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[cryptsleeper]

The only answer that I have is to the last one: it is not.

Their vampires reproduce not by turning, but through traditional means. There are entire families.

[He's got emotions, Hector. So many contradictory ones.]

[petcromancer]

Damn.

Now I really must figure out how to get there. If they have actual generations, maybe they'll have a real, cohesive culture. That's basically non-existent back in our world.

[cryptsleeper]

Oh, my father's people had a culture, it is just supremely awful and built on power and backstabbing and one person managing to bring stability for a few centuries.

This is probably still going to have long, petty grudges, but there should be real art, music, and writing.

[petcromancer]

You know what I mean. A collaboration of assholes is a far cry from an established society.

So their borders are closed? I wonder if anyone comes and goes. I would pay good coin for their books.

[cryptsleeper]

A Collaboration? Is that the correct collective noun?

I don't know. The place is impossible to find recent information on, and that could be because of here or because of them. Do you remember if that damned castle had any passing mentions?

[petcromancer]

The point is there isn't a word for what they are, because they were barely a grouping. More like a single predator and the parasites that leech off it.

The library they let us access basically stopped at 'here there be dragons'. Enough to get me curious, but nothing substantial. Maybe Ambrose's personal library would yield more, but there's a chance the locals don't know much either.

[cryptsleeper]

I see my attempt at humor failed.

Mm, that does not suggest that there's other routes we can take at present. The only other matter I can find is that most of the books here note that none of the primary powers here are interested in...whatever goes on there.

[petcromancer]

Which is weird, right? You'd think they'd want to know what they're getting up to over there. Maybe it's willful ignorance.

[cryptsleeper]

Extremely. From what I can tell, it is a very old sort of fight. Maybe letting it go on prevents a fourth faction from having opinions about the Singularity?

[petcromancer]

The vampires have got to have opinions about the Singularity, though. I've yet to meet a vampire that didn't have opinions.

[cryptsleeper]

They may, but it isn't THE priority, it seems.

I don't have high hopes for finding more out at this point.

[petcromancer]

I'll keep an ear out for any word on them. Somebody has to know something.

[cryptsleeper]

Obliged, and I'll do the same.

...However, and if I may be blunt: you want to go to a place such as that, when you have such pronounced views regarding my father's people?

[petcromancer]

I dislike most people, too, but I still admit there are a few worth knowing. Besides, I'm not going to turn down an opportunity to study the ecological ramifications of a world of night because of my personal feelings.

[Science first, grudges second.]

[cryptsleeper]

Admirable. I don't think I could manage the same.