first experiment; 9:53 PM

[originallutece]

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.

Comments

[originallutece]

By all means.

Though I'm curious . . . I suppose death of blood loss wasn't a medically documented thing in your world, was it?

[pure_havoc]

Oh, it certainly happened, I have seen it myself. But our physicians, as enlightened as some were said to be, were not aware that one could replace the blood once lost. That is, in all honesty, an astonishing accomplishment from my point of view.

[originallutece]

Science marches ever onward, I suppose.

What was the year when you died?

[pure_havoc]

That is a somewhat difficult date to pin down. I am not entirely sure due to circumstances.

But I accepted the resignation of the Han Emperor in the Year of the Shang 2918. So that would make it sometime after 2900 or so, give or take.

[he has no idea how that corresponds to the present year of literally anyone in Beacon, good luck there]

[originallutece]

[She has virtually no idea when that is, alas.]

My studies are vast, but I'm afraid studying the east is an enormous gap in my knowledge. I'd be interested in hearing more of your world.

[pure_havoc]

[ancient calendars are a pain, it's true]

Then I shall tell you what I can, when I visit. It should be shortly, it's not as though I have much else to be doing at the moment.