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"Nice to see you too, Skotti. My day was GASMIC! Thank you for asking- Anyway, this thing that you see before your very eyes is: My captive. Though, I don't think anyone will be coming for this son of a b***h, so for now he's MY b***h." said Luciano, as he played around with his switchblade. He kicked the Vampire so that he'd stay down then he said "Apparently this Vampire wants death. . which is why I keep him alive- to prolong his suffering, y'see."

"Which proves that cowards live long lives of suffering, while those who are Brave live short lives of no regret." She sighed and gave a goofy smile at the vampire.

Michale was barely taking anything in. The ride had made him feel dizzy to his already drunken self. He looked up to the new voice to see Skotti. He snapped his head down. He was instantly sober. Whatever this elf was planning on torture would be nothing compared to being in Skotti presence and what Skotti would do.

"I think he is a bit too excited." Pen scratched her head making her unruly hair bounce up and down. She looked back at Skotti and leaned back on Luciano's car.

"So whats up, Boss?" Pen could tell that Skotti had not been at HQ all day as they would hope. He was equipped for action and a little dirt fell from his boots. He also dyed his proud white mane, an act that would only mean he would have to hide his hair color from someone else.

"Nice dye job, sir" Pen smirked and cocked an eyebrow waiting for Skotti to reply.

Pen sat back and watched the screens not fully understanding what was on. "I think you have a bad taste in T.V. shows." Pen chuckled but she changed her tune when a devilish fiend entered and sat down on the throne.

"You put a camera in the vampire's HQ?" Pen's jaw dropped, what was the boss doing? How did he know where to go?

"Sir," Pen brought her jaw back up and gave a pretty serious look towards the boss. "What are you not telling us?"

Luciano was in HQ's basement. He was in the storage section, inside of a small dark room. The only source of light was a lightbulb attached to a string being suspended from the cieling. Besides that the room was dark. Cold. It was made of pure thick brick, and there could be seen signs or eroding and decaying of the brick. The door, which was pure steel, was shut so that nobody could hear the Vampire screaming in pain as Luciano exposed him to all sorts of torture.

In the corner of the room there was vomit from when the Vampire had far too much to drink. The Vampire had open gashes on his face, crosses could be seen branded into his skin; on his face, chest, arms, back, even under his arms and on his neck. Blood was oozing out from every pore of this Vampire's body. The chains he was bound to even had crosses etched into them, which burned the Vampire's skin so horribly.

Luciano could be seen eating Garlic Bread with some spaghetti and meatballs, and a glass of the rarest red wine in all of Durem. Luciano had a shaker full of Garlic Pepper, he took a moment and paused from his dinner and walked over to the Vampire, he smiled then he said "Your kind reminds me of Slugs. ." he kept his smile as he poured the Garlic Pepper into the Vampire's open wounds, a blood curddling scream filled the room and Luciano continued ". . Everytime you pour salt, or Garlic Pepper if you will,. . . Their skin peels off. . it's been said to be excruciating. . Hm," Luciano sat down and started again on his dinner he smiled as he looked into the Vampire's eyes, which were filled with shear agony, and he said coldly ". . Boy, do I feel sorry for you. . ."

(( Any estimates on when the vamp arc is near the end? ))

Waffle was in her room as usual. It's been a fairly long time, and still no missions assigned to her. Maybe Skotti gave her the opportunity one time just to have her shut up. It didn't seem to work out too well. She could just barely hear anguished screams coming from the HQ's air vent.

Those screams don't seem to belong to anyone in HQ. Not even the nooblets here.


She attempted to find the source of the noise, going down the stairs to the main lobby, and then walking near the garage. After a while, she ended up at the entrance to the basement. She could tell someone was in there, given there was a faint light at the bottom of the door.

Waffle opened the door and walked down the stairs to see Luciano and a vampire. Luciano was eating spaghetti, while the vamp was strapped and chained to a board, with various torture devices hung up on the wall.

Mmm. Torture. How fun to watch it.

She then turned to Luciano with a wicked grin on her face.

"Mind if I enjoy the show too? The lack of missions is pretty boring for me. I do think that I'm a bit....late for this though."

"I do have an informant with mutual gain on this deal, and he is one of our old friends, I figured not to bring it up with luc on a genocidal rampage. He gave me where to go, I figured the rest out on my own." said skotti, twirling his gun.

Pen sighed knowing what would happen if Luciano found out. "So how are you going to tell Luc, on how you got a camera into the castle we just found out about?" She frowned and looked at Skotti's boots as if they could answer.

She pondered a possible answer or a plan to keep Luc on a need to know basis. She looked back at the TVs hoping to get a good look at the leader's face. This is going to be a long mission. At least the stakeout is out of the way.