1st hunt | video

[momchester]

[The video starts a bit awkwardly, with the shakycam and fumbling of someone who isn't very practiced at the art of video chatting. A late-20-something woman's face is up close, clearly trying to figure out "how does I tech". After some fumbling, the camera stills and she sits back, looking a bit awkward.]

Okay. So, I guess this is what people do here. Calling the Internet using cameras.

[She looks too young and modern to be so fail at technology.]

Anyway- hi. I'm new.

Let's just say I didn't go to the, um, shitshow today- Thank God... Let's say I'm not gonna register. Don't wanna put on tights and fight crime, or whatever.

What're my options? Learn to knit? [There are at least three (3) guns visible in the video. She does not look like a knitter.] Start a [air quotes] "blog"?

I can't exactly do what I did back home- no monsters to hunt. No day job to go back to.

I kinda don't know what to do with myself.

Comments

[momchester]

A few.

[What a can of "once caught a fish this big" you've opened, Jake.]

The Campbells were chopping heads off of vamps all the way back on the Mayflower.

[9544]

[ He's into it. Tell him all your stories. ]

I mean, I guess vamps have probably been around for longer than that, so yeah. The story checks out.

Ooh - who's the most badass vampire you've ever smoked? Was his name Dracula? Did a Dracula ever exist?

[momchester]

[She laughs a little.]

I don't think there was ever a Dracula. A lot of that "lore" is wrong.

Most badass vamp? [She bites her lip in thought.] Um... well, back home, we were going after the Alpha vamp soon, but we hadn't tracked him down just yet.

[9544]

Oh man, he is good. [ Beat. ] Not that I know anything about your abilities, and I'm totally just gathering this based on the fact that you've been this gig all your life, and for generations.

[ But clearly she knows her shit.

And this is a whole new world Jake is learning about, because about ten minutes ago he didn't really believe this stuff could actually exist. ]

Alpha vamp? Sounds terrifying. How old must that guy be?

[momchester]

Oh- millennia, at least. He's the first vampire ever created, and is connected to all of them. Almost like their vampire god.

[9544]

Vampire god? [ A god of vampires. Ughhhhh why is this reality??? ] How is there a vampire god? Jeez. Okay, so what happens if he dies? Do the rest of them die too?

This is crazy. Is this real? [ Don't mind the mild freakout. ] The world is a scary place.

[momchester]

My world. [Quick with the correction.] It might not be the same one as yours. Even if it is- then you know the world's full of people like me, who know. Who hunt them, so people like you can sleep at night.

[9544]

Man, do us normies owe you a debt of gratitude.

[ Seriously.

Maybe he better check under his bed next time, just to be sure there aren't creepy-crawlies living under there without his knowing.

(He hasn't done that since he was six.) ]

Are there a lot of guys like you? Like big task forces? Factions? A top-secret department somewhere in DC?

You ever heard of the Men in Black? Are they real, too?

[momchester]

[Okay, Jake, Mary officially likes you.]

Men in Black?

OH. Is that the alien movie?

[Someone missed out on 33 years of pop culture.]

[9544]

Uh-huh. [ Affirmative on the alien movie. ] Oh, man. If they're real too, then it's like the whole world I know is a lie.

[ But -- ]

A glorious lie.