Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: SMS27538@vax1.utulsa.edu
Subject: [KB][BIOVAMP] Introducing the Bio-Vampires
Message-ID: <940110141511.2060c058@vax1.utulsa.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 20:12:41 GMT


     Kitsune had been travelling around the woods near Generica
for a few hours and had become lost in his own thoughts.
     "It took some doing," he wondered. "but I got the gift for Fire.



     She's so much like... like.. her..., like both of them." He
flinched as painful memories involuntarily rose to the surface of
his consciousness. A tear trickled down Kitsune's eye.  "It's been
many centuries, and I still can't forget them." He knelt down in prayer.
"Listen my nearest to my heart, I miss you very much. Perhaps one day
I shall see you both again."

     As Kitsune rose to his feet, the hairs on the back of his
head began to prickle and a small shiver ran down his spine. He
turned to look behind him, but saw nothing. Quietly he crouched
down and pulled himself out of his thoughts. Then he noticed that the
forest was silent.  There was no sound of birds singing, or
squirrels rustling in the branches of the trees. Then, partially
out of instinct, he began the change.
     His hair changed from black to brown then to red, and it
spread across his body. His ears extended, moving nearer to the
top of his head. His nose grew, lengthening into a snout. His
arms and legs began to shorten, and his body began to shrink.
Soon he was transformed into a fox.
     
     "Now," he thought, "let's take a look at what's going on."

A sniff of air was all he needed to alert him to the source of
the dangers. Humans, the sent was unmistakable. Two of them from
what he could sort out, but one of them had a tinge of something
strange in his scent.
     
     The fox circled around, behind the danger, and watched on. 

     There were two men by the road, one circling the other.  Kitsune was
standing by the remains of a campsite, and from the marks ands smells, he could
tell that they these men had been sleeping there recently. There was a
makeshift tent that had fallen down. From the looks of things, these two men
bandits. Since there were only two it seem likely that they were here to signal 
the other when a easy target passed by. The camp was well hidden, and provided
an excellent view of the road, so Kitsune entered it. Then suddenly first man 
leaped at the second, delivering a blow like a sledge hammer, cracking the 
other man's skull.... ...instant death. It was to late for Kitsune to help.

     The killer leaned over his victim, bending down to bit him
on the neck. Kitsune was confused. "He hasn't the smell of the
undead, I know what a vampire smells like. Is he some kind of
fanatic. But his strength was supernatural. I'd best strike now,
while he is feeding, and therefore vulnerable."

     In an instant, Kitsune changed back to his human form. Grabbing a.
piece of wood that had been used as a stake, he moved in with lightning
quickness. The stake reached its mark, piercing the heart
through the rib-cage; Kitsune could thank both skill and luck for his success. 
"I just hope he's a clasic western vampire, like Dracula." Kitsune thought
"If he's an Anne Rice vampire, I'm in deep trouble."
     
     Then, he saw it. He hadn't noticed it in fox form, but now
that he could see colors more clearly and had a closer view, he
discovered that the "man" he had killed had a greenish tinge over
his body. "What is this," he mused, "looks like it could be a
fungal infection of some sort. Athlete's body wouldn't be far off
judging from the way he moved."

     He scraped a sample from the man's skin, being careful not
to touch the infection himself, placing it in a small container.

     He began to cast a spell on the sample, in an attempt to
determine its nature, but the energy he used to cast the spell
was sucked up by the fungus like a sponge. 
     By examining the body, Kitsune discovered that the "vampire"
had actual fangs.
	"Well this is just great," though Kitsune "I don't have the energy to a
plane where medicine is good enough to find a cure, and by the time I 
recouperate. Kitsune, for an old fox, you can be very foolish, wasting all that
energy just to get Fire a saxiphone. Now how am I going to explain fungal 
infections to these people? I guess I'll have to find an old fashion herbal
cure, never was very good with futuristic medicine anyway. If I can reach 
Etarus'tu, I could enlist Hananiwa's aid.""

[ADMIN: Note, these new "bio-vampires" I have created, our for
the use of anyone who wants to include them in a thread. If you
will send me e-mail at Sms27538@vax1.utulsa.edu or
seebass@hpc1.utulsa.edu.
        I will fill you in on some more details about the
infection. I am trying to create a thread element, rather than a
thread itself. Ideally I would like the bio-vampires to show up
in other peoples thread (perhaps as a side plot) rather than for
a thread in and of themselves, they should gradually cause
problems, until they get to the point where something has to be
done about it.]


"Back in Soochow we grow men so big that their heads brush the clouds and while
their feet are planted on the ground."(said by a Thug)
"Indeed? In my humble village," said Master Li sweetly, "we grow men so big that
their upper lips lick the stars and their lower lips nuzzle the earth."
The thug thought about it. "And where were their bodies?"
"They were like you," said Master Li, "All mouth."
-----Bridge of Birds.