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May. 13th, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Good afternoon everyone. Please forgive any mistakes in this message; I am unfamiliar with computers and have only learned how to post things here this morning. This is a difficult message to write on its own, and it is not the first impression I would have chosen to make, but as we all know, in this place we are very often given little choice in anything. So I ask, in advance, your forgiveness if there is any to be had and your patience if there is not.
My name is Maritza de Luna; given that news travels fast and bad news even faster, some of you may already know that I am newly placed in the tower. I am a vampire, and I am the one who attacked one of your own this morning. To that person, whose name I will withhold for their privacy, I offer again my deepest apologies and assurances it will not happen again if I have any choice in the matter. I do not normally drink from the unwilling and never so roughly, but when I awoke this morning in an unfamiliar room, it was after having been starved of any blood for several months. Indeed, I suspect it was their intent that I do so, as I have since learned that newcomers here typically must post to this network to unlock their doors. My door was already unlocked, and I regret that I did not know of the blood we are given in our rooms.
Unfortunately, that is not the only bad news I bring to you today. I do not think there is a gentle way to break it, so while I am asking your forgiveness I may as well request it for the heavy-handed way I must do this. Simply put, this is not the first experiment I have been part of. Gable informed me you are aware that others are being run in various other locations, and that this particular one has been running for three months.
My former experiment, which took place in an underground bunker from which there was no egress, lasted approximately sixty years. As the only supernatural in the group, I am also the only survivor.
I imagine there will be questions, all of which I will answer to the best of my ability.
[Private to Gwen]
Please do not feel obligated to read any of this or respond to it now, if you are not ready, or at all if you are never ready. But I must say once again that I am deeply sorry for hurting you. If there is anything I can do to make amends or to ease your mind, you have only to ask. Until or unless I hear otherwise from you, I will endeavor to keep my distance.
My name is Maritza de Luna; given that news travels fast and bad news even faster, some of you may already know that I am newly placed in the tower. I am a vampire, and I am the one who attacked one of your own this morning. To that person, whose name I will withhold for their privacy, I offer again my deepest apologies and assurances it will not happen again if I have any choice in the matter. I do not normally drink from the unwilling and never so roughly, but when I awoke this morning in an unfamiliar room, it was after having been starved of any blood for several months. Indeed, I suspect it was their intent that I do so, as I have since learned that newcomers here typically must post to this network to unlock their doors. My door was already unlocked, and I regret that I did not know of the blood we are given in our rooms.
Unfortunately, that is not the only bad news I bring to you today. I do not think there is a gentle way to break it, so while I am asking your forgiveness I may as well request it for the heavy-handed way I must do this. Simply put, this is not the first experiment I have been part of. Gable informed me you are aware that others are being run in various other locations, and that this particular one has been running for three months.
My former experiment, which took place in an underground bunker from which there was no egress, lasted approximately sixty years. As the only supernatural in the group, I am also the only survivor.
I imagine there will be questions, all of which I will answer to the best of my ability.
[Private to Gwen]
Please do not feel obligated to read any of this or respond to it now, if you are not ready, or at all if you are never ready. But I must say once again that I am deeply sorry for hurting you. If there is anything I can do to make amends or to ease your mind, you have only to ask. Until or unless I hear otherwise from you, I will endeavor to keep my distance.