Dear mortal, join we who have gone beyond death, for every night is Samhain and our dark celebrations begin anew. This night is young and there is much mortal pain left for our pleasure . . . and not all of our victims are as willing as you.

Ghuls have emerged from their graveyard catacombs. Whirling widdershin around bonfires, their yowls and moans lament the blackest form of immortality. Solomari alchemists hawk elixirs, while Ghaddar fleshmongers trade living bodies to dead souls seeking undeath. Human-looking Faitour are feasting on recent burials and talk of the last pilgrimage to the Underworld through the Labyrinth of Iblis. Other ghuls are rounding up the most uncontrollable of their own mindless kin for slaughter.

The revenants are gathering in an antebellum mansion, playing at byzantine imbroglios. All see the shades of long dead confederate soldiers and bloodstains on the walls that no mortal's eyes could. It is All Soul's Midnight and some of the fleshbound ghosts are dancing waltzes and minuets while others feast upon the lifeforce of duped mortal lovers. An abaddon -- grim reaper and agent of death -- moves among them as one of their own, ready to take any one of them kicking and screaming back to the Underworld.

Our Midnight Cathedral is filling with blood-drinkers and mortals. Members of various covens have joined the dark festivities and soon the bloodletting will commence. Heartless metallic keening pulsates from the blasting speakers, while the dark angels already present are singling out their prey.

Come and be with us, but remember . . . the night has its price.

Join the darkest of the immortals with The Everlasting: Book of the Unliving, but beware sundown and the horror it brings.

Contains basic rules, character creation, and horror aspects of the Secret World, the modern day setting. Includes ghouls, revenants, vampires, Frankenstein monsters, ghosts, the Underworld, and the earthly secret world. Includes guidelines for Legendmaking, role-playing, storytelling, gamemasterless options, communal characters, dream control, and much more. Fully compatible with other foundation books; it even includes basic descriptions of all character types and setting aspects described in full within other foundation books

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Posted by Vladimir Wed, 03/21/2007 - 22:14

 

Chapter 33: The Two Men

*noticing that some one is behind her, Saraphine stops and turns around in time to see the dashing man flying over head*

*not able to speak Saraphine just stands there as the beautiful lady walks up to them and listens to them talk*

Just as she is about to say something she and Lovely are put to sleep.

Saraphine Anura
14 May 2001

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Vampire Evolution

The modern idea of the vampire is open to many different possibilities. What defines a vampire? And where did these traits come from?

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The Dance of Dark and Light

She creeps up on silent feet, whispering in my ear to ready myself once again, for the first time....

We've shared this embrace, my long lost lover. Your pale hands wrapped round my wrist to drag me to this sea of moonlight.

And as we float on the shade and shadow, the bottom falls from beneath us and we plummet into the blackness.

That cold encasing blackness that fires my soul.

Did you miss me as much as I missed you, my dark beauty?

Did you miss our dance beneath the bright moon, full and heavy, dripping with ice?

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The Crimson Quill [vol. 1996]

A collection of poetry and prose submitted to VO in 1996.

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Past and recent vampires as symbols of changing sexual mores

Over the centuries, the vampire has undergone radical changes. From the Count in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel to the alcoholic New Yorker Sam in the 1997 film Habit, the figure of the vampire has evolved with society.

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