[Voice]

[explaining]

[Luceti could probably use a distraction right about now. Shift experiments have a way of killing the mood.]

Okay I'm in a rut. I'm looking up vampire facts for...things, and I'm running into a lot of conflicting data. Anybody out there want to share what they know?

[This is, naturally, also an invitation to vampires to share without outright doing a vampire all-call. Guy remembers quite a few night-walkers wanting to keep their identities as secret as possible, going as far as to pick up their blood from the back door of the bar.]

...and the nature of marital affairs, but I'll understand if that's a difficult subject for some. Don't feel obligated to share.



Oh, and I did some research on writing a love letter, May! Looks like sincerity is the way to go. Don't try to impress him with being someone you're not, and don't try to write it to make it sound like it's poetry or anything. Being honest is the key.

[He didn't really research it okay, he just made that shit up from his own preferences.]

Comments

voice;

[breezing]

You want to know about marriage?

I don't know 'bout vampires, sorry! But my mommy and daddy are married, so I know about that!

Re: voice;

[explaining]

[UH. Not...exactly but you know what she is a kid so yes.]

Really now? Well, then you've got just the expert opinion I need. What do you think of marriage?

[voice]

[folklorist]

It um...depends on what you'd like to know. Many vampire myths always depict them as drinking blood and such. There's always the fact that some of them cannot cross through passages unless allowed to. And then there's the idea that many of them are living corpses p-possessed by a demon.

[ He pauses. ] It varies from place to place.

Re: [voice]

[explaining]

Yeah, I've read some of that. I think mostly I'm just trying to find the most common ground.

[Getting into it now, he really should've asked which vampires Draco wanted to know about. Oh well.]

[mikangirl]

'Research', huh.

/matches your icon

[explaining]

Yup. Just research.

voice;

[positivelycharged]

Marital affairs?

voice;

[explaining]

[FLORIAN NO]

Ahahaha, well, you know. Marriage things.

How are you, Florian?

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

Um... was that last part supposed to be filtered?

[Voice]

[explaining]

Mmm, no, I don't think so. She didn't filter her original post and we didn't filter our discussion; I assumed it was public knowledge.

[deadpoet]

[Guy may recognize this voice, since Spike is a frequent patron at the bar. Though he usually gets his drinks from Buffy.]

What sort of things would be?

[explaining]

[Ah, yes, he knows about this guy. Seen him picking up his blood a few times back in his previous stay. Well, his previous-previous stay. Previously.]

General knowledge. A friend of mine is doing some writing.

[herotypical]

I can help with that rut, you know. I'm wounded you didn't ask me first.

[ vampires? or marital affairs? OR BOTH? ]

[explaining]

I wasn't sure if it was something you enjoyed talking about.

[Filtered]

Bringing work home and all that.

voice;

[hismasterpiece]

I hate nasty ruts. They always leave stains.

[At least she sounds reasonably chatty and open to talking?]

Re: voice;

[explaining]

Oh, uh, ruts, huh? [That's a bit strange.]

Of what nature?

[want_take_have]

First bit of advice? Don't try mixin' those two.

[explaining]

Oh, don't worry. Neither of them are for practical application.

[Voice]

[distressedude]

...researching love letters, Guy?

[And marital affairs, too, apparently.]

[Voice]

[explaining]

[THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN THE TWO OK]

For an acquaintance. Or hey, maybe for myself. I'll never tell.

[Voice]

[ledbythewind]

[Oh hey, he remembers you from that unfortunate incident involving Nami that he will never speak of again in his life.]

That's an interesting set of questions to be asking. Might I ask how they're related?

[Voice]

[explaining]

[yes guy will help you to never speak of it again, look at how good he is at not speaking of it]

Well, the first two are unrelated to the last, if that's what you're worried about.

[Voice]

[bamboozler]

Ahhh...Flynn!

I heard a story about a vampire once. Do you want to hear it?

[Voice]

[explaining]

[Guy's brain stalls for two seconds until he remembers.]

Uhhh, hey! Wow, yeah, go ahead and tell me.

[Voice]

[geniustheveil]

[Just going to ignore the slightly awkward topic of marriage. And definitely love letters, which she has discovered she is allergic to. (Don't ask how she found out.)

Vampires it is, then!]

I can share what I know about vampires with you; but in my world, it's considered myth, and nothing more, probably arising from rumors surrounding a particularly fierce nobleman.

[Voice]

[explaining]

Oh, that's fine; there's such a wide variety of 'accepted' truth here that any kind of real input would help.

voice;

[deceases]

And of course there would be enough people in this place wanting to offer up information for the sake of something as vague as 'things'. [ not that he sounds annoyed or anything, mostly apathic. ]

Re: voice;

[explaining]

I'm sure that anyone who thinks it would be dangerous for me to have that information won't be talking to me.

[musubi]

Apparently, information on vampires differs from world to world.

Stake to the heart still usually does it, right?

[explaining]

Ah- well, some of it says that, but I'm not looking to kill anyone.

[alkahestrykunais]

Honest and sincere? Is that what usually works? [Close enough to research to her.]

[explaining]

Seems to be the universal catch-all.

voice;

[trashed]

Vampires and love. What a combination.

[He's so sarcastic. Also hello Guy.]

voice;

[explaining]

[UGH. Great, he's so happy to see this dude's face again except he isn't. Even if he does pity Sync a bit.]

...hello, Sync.

[haveiliedtoyou]

Marriage is a social construct which relies primarily on a mutual agreement to resign oneself to being trapped in a close relationship with another human for as long as possible. Any attempts to find a reprieve from the inevitable monotony often meet with catastrophic results, including separation, social ostracization, and in extreme cases, death.

[explaining]

Ah.

[wow that is a bleak outlook on it]

Actually, I meant more like...marital transgressions. Those kinds of affairs.

[video]

[idealism]

Vampires? That's easy. They're white-haired and red-eyed creatures that sucks your blood.

[video]

[explaining]

Huh.

Why white-haired and red-eyed? Are all of them like that?

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

Of course honesty and sincerity works! Shouldn't that be obvious? ...But then again, the first time I got advice on girls, my friend told me that the key was acing really aloof.

[Voice]

[explaining]

Yeah, see, that might get you some vague interest, but nothing substantial. Not usually, anyway.

[Video]

[doubleppk]

What's that about marital affairs and love letters?

I know a little about vampires, but every world is different, and all their vampires are too, from what I can tell.

[Video]

[explaining]

That's what I've found, yeah.

[voice]

[bloodybishie]

[Wow. Both of these topics piss him off on some level. But at least he knows something about them.]

Vampires are... parasites. Nasty business. Messing around with them will only get you in trouble. They drink blood, especially human blood, and cutting off their head usually kills them. The only problem is, there are lots of different kinds of vampires. So maybe that's not true for all of them.

... As for marriage, just make sure it will work out. And don't get married for someone else's sake.

[voice]

[explaining]

[Guy's just gonna give up on explaining his real meaning of 'affairs.']

How can you be sure it can't work out until you run into problems that you discover won't work out?

[failguardian]

Martial affairs?

[Hopefully having to see Anise's meaningful look through the video feed still doesn't dampen its impact.

[explaining]

[Oh dear.]

Yeah, but not for me! Not for me, Anise.