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Alek Constantine

'All of God's creatures have a place in this world.. You are not one of those creatures.'

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a character in “Arcanum”, as played by Knosis

Description

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.


Title:. Alek Constantine
Bloodline:. Vampire
Age:. 37
Gender:. Male
Height:. 6'3"
Weight:. 200 lb
Known Family:. None
Hobbies:. Modification of weapons.
Likes:. Not much is known..
Dislikes:. Vampires/werewolves/shape shifters/demons.. The lot, he hates it.
Strengths:. Great at tracking/knows about almost as much about the things he hunts as they know themselves.
Weaknesses:. The fact he is now a vampire
Goals:. To destroy everything he considers abomination, including himself.


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Equipment/Abilities

Usually carries several guns with him, silver and explosive rounds, some silver powder, holy water, salt, and an assortment of knives made of silver/bronze and/or blessed. Other stuff he could get off hand, but he would have to know to carry it before he went into battle.

So begins...

Alek Constantine's Story

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Watching, from the shadows. Waiting, for his target. She was wounded now, a soft and supple woman, with a hard secret. Not so secret now, though.

Beings with metal in their bodies were so unappetizing, though. Perhaps he would simply hunt her. The weakling he sent to draw her out overstepped his boundries, but it was part of the game.

The two men were a problem. One was a Templar, The other a Vampire too, Traitor to his kind.

So he simply watches. His hand crossbows were loaded, slotted into the belt around his waist. Slinking into the shadows, he waits for his chance to strike. Vampire, Templar, Woman, were all juicy prey.

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The vampire dispersed into a millions motes of muddy ash after Alek had thrust it to the rain soaked ground. A broken crate created a stake and the vampire had landed directly onto it. He had been an older vampire, perhaps the first or second generation due to how quickly the corpse had disappeared.

Whatever other information or "help" the vampire had to offer Alek was gone. Lost. All traces of it had disappeared in the running rain water.

Alek. It hurts.

The sun was shining on a clear day. The birds were singing their melodies and the scent of lilies was heavy in the air. It was the most beautiful day.

Alek, standing in the sun, smiled at her.

She smiled back.

He was standing in the sun, naked to the waist, and laughing. He beckoned Ellie to come to him and with a smile on her face, she did.

Alek looked so beautiful in the sun.

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#, as written by Knosis
The pale man pulled up his hood to cover his head. He didn't like the prospect of going back into the tavern either. But Ellie did not have much time, and he would risk everything to make sure she would survive. But the man pulled back the corners of his lips in a slight snarl. "Alright.. But first, we make sure she is protected and alive first.." He said, worry in his tone. He would never show this side of him if Ellie were awake.

He was on Talos' heels when he felt it. He turned his golden yellow hues back out to the street, looking to the shadows mostly to see if he could find who was staring at him. Through the rain that poured, nothing could be seen. His color-shifting cloak seemed to blend him into the the background standing still as he was. They had attracted too much attention. There was too much in one spot. A priest on the inside, and an uneasy feeling on the out. Alek was beginning to feel cornered, and he was injured. This did not bode well for the small party.

Slowly, convinced that he couldn't be seen now either, he turned back to try to follow Talos into the inn once again. "Next time, I'm going to bring the whole damned arsenal, Ellie.. Not just a few pick knives.." He muttered mostly to himself, convincing himself that she would be alright. And she would. He would guarantee that.

The setting changes from Old Quarter to The Whistling Pipe

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Character Portrait: Alek Constantine Character Portrait: Xavier Skywalker Character Portrait: Talos Character Portrait: Ellie Coulter Character Portrait: Otto Bumgarner Character Portrait: Merrak Hunt
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Not even five minutes after Ellie, Alek and Talos had departed the tavern, the three of them had burst back in. Talos was cradling Ellie in his arms, while the bird, returned, flitted nearby and orbited around him, a protective guardian of Light. It was still dark inside, and so he sends the bird around to look for the Doctor; assuming he was still there.

"Doctor," he rumbles out loudly, striding into the room. He was on high alert, watching every shadow cast, twitching to react to every unknown movement. With his arms occupied by Ellie, he had to rely on Alek to react to any sort of attacks, until he could summon his own assistance. This did not give him much faith if they were ambushed by strength.

"We need your assistance now," he says loudly, searching for the Doctor they had found.

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"Damn it people, public lighting has only been around a little more then a year and yet your running around like fighten rabbits" he called to the other patrons of the bar. More people had left the bar, and only Xavier and Merrak were left next to Otto. Tim came out with some candles and Otto started to light some of the candles while he started to fill some oil lanterns. Then, a light emitted by a bird entered the bar followed by the man who held him back from the vampire who was holding the elf women in his arms.

"We need your assistance now" he said.

"Now you come to your senses" Otto scoffed, picking up one of the oil lanterns and his pack. HE turned to Xavier.

"Would you like to come with me? I can smell a job coming out of this for the both of us"

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"Yeah, I'm good." Xavier said. He didn't get much jobs during the past few weeks and most of it is an illegal trading, he accepts them, only to capture them and turn them in, but he gets no pay from that. So he expects getting a job from a priest is something good for him.

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#, as written by Knosis
Alek came in slowly after Talos, his golden amber eyes still peering behind him before he stepped completely back into the Tavern. "Now you come to your senses." He heard the doctor say and he nearly lost his patience there. "It's not for me. It's for her." He slowly moved over to Talos, his golden eyes lit brightly in the dark. He would lean just close enough to whisper in the Templar's ear. "We're have too much attention here.. I have a horrible feeling about all of this.." He muttered quietly. He winced at the bird icon, trying not to take direct line from it.

"Something is not right.." He added, then gently brushed Ellie's cheek. He looked to the doctor. "I will give you anything you ask for to make sure she lives.. A vampire bit her shoulder and ripped it up enough that she is bleeding to death. Please, I beg you." The look he gave Otto was a look that seemed to suggest he did not have a choice in the matter.

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Ellie's skin was almost the color of Alek's. She had lost a great amount of blood and was still losing more. Her round cheeks were beginning to look sallow, her eyes shrunken, and the pulse in her throat beat wildly as her heart attempted to pump blood that was no longer there.

How Alek was able to control himself this long was a mystery. It showed a strength in him that no other vampires could have exercised, or perhaps it was merely because he had fed so recently.

"You're standing in the sun, Alek."

He nodded and continued smiling at Ellie.

"You're human?"

Alek's smiled failed and his expression turned grave. He slowly shook his head.

"I'm dying."

The grave expression did not leave his face but Alek nodded.

"I don't want to die but at least your here with me," Ellie said to Alek before she rushed into his arms. He was warm from the sun and his touch was gentle. Alek leaned down and whispered words into Ellie's ears. A smile spread across her face.

She had known it all along.



A shadow darkened the sunshine in Ellie's subconscious. Alek disappeared and she fell to her knees onto the cracked, dry, earth.


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"It's not for me, it's for her" The vampire said, coming up to the large man holding the elf. Otto held the lantern up and saw a wound on her shoulder.

"Quick, put her on this table" Otto said, indicating a empty table, while he started to pull some medical equipment. "Tim, I need you to get some more oil lanterns for some more light. He brought up a cloth, a pice of paper and a lead pencil. Otto put pressure on the wound and scribbled a note on the paper. "There is a potion maker on Lexier and 8th, there is a new potion that can stop her from turning ONLY if we give it to her in time. Some one please go run and get it!" He slapped the note down at the end of the table. And looked at the wound.

"Some torn muscle, looks like someone yanked the vampire off, the subclavian vein is ok... damn the subclavian artery is cut" He pulled out a stethoscope and listened. "Her heart beat is still there" He then pulled out a strange device ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... fusion.jpg ) "Who here wants to volunteer some blood, you will be weak for a few hours, but you might just save her life"

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Talos half wondered if the Doctor knew what he was doing, but he did not have the knowledge to seek out another, nor did they have the time. Placing Ellie gently on the table, he tries to ignore all the medical jargon spouting out of the man's mouth. It didn't seem relevant, to him. The supposed potion to stop her turning was another thing that he didn't care much about- if she turned, she turned. There wasn't anything he could do about it, potion or no.

At the matter of blood, however, Talos had to pause in his own thoughts. Alek was obviously not a candidate. The Doctor hadn't offered any of his blood, probably as that would make the procedure more difficult. That left the other man- whose blood could be tainted for all he knew- and Talos' own.

That was what gave him pause. Giving his blood to Ellie could be catastrophic for a number of reasons. It could counteract her turning on its own, Holy as it was, or it might put her in constant, searing pain. There was also the matter that it may just give her a taste for his blood, if she turned. Not that it would avail her any advantage in his eyes, but it would make their already strained relationship all the more so.

But, most importantly, it would bind her to the Light he commanded. And that would be both blessing and curse.

Talos provides his forearm, assuming that to be where the blood would be able to be extracted. "Take mine," he orders; it was not offered as an option.

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Alek began to pace back and forth, his mind racing. Ellie was going to be a half-ling no matter what they did. There was no stopping that now. He winced and punched a beam support with the side of his fist. "Dammit.." He growled softly.

He went back to her side, his brows furrowed. "Brother.." He muttered, although he did nothing about it. The vampire looked at the Templar, his jaw tight. Worry and agonizing restraint held him back from the still bleeding woman, although he was still bleeding blood he had drained himself. It would be sooner than normal he would have to feed again. He gritted his teeth before leaning down to speak to Talos in a whispered tone. "They do not turn until their first feeding.. The taint is still there.. The craving is still there.. But until blood touches their lips, they remain alive. A half-ling, they called it." He murmured.

His eyes shifted to the doctor then back to Ellie before adding quickly, "We will have to keep her from feeding on either one of you.." He whispered before backing off again, into the dark. Alek remained in the room, though, not offering to get the potion that the doctor recommended. He knew it was already too late, and besides that he refused to leave by Ellie's side.

He went back to pacing steadily in the room, quickly and silently, like a shadow in the light.

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Thirst.

Everything was so dry. Nothing but desert as far as Ellie's eyes could see. Sweat trickled down her skin and made it sticky.

She needed water...


The blood in Ellie's body began to congeal as if she were already postmortem. The bleeding slowed and even though her injury was very extent, she was clotting. Of her own devices the elf-girl was beginning to, very slowly, heal herself.

There was no doubt about why this was occurring. A vampire had bitten her and injected his poison into her blood stream. It was not counteracting against the wound inflicted on the poor girl. Not every time that a vampire fed on a victim did they become half-turned. It had been purposeful, Ellie's turning. The virus had been placed explicitly into her veins and arteries.

The evidence was clear.

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Secreting himself into the structure through the shadows, the man stands silent as death, and just as invisible.

He watches the proceedings with curiosity, ponderous. The underling had done excellent work, if his senses did not deceive.

There was fever, clotting, the stench of necrosis. The blood did not appeal to him, tainted as it was by a lesser fiend than he.

Still. She was touched, and soon she would make an excellent Thrall.

And a bargaining chip.

Silent as he came, he is gone through the shadows once more.

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THe large man held out his arm.
"Take mine" he said. Otto put each needle into a glass of water near by and pulled up a little on the plunger a little, then pressed down until water came out both and he turned a dial on the device. HE then took a small rope, put it around his upper arm, right above the the crook of his and pulled until he could see see an artery, and he stuck the needle in. He did the same with the elf.

Otto then dumped some clear liquid onto a cloth and started to dab at the wound, and where it made contact with blood, it bubbled and hissed. He took down at the elf feet for a split second.

"Can someone please go get that damn potion! It maybe a small chance of stoping her changing, but there is still that CHANCE!" and Otto quickly returned to his work. He heard the vampire murmuring behind him, but he paid no attention, too focused on his work. He opened a lantern and put a piece of metal in there, getting it hot for cauterizing. He took the syringe and pumped it four times times, trying to get more blood into the elf. The cut artery spurted some more, and he quickly dabbed it. He took out two small clamps, a needle and some special thread.

"Need to do this quick" he murmured to himself. He put each clamp on each side of the cut portion of the exposed artery, and quickly started to sew it close, his fingers almost loosing his grip in the blood.

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Talos was still listening to Alek's explanation as to why she wouldn't need blood- when the Doctor decided to take it from him anyway. Frowning slightly, he sighs inwardly. There was nothing he could do about it now. The sensation of having his blood drained from him was... unsettling, to say the least.

He had felt a distinctly... wrong presence when it had happened. Perhaps it was just the procedure as a whole. Either way, once his arm was back under his own control, he makes sure to ready his hammer once again. "How long until we can leave this place," he rumbles out questioningly, both to Alek and the doctor.

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Alek turned around to Otto, almost twisting on the heel of his boot. "You do realize that 'chance' you speak of does not exist?" He pointed to Ellie. "There is no cure for being bitten. Although sellers would love for you to think that way. They make high profit off potions that they say 'might' work if given in time. And when you try to argue about it, they will tell you that you didn't get it for them in time." His golden hues blazed like the sun. He thought the doctor was an idiot.

He turned away from Otto with a growl. 'Ellie, damned girl! You had to get yourself into this mess, to become damned like me..' He gritted his teeth and punched the counter as hard as he could, which probably resulted in a hole in it. Alek was in shear misery. Everything he cared for was eventually taken away from him. At least Ellie was still alive... For now.

Now there was a choice he had to make. To keep her alive or to let her out of her misery as quickly as possible.

He knew what Talos would most likely suggest.

The vampire took in a deep breath, the stink of blood in the air filling his nostrils. 'Why...?'

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It was not a minute after Ellie's body began to absorb the paladin's blood that the rend in her shoulder began to mend. The tiny mechanical pieces of Ellie's skeletal structure disappeared beneath raw, pink, skin. And then seconds later Ellie's eyes shot open and she screamed in absolute horror.

The girl pushed the doctor away, pushing the man onto his backside, as she began to claw away at her shoulder. Ellie tore the tube of blood from her body, spilling Talos's life fluid on the floor.

Blood.

The screams from Ellie cut off abruptly. Her breathing grew heavy and irregular. The natural kindness in her eyes had died away into savage need.

Her eyes trailed up from the pool of blood on the floor, past the doctor trying to right himself onto his feet again, and then onto Talos.

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Talos knew that look. It was a look he had received oft during his life, and it was never pleasant.

Gritting his teeth, he knew that, if he were to retaliate- or even strike preemptively, Alek would descend upon him as well. His help be damned; they were both Vampires now, and they would watch out for one another over him.

It was a difficult situation, to be certain. And to make matters worse, being drained of his blood left him weakened. Perilous, indeed.

Whatever he did, he would not allow her to feed on him.

Loosing his hammer, he places the head of it on the ground before himself. "Ellie," he rumbles warningly. "Fight it." It was a simple order, a request even, but it was all he could do if he didn't wish to harm her. In the back of his mind, however, he remained ready; if she charged at him, as he feared she might, he would erect a barrier of light around himself. She could penetrate it with enough persistence, but it would harm her greatly.

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Alek's eyes shifted over to Ellie and within a second, he was by her side holding her shoulders. "Ellie.." He said, although none too gentle. "Ellie! Snap out of it!" He growled. If she went for Talos, he would do his damnedest to stop her.

It pained him more than most would ever realize that Ellie had changed. That she was giving into her darker side. "It's me, Alek. You need to fight this urge, Ellie. If not for yourself, but for me. Ellie, I know it's difficult and it hurts but you must fight it. You can bite, claw or whatever you want to me. But please come back to me.."

This also gave Talos a problem. Because Alek was in between, it was possible that Alek's cloak could block out most of the effects of the light that he had. He had positioned himself just right between Ellie and Talos to protect her as long as he could. "I won't let you hate yourself later... Please fight it.." Alek whispered, as if he were talking about his own mistakes.

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A heavy tension hung in the air of the tavern. There was not a single word spoken after Alek had told Ellie to fight the urges coursing through her. The girl didn't move. Her thoughts waged war inside her mind; the light battling the dark.

And then finally her eyes shifted to Alek's.

Ellie broke into tears and wrapped her arms around the vampire's waist. She buried her face into his torso as her arm hung limp at her side. It was still healing and the pain was excruciating. Ellie's fingernails dug into Alek's back and she screamed into his body.

Not only did her healing injury hurt but Talos's blood that ran through her body burned Ellie from the inside. The virus the vampire implanted into her body was mutating Ellie's cells but Talos's holy blood destroyed them. But the vampiric infection continued to spread, unwilling to die inside the girl just yet.