[It's a miracle that Griffin hits the audio function, because he had actually been aiming for video.]

Hey. Hey.

[He sounds a lot different than he's ever sounded on the NV before. He's slurring, making his hard to understand English accent (with hints of Irish and Welsh and American and who even knew what else) even more unintelligible.How d'ya ( Read more... )

Concessions manager, my old boss, is trying to talk me up into putting half my paycheck into the employee betting pool again. Wish he'd lay off, after I told him not interested the first time ( Read more... )

[It's dark. A match is struck and a candle flares up, illuminating Zulfiqar's pallid mask. He passes a gloved hand over the flame, causing it to flicker and the shadows around him to dance. There's an undeniable, purposeful theatricality to it all.]One killer is put away and another immediately rises into his place. An endless cycle of death and ( Read more... )

[Sitting on the sidewalks like a bum, again, Artemis? Yeah, he is, lost in his own little world and turning the pink orb of his NV around and around in his hand. He's been at it for a while, has gotten into quite a rhythm and it spins smoothly, the video blurring as it tries to stay focused on him.]

Better or worse... to keep aching or to--

[ ( Read more... )

[The video is being recorded from what appears to be the floor of a small room, looking up at a girl who looks entirely too energetic for this hour of the very early morning. She’s sitting cross legged and bright-eyed on the edge of her bed, leaning down over her NV, some sort of prop-in-progress sitting in her lap.]The masquerade ball at the Lux ( Read more... )

[She sounds quite level.]So I've been asking around about that new game that debuted that makes people forget who they are and sticks them someplace new. You all know what I'm talking about? The horror game ( Read more... )

[Just before the sun rises on the eighteenth, and long before tonight's dreams, a vampire makes a video post. Surprisingly someone whose usual visitors are all night-risers has taken a while to have the rumour mill of the shared dreams reach him, but like any good businessman he's happy to monopolise upon circumstance.]

For those of you who don't ( Read more... )

[There is a scrawny blonde boy sitting in the food court... His face and hair are clean enough, but his sweater is ratty and bloodstained. He has a hat in which he is silently begging for money to be placed. He's used to begging for what he needs, has never been expected to work, but he has suddenly remembered his NV. The pink crystal orb that will ( Read more... )

[A straight face stilled for a moment. He's not quite vacant nor is he expressionless, though it comes off that way.]I have not been here long, but I have come to realize that the Great Revelation has not happened in all of your worlds. I am vampire and I am also one of the oldest where I come from -- was. I was one. I mean no harm to anyone. ( Read more... )

[There is the sound of a throat being cleared, and then Kurt speaks in a carefully controlled voice. It's low and throaty.]

I have an announcement to make. I'm afraid it isn't very pleasant.

[A deep breath, then:] Ahiru is gone ( Read more... )