Thousand Year Old Vampire – Prompt #3
And just like that she was gone, actually physically gone. I lay on the ground alone and weeping cradling a pile of mud. Whoever had killed my ethereal muse seemed to have no interest in me and had disappeared into the night.
I slept fitfully dreaming of strange beautiful men and even stranger lands. The next morning I headed into Edinburgh to visit my friend Gunnvaldr. I explained what happened. Surprisingly he believed every word and quickly set about trying to find help within the scrolls and parchments of the library.
Eventually he found an old parchment, written by a monk in an abbey my people had no doubt since pillaged, that detailed the various pagan legends of the Gaelic peoples. He described a number of creatures called “faeries” and one in particular, the “Leanan Sídhe.”
From what we read, the assassin had saved me from a terrible fate. Though the thought did not seem to settle the growing anxiety within me...
Game effects
- New Experience
- Gunnvaldr helps me research my new condition; though he seems convinced that I am now safe, I know something is still wrong.
- New Resource
- A parchment on the nature of fairies