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[hackrid]

OK so... I've gooed pretty much everything that looks suspicious in this creeptastic little resort - which probably makes sense to no one - but! We're all still here so obviously I'm a little out of my depth.

[ major shruggage, usa, population: claudia. still, undaunted! ]

If you see anything kind of uh, out of place? Which I get is kind of -- everything. But you know the old saying if you see something say something? A funky necklace, or maybe an old Glockenspiel, you know: weird stuff. It would be cool if I could take a look at it.

Oh-- Claudia. Is me. Hey hey, yo! [ insert eyebrow waggle. ]

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[louisianawolf]

Hopefully enough pairs to accomplish something -- that many sounds about right. [yeah, who knows?]

I haven't really taken a poll to see who here accepts the weird? At least two of us. But yeah I lived with it. Witches, werewolves, vampires, doppelgangers -- so, as you can tell from that, where I'm from is full of the weird and sometimes unexplainable. Or at least what most people would call so. [says the werewolf-vampire hybrid.] And hey, complain as much as you want about your job; I'm not judging.

[hackrid]

[ please excuse claudia's momentary stunned silence. ]

Sorry-- you just actually threw a whole different kind of weird at me, and I'm suddenly feeling super noob-ish. Wait, are there witches and doppelgangers here? Do I need to start carrying garlic at night?

[ mostly she's kidding. ...mostly. ]

[louisianawolf]

So your kind of weird isn't exactly things that go along with magical objects? [there are way too many categories of weird objects.]

If any from the same place I'm from are here, I sure don't know about it. Which is probably for the best -- one too many bad run-ins with witches there. The garlic wouldn't do much for the vampires, but a regular wooden stake would. For most of them. [except hybrids and original vampires, but ... details. plus, it's not like she'd be giving any information about how to kill her specific species. that would be dumb.]

[hackrid]

[ rapt with attention. that is how you could describe claudia right now. ]

I mean, I don't want to hurt anybody -- unless they're gonna hurt me. The whole blood-sucking thing is legit, then? Cause my version of magic isn't really like this. Consider this my Vampires 101 course.

Crap, hang on. I gotta take notes...