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Amidst the movement of shadow and skin,
the boundaries of life and death begin.
The aching and longing for something surreal,
will beckon the weak to strike a deal.
But for that gift they'll entertain mistrust,
for none can conquer the violent blood lust. [/center]

In looking to write a new vamp story with a few good writers, I want to focus more on the power that lies behind the monster. These individuals that we will play will be steeped in history, their families running back to the beginning of time. You will choose a family name and build that history for us to enjoy via the IC. The overhanging plot for the story will be as such:

[I]London, 1912

There has never been a time in human history when death seemed to stand still and yet that time is now. For almost one hundred years my father and his father have hunted down the beasts that roam the night, their calling card nothing more than a shell of humanity, their disease one for the history books. We have all but destroyed them and I fear that if we do not finish the job in my generation, that we will once again see the rise of the night walkers. I will gather to me a grouping of men that will search them out and destroy them one by one if needed. I will not stop until the world is rid of the curse found so long ago within the very pages of the Holy Word. We have found an ally that is far more advanced and deadly than the vampires could imagine. He will assist us and for that, he will find atonement for his sins.

May God's mercy surround me, his strength cover me and his courage engulf me.
Father Edward Simmons
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The church has been quite effective in ridding the world of our kind and the writing is more than clear on each and every city we enter that we grow more and more extinct. Having always been the stronger of the species, we have relied on our cunningness and speed, their fear and the element of surprise to stay just above the humans in the hierarchy of life, but a season of change is upon us. With only 6 vampiric families remaining, the eldest vamp amongst us as called a quorum to come to London and discern next steps for the race as a whole. You've been extended an invitation and are expected to bring idea's that might change the face of what stands before us - extinction. 

Having just received word a few weeks ago, it would appear that something more dangerous than us has surfaced and is targeting a new food source - us.

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Name:
Family: (Be creative - choose a family name and give a brief history of the family - their origins. Please note that the only one you cannot use the original Dracula)
Familial Political Support: Liberal or Conservative?
Appearance: (Picture is fine, no anime - description as well)
True Age:
Blood Lust Affinity: (This is going to be something new. As a vamp we will all have a weakness that triggers blood lust in us - so if its the smell of animal blood, blondes, or homemade cookies - I don't care, just put your affinity and make it realistic)
History:
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