Post by Cassie on Jun 15, 2010 16:19:08 GMT -5
Alnwick Academy for Boys and Girls is a prestigious boarding school located in the hills of Romania, far away from the distractions of modern suburbia.
We will tell you countless reasons for you to send your precious children to our institution, including our incredibly high acceptance rates of graduates into Ivy League universities, the impressive academic accomplishments of each and every one of our professors, the scenic beauty of its remote location, and that it will come at absolutely no cost to you, because your child, chosen from thousands of prospective students, will receive a full scholarship for their education and board.
We won’t tell you that approximately ten percent of the student body is not human - they’re vampires, as is the entire faculty. More… evolved vampires, of course, who don’t spontaneously combust at the mere mention of sunlight.
We will tell you (with the cooperation of the police, of course) that your child, unfortunately, was involved in a tragic car accident - the taxi they took hit an eighteen wheeler head on and caught fire, and, knocked unconscious, your child died and their body (which will be returned to you) was burnt beyond recognition, besides via dental records. We are, of course, very sorry for your loss and offer our most heartfelt condolences.
We won’t, of course, tell you that your child is very much still alive. We need them that way, because here at Alnwick, we’re beginning an experiment. We won’t tell you, of course, that not all vampires like the taste of fear in the blood of their victims. Each vampire has different likes and dislikes, just like human taste buds - some emotions are generally considered “good” and others are generally considered “bad”, though there are, naturally, some exceptions. We at Alnwick want to unearth the effect of different tastes on the development of the strength of a vampire- which makes us stronger, what we like or dislike. Not that we’ll tell you any of this.
For this experiment, it’s vital to have a closed environment, a place we can monitor and contain, where we can control every variable. What better environment than a very remote, very private academy in the middle of nowhere, far away from the United States and the homes of the students, with no land lines, no cell phone service, and incredibly slow, incredibly unreliable postal services. And what better age human to be our guinea pigs than teenagers, who are so easily overwhelmed by high school drama and their own hormones. And what better opportunity for a handful of vampires who appear to be the same age to create whatever drama they need to create whatever emotion we need for our experiment.
Oh, don’t fret, we don’t kill any of the students unless absolutely necessary - for example, if they start to catch on, or try to escape a few many times. Our blood collecting process presents virtually no risk to the human subjects. When they have been deemed to be most heavily under the influence of emotion, we secretly give them a sedative with their dinner to ensure that they do not awaken during the process. Then, once the human enters the dream state, the vampire forms a mental link with the human and enters the dream themselves, interacting with the human subject in order to elicit whatever emotion they are harvesting. The vampire then exits the dream and drinks the human’s blood for approximately half a minute, which will ensure that they secrete enough venom into the subject to heal the bite wound, but not so much that the human immune system cannot process and eliminate the venom (which would instigate their own transformation to the vampire state).
We won’t tell you that our calculations are incorrect and that, over the course of months and years, the vampire venom that isn’t eliminated builds up and, albeit slowly, really does instigate such a transformation. We won’t tell you this because we haven’t told you anything else about our experiments or the true nature of Alnwick. We also won’t tell you because we’ve yet to discover it ourselves.
We won’t tell you much of anything about the truth, honestly. You can go on thinking whatever you like about us, if we’re evil or charming or sparkly, if we exist or don’t exist. You’re probably wrong.
No matter what Hollywood may have taught you, we don’t all likethe taste of fear
We will tell you countless reasons for you to send your precious children to our institution, including our incredibly high acceptance rates of graduates into Ivy League universities, the impressive academic accomplishments of each and every one of our professors, the scenic beauty of its remote location, and that it will come at absolutely no cost to you, because your child, chosen from thousands of prospective students, will receive a full scholarship for their education and board.
We won’t tell you that approximately ten percent of the student body is not human - they’re vampires, as is the entire faculty. More… evolved vampires, of course, who don’t spontaneously combust at the mere mention of sunlight.
We will tell you (with the cooperation of the police, of course) that your child, unfortunately, was involved in a tragic car accident - the taxi they took hit an eighteen wheeler head on and caught fire, and, knocked unconscious, your child died and their body (which will be returned to you) was burnt beyond recognition, besides via dental records. We are, of course, very sorry for your loss and offer our most heartfelt condolences.
We won’t, of course, tell you that your child is very much still alive. We need them that way, because here at Alnwick, we’re beginning an experiment. We won’t tell you, of course, that not all vampires like the taste of fear in the blood of their victims. Each vampire has different likes and dislikes, just like human taste buds - some emotions are generally considered “good” and others are generally considered “bad”, though there are, naturally, some exceptions. We at Alnwick want to unearth the effect of different tastes on the development of the strength of a vampire- which makes us stronger, what we like or dislike. Not that we’ll tell you any of this.
For this experiment, it’s vital to have a closed environment, a place we can monitor and contain, where we can control every variable. What better environment than a very remote, very private academy in the middle of nowhere, far away from the United States and the homes of the students, with no land lines, no cell phone service, and incredibly slow, incredibly unreliable postal services. And what better age human to be our guinea pigs than teenagers, who are so easily overwhelmed by high school drama and their own hormones. And what better opportunity for a handful of vampires who appear to be the same age to create whatever drama they need to create whatever emotion we need for our experiment.
Oh, don’t fret, we don’t kill any of the students unless absolutely necessary - for example, if they start to catch on, or try to escape a few many times. Our blood collecting process presents virtually no risk to the human subjects. When they have been deemed to be most heavily under the influence of emotion, we secretly give them a sedative with their dinner to ensure that they do not awaken during the process. Then, once the human enters the dream state, the vampire forms a mental link with the human and enters the dream themselves, interacting with the human subject in order to elicit whatever emotion they are harvesting. The vampire then exits the dream and drinks the human’s blood for approximately half a minute, which will ensure that they secrete enough venom into the subject to heal the bite wound, but not so much that the human immune system cannot process and eliminate the venom (which would instigate their own transformation to the vampire state).
We won’t tell you that our calculations are incorrect and that, over the course of months and years, the vampire venom that isn’t eliminated builds up and, albeit slowly, really does instigate such a transformation. We won’t tell you this because we haven’t told you anything else about our experiments or the true nature of Alnwick. We also won’t tell you because we’ve yet to discover it ourselves.
We won’t tell you much of anything about the truth, honestly. You can go on thinking whatever you like about us, if we’re evil or charming or sparkly, if we exist or don’t exist. You’re probably wrong.
No matter what Hollywood may have taught you, we don’t all likethe taste of fear
