Erma Does Not Live Here!

Good morning, Babies.

It’s a holiday (thank you, Dr. King), it’s gorgeous outside and I got to sleep late. By 9:30am my day has already hit the trifecta. So, imagine my surprise and delight when I opened my inbox and had an email waiting for me from Damphir of Oglehurst (is that outside the loop?).

He’s been busy… traveling to have custom clothing made (a vampire after my own heart). Below is a billet-doux from dear Damphir (side note, $20 for any one who can tell me how to pronounce Damphir properly). He was also kind enough to share some info with me – he must know of my love for useless trivia.

Greetings,

Please forgive my lack of attention.  When I read of the near disaster caused by your boots, I was immediately moved to swoop over and bear you up on gossamer wings, however I was in Transylvania being fitted for a new outfit.  Do you like this outfit, and look, or do you prefer  the other more casual attire?

No I am not related to Zamphir, or Pan for that matter,  nor do I play the Pan Flute!

One of the famous myths of Pan involves the origin of his pan flute, fashioned from lengths of hollow reed. Syrinx was a lovely water-nymph of Arcadia, daughter of Landon, the river-god. As she was returning from the hunt one day, Pan met her. To escape from his importunities, the fair nymph ran away and didn’t stop to hear his compliments. He pursued from Mount Lycaeum until she came to her sisters who immediately changed her into a reed. When the air blew through the reeds, it produced a plaintive melody. The god, still infatuated, took some of the reeds, because he could not identify which reed she became, and cut seven pieces (or according to some versions, nine), joined them side by side in gradually decreasing lengths, and formed the musical instrument bearing the name of his beloved Syrinx. Henceforth Pan was seldom seen without it.

A Damphir, is a human who is born with one parent (usually the father) whom is a vampire, and one whom is mortal. They have some strengths and weaknesses of a vampire. Most of the time, they can be called daywalkers, or halfbreeds, or halflings. They can have the ability of extream speed above the normal human, advanced hearing, sight, and smell and taste. Most do not require or thirst for blood as strongly as the full blooded vampire, but it makes them stronger. They do not burn at crosses, holywater, or other harmful enemies of the full blooded vampire. However every Damphir is different. Where one may excel in an area, another may fail.

Damphir: A strange race to be true, Damphir are Vampires that are born, not created. Being born a Damphir gives them several advantages over their brethren, but they are weaker than a true vampire in most areas.

Merits: Being born and not created, the Damphir is unusually resistant to the Vampire’s nemesis the Sun. They can survive hours in the sun, as long as they get into some shade every once in a while. Damphirs are also more physical than normal beings, and receive a 5% boost to all their physical statistics. Also each Damphir has a Guardian spirit of some kind, offering them tutalage(if you do not want this benefit, it can be rejected as the guardian spirit inhabits part of their body)

Flaws: Though they can survive the sun, it can still kill them. If they are too long in the sun without shade (oh about an hour), the begin to cook, like their progeny. If they become gravley injured, they cannot recover in the normal manner of the living or the undead, and must instead bury themsleves in a grave of tilled earth for three days. Sometimes their guardian spirit acts on it’s own accord, sometimes causeing trouble for the Damphir.