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(Che fiend had its arm catually draped around the shoulder of the unfortunate woman,
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who was loohin into its face with an e$ression of what could only be called Iusfful desire.
screamed my frustration at the shy. but was unable to breah the arcane bonds in which
the fiend had bound me. Jt lowered its lips to touch the woman’s alabasfer throat, its eyes
all the time fikd on mine and sparhh3 with inhuman enjoyment.
Che woman’s eyes rolled up in her head, and rhe moaned with pleasure. 9 s the
creature bestowed its his, J mv the woman’s youthful beauty ~~JIII to fade. &r shin
dried and sfretched mer fhe bone sfructure of her face, wrinhles deepened around her
eyes. and her Iusfrous blach hair foArag. ~7
or obvious reasons, the
aspect of vampirism most
important to mortals is
that of their feeding habits.
Vampires must gain
Sustenance by feeding upon the living.
If they do not do this, they suffer
terribly and eventually die.
Mdwni-
Vampires prefer to drink blood directly
from the living body of a victim,
preferably one of their former race.
The most efficient method of doing this
is to use their prominent eyeteeth to
open a wound in a major blood vessel
of their victim. In (demi)humans,
major vessels are closest to the
surface in the throat. Because the neck
is also one of the least protected parts
of the body (even when the victim
wears armor) this adds to the
desirpbility of this target area.
Sometimes vampires will choose
another major blood vessel such as the
f3 femoral artery, on the inside of the
closed my . eyes . in ~oul-sich horror.
-From the personal journal of Dr. van Richten
thigh near the groin, if circumstance,
make this possible. One advantage 01
tapping this artery is that the marks
left by the feeding are rarely seen by
others.
Some tales describe the eyeteeth of
the vampire as hollow, and claim that
the creature drinks blood through
them as through a straw. In no case
that I have studied, however, has this
been the case. The teeth of a vampire
are identical in structure to normal
human teeth, albeit somewhat
enlarged and often angled almost
imperceptibly outward. My
observation is that the vampire simply
uses its teeth as implements to open a
wound in the victim. It then sucks or
laps up the blood using its lips and
tongue, much as a babe drinks its
mother’s milk.
In the vast majority of cases a
vampire will open only a small woun
that will quickly heal, through which II
can drain only a small amount of
blood. “Small” is a relative term here:
the debilitative effect is related to the
robustness of the victim. While a
battle-hardened warrior might shrug off
a single feeding with no ill effects, th-
same blood loss might kill a weaker
victim through shock.