International Police Organization Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense

From: Vampiric and Lycanthropic Studies Department
To: Director Thomas Manning
Re: Examination report: Subject 2410061501
Date: Thursday 23 June 2410

Dr. Manning:

As requested, I have performed a full examination of the interesting item brought to us last week by the Chief. My findings are as follows:

It is my judgment that the initial investigation team's preliminary assessment was correct: Subject 2410061501 is a human female true vampire (Homo sapiens sanguivorensis). Baseline genetics, despite some muddling thanks to the strange interference of Detian factors (which is entirely outside my area of expertise), indicate that she is almost certainly of Earth origin. Her paragenetic signature, coupled with the Chief's report on her apparent capabilities during the Otonashi Mountain incident, suggests that she is not very far descended from the source of the sanguivorus curse - not very far at all.

I base this conclusion primarily on the following factors:

- She is entirely unharmed by sunlight exposure. Naturally, in her current comatose state it is impossible to tell whether sunlight reduces her supernatural powers, as is the case with almost all true vampires (even the great Dracula himself was said to be little stronger than a mortal man under full sunlight), but the fact that it does her no injury is indicative of a specimen within two generations of the source. Not for nothing are such vampires known among our kind as "daywalkers".

- Her blood has proven to be extremely corrosive to the various lesser vampire and pseudovampire tissue samples I've tested it against. This is a trait that has only been observed in vampires of the first through third generations.

- Physiologically, she shows none of the signs of curse degeneracy normally associated with the more distant generations. Her appearance is entirely normal, without any of the disfigurements common to some of the later branches of the vampiric family tree (such as my own, which can be traced to the seventh generation). Her current deep hibernation state precludes biological function assessment, but high-resolution molecular resonance scanning indicates that all her internal organs are healthy and complete, not atrophied or vestigial as they are in the "more dead" undead (so to speak). (Caveat: This may be a side effect of her unusual reaction to Detian blood, not an actual feature of her manifestation of the sanguivorus curse. Further study is necessary.)

Since she is unconscious, her response to religious symbols cannot be tested, nor can it be determined whether she finds garlic repugnant (I can say that it, like sunlight, does her no physical harm). Naturally, as a true vampire she is indifferent to silver; that weakness is, as you know, confined to certain inferior pseudovampire strains, such as persons infected with the Human/Near-Human Vampirism Virus.

So much for what science can tell us.

Since we're leaving the realm of science anyway, I must tell you that I dislike the constant, clinical references to her by subject number in our documentation, as if she were just another artifact or hideous dead thing brought in for us to pull apart and study. She is, after all, a sapient being, deserving of respectful handling, and she told the Chief her given name. If a full name is required for some bureaucratic reason, perhaps the name of the region where she was found will suffice for a surname until we learn otherwise.

As to lore, there is precious little to go on in that department. Historical references to true vampires are always difficult to find and harder to authenticate - by our very nature, we have spent most of history hiding from mortal notice and mortal scribes. What's worse, the changes in Miss Otonashi's appearance wrought by her strange reaction to the Chief's blood make image matching almost impossible. If, by chance, she was photographed at some point in the past, it was with a face she no longer possesses, so to speak. At any rate, she's a true vampire, so she would have to have been photographed before her turning in the first place.

One of the two promising reference Miss Fleming and I were able to find comes from the records of the Order of St. Dumas, a now-defunct order of Catholic fanatics who primarily preyed on members of other religions, but also dabbled in monster hunting from time to time. Their scribes recorded an encounter between one of their "avenging angels" and a youthful female vampire in French Indo-China in 1887. Given her Asian appearance and the incident's proximity to Japan, the Dumasite in question took her for a jikininki, but his account of her capabilities and actions leaves very little doubt in my mind that his encounter was with a daywalker. I do not know for certain that this was Miss Otonashi, but the parallels with the Chief's encounter of last week are striking, and practically speaking, how many early-generation vampires resembling Japanese teenagers can there be?

The other reference, which Miss Fleming extracted from some ancient database on Earth, is in an incident report from a United States Air Force base in Japan that dates back to 1962. A person answering Miss Otonashi's description (and registered under the name "Saya" at the base secondary school, no less) apparently caused quite a ruckus there; the details are sketchy and were partially redacted in the typical government fashion of the time, but if one reads between the lines, a picture emerges of a daywalker tracking and destroying chiropterans like the one involves in last week's incident.

From these references and certain markers in her base genetic profile, I believe Miss Otonashi was turned in the mid-1800s, which, if my other surmises are also true, would likely make her the last "original" in more ways than one. The Demonology Department's seers do not believe the Lord of Blood has visited the mortal plane since 1865, when he was banished back to Muspelheim by Abraham Lincoln.

To summarize: I concur with the initial team's analysis. I am certain that this "young" woman is a true vampire of Earthborn stock, almost definitely pre-Contact in origin - and I strongly believe she is a first-generation sanguivore. She is very possibly the last surviving first-generation vampire.

More than that, for the moment, I cannot say. Mortal and vampire lore alike contain virtually no references to this creature, which, I must tell you, piques my curiosity inordinately. I devoutly hope she regains consciousness soon, so that I may begin the debriefing process with all due haste. I long to know how so significant a member of my race has gone unnoticed and unrecorded for so long, and how she came to be on the trail of a chiropteran in the mountains of Tomodachi last week.

Respectfully submitted,
Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Schreck Graf von Orlock
Deputy Director, Vampiric and Lycanthropic Studies

IHNJ, IJLS "... the Lord of Blood ... was banished back to Muspelheim by Abraham Lincoln."

>IHNJ, IJLS "... the Lord of Blood ... was banished back to Muspelheim
>by Abraham Lincoln."

That made me giggle inordinately as well.

Though the true guffaw was when I realized the "physiological deterioration" was a reference to Count Orlock.

>IHNJ, IJLS "... the Lord of Blood ... was banished back to Muspelheim
>by Abraham Lincoln."

*snnnnrk*

Abraham Lincoln makes everything funnier. Sort of like Batman.

O.......K. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

So what's the story behind _that_?

-Joe-

>O.......K. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
>
>So what's the story behind _that_?

Perhaps he picked up a few tips when he was a pen-pal to a little Japanese girl by the name of Miyu....

Michael

	Michael C. Fortner RCW #2n+1 "I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." -- Mark Twain

>O.......K. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

Dæmonologist, actually. The Lord of Blood, commonly believed among students of the occult to be the author of the sanguivorus curse, is an infernal noble, not a vampire.

Although, to be fair, President Lincoln was a fairly well-rounded occultist and paranormal investigator. In the course of his long and illustrious career, he tangled with everything from the vengeful ghosts of the War of 1812 to the Jersey Devil.

--G.
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>>O.......K. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
>
>Dæmonologist, actually. The Lord of Blood, commonly believed
>among students of the occult to be the author of the
>sanguivorus curse, is an infernal noble, not a vampire.
>
>Although, to be fair, President Lincoln was a fairly well-rounded
>occultist and paranormal investigator. In the course of his long and
>illustrious career, he tangled with everything from the vengeful
>ghosts of the War of 1812 to the Jersey Devil.

It's really funny if the Lincoln in question is the one featured in the Rozerem ads. A little spot of friendly dreamwalking on the side...

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train

This might explain why Mr. Lincoln had such difficulty with the Civil War at first. He was probably too busy pursuing the Jersey Devil and such-like beasties to pay proper attention to supervising General McClellan, with the predictable results (the Seven Days' fiasco, etc.) :)

-Joe-

>This might explain why Mr. Lincoln had such difficulty with the Civil
>War at first.

Well, in a way. It wasn't that he was distracted from the Civil War by occult matters, so much as he had to sort out the various occult matters surrounding the war, which didn't make it into the history books, before it would be worth trying to win the thing militarily.

Shame about McClellan, too. Lincoln told him not to try to use the Book of Khezrâd'zhâr against the Confederates, but did the man ever listen? He did not.

--G.
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Those among other things, like time traveling to fist fight Hitler and over-seeing operations to thwart Emperor Zombie. It's in the Constitution.

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Jon Helscher

I'm here to slow you down, cost you money, and generally retard the process.

-Mike Rowe: Dirty Jobs

>Those among other things, like time traveling to fist fight Hitler and
>over-seeing operations to thwart Emperor Zombie. It's in the
>Constitution.

Is that before or after the part in the Constitution that says the job of the Vice-President is to protect the space-time continuum?

Would this be the Abraham Lincoln from Tales From the Bully Pulpit? Now he was a proper two-fisted adventurer.

I totally forgot about this story! Gots to go back and read it.

I loved the reference to Shadowrun's brand of vampirism as inferior, too--it reasserts its actual supernatural, rather than pseudoscientific, origins.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

>I totally forgot about this story! Gots to go back and read it.
>
I have vague recollections of this story, but I'll be damned if I can remember which one it was, or even find it... Someone care to help me with a pointer?

Thanks,
Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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>I have vague recollections of this story, but I'll be damned if I can
>remember which one it was, or even find it... Someone care to help me
>with a pointer?

I think you're looking for Saya: A Future Imperfect Mini-Story.

- Chad

Yup - I just found and re-read it, finally :)

Thanks!

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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Max Shreck?

Sorry, watched Batman Returns recently so this just brings up the mental image of The Walken with big white hair...

>Sorry, watched Batman Returns recently so this just brings up the
>mental image of The Walken with big white hair...

Uh, no.

That character was, in fact, named after German actor Maximilian Schreck (1879-1936), who played Count Orlock in F.W. Murnau's seminal 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens. God knows why, Batman Returns has nothing at all to do with vampire mythology, but there you are.

--G.
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>That character was, in fact, named after German actor Maximilian
>Schreck (1879-1936), who played Count Orlock in F.W. Murnau's seminal
>1922 silent horror film Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens.
>God knows why, Batman Returns has nothing at all to do with
>vampire mythology, but there you are.

Tim Burton HAS no reason! Tim Burton NEEDS no reason! To justify anything in his ART!

(Tim Burton, a brilliant art director who should never have been allowed to direct the whole film...)

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_

>Tim Burton HAS no reason! Tim Burton NEEDS no reason! To justify
>anything in his ART!
>
>(Tim Burton, a brilliant art director who should never have been
>allowed to direct the whole film...)

...dude, are you Earth-2 Laudre now? Or did you just snap from an overdose of critical film studies and go utterly gonzo?

*scratches head*

Ard Sumhenner
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect, critical film studies major, and general menace

>>Tim Burton HAS no reason! Tim Burton NEEDS no reason! To justify
>>anything in his ART!
>>
>>(Tim Burton, a brilliant art director who should never have been
>>allowed to direct the whole film...)
>
>...dude, are you Earth-2 Laudre now? Or did you just snap from an
>overdose of critical film studies and go utterly gonzo?

I'm not sure exactly how to answer that. On the Tim Burton thing, all I can say is that it hit me one day that what really bothered me is that while his films are a true feast for the eyes -- he has never made a film that I've seen that isn't a joy to look at, at least -- he's trying very hard, on some level, to be Terry Gilliam, and failing. It was probably "Corpse Bride" that did it; he did everything for that film he was good at (the look of it, mostly), and his artistic pretensions were somehow kept from overwhelming it, I assume by the screenwriters and the other credited director.

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_

>That character was, in fact, named after German actor Maximilian
>Schreck (1879-1936), who played Count Orlock in F.W. Murnau's seminal
>1922 silent horror film Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens.
>God knows why, Batman Returns has nothing at all to do with
>vampire mythology, but there you are.

For an amusing take on Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens, I recommend tracking down the movie Shadow of the Vampire, which is a fictionalized take on the filming of Nosferatu. It stars John Malkovitch as F. W. Murnau, and Willem DeFoe (and a BOATLOAD of makeup) as Maximilian Schreck... which was an alias of Count Orlock, noted vampire. It has some nice takes on the entire Vampire mythos, as well as poking holes in the ego of the Grand Auteur types.

--
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> Maximilian Schreck... which was an alias of Count Orlock, noted vampire.

And a fairly transparent one, too, since "Schreck/Schroeck/Schrock (with an o-umlaut)" means "terror/horror".

-- Bob Schroeck, who hesitates to imagine what one of his ancestors might have done to pick up that monicker...
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As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

>That character was, in fact, named after German actor Maximilian
>Schreck (1879-1936)

I always love to see a reference to him pop up. My family's private mythology claims him as a distant relative, although he's never showed up on any of the (extensive, professional) genealogical studies my uncle has done.

-- Bob
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The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Now that's a more sensible basis...

Damn that insidious Walken!