Weekend Entertainment #1 - August Test Drive Meme

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Happy August! It's an app_this_plz weekend, and you know you've got characters you want to try out.


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[athelstanthescribe]

"Assigned?" He looks up. "Many know that they exist, then?"

[witchfinder_general]

"No, but some people in quiet places within the church hierarchy do," Father Harman says. "The church has been around almost two thousand years by my time. There is little they don't know."

[athelstanthescribe]

"It's believed, in my time", he says with a nod. "Many poor innocent souls have probably died on the suspicion... and perhaps just a few guilty souls with them."

[witchfinder_general]

Father Harman nods. "At least, we have ways of reliably telling them apart," he says.

[athelstanthescribe]

"What are those?" Athelstan asks, interested.

[witchfinder_general]

"They can't stand sunlight," Father Harman says, "but that might be a legitimate human illness. They don't show up in mirrors; that is the one thing which unmistakeably sets them apart."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Hm." He thinks about it. "Wouldn't they stay away from mirrors as much as possible?"

[witchfinder_general]

"That is why we need portable mirrors, or similar equipment."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Those are very expensive."

The closest he's ever held to a mirror is a polished piece of metal.

[witchfinder_general]

"In your time, yes," Father Harman says. "But you might use any polished bit of metal; their reflection will not show up."

[athelstanthescribe]

"A reflection is a reflection", he says with a nod. "At Lindisfarne, we use metal, or sometimes water, if we have need to."

[witchfinder_general]

"An opportunity to look at a monster that might attack on a surface of still water is rather rare," Father Harman says. "So, a polished bit of metal would have worked best for my predecessors in your time. The shape doesn't matter, as one doesn't need an accurate reflection - if there is a reflection, it's human and mortal."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Is it known how these demons came to walk the earth?"

[witchfinder_general]

"No," Father Harman says. "Not that we are aware of. There might be archives, but people who become aware of their existence mostly end up fighting them, rather than researching their history."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Surely there are those not suited to fighting, who wish to help the war another way."

[witchfinder_general]

"Not many people know about it," Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

"...how can that be?"

[witchfinder_general]

"The vampires try to remain secret," Father Harman says, "and we do not mind that -- we do not wish for people to panic, and suspect the innocent. Vampires are very, very rare."

[athelstanthescribe]

"But must still be destroyed", he surmises, "as hellspawn."

[witchfinder_general]

"Absolutely."

[athelstanthescribe]

"With fire?"

[witchfinder_general]

"Sunlight, artificial sunlight, or a stake through the heart, for which we have an artificial, modern solution as well," Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

"But why would you need modern solutions, if the old still work?"

[witchfinder_general]

"Less messy and much easier to apply," Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan shakes his head slightly. "There must always be a place for tradition."