Thousand Year Old Vampire

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I will put this in the RPG Books, although it is not a Tactical RPG, it is a Journaling RPG.

In this style of play, you are challenged mentally to come up with stories and make a narrative out of the random events the book through at you.

In this particular book, your goal is to live for 1000 year as a vampire. The setting can be anywhere and start at any time.

I will write the narrative from my playthrough below as an example of what kind of content comes out of this kind of books.

I have lots of fun during these creative bursts, and even if the narrative is not good, or the written is poor, I still come out satisfied that I created something out of my own imagination. Some of those characters leave long term memories for me, I sometimes ponder about them when I gave an interesting view in real life.

How I write down the game, and try to connect it in a rational way. Forgive my English misspellings. :)

Age 20

I’m Gilberto Asturia, first son of Garibaldi of house Asturia, born in Asturia Castle in the 13th century of our world. I am a prominent local noble.

Currently, engaged due to circumstances.II met Natalia in a sword fighting Tournament, which I won and her hand was the prize.She is a notable noble from Asturia as well. And her family were looking for a strong match for her hand.

When I turned 20 years old, my father entrusted me, our house Regalias: the family blade and our family signet, which I use constantly to seal my official leathers that I wrote to our noble council.

But some strange thing happened that derailed my life. When I joined another tournament, a strange fellow also took part in it. Someone we rarely saw around, a person named Alucard challenged me to a duel, he pierced my heart with his sword.When I am about to die, he makes me drink his blood. I became an Immortal, but the wound never healed.

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MARK: Gap in my chest. Never heals. I always use black or dark red cloth to hide it.

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Not long after, one day I brought Pedro, my younger brother to the depths of our castle, to the burial chambers where the tombs of our ancestors lie. Then an uncontrollable blood-hunger thirsty strikes and I kill Pedro with our familie’s blade and feed. But Marvin, our gardner watched it in secret while hiding.

I ran in shame to my room, and I found Natalia waiting at my desk. In panic, covered in blood, I maul her, turning her into a monster like myself.

Marvin reveals himself and offers me his help with the healing of my condition, which I conveniently told him was through secret rituals. I convince him that I need pure virgin blood in order to heal. He secretly kidnaps them in order to feed me -such a nice guy.

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Some time later, my father finds out about Marvin. He interrogates and torture him. Marvin let it all out, about what I am, the virgins and about Pedro’s death. With no other option, I kill my father with our family’s blade to hide my secrets and free Marvin.

That night, my father appears to me in my dream and Curses me to always be in the darkness.

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MARK: Afraid of light.

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Age 28

In the end, it doesn't matter, somehow I’m exposed and I lose my title, my castle and my family’s name. I flee to distant lands, in Galicia, and adopt the name of Mateus.

All the while, Marvin follows me to Galibia.

In order to feed, I became a doctor (healer) in Galicia. Secretly getting blood through blood-letting practices. Unfortunately, I can’t remember much about Asturia anymore.

Age 128

Time passes, Marvin is dead. Of old age of course -would you think I killed him?. Oh Marvin, how the world changed. I wish you could see their weapons now, the tournaments…

Luna, my dumb nurse assistant steals my signet to sell for money. But I forgive her, it does not mean anything anymore. My family is gone and forgotten over a century ago.

I shall now retread into a secluded cave by the ocean, I shall feed from bats and leave humans to their own. Now in a cave, Marvin’s rituals proves effective without feeding on humans for a long time. The rituals power starts working.

Age 178

Someone finds my cave and finds me. I hunt them down through the woods and I kill some of them. But I DO NOT feed on them.

Matias, the hunter - wise pathfinder, but a fool for tracking me - is on my heels, he is aware that I only move at night, but to hide from them during day, I enter the ocean depths.

After some time, I go back into my old habits, I kill Matias and the last hunters, and this time, I Feed on their blood.

A few days later, I find a bottle ashore. It was sealed and contained a letter signed with my old signet ring. It had a map and it was written: “Always yours. N.”. I went to the place marked in the map and Natalia was there. She waited all those years, but only to kill me in revenge. Somehow, I managed to flee to Asturia.

Age 180

The sun is rising, to hide I break into a house in the streets of Asturia. A child is crying, by his side, his dead mother.

I never thought this could happen… I became a father by adopting Luca.

He likes the skies, together we start to study them avidly.

Age 200

I adopt a second son, Galileu. I raise him together with Luca, so he can be the brightest Astronomer that ever was.

Age 240

I am too old and people start to notice I don’t age. I never had a family and never stayed that long in a place before. I change my cloth, hair and adopt a new name: Marvin.

I also change my feeding methods and expand to several animals and I still do the rituals with them.

But all is in vain. I get exposed again. I run away to the edge of the world. I don’t understand their language, my new name is Kiri.

I start to collect dogs, they help to safeguard the property I live in while I sleep during the day. Our servant, Taka, takes good care of them.

Something change, I start to develop wings. I don’t know how, but I believe it must be my diet and all those bats.

Age 250

It can not be. I stumble on another foreigner young man. His name is Gilberto, son of Natalia of Asturia. I help him to settle on this new continent. May be I can se him to meet Natalia again…

I have certainty that Gilberto is my real son, born from Natalia and I, through our last fight somehow. He is identical to both of us, he must share our blood.

Natalia returns because Gilberto dans her a letter about me. At a glance, my disguise is over, she knows. I embrace her and Gilberto in a hug. The world goes dark, The End. (beheaded)