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first experiment; 9:53 PM

For our more vampiric population, I come to you with a solution for your dietary problems.

I've invented artificial blood. A substance you can consume without harming others, but that will sustain you much as food and water. I owe a debt to Elena for helping me test them.

Unfortunately, it cannot yet be used in a medical sense-- for blood transplants, which are, by the by, a very important part of medical knowledge, which makes up the second part of this announcement.

If you do not know your blood type, come see me, and I can at least determine it. Blood types are a vital bit of information in a place where one routinely gets cut to bits. Transfusing blood-- that is, the act of giving one's blood to another-- can save a life in many cases. However, if the wrong sorts of blood interact, the result can be deadly.

Many of you do not know your blood type. This will, inevitably, come back to bite you.

So. I suggest you come by my lab within the next few days and find out, before you nearly die of an injury, manage to make it back to town, and then die of your original blood sensing the invader and killing off the cells that came to theoretically heal you. What a horrible, ironic death that would be.

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Might just want to have everyone tell you or get typed anyway and keep it on file. Can't ask someone if they're already unconscious.

Type S, for your records.

So you tried to kill me twice?

There are different types of blood?

[She had no idea!]

I thought it was all just the same!

Are you an actual medical doctor and trained to do blood transfusions?

( this is weird. she's weirded out by this. she's been a vampire for going on four hundred years, and she's still never experienced anyone speaking about vampirism in such an open, blasè way. she'd think it were some kind of weird trap, if it weren't so hilariously obvious.

that said, if this is a trap, she's really going to kick herself for falling for it. )

what exactly is it made of?

How do you determine one's blood type?

It seems you may have to discover mine.

Oh! I know my blood type. My version of a blood type, I mean.

My arc fuel grade is R-100, Type Alpha.

I sometimes forget there was a time that not everyone knew.
AB+
I'm mostly telling you this to increase my chances of survival, so don't come calling unless you need an exact match.
Wouldn't work for anyone else anyway.

[Did he just imply he would actually help save someone's life??? Don't think too hard about it.]

I'll stop by later.
How are you feeling? Are you sure you should be working with those injuries?

I know my bloodtype. In case you want it on file or something?

What a fascinating concept. Medicine continues to advance, I see.

I have no idea what mine would be. I will visit you later to find out.

Needles make me woozy.

I've never had a blood transfusion or test before. But with the mount of times I've been bitten over the past few weeks it might be a good idea to find out now.

You also might want to see how my blood reacts to others. My mother was mortal, but my father was a god and I'm not sure if that will have an effect or not.

AB. Can't remember if it's positive or negative though if that's important for transfusions.

My blood type is AB, but I don't know if that's positive or negative.

[Normally he'd dismiss this, but she does have a point.]

Where would I be able to find your lab? Is that information in the tablet?

Blood transplants. Like putting someone's blood in another person? Never had to do anything like that before to anyone in my court. But we have mentors who do healing magic, so maybe we didn't need it.

What if I'm not human?

[There are types of blood?]

Sure thing...

How are you going to figure out what type I have?

[ ftr kol, a vampire and one of the first in his world, is not answering this because he felt the beacon all of the word "vampire" being used. (denial is sweet.) ]

How did you test this allegedly harmless artificial blood?

Waaaaaait wait wait wait. Artificial blood??

Uh you gotta tell me more like immediately? You said you can't use it for transfusions though so are you absolutely positive it's blood technically?

[So much of this post makes her very uneasy.]

How many vampires are there here, exactly? Why are you the one collecting this information?

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@silent

@darkness

@missprincessmary, voice

@hux

@elvira, private.

@javert, private

@daylit.