To the Esteemed Arelin Holst D’Ryil,

            I must write to inform you of our current progress.

            As you know, our experiments have been going very well.  We’ve been able to extrapolate quite of bit of information from Mayong’s research notes, and I believe that your theories on the outcome of his attempted transformation were quite insightful.  It was fortunate for us that we had the information he was missing from Tserrina’s notes.

            Several of our experiments, at this point, have been failures – this was expected.  We’ve destroyed the majority of the failed experiments, as requested.  However, we’ve found that some of the failures have yielded some interesting information as they decay.  We’re interested to watch this process, and thus have kept these failures alive, partially for analysis, but admittedly there is a fair amount of amusement in their agonized writhing and cries.

            Finding the correct mixture of blood is, as you know, the essence to our experiments here.  Too much of the mixture resulted in dramatic transformations that the recipients rarely survived.  Too little, and they became ineffective, creating rebellious, angry, weakened vampires.  Finding the correct balance has been a difficult endeavor.

            One particular experiment, a human male, has proven quite promising, however.  Initially, we expected a complete failure with him, as his mixture was only slightly varied from experiments we had tried and failed with.  As with the others, he writhed through the night, pleasing us with gurgling screams as he transformed.  I myself entered his chamber the following night, prepared for either a wide-eyed, stiffened corpse, or a vicious, drooling, mindless beast.  Neither was the case.  He looked at me and asked the usual questions, “What happened to me?”, “What have I become?”… the standard list of disbelieving queries we are all used to from new blood.  This was promising.

            In spite of all of this, I would hesitate from calling this one a success.  He seems to lack many of the benefits of our race – his strength does not appear to be that over others of his original stock, he seems to lack any manner of significant regeneration, and, most fatal of all, he does not appear to be subservient to our house as he should be.  This was unexpected, and regardless of all his other flaws, makes him quite useless to us on the whole.

            I still want to keep him alive for the time being, as there might be more to be to learn from him still.  Once he has outlived his usefulness, I will see him destroyed.  I am pleased, though, that we are on the verge of success, and that this recent experiment proves this.

            I will inform you of our progress once a significant breakthrough has been made.

 

For the D’Ryil,
Verilos