[Royal Guard] Vampire confirmed

[Tom Long]

Unto Arms-Sergeant Kirin Arnise,

With the untimely and unfortunate lapse in health of your Lieutenant, I 
have been asked to supervise the 3rd Platoon as well as my own District 
in the Wharf for a few days. Some manner of Khtarpan fever, I have 
heard, and while serious, should not stand up to the faith of this 
city's priests for over long.

Upon reviewing your report dated 5. II. 477., I have issued you, 
attached to this memorandum, a number of sheets of parchment, no doubt 
to the chagrin of our Civilian Aides and logistics officers in the New 
City Guardhouse.

The first is a Bank Note worth ten crowns should you incur any expenses 
in your search for one 'Winter,' a strongly suspected Vampiress. The 
second is an order for the Guardhouse armouries to provide whatever 
stakes, holy water, and other special armaments you may need to 
requisition.

In case you were wondering, Arms-Sergeant, you have hereby been 
instructed to form a small lance and solve this particular vampire problem.

I have spoken to the Commanders and cleared the deal. You have the 
authority to draw a few specialists off their normal patrol routes over 
the next two weeks, preferably not for the entirety of that two weeks. 
You have the authority to interview and recruit said specialists as you 
see fit, with the proper pleasantries to their individual Sergeants and 
Lieutenants. You have the authority to hold command over this lance 
(even over those equal to your rank), and use it to arrest or destroy 
the suspected Vampiress wanted for the murder of a citizen of Arangoth.

That's done for your commands and authority.

For recommendations, I have several. First that you append your 
memorandums with your proper rank and not a shortened version thereof. 
You are a man-at-arms serving in the Royal Guard of Arangoth, Arnise, 
and not a man-at-spells and not simply a man.

Secondly, and more appropriate to your case, I advise that you specify 
further the victims of serious crimes in excess of two-letter names 
without patronymic or family sobriquet. I understand that you expected 
the Lieutenant to whom you were reporting to know the details of this 
case, but I would again advise you to be more thorough, whatever the 
tightpurses at headquarters thinks of your parchment use.

On the subject of your hunt itself, I strongly recommend that you obtain 
the services of a New City Guard with commission or just below, to act 
as a liason with that arm of our force that finds itself on the brighter 
side of the Iron Gate.* Wherever you spend your off-hours, you cannot 
know the wealthier neighbourhoods, their inhabitants, and their local 
Guardsmen, nearly as well as can a bobble* who works there. Should said 
Guard outrank you, you shall still hold field command, however - unless 
he or she chooses to remove you from it at utmost end of need. Finally, 
in light of your injuries, I recommend you staff your lance with good 
close fighters, and stay well-back of any melee, relying on your faith 
and command skills rather than your not unlimited constitution.

I don't need to reinforce the dangers of this assignment, Arms-Sergeant. 
Drache's encounters with vampires have been many, but a good deal of 
them are short in the tooth, fresh off their death and infection, and 
rarely having the cunning and deadliness of a hurnatod with many years 
behind it. Some of them, I understand, can gain new and frightening 
powers with age. Your first duty is to this city and your King, 
Arms-Sergeant, but your second is to your men. If you feel you are not 
fully prepared to face this nightmare, do not engage. It may be a good 
idea, therefore, to take along a messenger - one of our smaller 
Guardsmen, perhaps - in order to call the full fury of the Rampant 
Dragon* down upon your prey upon cornering it.

Contact me, or your regular CO, should he return to duty, if you have 
any other needs.

Good luck.

Me enxenim,

Arms-Lieutenant Soon ul-Xeo Kadmos,
Xiunlan Quarter, Wharf Garrison
---------------------------------

* The Iron Gate stands as the sole portal between the New City (The 
Blkdragon, Temple, Market and suburban districts) and the Old City (The 
Wharf, Red Lantern, Back Alley)
*'Bobble' or 'Bob' are both slang terms for Royal Guardsmen, coming from 
'Bobire', the Arangothian word for such.
*The Royal Guard's symbol is a Rampant Dragon, natch.


Jason scherer wrote:
> MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
> fifth day of the second month of the year.
>
> Still recovering from recent wounds I have investigated further into the 
> matriarch vampire that seems to have gone un-noticed in the city. I do not 
> hunt undead with the same ferver I hunt and banish the damned Tan`ari and 
> Bateezu but this is a matter of murder. Ni is now slain and the vampire 
> known to me as Winter has stepped forward and claimed the honor as her own. 
> While she protests a desire to stay neutral and undetected her crimes must 
> be answered. I write this not as a call to arms upon her, since that is a 
> given, she will greet the dawn of the new day soon enough, I write this to 
> give fair warning. She is an extremely ancient vampire and should only be 
> confronted in great number. Before action be taken I would call upon my 
> fellow guardsmen to meet and discuss a plan of action, she lives in daylight 
> and it is not quite 100% that she is indeed a vampire. If possible she 
> should be taken alive unless she exposes herself. Crimes of this nature, 
> especially by the creatures of the night must NOT be tolerated, too often 
> have we the mortal men and women of the realm been victem of the undead, the 
> demon, the devil.
> Nothing else follows.
>
> Sgt. Arnise, Kirin
> 3rd Platoon Wharf Garrison.
>
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