Good Morning Sunshine !

Good morning sunshine!

Actually, is half an hour past midday. Sun is bright and merciless outside. You will never look at it again. As you see, we have no problem talking and moving around during the day, albeit, with somewhat clumsy, lethargic, steps. Feels like your head was in slow motion, it is normal, you get used with the sensation.

We cannot afford not to.

This is a fast introduction to the rest of your existence. I am giving you the tips you need to not die a stupid **** in the first week by your fault. If you pay attention, can still happen, but will be bad luck, not your negligence.

So, it is in the news everywhere, has been for half a decade. Vampires exist, they have legal rights to existence and respect to their culture, legal system and what not.

Since moments ago, when your physiological transition completed, you are a vampire. Congrats.

Unfortunately, to you and to me, we do not have any rights under vampire law. Or any other.

We are the undesirables. The technical term is “Low Vampire” in opposition to “Noble Vampire”.

Basically, existing is a crime for us, and the punishment for that crime is ****. No legal process is necessary, any Noble who notices us can and probably will destroy us on sight.

Because of that the “Disclosure” does not apply to us. We are pretty much still living in the shadows, like low vampires have for the best half of eternity. Some now and them one of us manage to accumulate enough power, knowledge and status to stablish a new noble house and earn legitimacy in the Nocturnal Courts, but that is about as frequent as Mass Extinction Events.

I usually mix the good and the bad news in those conversations, for didactic purposes. In order to keep the attention of my student. This is not my first rodeo, so to speak.

By the way, I did not turned you into a vampire. Cold not, even if I wanted. A Royal Seed is needed for that, and I have no such blood-see in me. Your “Sire”, if you fancy Vampire the Masquerade tabletop RPG, was a feral. Yeap, some feral kings and queens walk around in the night, sometimes they do that. No one knows why.

My name is Jackie, by the way. Jackeline, if we use the British form. I was French, originally, as a human. Now, I am mostly fucked. Like you. Taking the best from a suboptimal situation.

I have been a vampire since the year of our lord 1190 and before that I used to be a 15 years old adult woman, mother of two, peasant. Cannot complain too much about the demotion. Right of stay alive as a peasant in my original neighbourhood was, under revision, most the time. During my somewhat brief human existence.

I am not trying to bond with you, build rapport, get inside your pants or anything like that. I merely mention this to illustrate the first obvious fact about your new existence. You will never look or feel one day older than you are right now.

Stars can burn our fuel and explode, new ones can start. We only get stronger with the passage of time. Stronger, faster, tougher to hurt or put down.

You are right now about twice stronger than you used to be up to a few days ago. Only gets better, another few days and you will be 5 times stronger than the stronger heavy-lift champion ever was. After that, the improvement slows down. Never stops.

Vampire boys are physically superior, compared to us girls. Considering the same age. You gain physical power faster too. I am a lot stronger than you right now, but in a couple thousand years, give or take, if we both last that long, you will probably be stronger than me. That’s normal.

We can control, or ratter hypnotise briefly, humans. Short commands, in time we learn to do it without the use of words. Helps to erase their minds after we feed.

This power of mental manipulation grows with time, like the physical power. Right now you cannot trust your capacity much. Weak minds, scared people, people taken by surprise, that is all you should risk for the next couple decades.

Women are much easier prey to our power of command than men. Don’t look me like that! I do not make the rules, they are what they are.

Your survival is at stake, and you don’t have a lot of cards to play. I suggest you use what you have.

We need human blood. Sometimes, no matter how much you would like to avoid it, sometimes we lose control and kill our human prey. Is a mess and attracts unwanted attention. Nothing can be done about. You can try survive only on animal blood, dogs, cats and such, but too much of that and you end up like a feral.

Ferals are those fellows who cannot think or use words. They are fundamentally mindless predators with supernatural powers, who never age. The one who turned you into a vampire, for instance.

Extremely aggressive! Hunt us as easily as they hunt humans, I am not sure they can see the difference. If they can, don’t care.

Sunlight burns us into a pile of smoking charcoal. Painful like you cannot even imagine but less bad than it looks. If you drop enough blood in a vampire burned by the sun, or by anything else really, this vampire come back to life healed. Good as new.

Same is true about most causes of **** you can imagine. Fire, decapitation, being eaten by a pack of dogs. All that is just temporary. Or can be, if you are lucky enough.

Being devoured is a particularly strange experience. I was eaten by a bunch of pigs once. The literal farm animal kind.

The one that had eaten the largest piece of my hearth. I grew up inside it. Like some sort of xenomorph. Pretty cool, in retrospective. Still, not a experience I would recommend to anyone.

We can be destroyed for good. Vampires can drink each other to complete destruction, that is how you win a fight against another vampire for good. The loser is gone for good, no coming back from that. However, is not as easy as it sounds, takes some serious technique and discipline to keep consuming another vampire pass the point of no return.

Unless you are a feral, of course. For them it seems to be instinctive.

Some vampiric powers can destroy a vampire from distance. Even poison the blood of mortals in a way that kills any vampire who drinks from the mortal. Kills, permanently.

Also, human hunters do kill vampires permanently. To do that, they need to immobilize a vampire and then cut the heart of that vampire from the body. The heart has to be intact. After doing that, if you expose the heart to direct sunlight, it burns completely. And the vampire is permanently destroyed. Not very practical if compared to how humans can be killed, but still easy enough to be done by vampire hunters around the world. Every day.

So, this is it.

The powers, or “blood-seeds” they are too many to talk about. Each human has some “blood-seeds” sleeping in their blood. When we are turned into vampire we can develop those powers we had inside us but could not use as humans.

Noble Vampires have an entire science dedicated to find out those potential supernatural powers and “grow the seed”. We need to hope to step in our potential powers by accident, and develop them by attempt and error. I have no way to know what your blood-seeds are, or even if you have any. And I never talk about mine, because they are the secret weapon that we can use to save our lives in moments of **** desperation.

You can neve be sure when the student you helped in his first week as a vampire will turn against you and try to drink you dry.

By the way, the reason to do that, for those who need a reason for ****, is the blood seeds.

There is a chance, small chance, that you will be able to “harvest the blood-seed” when you consume a fellow vampire. Only happens with developed blood-seeds, and what you get is not the full power, just the potential to develop it yourself. Is never guaranteed anyway. Still, it is a serious possibility and is enough for more than a few among us. Pains me to say.

Basically, to survive we have to keep vigilance against noble vampires, human hunters, and each other. If neither of those things destroy you, you will live forever.

Oh, last thing. Unlike the basic portfolio of power, blood-seeds are not sexist.

Males and females have the same chance to develop those powers.

That, my boy, was your introductory class about how to not die a stupid **** in your first night as a vampire. Consider yourself graduated, congratulations. I am leaving!

The sun is still deadly alive outside, and that is why I will use a certain hole in the floor of the basement to get access to the sewers. Complicate maze down there. You may try at your own peril, or not.

I am not waiting for you, and you have no chance to follow me in your present state.

Wish you luck, “neonate”. Bye!