Response 042
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Severely lacking in all aspects. (Especially support).
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Lack of real people/Mentoring programs for initiates!!! We want to fully embrace who we are, and lead our
lifestyle to its full potential. WE NEED TO PASS ON THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE TO THE NEXT
GENERATION! I am not fully awakened...where are those looking to teach and mentor?! We all need guides
and real experience. We can practice, but Having one who knows and has lived this way in ones life is Best!!
b. Lack of events/social interactions/classes. LOCAL.
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I am openly looking for a Mentor. To live my life to my full potential. I am not fully awakened. I would like a
concrete guide on my journey. (Local and able). The knowledge of our past and our culture and the proper ways
need to shared with the next generation, or lost. Procuring a Mentor is not for pleasure sake, but necessity. We
have a need, we are gifted. We cannot let ourselves fall into disarray because of lack of know-how in being our
full selves, in using powers we inherently possess. (Energy work/healing/psyche). (In regards to #8, I cannot be
concerned about politics when I am only a solitary initiate here. Politics are the least of my concern. I respect
my elders but will not have them lording over me. And as far as ethics go, there is a basic form, true, but Ethics
themselves are perceived differently by each person. I would follow what I am comfortable with following, but
must still be true to myself! Your last question seems to be, like, multiple choice, with only two options. This
isn't a black and white world. If you're asking if I'm here in pursuit of duty, or pleasure-its both. BALANCE. I
need to have my needs met, that's why their called needs! And I need to socialize to find my people! I can't be
involved in my community without socializing and getting involved first! I have NO appointed role, I simply
AM...and I do not like bickering, or drama)
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am not an expert. And my skills vary dependant on tasks set before me. Apologies. Everything is relative-I
wish this question was more specific. I have used everything I am and have at my disposal to help others and
my earth. Growing up, I volunteered A LOT at RiverSide Rest Home. And the old Seymour Osman community
center. I spent a lot of my free time involved in my community from a very young age. I was a member of City
Years Young Heroes and I got President Bush's award for exceeding 100 hours of community service in Middle
school. Food banks, helping children with homework (and after school minor sports), cleaning community,
raising money, serving food for events, monitoring/organizing school events and local community events from
within the Seymour Osman Community Center. Community service lessoned after high school. I've been
working my whole life.. and supporting myself for as long as I can remember.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: The ones with the most knowledge, and humility. With a desire to serve and strive for a
better community. Not power hungry or maniacal or seeking to control others... free spirited, with a hunger for
knowledge and community fulfillment.
b. Eradicated Resource: ?? Freedom of speech and expression entitles us to post what we desire. It’s not my
right to wish any gone. It’s the attitude of certain peoples that I would like to see changed. but for all my desire,
they are themselves and their lives are their own. I would like to see any hate or mis-information eradicated.
c. Severe Admonishment: For humors sake? Christians... any religion or religious dogma that seeks to control
and judge rather than educate, love and liberate.
d. Torture & Burning: No one should have ever been tortured or burnt alive. I can understand such acts when
actively in war... but not for ways of life and personal beliefs. If someone was harming my own, then
appropriate action should be taken by those organized with goal. Torture is only really effective if it serves a
purpose, to gain information to prevent greater harm, or if both partners mutually consent and its done in a
BDSM context.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 043
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The (online) community has fragmented virtually and become a playground on social networks (facecrack),
moving away from the safer venues of communication (e.g. forums). Can't judge the offline community.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Facebook / publicity
b. Privacy issues due to the NSA and assorted data gathering clubs - a focus on higher privacy and better
security would be needed, but the general lack of knowledge/attention given to these matters is horrifying.
c. Lack of discussion outside of social networking sites.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Networking IRL
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Uhm... history, mythology, dealing with blood issues, blood feeding techniques?
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Me, myself and the beast within. Plus my trusty sidekicks, which I'd choose randomly
from the available minions.
b. Eradicated Resource: Nothing! More misdirection would be amusing, though.
c. Severe Admonishment: Psivamps. You can't see them coming! :)
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 044
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Maintaining status quo but have to keep status a secret.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Not enough communication between members.
b. List of donors hard to find or not available.
c. Lack of communication about what vampyre leadership is doing.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
List of active donors in my area and how to reach them.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Investigative skills, also be a strong support structure for those in need of someone to talk to.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Father Sebastiaan
b. Eradicated Resource: Ordo Strigoi Vii
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
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Response 045
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Amazing and I am deep into the life and world.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Why do I feel so out of place in the regular world when I feel so right in this one?
b. Can someone be more then one specific race in our community?
c. Where can I find my teacher and my home were I feel needed welcomed and wanted I am eager to understand
who and what I am?
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Five (5)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Help me find my place in the community teach me to control my feelings help me grow and learn and be apart
of this world were I strongly feel I belong to find a mentor would be great but to find my knowledge would be
even greater but I believe I can do both with a teacher or teachers I’m willing and read to learn where it is I
belong.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Anything I have learned I’m happy to share.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: I am uncertain only because I and we ALL still learning some have more knowledge then
others but I would say none we should all be on equal terms and willing to teach and share what we know for
the good of who and what we are there is no right or wrong answer because to choose would cause chaos
amongst everyone and all the race that are here and there it should be perhaps voted on and the unity of the
community should all be involved this is our future we all has some of it in our hands..
b. Eradicated Resource: I can not answer that for I do not know I am still learning in truth.
c. Severe Admonishment: Those who seek to do us harm only.
d. Torture & Burning: None, no one should burn for something they do not understand they must be taught
not destroyed.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
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Response 046
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The community is in much progress.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Lack of communication.
b. A more detailed description of the community.
c. There needs to be more communication between vampires in the community.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
To exchange more ideas and meet more people within the community that are like minded.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Skills and expertise in magick and spirituality.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Some of the trustworthy and elder people of groups.
b. Eradicated Resource: Anything disregarding real vampirism.
c. Severe Admonishment: Ones that don't promote anything in a positive manner.
d. Torture & Burning: None aha...
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
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Response 047
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I remain only loosely associated with the online community I frequent. I find myself questioning the validity of
younger members and even some of the older ones. Not wanting to be a negative influence on their search for
answers, it's easier to be absent from the scene when I am not feeling pleasant and agreeable.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. In my own community, the lack of predetermined topics as guides for conversation leaves the floor open to
digressing into people's problems and it becomes therapy instead of support group.
b. Young sanguine vampires "looking forward to their first feeding" like it's some kind of right of passage into
our "club" or something.
c. Just because you like to lick blood doesn't mean you are a vampire.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I would like to see more fun activities and specific discussions when I meet up with my virtual community, not
just sitting around in each others virtual company waiting for something to spark up interesting conversation.
Why can't we get together and have fun as well as provide information and support? Right now, the only
persons I really known in my group are the two "leaders" and while I've tried to initiate topics of discussion in
the past, they seem to prefer the less active, sit around and wait for conversation to happen format. I find it very
boring and pointless to make time for, despite it being the only group I feel comfortable coming to because I
know the leaders.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I'm a Writer. I also do some graphics and website design. While I understand very clearly the different between
real vampires and the Roleplay, I do enjoy the roleplay and am an Admin/Storyteller for two different Roleplays
involving traditional fictional vampires.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: PsyVamps, or any with Empathic abilities. We can be adept at discovering lies.
b. Eradicated Resource: I don't know of any I feel that way about.
c. Severe Admonishment: Haven of Kindred Spirits. I don't know their current status, but in the past they
showed a severe lack of tolerance for younger members, even driving or kicking members under 30 years of age
out of their organization.
d. Torture & Burning: I don't know of any I feel that way about.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 048
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Increasingly political. As ranks close, those marginalized are fleeing the community.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Dogma promoted over research and discussion.
b. Inefficient adaptation to social media, and subsequent declining resources.
c. Disorganization of essential social functions.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Well... I'm trying to build some of those for the community.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am one of relatively few who is actively researching the metaphysical aspects of real vampirism, and
publishing what I find. I've been able to help a number of vampires with issues of that type.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: vampirewebsite.net
c. Severe Admonishment: RK Coon and his entourage
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 049
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
As silly as it's always been . . . maybe a little sillier.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Education
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Doesn't matter . . . no one listens to me anyway, LOL!!
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Etu Malku
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. -
b. -
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Response 050
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
A year of changes & losses. Ending of a House. Death of friend. VC affected by poor economic climate. Poor
health. Positives balance by new relationships & friendships. A chance for new beginnings.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Significant health problems, specific to Vampyre.
b. Increase of prejudice against Vampyres.
c. Economic climate.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Research into the specific physical & mental health problems of the Vampyre. From such as pregnancy
problems to that of increasing health problems as age & emotional distress.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Empath. Tarot reader. Reiki practitioner. Mental health professional. counselor. Wise Oracle. Social law skills.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: UN. Or Catholic Church - got previous form.
b. Eradicated Resource: Anything with pictures of cats.
c. Severe Admonishment: Energy Utilities. Or The Tories.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
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Response 051
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
It's a way for me to contact other vampires in order to learn more about my vampirism. It's a darker part of
myself that I want to learn more about and incorporate more into my life.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. -
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
It can help me by connecting me to others like me. But I have a particular fear of contacting others like me;
there are just some people who see vampirism too romantically. I want to meet REAL vampires, not the
roleplaying and fantasy kind.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I've been told I'm relatively relate-able and see things quite differently. I'm also good at finding interesting and
new information, and then using it to help others.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Vampires, especially the elders. Witches need to have a say as well, because of their
desires to maintain the balance in the universe. Leaders from various religions ought to be amongst them,
because religion does play a role in maintaining order.
b. Eradicated Resource: Twilight and anything related to it; it should never have existed.
c. Severe Admonishment: People who trash the community and seek out vampires to make their lives
miserable.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True & False
b. True
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Response 052
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Stagnant. It has not had any significant change other than increased media coverage for the past few years.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Status quo "this is what we are and how it has always been done" It leads to the stagnant quality.
b. Metaphysics vs. research. Yes, there is some metaphysics research but the vast majority tend toward a blasé
attitude about why we are as we are.
c. Lumping. Trying to bring everyone under the term "vampire" and then trying to make it fit everyone. It
doesn't and it won't. We can't keep defining everyone else. As frustrating as it is, we have to realize there are
other views and they will not all fit under the one umbrella.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Unfortunately the majority of my needs are non-vampire related. The community can't really help me with that.
I am rural, so social interaction, though desirable, is unlikely. I need research data points. I need bloodwork
results. Some networking on that side of things would be nice.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I have medical knowledge and a critical mind. I can see both sides of a coin, often, so I am able to approach
problems either personal or technical, from many angles.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: AVA/Merticus
b. Eradicated Resource: Any of the largely discredited sites.
c. Severe Admonishment: Any of those who claim to be the basis for Anne Rice's books. I think I have heard
from at least 5 Lestats now.
d. Torture & Burning: None. Bit harsh when a simple flogging would do.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 053
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Seems to be heading in a good direction, with more and bigger projects.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Splits/bias in the community on types of vampirism.
b. Lack of funding.
c. Bad representations in popular media.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I really just want good, clear information, an easy and open place to discuss various issues on the subject, and
others to relate to.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I've run several of my own forums before and wouldn't mind being a moderator.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Merticus and/or AVA (or NOVA..)
b. Eradicated Resource: Poser sites, but I don't know of any by name.
c. Severe Admonishment: No idea
d. Torture & Burning: I don't know, but don't you mean 'staked through the heart'? :P
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 054
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
It is currently ripe with stress and no clear direction and consensus on many topics.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Information is house specific and not generalized. We are often criminalized by main stream media because
of the many differing views.
b. What the community agrees upon is seldom the same between different regions.
c. Many vamps in the communities only recognize sanguines and not those who have multiple feeding sources
as even being other vamps.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I am working on my own economic recovery, what I need is to have the shoulders of my "brothers and sisters"
to lean on when my feeding is off my normals. Stress kills us all, but increased stressors do not help as they
block feeding properly.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Some of the best resources and connections locally, but trying to currently manage running a house with several
Kin on a very strict budget.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: ShadowLore
b. Eradicated Resource: Vampire Church "laws"
c. Severe Admonishment: The males of the species
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 055
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I feel that the traditional OVC as I knew it in the 90's and early 2000's is dead and/or dying. I don’t know how
sustainable the move to social media is with the push to remove anonymity.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Every subgroup have a vocal population that looks down on the other subgroups.
b. There are very few real world meetups and very few reasonable offline groups.
c. For good reason there is little trust to newcomers especially with in person meetings which is causing sever
shrinkage in active members.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Working to actively maintain donor or animal blood sources. A community built list of farms and/or butcher
shops that sell animal blood would be a good start. BlackSwanHaven.org has been mostly dead for as long as I
can remember and a push for an active site such as that would be helpful.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I have found that coping mechanisms learned in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy help when my cravings get bad.
I would be willing to help teach them to others.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: None
b. Eradicated Resource: Anything that gives too much of a RPG feel. I have not used many website resources
in years.
c. Severe Admonishment: Almost anyone who has went on TV willingly and used the community solely for
profit.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 056
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
It's hard to find and not very good for teens.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Better things for teens.
b. More community.
c. Better ways to find vampires.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
One (1)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I would like help finding people my age.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I really don't have much internet experience but I can baby sit.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: No idea
b. Eradicated Resource: No idea
c. Severe Admonishment: No idea
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 057
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I see the vampire community is larger than I ever imagined. The ones I've met are working every day jobs &
using eBay by selling their spirited items to get donors.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Need more voluntary donors, especially in winter.
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
A need to know when a lie is being told to me. A need to know was my father a vampire. A need to be able to
teleport.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Casting white magic spells.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Politicians
b. Eradicated Resource: Facebook
c. Severe Admonishment: Law enforcement
d. Torture & Burning: All those opposed to vampirism.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 058
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Led by a few very active members, but feels dead due to so many apathetic/non-active members. Inspires
apathy in me.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Too many role players. Especially on the pages and can't call them out because then everyone gets up in
arms. Kinda full of dicks.
b. Everyone is so spread out, no known vampires or donors anywhere near me.
c. Media. Some of the vampires that go on look like quacks, some are quacks, and a few get good media, but
they're overshadowed by all the quackery...
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I would really REALLY like to start weeding out the role players and non-vampires. Too many people think
they can assume the "identity" online because the internet is for being someone other then yourself. I feel like
we're less likely to get taken seriously and the more real vampires are driven away by all the role playing (and
personal attacks, there's way too many people being dicks on the boards, treating people like absolute crap)
Otherwise, all my needs vampire wise (donors) are my problems, I can't expect you guys to help with that haha
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Knowledge, research, and teaching skills (college student planning to be a college professor) so any vampire
related information that's available I tend to soak up and I love teaching others. Public speaking and speeches. If
there's ever a need for educating the public or just newly awakened or awakening vampires. I'm pretty decent at
organizing meetings and safe blood practices (something we need to make sure people practice) so I'd love to
help out at a meeting, gathering, convention or anything going on (provided I can get to wherever it's being held
haha)
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Merticus, Sanguinarius
b. Eradicated Resource: Not sure, stopped looking those us.
c. Severe Admonishment: Just look at the people on Facebook
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 059
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Not as public as it should be, venues should be arranged for "feeding areas."
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Community centers are not established.
b. Leaders have not made themselves available for public communication beyond the internet.
c. Feeding opportunities are not as easy to find as it should be.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
As stated before a local community meeting point should be established for ease of feeding.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I may not yet have skills required to assist the community as I am quite young but I'm willing to learn.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Researchers
b. Eradicated Resource: Websites that are controversial against the truth about vampi(y)res, etc.
c. Severe Admonishment: Researchers
d. Torture & Burning: None of the community.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 060
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I like the community teach how deal the energy and it show how talking to learn from them. I what ask person
the walk how the wakening feel and show with path will help in that wakening there group help how deal the
intake and I like see more.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Need information
b. Help people who have questions
c. I believed show waken people and talking more help understanding them self.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Five (5)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I need help to learn how to control my energy and takes and not hurt the co worker by taking their energy. I am
very sad when I am I feel emotions I just want to block it out sometimes. I need to prove myself more than the
feeding habits around me.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I do Tara reading it Andrew Stone caseing to read fortunes for people and also challenge with a crystal ball also
help people find if I sometimes.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Anyone has a strong leadership.
b. Eradicated Resource: I believe the Signing Time enlightenment form medical environment around ass.
c. Severe Admonishment: None
d. Torture & Burning: No one
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 061
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I wish there'd be more activities in other parts of the world, to bring the community more together. Now you'll
find small groups, if you're lucky, and I feel vampires are in need of company.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. No consistency of information about vampirism around the internet, which leads to a great amount of
misconceptions.
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Keep everyone tuned by e-mailing all events or changes that are coming up. This should be easy to reach by just
signing up for the e-mail. The messages should be easily accessible for everyone.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I've got a great range of methods available for a comfortable way of drinking blood and getting people to donate
for you in a respectful way.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: These questions are ridiculous.
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: No one should be punished for whoever they wish to be. As a community where
respect has such a great importance, this question makes me sick.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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Response 062
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
There is too much arguing within our community.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Ignorance about us by society.
b. You don't have to be a sang to be considered a vampire.
c. Lack of sang donors for those of us who need sang energy.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Five (5)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Dealing with aging as a vampire has increased my need for energy; but not my sources.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Teaching others how to energize their chakras and how to send energy. I am also into candle magic for healing
purposes and can teach others this ability.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: A government made up of vampires.
b. Eradicated Resource: Hollywood should stop making ridiculous movies about us.
c. Severe Admonishment: Hate groups.
d. Torture & Burning: None
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
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Response 063
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The community is a struggling shadow of it's former self being mired in politics and undermined by internal
dissent.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. No set of standardized societal norms.
b. A general lack of internal structure.
c. Fragmentation of any sense of unity due to exclusive groups being formed.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I am rather comfortable with my intrinsic nature and feel that at this time, assistance is not needed.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
The only way I feel that I can assist others is to offer my advice based on my experience so that they hopefully
do not repeat the mistakes that I made.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: The VVC
b. Eradicated Resource:
www.psivamp.orgc. Severe Admonishment: Father Sebastiaan
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
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Response 064
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Strong
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. No fixed sight of objective, forget goals.
b. Wrong priorities.
c. Irregularity at project helm.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I am irregular at long distance feeding, my mind diverts away to the large herds of energy rather than staying on
that one particular source, I meditated on this, it is a decision of consideration, keeping the source healthy for
next feeding, the amount of energy I take in is quite large to take from one source, my subconscious is aware of
this and hence the distraction, but I find this as also a reflection of my lack of awareness and hence control, over
of my mind.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am a voracious feeder, given the lack of some sources I found solutions to feed from other, previously
attempted sources of not unthought of... my forte is, not restricted to my vampire self, finding a strong solution
for any problem I see or am met out with...I find a way... always...
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: An elected group, comprising of an odd number of members all chosen on the merit of
their intellect.
b. Eradicated Resource: None, but if possible severe and sincere monitoring of Google’s foulplay on the
internet
c. Severe Admonishment: None
d. Torture & Burning: None
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. False
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Response 065
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Primarily poseurs which makes it very difficult for genuine vampires to be taken seriously.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Media attention makes all look bad.
b. Lack of educational materials.
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Skilled writer and editor; can aid in putting out information/flyers/etc.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 066
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Screwed - too much elitism from physical/genetic vampires.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Damian Nightwalker
b. That werewolf cretin mix something.
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
None required
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
None offered
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: vampire.net
c. Severe Admonishment: Genetic/physical vampires
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 067
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Great for those who are into the aesthetic lifestyle of vampirism. Holds very little for those looking for medical
research and health based rather then faith/metaphysical based advice.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Focus on media appearances and entertainment.
b. Little acknowledgement of physical based Vampirism.
c. Event promoters have overrun the community.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I would like more definitive answers to why we are the way we are and what exactly it is we need to maintain
our health. More then speculation and uneducated hypothesis created by high school philosophers.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am an excellent counselor and help many in the community with their daily struggles both within the
community and outside the community in their day to day lives.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Cynsanity
b. Eradicated Resource: Any site that promotes v5 as something real and not just from the movies.
c. Severe Admonishment: Anyone going to the media.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 068
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The community is not as strong as it used to be - far too much bullying when we should support each other.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Bullying especially via the Internet forums.
b. Lack of support for one another.
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
-
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. -
b. -
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 069
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
So many poseurs and it turned into the crusade against us by the society who calls us the cult.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. We have people posing as us.
b. We need to educate people more instead of misinforming them.
c. We need self advocates for the vampire community.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Find out where the resources are for real vampires like me in St. Louis because I wasn't feeling like I was
supported enough. And spread the idea that everyone could be a vampire as long as they have the ability to
control it.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Advocacy, Research
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: The advocates.
b. Eradicated Resource: Those dealing with the misinformation of vampirism aka "antivampire" or "vampire
fandom" sites that has nothing to do with the vampire community unless it is the fictitious movie, book, or
game.
c. Severe Admonishment: Misinformation groups about Vampirism, whether it may be law enforcement,
medical community, or people who are misinformed how cool it is.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 070
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I feel that there is much distrust as well as those wanting to have titled ad do none of the work to help and
enrich the community.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. 'Holier than thou' attitudes.
b. Safety of Havens, Groups, and overall Communities. This also goes for vampire support/suicide awareness.
c. Loss of heritage and traditions.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Looking for others who feel an emotional tie to various past lives, etc in the vampire community. Religious, and
not.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Empathy, council, comfort, tarot card reading, healing arts.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 071
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
It's great in closed groups, but full of annoying turmoil in open forums. Still too many folks claiming to be more
real than everyone else in the community. It's old and boring.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Pissing contests regarding who's more "real."
b. Lake of acceptance/unity (see #1).
c. Wack-a-doodles (i.e., those claiming to be immortals, those claiming vampirism as a cause for harming self
or others).
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
Networking. I want to establish professional business networking relationships with creative people across a
broad range of creative and IT venues.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I'm a degreed and experienced writer with training in creative writing, business writing, grand writing, technical
writing, resume and marketing copy writing, and EDITING.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: No opinion.
b. Eradicated Resource: No opinion.
c. Severe Admonishment: No opinion.
d. Torture & Burning: No opinion.
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 072
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I see the state of the Vampire Community as a whole subculture in our society. One that is for the most part
misunderstood in my opinion.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. The way in which it is difficult to connect with others such as ourselves.
b. The myths about our culture that I know some of us work hard to correct.
c. Being we are so diverse, more detailed information on each genre.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I have been searching for a mentor of sorts in our community. Not a partner as I already have one but someone
to offer guidance.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am skilled in research as I have done investigative work. I am also able to communicate with just about
anyone as I am extremely personable.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Vampire Community News
b. Eradicated Resource: Any RPG Vampire game
c. Severe Admonishment: Any Vampire Social Network (VampireFreaks.com)
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 073
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I feel the Vampire community is in a major Transition. The state of the Vampire Community seems to be one of
balance, at this time.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. I feel ALL the Vampires, Otherkin, etc should be treated respectfully and the pointing fingers, assumptions,
and such should end.
b. Hate, and animosity between Vampires and Otherkin needs to stop.
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I have none at this time, thank you.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am an Intuitive, and very adept at counseling and advising, if any need be.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: ANY who would endanger our kind!
d. Torture & Burning: None...
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 074
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The community is fractured, and though this is for the best there is a lot of "political" conflict occurring below
the surface.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Conflict between local and national organizations, with the larger organizations being disrespectful of local
styles and traditions.
b. Providing serious guidance to more serious community members regarding magical and energist practices.
c. Focusing on the spectacle of the shows and parties overshadows the fact that the community is made up of
individuals.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
More chances to practice, develop and use energist and magical abilities, provided by serious and established
practitioners. Some form of organization when it comes to providing instruction in these areas would be helpful
to many people.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Basic understanding of ancient magical practices and some limited experiential knowledge.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: The magicians and the vampires with known, demonstrated and proven abilities.
b. Eradicated Resource: All websites that profess to be able to educate people on their sites.
c. Severe Admonishment: Otherkin
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 075
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The vampire community seems to be spread out and hard to be a part of.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Good information about vampirism is hard to find.
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I'd like to know how I can become more involved in the vampire community. Would be nice to be able to have
vampires I can connect with in my area. There seems to be very little vampire community activity in my
province.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
-
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 076
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Under Pressure/Opening Up
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Splintered
b. Fight against the Movie Vampire
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Five (5)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I tend to point those who find out for the first time the right areas. For the rest..
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 077
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The vampire community is good, but the content should be shared only with the Real Vampires.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Discussions between Vampires & people who are not.
b. World wide ignorance about the meaning of the types of vampires existing.
c. Wanna be Vampires inside the community.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I could say: The power of word, advices about life.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 078
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Not enough understanding of each other's ways. No trust due to the amount of "wanna be's".
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. No one is the same there is not only one kind of vampire.
b. There's is more than one way to feed and what's ok for u may not be for someone else.
c. We are not all dark and depressive it's OK to wear what u want!
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
-
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 079
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
I see the vampire community, as a whole, a subculture. I believe that there is one belief in particular that
actually has less of just a "lifestyle" belief and more of an actual ailment.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Roleplayers who associate themselves with the Vampire Community is only furthering the disbelief by the
general public. How are we supposed to be mature when there are many who think they are hundreds of years
old around?
b. There seems to be a lot of enabling going around. Just because someone wants to be a vampire, doesn't mean
that they are. This can cause problems psychologically if we continue to enable.
c. The lack of maturity when someone who has different beliefs steps in is atrocious. It needs to stop.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
By being mature.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
I am very knowledgeable in the vampire belief of the retrovirus and I am open for emails with questions.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: The "retrovirus" belief members.
b. Eradicated Resource: Anything relating to roleplaying, vampirism as a religion, or social media websites
with the word "vampire" in them.
c. Severe Admonishment: Steve Leighton, Michelle Belanger, Sanguinarius and anyone who isn't open about
other beliefs.
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 080
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
No medium territory. Separated / infighting.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Not getting along.
b. Certain aggressive people.
c. Can't enter into topics without fear of getting jumped on.
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Two (2)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
To learn more in all avenues. We can never stop learning.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
-
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: Merticus, Isealdor
b. Eradicated Resource: VampireFreaks.com / vampire.net
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: *Removed Due To The Sensitivities & Concerns Of Named Parties
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 081
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Half-stable, half-crumbling. A lot of misinformation, unfortunately.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. -
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
-
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 082
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Not sure.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. -
b. -
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Passive Lurker
4. Ranking Information Quality:
-
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Sharp teeth, sexual tendencies and a willingness to drink blood.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 083
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
In torpor, but slowly reawakening.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Posers
b. Egomaniacs
c. -
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Five (5)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I am fortunate to live in the Portland area where the level if crazy and egocentrism is low.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Phlebotomy.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 084
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
To me the vampire community seems disjointed as it contains many small cliques and 'kingdoms' lorded over
by self proclaimed 'kings and queens' rather than a community as a whole. If the community could network
better, even in its current state, I think things would be far better.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Self proclaimed "Kingdoms" with self elected "Royalty".
b. Lack of major networking hubs.
c. Too much politics, not enough community outreach.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
As I am personally in a small college town with several hours from major cities, the networking within smaller
communities would be very helpful. For an example, while there is a Vampire Court in Austin, and there was
previously one in Dallas, they had only minimal contact with smaller cities. If those larger established groups
were more active in networking, I think it would be a vast improvement for the community as a whole.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
My own skill set revolves around psychology and writing, with a background in electronic communication. I
would be more than happy to assist anyone I can if the chance presented itself.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. True
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 085
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
Some participating, too many lurking in the shadows.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Donor shortage.
b. Not enough participation.
c. A lot of bad press.
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Four (4)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
I would like to learn how to work with energy and feed well when blood isn’t available.
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Event management, I am a peace keeper and do well with public.
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: -
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: -
d. Torture & Burning: -
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. False
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Response 086
1. Summarizing The Vampire Community:
The bonds are strong in the houses, there is too much hostility from and to other kind and new comers.
2. Specific Issues & Problems:
a. Donors
b. Trust
c. Sincerity
3. Participation Level:
Active Participant
4. Ranking Information Quality:
Three (3)
5. Personal Needs & Assistance:
-
6. Skills & Expertise To Offer:
Donate
7. Hypothetical Vampire Community Reformation:
a. Grand Inquisitor: House Valur
b. Eradicated Resource: -
c. Severe Admonishment: None
d. Torture & Burning: None
8. Political Aspirations & Personal Motivations:
a. False
b. True
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