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[yourshowface]

[What do you do when you're a genre-savvy teenager thrust into a vampire event as a normal human being?

. . . get a rather eclectic arsenal from the closet, apparently. Jesse sits on his floor, pouring over various items - garlic, a couple different crosses, several stakes, a lighter, what appears to be a crossbow, and a small vial that he's

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[rebelroses]

[Rose has not been so happy since this event took her dhampir side from her and made her human, but this just makes her day.]

You do know garlic and crosses aren't going to be any help, right? At least... if these people here are the type of vampires I deal with on a regular basis. Yes, silver is applicable to vampires. We use silver enchanted stakes all the time back home.

[She showed her own, lone stake to him.]

[yourshowface]

I've been hearing different stories, so I'd prefer to keep my bases covered. If one method doesn't work, it's highly likely that another will, after all.

[. . . and he raises his eyebrow at the stake.]

A silver stake, huh? That's the second time now I've heard about those.

[rebelroses]

That's true, but a stake in anybody's heart would be a bitch. That is if you aim correctly. The ribs are a giant obstacle. Back home we use silver stakes and they work perfectly fine. You could probably get by with a wood stake if you're trying to injure them, but you can't kill with them. The most it will do is faze them.

[After all, he's talking to soon-to-be Guardian Hathaway back home. She knows all about hunting strigoi. Vampires in general actually.]

[yourshowface]

Hmm . . . point. I'm more partial to the crossbow myself, anyway.

[picks it up at that, examining it.]

- still, the legends differ. I know some say that only fire and decapitation works, which sounds needlessly messy. I'd gladly take a silver stake over that.

I know this is late soooo

[usskickass]

Probably don't matter if it's sharp enough, what with the stake business and all. I doubt they're just allergic to pine.

[yourshowface]

The myths are quite . . . particular. It has to be just right, or it doesn't work. They'll heal themselves.

[usskickass]

I suppose I was kinda hopin' these ones would be less...supernatural. Not sure why now that I think about it.

You should probably steer clear of 'em anyway. They're our housemates, for one. For another you're just a kid and it ain't as if these things last forever.

...Course neither does death around here.

[yourshowface]

I'm seventeen, you know. That doesn't exactly make me a kid anymore. Nevertheless, hunting them was never on my agenda. I'd just prefer to have a means to protect myself if absolutely necessary.