The Tomb

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A mausoleum standing in the forest just beyond Direwood where Alexander Grayson was discovered. The mausoleum bares a modest design and plants seem to have grown over the walls stretching to the roof. The doors have been cleared of vines recently but they require inhuman strength to open and close. Inside the walls are lines with intricate engravings that seem to tell a story but it is an incomplete one. In the center of the room a stone coffin is surrounded by steps leading up to it. The mausoleum is fifteen feet long, wide, and tall but is mostly comprised of empty space aside from a few pieces of furniture that have been moved in.

 

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Alexander Grayson


Alexander quietly sat on the couch he had moved into the tomb. He sat waiting for Vivian to finish getting redressed. He still wanted answers and if she did not have them he would be very angry. Now they had to wait together in the tomb for the entire day because her desires had stretched into three hours. Tree coverage blocked the sun for a little bit of space outside of the tomb but for the most part it was safe inside. He had his phone though so he'd call the coven leader to report the information. Once Vivian made it clear that she was done getting dressed, which may or may not have happened while she actually had any clothes on, Alexander inquired again. "I gave you what you want, tell me what you know."

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:08 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“Always straight to business.” Vivian said with a small sigh, while she finished straightening her clothes. While she enjoyed certain bedroom activities, she wasn’t a nudist. “You need to learn to enjoy the pleasures life has to offer, my Lord. Still you did not disappoint, and nor shall I. I must say, you are full of surprises.” Though, given that they were trapped in his tomb until the sun set, she did have all day to teach him about enjoying those pleasures. “Your dead human is an archaeologist, by the name of William Parish. Seems his parents had an interesting sense of humour, though I doubt they thought their son would go to such an early grave. He came into the Dollhouse, quiet excited and looking to celebrate a discovery he had made, though what he found I cannot say. He was quiet secretive about that.”

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:09AM

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Alexander Grayson


As Vivian spoke, Alexander typed it out on his phone. All the information she had given was sent to the coven leader in a matter of seconds after she had said it. It was good that his phone still worked this far out but he had taken steps to ensure his phone would. "Anything else? Did he have anyone with him or leave with anyone?" That information made a few things clear. He would need to look into Parish and he would have to look into the man's dig sights. If he could find others who worked with him, he would be able to question them about the discovery. Alexander did not have any doubt that this discovery was why he was killed. If not, why be secretive about it? Then again it could be unrelated but Alexander would still rather know what William found. So that was what he would focus on.

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:11 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“He was quite alone while at my establishment. Well other than the entertainment, but I am sure that isn’t who you are referring too. He left just before three, one of many very satisfied customers. A shame he didn’t have a chance to spread the word before his demise.” What she was implying of course was that he had died the same night he had visited The Dollhouse. Vivian slowly ran a finger alone the length of Alexander’s casket, wondering what urged him to sleep in such a thing. She had of course heard the rumours about his peculiar sleeping arrangements, but it was another thing to see the truth of it. “I must admit, you surprised me, My Lord. I had expected you to be….less experienced.” Amelia had certainly gone out of her way outfitting this place with electricity, internet and other things to make this place livable for Alexander and she wasn’t known to inconvenience herself for anyone. Perhaps there was more going on there than appeared.

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:12AM

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Alexander Grayson


It was unfortunate news to hear that the dead man had been alone but it was still information that Alexander passed along with his phone. He didn't pay much mind to Vivian touching his casket and almost missed what she had said, but when she said it he responded. "Like reading, writing, and speaking, there are skills I did not lose." Alexander figured that what she was referring to had also just been maintained with all the motor functions he still knew. He wondered for a moment if it would be worth questioning the entertainers but he knew exactly what had happened and that it would have been fruitless.

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:13 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“You must have been quite the social butterfly.” Vivian commented with a knowing smile along with her alternative phrase to what she really meant. “Yet you are very reclusive now. I do believe our esteemed coven leader is the only one to be in your home in quite some time. Besides myself of course. I do hope I was more entertaining.” Of course she would never go so far as to insult Amelia directly, but she was a woman who was far too uptight by Vivian’s standards.

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:14AM

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Alexander Grayson


"Or I just knew a lot of people like you." Alexander pointed out. It was also entirely possible that he had just been in situations like this one a lot in his past. Not necessarily by choice but not as if it was something he was entirely against. "And I am not necessarily reclusive, I am just living on the nicest and cheapest property. It's not as if I have signs telling people to go away." That was true. Most just didn't come to see him. For many, the novelty of a vampire with no memory had worn out in the first few months. They wanted to know what he wanted to know but they didn't care to participate in the search with him. So now he was the coven member living farthest from the coven.

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:14 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“You couldn't handle more than one woman like me.” Vivian smirked slightly and finished circling around the casket to end up sitting on the couch next to Alexander. Despite what one might assume about Vivian based on her well deserved reputation, she didn't attempted to initiate anything further. Instead she sat back on the couch, her legs neatly crossed as she gave Alexander her full attention. “Why not live at the manor with the rest of the coven if you are not reclusive?” He may live on the cheapest property, but it was far from the nicest. At least by most people's standards.

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:14AM

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Alexander Grayson


"You underestimate me." Alexander responded simply to her first assertion about how many women like her he could handle. Truthfully he didn't know. He'd never been with more than three at a time to his recently memory and when he was with the three it was a very complicated situation. How the four of them all ended up there and why they had. Then came the question of why he chose to live in the tomb, it was an easier answer. "Look around you at the walls. Even the stone that holds the coffin. All of the carvings tell a story. They have some message that I haven't been able to decipher. Something about me. This place is the only link I know of to my old life, it is the only way I will ever figure out what happened to me. Who put me here? I stay here to maintain and attempt to translate the inscriptions and images." Yet that had proven a difficult task. Whatever language the words were in was lost to time long ago. It may even have been a language the author created themselves.Still, one had to wonder why this tomb seemed almost like a shrine to him. If it was a prison alone, why leave him what he needed to find his past?

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:16 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“We can always go for round 3 if you wish to prove me wrong.” Vivian challenged with a smile. She was counting round 1 as what they had done in the park and round 2 what they had done in the tomb when the sun started to rise. “What makes you think the inscriptions have anything to do with you at all? Maybe you were dumped off in some random tomb. A shame about that archaeologist though. Perhaps he could have helped you.”

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:16AM

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Alexander Grayson


"You know that I could and that I choose not to." Alexander responded briefly before moving to the matter that was more important to him. "I was not just dumped, I was imprisoned. Bound by chains and put in a coffin that a human would not have been able to unseal. Which is depicted over there." Alexander pointed at the front side of the coffin where there was a relief on several figures imprisoning another in the manor he had described. He then stood and walked over to the lid of the coffin and ran his fingers along the stone. "Even it isn't me, whoever was supposed to be in this will know why I was put there. So I am either looking for the original resident, or the people who imprisoned me."

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:17 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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“How would I know unless you prove it to me.” Vivian teased. “A jilted lover perhaps.” She suggested, thinking of their earlier conversation of Alexander’s experience. She’d certainly done a lot worse to her first husband. “Or I imagine you had plenty of enemies given your little display when the coven found you. Still, neither explains the memory loss.” Either would have wanted to make him suffer, and what was the point of making them suffer if he didn’t know why? Of course the memory loss could have been an accident. “Perhaps they meant to kill you, only you survived. The possibilities are endless really.” She took advantage of him getting up to stretch herself out on the couch in what one could only describe as a seductive manner. “Why worry about people of the past who obviously didn’t want you around when you can enjoy the pleasures of the now?”

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:18AM

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Alexander Grayson

"You are not going to bait me into sleeping with you again." Alexander replied again, shooting down her teasing. Then he moved back to the topic at hand. "You know why they call me by that awful title? I doubt a jilted lover could have done this to me. Enemies, that is possible but I still need to figure out why. What did I do that was so bad that they locked me away?" Alexander paused. He didn't need the moment to think on the idea that they had meant to kill him and he didn't comment on it in the end. Call him underwhelming but he generally did not entomb his enemies with a bunch of reliefs depicting their life. Then again he rarely fought his enemies these days and when he had... well he did worse than put them in a tomb. It was her comment about the pleasures of the now that pulled his attention back. "You couldn't understand what it is like. You know who you are, what your name is, and who your family is. I don't. All I know is that someone put me in here and I got out. I doubt they wanted me out."

Day: September 12, 2012 | Time: 6:19 AM | Race: Vampire | Age: Uncertain | Title: Lord Impaler

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”Can’t blame a girl for trying.” As if that statement would convince Vivian to give up. ”Everyone knows how you got that title. It is one you should wear with pride. Those hunters would have done the same to you if they were capable. Why lament destroying your enemies?” Vivian simply could not understand why he hated the title. While she didn’t boast of killing those who had wronged her, she certainly wasn’t ashamed of her actions. She would gladly tell anyone who asked. ”Perhaps, but the past should stay where it is. In the past. Whoever they were didn’t want you around, so screw them. Move on with your life and enjoy the pleasures this world has to offer instead of wasting your time fretting over those who abandoned you.”

September 12, 2012 ❈ 6:20AM

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