of my youth, gardening, slips away as my touch is now fatal to plants; </p><p>2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford</p><p>3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: Father Guiscard invites himself into our home, openly lusting after Cateline, which neither my father and I can do anything about; I kill him when I come home to find him raping Cateline, which she watches in mute horror</p><p>4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness</p><p>5. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed; Constansia conducts her Satanic rituals and summons a demon, Raum, to serve me in the form of a raven;</p><p>[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8848263, member: 11760"] [B]Orléans, 1032[/B] The madness and bloodlust threaten to overtake me. I go to seek Carnutes, to learn how he has managed this, since the last days of the Roman Empire in our lands. But I cannot find him anywhere; I know he sometimes retreats into caves in the hills and spends weeks there, sleeping and dreaming of his past. Instead, I seek solace where I once did, in gardening. Our crumbling house has extensive gardens behind it, and I venture out in them at twilight, after the sun has set, seeking to bring order to the gardens and make something grow. Raum hops along beside me, watching curiously, unsure why I would waste my time in this manner. I spent a week at this, planting vegetables and flowers and pruning back bushes and trees, envisioning a space I can walk through at night to escape the restless need to hunt and kill that's constantly with me, a slobbering hound waiting to be unleashed. But I am a killer now and death is all I bring to the world. The gardens sicken and die where I've touched them, plants withering away into shriveled husks as if poisoned. Those plants I didn't touch directly die too, days later, as though salt has seeped from my skin into the earth itself. One more connection to my mortal life has been cut, leaving me more of the monster I've now become. [spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 8 + 7 - 4 = Prompt 11 [I]How did you find solace from the raging hunger within you? You may lose one checked or unchecked skill[/I] [B]Guillaume d'Orléans[/B] Skills: Literate in French; Literate in Latin; Bloodthirsty (checked); Knows secrets he should not; Resources: a cowhorn inkwell, engraved with a knight; a small bronze crucifix Characters: Onfroi, my father, an ambitious farmer who has pinned the family's hopes on me (mortal); Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal); Carnutes, the center of the heresy and vampire, a melancholy figure often lost in reminiscences of Rome (immortal); Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil (mortal); Raum, a demon in the shape of raven, summoned by Constansia to serve as Guillaume's familiar (immortal) Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times; my touch is fatal to plants Memories (five, up to three Experiences each): 1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of (redacted), a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord; one of the joys of my youth, gardening, slips away as my touch is now fatal to plants; 2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford 3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: Father Guiscard invites himself into our home, openly lusting after Cateline, which neither my father and I can do anything about; I kill him when I come home to find him raping Cateline, which she watches in mute horror 4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness 5. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed; Constansia conducts her Satanic rituals and summons a demon, Raum, to serve me in the form of a raven; [/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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