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About the game|Plot Details

You are a human.

To be precise, a teenager.

Brought up in a metropolitan city, you have no clue about what's really going on. Maybe you don't even pay attention to the news. After all, it's 2020. The human population is undergoing its greatest and most spectacular age yet. There are no wars, world hunger is a distant dream, crime rates at a low. It's safe. What could happen?

Your life has been spent idolizing celebrities, going to school... Normal stuff. You're a normal kid too. Maybe slightly better looking than others. Maybe slightly smarter. Slightly different. But things are going to change.

Suddenly, you have been issued a letter of employment to one of the most elite and celebrity visited clubs in the world. The Midnight Reverie.

There must be a mistake.

But you decide to take the chance anyway. Who knows, you could meet one of your favorite celebrities up close!

This really is the chance of a lifetime. Too bad you aren't as prepared as you think.

Welcome to the Midnight Reverie.



This is the Midnight Reverie.

The most prestigious club in the world, owned by a vampire and run by him and his partner, a human. Only the most elite of the vampires get membership to this place, and all of them pay extortionate prices to bid for the membership.

Only thirteen invitations are given out each year.

About the game| Technical Details

Midnight Reverie is:
-a highly free-form game [It is planned to give the players as much control as they want, although plot events do pop up from time to time]
-is a vampire master/human slave game.
-in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Romance.
-a semi-literate to advance-literate game.

About Vampires- Part II

Psychology

A human vampire possesses all their memories of their human lives. However, with the new strength of a vampire, their personalities may change. They may become a complete opposite of who they were, or they may change slightly to adapt to their new lives.

Born vampires, however, were never human, and will obviously never be. They will have learnt human behaviour to blend in, but they will never think like humans. Some may give off an air of being "dangerous" or "one of the bad crowd", others may be seen as "insane and beyond control".

Physiology

Born and human vampires share the same physiology.

1) Vampires are faster and stronger than humans and most animals. This is due to their role in the food chain as a predator.

2) As mentioned before, they do not need to breathe. They can do so, and most do it due to habit. Human vampires seem particularly susceptible to being stunned by someone attempting to suffocate them. This trait however, fades with time.

3) They do not have a heartbeat. Their blood does circulate, due to skeletal muscles that constrict vessels and push the blood along. This is so that most animals, with sensitive hearing cannot tell if they are nearby. However, after physical exertion, one may feel a pulse. Because of blood circulation, they can be poisoned, but due to their high metabolism, they usually recover quickly.

4) They generate body heat, but their core body temperature is much lower than a human's, at a mere 30 degrees celcius. This means that they usually feel slightly cooler to the touch.

5) They have fangs. Their fangs are used for puncturing and tearing, and are not hollow, as some believe. Their fangs are retractable, due to a hollow cavity above their canines, and muscles that let the fangs be pulled back.

6) Vampires heal at ten times the rate of a human. They cannot, however, regrow a appendage. If a severed appendage is realigned with the body, however, the wound will knit back like any other cut. This healing can be controlled by a vampire's will.

7) They have no "spark of life", like human beings. Human vampires up to the age of a 100 have traces of this life force. Born vampires do not. The life force is replaced by something else, colloquially known as the "power stream" to vampires. This "power stream", working in conjunction with the brain is what allows vampires to perform feats of psychic power.

cool The vampire immune system kills all known pathogens, viruses and bacteria known to exist. It does it at so quick a rate that there is no chance even of replication of these pathogens, much less any chance of mutation to compromise the host defenses.

9) Vampires have psychic powers. Usually, they only have up to four, but stronger vampires, or vampires who are physically weak may have more. For the former, it is a matter of experience and power to expand their arsenal. For the latter it is a compensation for physical weakness. An exception to the rule are the vampires from the Coven of Fangs. Due to the toll that the shapeshift takes on them, they have maximum two psychic powers, and these two powers are highly undeveloped.

10) Vampires can shapeshift. Only the vampires of the Coven of Fangs can do this, and they only have one form to shapeshift into. These vampires have the psychic ability to reshape their biological form to that of an animal's.

Superhuman Qualities.

1) Vampires are much stronger and faster than humans, due to the resilience of the muscle cells of the vampire, and the cells' ability to respire at high speeds.

2) As nocturnal creatures, they have colour vision at night. Even in conditions where a human may not see anything, the vampire eye can further dilate to catch all traces of light, although their vision is monochrome in such extreme darkness.

3) They have extremely sharp hearing. Even the sound of heartbeat of a human in a house a 100 metres down the road will sound to them like a drumbeat.

4) Their sense of smell is also enhanced. The olfactory of a vampire is densely packed with receptors. The sense of smell of a vampire is more than enough to rival a bloodhound's.

5) Vampires age at a much slower rate than humans, unless damaged. Their cells contain telomerase, which allows the telomere to regenerate, stopping the DNA from degeneration.

Things that will harm a vampire
1) Direct sunlight, or UV rays. Due to their nocturnal habits, vampire skin is extremely sensitive to UV rays, and will be burnt, developing anything from blisters to charring, depending on the length of exposure.

2) Fire. Vampires, like all creatures will combust. Depending on the age of the vampire, combustion can take anywhere from hours to weeks, assuming a constant temperature.

3) Poisons and Toxins. They will harm a vampire, but not kill it. Depending on the strength of the substance, they can cause a vampire to vomit, or to become paralysed and wracked in pain.

4) Silver. Most, if not all of vampires are highly sensitive to silver. The effect of touching a silver item is similar to being branded like a cow. Silver also blocks the hormones in a vampire's body, resulting in a much slower healing time. Silver can and will kill a vampire in high doses.

5) Decapitation. The rule of reattaching a severed appendage does not work on the head, much to the chagrin of many dead vampires.

Things that will not seriously harm a vampire (unless said vampire laughed themselves to death)
1) Stake to the heart. Yes, it will hurt, but once the vampire pulls it out, it will heal in minutes.

2) Crosses and other religious paraphernalia. It has no effect on a vampire at all, aside from making them snort with disbelief or burst into laughter.