[ApatheticFoxboy]

This Post In a Nutshell: Rudy continues the convo from last night. Flashes to the present where Rudy uses Assassinate on Weeping Willie.

"Long ago, I wasn't a vampire. I could cross any ocean in the world without fear." A ember busted in the fire. It gave Rudy a start. "Ridiculous, I am deadly afraid of fires, the ocean. I have nightmares of falling overbroad and being swallowed Levitation scale waves. Damn Grandfather Douglas's Curse! They call us Data Leeches, that we're a bane to the sacred Divine Data. Enough is what I say."

He pulled a letter addressed from Grandfather Douglas from his pack. "This is why I'm here. A blasted contract nobody can make tails of. It mentions a lot of messed up things. Red Island being one of them. On this island, more than any other in the Archipelago, is the key to reversing my vampirism. The more I hear about the Dimentia Shroud, the more I quiver."

"You're not the only one who's stupid." He took the choker and twirled it on his finger. "Those thrills you describe ring true with my nature as well. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much self-control I think I have, I do the most terrible things. How many combatants do you know who actually maul their opponents? But Nyam, she is truly a blessing. So devoted and so willing. And with you following her on this mission, I feel invincible."
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Cautious Rudy treaded the terrifying trek of petrified carnage. Swords littered the earth like a thousand exclamations points. When Nyam reported back to the main group, Rudy walked straight up to the frenzied scout. "Nyam, you're much too hard on yourself." After seeing the bloody spot of gore she had left brutalizing the bat thing, he crouched excitedly over the corpus. "This is great work. I swear you've ripped apart every vital organ that thing had!" He wadded his feet into the stained grass painting them red. Grabbing a bloody stump that had once been a wing, he held it above his head and let a few drops spill into his greedy mouth.

"Yeah, that quenches better than any energy drink in the whole Archipelago." The fired up Rusher rushed to Assassinate the first enemy he saw.

The unfortunate victim was the barely human Weeping Willie. His red feet hardly touched the blades of green between the gore and the stocky By-Product. Rudy seized the Weeping Willie by its thin neck and crashed it against the trunk of the nearest tree. His jaw unhinged revealing several rows of shredding teeth. Bringing his razor fangs down, the Weeping Willie's bulb head separated from its stalk body.