Thread: Magpie's 1x1 Search mm/ff/mf

RE Magpie's Search mmffmf Stalking Darkness Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live insides of us, and sometimes, they win. -- Stephen King Monster, or vampires at least, are real. They stalk the world as they have for mellenia. While some have formed clans and Great Houses that make some attempts to coexist with humans many more still wander the world, barely more than feral creatures focused solely on feeding and making more of their kind. Standing somewhere between the two are the Walkers. When a vampire turns a human there is a small chance that the victim's body will reject the change. If it happens too soon the human will die but in later stages of the change it stalls the process, leaving behind a being who is not quite living and not quite living dead. Called Walkers these beings straddle the divide between human and vampires but never quite belong to either world. Although they bare weaknesses from both side they can be as strong and fast as a newly turned vampire with senses as sharp they are still mostly human in body. Mind is another matter. Rejecting the change late enough to survive gives vamipric instincts a chance to gain a foot hold in the human mind but not enough for the mental strength to take hold. Although Walkers are technically as imortal as their vampire cousins it is commonly understood that Walkers lives arn't often longer than those of humans. Eventually their minds break under the weight and whispers of their vampiric natures and the others of their kind put them down. Although Walkers have never truly had a place in any world some centuries ago they carved out a semblance of a niche for themselves in the vampiric underworld. Gathering together to form clans of their own they call covens Walkers have taken up hunting down feral vampires that break the laws of the Great Houses. Part vigilanties, part bounty hunters, and part death seekers they scrape out a living in the gap between life and death. Plot One One Winged Angels We are each of us but one winged angels and we must embrace another in order to fly. The Falling Coven in New York city has the highest death rate of any American Coven. Covering the entierty of Manhattan Island with only a few dozen members and head quartered in the rafters of a cathedral off central park they are over worked and undervalued by the few who even know they exist. Life is hard, the nights are long and frozen. But life within their headquarters, nicknamed The Roost, is warmer than most would think. Shared danger and hardship has forged the Walkers of the Falling Coven into a close nit family fighting together to keep the night at bay just a little bit longer. But as winter approaches and the nights get longer and a new threat appears on the streets a series of omens herald a new union between two coven members and a battle that will test the bonds of the coven. Plot two By Any Other Name A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. A cage with silver bars is still a cage . b The Twilight Garden is the most exclusive host club in Tokyo. Populating the top floor and roof of the Sunset Tower, a equally exclusive skyscrapper of condos and office spaces home to the club's hosts, to most it remains only a rumor. Like the Walkers who serve as hosts and serving staff there The Twilight Garden straddles two worlds. With a clientel that is as often living dead as it is living, the main hosts actually Japan's Elite Response Team, the so called Gardener who manages the club an ex samurai who died in the late nineteenth century, and supposedly anything the hosts could want, except a way out, at their fingertips life for the Roses of the Twilight Garden is anything but ordinary.