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- by Darren Pillsbury
PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is a horror/comedy web novel (and a free podcast!)about a normal, 10-year-old kid who moves into a sinister town filled with supernatural horribleness. The series is composed of different "monster of the week" stories - kind of like THE X-FILES crossed with THE SIMPSONS (if Mr. Burns were a ghoul and something terrifying lived in the town dump). "Peter And The Dead Men" is the first story in the collection. A new page is posted every day.
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8 comments:
So now Dill has to be careful for the rest of his life. Now, can lycanthropy be transmitted as an STD? In saliva? Will he pass it on to any kids he has? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, his entire existence is going to suck once he turns 14.
And, is he now immune to vampirism, or will it synergise and induce awesomeness?
Deltie - A type of exercise designed to build the muscles in the shoulder. Many movie werewolves do many delties resulting in a hunchbacked look.
If you extrapolate to Dill's future kids, there will be other problems even before - depending on how infectious lycanthropy is, he might not even have a relationship without risking to infect his partner (kissing, sex,...). And never accidentally cutting himself (that might severely impede possibles job choices) or getting in a brawl will be a major feat considering Dill's family and the bullies at school.
@Eldoran: I said both those things...in fact three of the four if you count accidetally cutting yourself as not being careful.
Ligame - A contest to see who can make up the most audacious and ridiculous lie.
I doubt the disease is transmittable. Otherwise, werewolves would be really common. There's no way that you would be able to hide from the notice of the general populace (much less from somebody as well versed as Dr. V), either.
In fact, I was surprised that a scratch made the disease transferrable at all. Maybe the werewolf (I forget which one) had some blood on his claws?
Mantans--a French word for paranormal maintainance. I hate mantans. Oops, please excuse my French.
Edit: I meant "transmittable that easily" instead of just "transmittable," and "transmittable" instead of "transferrable."
I guess it's a good thing Dill hasn't seen real silver before, he doesn't have to worry about touching it at his home.
Now I just hope his brother doesn't pick on him to much, or he might get changed.
New Hair Be Gone, works over night while you sleep. Removes all the unsitely body hair of length greater than 3 inches.
In a strange mood today.
I assume the "you know" is referencing Peter's Dad?
That doesn't bode well.
And the non-hairy butt comment had me giggling.
Rubberduck -
Well, this part of the story has certainly gone into territory I didn't originally intend.
One thing I think we should keep in mind is that all of our werewolf lore (in these stories) comes from a sociopathic college student who was trying to stall for time. Hardly an unbiased, reliable source. I'm pretty sure Jon was lying to Peter and Dill when he said he could turn them while he remained in human form. (Come on, would that have been reassuring? "I've got to turn into a wolf, but I promise I won't eat you.") Both Jon and Chubbs' scars looked like wolf bites, so how would Jon know if anybody else could be 'turned' by an untransformed werewolf? It was never attempted by the frat boys, so far as we know. Cuz you gotta be a REAL man to take the real werewolf's bite. WOOF, WOOF.
We can believe that the wolf's saliva part is true, because that was how Jon and Chubbs were inducted (werewolf salive mixing with blood). Dill was infected by having a scratch (probably), and by having werewolf saliva infect the wound. Either that or he was grazed by a fang, which transmitted saliva to the wound as well.
But I doubt the infection can be spread while in human form. I'm pretty sure Jon and Kyle had...um...numerous makeouts with college girls, and none of them got infected.
Or maybe that's how we'll get the sorority of werewolves, as someone (Rai?) suggested as a future storyline. Ha ha! Just kidding. I don't want to turn lycanthropy into the new mono. If we ever see a werewolf sorority, I'll figure out another way.
Either way, we can assume that werewolfism can only be inflicted by a fully transformed wolf, or by ingesting the blood of a werewolf (and maybe then only on a full moon or the days surrounding it - remember, that's when Kyle was infected).
More answers will become apparent when Dr. V analyzes Dill's blood.
I also don't think - since I'm the one writing this set of rules - that the condition will be passed along to offspring, since it's not a genetic condition (again, you'll understand more soon, courtesy of Dr. V). And I don't think werewolfism can be spread when the sufferer is in human form, so that rules out transfer in the same manner as an STD.
Eldoran -
See above.
I can tell you guys, though, that for the time being, Dill, Peter, and GF believe that Dill is highly infectious, and will continue to treat him as such.
I just don't think he is.
Um the Muse -
Yeah, I agree.
Except saliva can definitely transmit the disease - when it's from a wolf, and when it goes directly into the bloodstream.
daymon34 -
Or Nair!
Mary -
Nope. I can definitely tell you that Dr. V is not referencing Peter's Dad.
But you'll find out by the story's end what he's talking about.
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