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Eric Northman ([personal profile] manofthenorth) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull2012-02-23 07:31 pm

04. Fourth seduction - Video

[ Eric appears, looking quite calm, though there's a rage behind his eyes that anyone watching carefully might see. He stands beside a window, looking out, and only the light from his desk table illuminates both him and the room. Heavy club music is heard in the background. This is his office, but it's utilitarian rather than gothic, in all but the huge throne like chair visible at the edge of the screen. ]

Good evening, Siren's Port. My name is Eric Northman.

Some of you who have spoken to me before know me as the manager of the Afterglow club Fangtasia. Most of you will know that I am a vampire, regardless of whether we've spoken before.

You would imagine, perhaps, that this would be a fact I would try to conceal, particularly considering recent circumstances, but the time for such secrets is past. Vampires in my world were recognised, and given the same rights as humans. I obey the law, and I pay my taxes, just like everyone else.

I am not here to change your minds about my kind, I doubt I can, but I am here to tell you how to defend yourself none the less, in some small hope that it might save some lives, and redeem us in some way. Defend yourself, not kill us. You have no more right to do that than I have to kill any one of you.

[ Eric steps toward the desk, and picks up a silver chain from just in front of the NV. He raises it a little higher, so that the light glints against it, and so it can be seen. It burns his skin violently where it touches him, a hissing steam, leaving red welts behind where he trickles it across his fingers. ]

Silver. A vampire, at least a vampire from my world, can be paralysed with silver, or at least driven off. Wear it close about your neck, or around your wrists.

[ He doesn't mention that vampires like himself or Godric would be difficult to beat with silver alone. Too old, too fast. It'd have to be a lot of silver. A lot. He dropped the chain without a word more, working his painful fingers. All that matters is the illusion of being a helpful member of society.  ]

Better still, stay at home. A vampire cannot enter without invitation.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-26 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Dying here isn't as permanent as you'd think. He'll recover.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-26 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't count on it.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-26 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If he came back, who's to say it wouldn't happen all over again?
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
The same way it happened this time. You can't rule it out.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
How would you do it?
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I see he didn't pick you for your creativity.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
He'll pull himself out of it. That's the point.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's always hardest the first time.

I won't let anything happen to him, Eric. It may not look like it, but things aren't out of control. He's still following rules we set up before all this happened.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Godric and I. He works for me. He protects certain assets; even now, he's protecting them. So his mind isn't entirely gone.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
No. He chose to.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
He protects certain things. People, mostly. I pay him for it.
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[personal profile] thelightbringer 2012-02-27 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
As opposed to a tavern owner? That's a might big glass house you're casting stones from, Eric.