- The Doctor's Notebook -

A plain notebook with lined paper is what Viseryn chooses to write in. He keeps it about with him most of the time.

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October 29, 2012

First official night at the compound.
I have to say, it's very impressive. I imagine it being something more like a prison but upon actually getting there I realized it's not that bad. It's almost home-y, but I still know that everyone is more or less there involuntarily. I've only met a couple of people there. There's Warren, the owner. He seems like a decent guy buy obviously isn't very into giving much about himself away. He works for the vampiric council though, so I'll have to keep an eye on him. I don't really know what his motives are even if he does claim to be a "fixer". He seems to be very sure of himself, though, which isn't surprising for a vampire. He's technically the closest thing I have to a boss right now, so I might as well try and befriend him.

The girl I met is another matter. She's trickier to figure out. One moment she'll talk and be cheerful and the next she looks through you rather than at you. She's Warren's fledgling. Her name is Karou and she tells me she's got some nephilim blood in her too, which explains the marks on her hands but not that long scar she's got on her back. It looks fairly new. I want to know what the deal with it is but when I mentioned it, she grew quiet and only said that doctors are the only people who should be allowed to preform surgery. It was strange.

November 13, 2012

A lot of activity going on this weekend.
I've been doing a lot of work lately, as more and more people show up. Mostly it's been getting reccords together and keeping track of the conditions people are coming into the place with. Nobody actually comes to me like they are supposed to when they first get here. I usually wind up having to go to them. If this keeps up, it's only a matter of time before some cold breaks out among the more human-species in this place. Might have to see about making it mandatory that everyone who enters the compound has to come see me within their first 24-hours here. It might be really difficult for some, but if it helps prevent a crises in the future, it'll be well worth it.

The big thing that happened over the weekend: Karou's broken from nephilim dormancy. I'm doing more research on the matter to see what else this is going to bring. Her blood's changed. Almost completely. The pH, the color, the structure. I'm going to take a look at another sample under a microscope tonight and maybe get an extraction of her chromosomal layout so I can see just how angelic she really is. She shouldn't have these wings if her angelic ancestry goes back as far as she says it does. I think someone in her family might have been lying about how closely related she is to a Celestial. I have to deal with Warren later too. I need to figure out what the hell is problem is with that poor kid. It's obvious to me how she thinks of him. It's annoying to see him be so standoffish and rude to her.

November 24, 2012

I am now convinced that I am always right when it comes to my judgement about the people in this compound. It really is beginning to seem that way. I was right about Vetric's near insane possessiveness of someone he doesn't even have, he just thinks he does, and how Warren constantly lies to himself. I could write a lot in this entry, but I'm not one for writing down long stories. All there is to know is that once again I'm trying to give people answers to their problems. A cure for every ailment, if you will. Not everyone takes my advice to heart and I know that sometimes it isn't the best advice, but in the end I don't intend badly for anyone. I need to stop worrying so much about the social lives of others and start focusing more on my practice. There's much to be done around the compound and if my advice is ignored, I don't see why I should give it. I'm not trying to fight anyone, but I am trying to show people that not every situation has to be some big bloody battle.

November 26, 2012

Been a little while since I updated this. Two days, but that's enough for all hell to break loose and then some.
The WEIRDEST things keep happening around here.

The least of them is that people have an odd habit of tripping on the cobble when it's raining. First, Karou comes to me (for more than one reason, but I'll get back to that later) with a twisted ankle, then this psionic girl named Aisling who is some supposed medical experiment for humans comes with a fractured wrist. That's easily handled. What seems to be the biggest problem around here are the children. That's right, the KIDS. There are at least 3, if not 4, little kids running around the compound without parents and really any supervision. Of course they don't realize the danger they're in when they're out provoking people with what they think is harmless play. There are some of the more violent species walking around this place that wouldn't hesitate to turn them into meals. Something has to be done. They have to have someone adult with them at all times. If not to make sure they stay out of trouble, to make sure that they're getting training for their powers. Two of them seem to be pure-bloods into whatever species they are and those are NEVER stable in young age. They need rooms here, too, but Warren hasn't done anything to help them.

I get that the guy has a busy schedule, I really do. And it's great that Miya's working as his assistant now, but he's not really looking after the actual people here, he's just focused on the business of it. I got yelled at by the guy yesterday for trying to get Karou back indoors after she had an episode in my office (which he wasn't there for). Really, he needs to open his eyes to the way others are feeling and stop thinking so damn much about himself and how the vampiric council view things.

So I've been doing research on Karou's condition. She keeps having these obscure visions of angelic beings that she claims she's never seen before. Whenever she has them, she goes almost catatonic and has to stay in my office until they're over. To top it off, she has these odd green, scale-like markings in one very particular stripe of skin. Anatomically speaking, those shouldn't be there. I've decided to turn my efforts away from science and into ACTUAL myth (not the supposed "myth" that people here are) to see if there are some answers there. So far I've found several theories that might explain her skin and her very species itself, but none of them are very positive. I'd like to talk to Warren about them before I tell her the options, but I know I'll get the same answer as I usually do: "How does this concern me?"

How does it concern you? Well, let's see:
1. You live with the girl.
2. You sired her, which makes her your responsibility until she's no longer in the fledgling/newborn stage.
3. You oversee the entire compound -- if what she is becomes potentially dangerous, naturally you're going to have to step in and do something about it.

I thought Vetric might have been bad for the girl but now I'm starting to think this Warren man might be too. I know it's not my place to try and interfere with her feelings, but it might become nessecary soon.

December 4, 2012

I've been avoiding Warren today ,but apparently nobody's seen him at all anyways. I asked Karou if she'd seen him, but apparently he's been MIA. He's probably off brooding about the meaning of life or writing sonnets about how much he loves Bird but is too afraid to blemish her innocence or something equally disgusting. Either way, even though Im not getting a paycheck anymore, I'm still acting as the doctor here. I set her wing again today and spoke with Madge a few times as well.

I came out this evening to see Ibram in a big fight with some new vampire here named Jose. He's a nice kid and apparently Ibram pressure him into the fight. That doesn't surprise me at all. I was going to break it up completely, but it seemed that it was ending anyways by the time I registered what was really happening. Ibram won, but he had such an asshole-ish attitude about winning to him that we all acted as if it were Jose that one. I have a theory that he did it just to get the kid to bleed to have an excuse to lick up the blood after or something else predatorish like that. I don't mean to sound like a racist, but nearly every crusnik I've ever met has acted like that. As I had said, the Jose boy seemed nice. New here though, doesn't really know anyone yet, but he did say he and Karou were acquainted. I'll see about getting to know him myself, for the sake of having new friends.

December 6, 2012

I am told that Warren wants to re-hire me because he can't find another doctor good enough to fill my place. I expected as much. After the state I found Karou in last night? I don't think I'll be accepting this job offer. She came out of her unit while I was out talking to Ibram, Jose and the whole lot looking like she'd seen a ghost, so I took her back to my office. She didn't tell me much but I asked who'd upset her and her silence said everything. I was going to re-break her wing last night so that it would heal properly, but I didn't want her to have to deal with more stress. I gave her orders to stay at Miya's tonight. I'm almost certain the stress of whatever it is Warren is saying or doing to her is inducing more visions.

I went to speak to Ibram about the matter and expressed my feelings to him on the matter and we've come up with a plan on how to deal with Warren should he continue to be a problem. If he can treat perhaps the youngest and most innocent person in the compound like nothing but a doll meant to be tossed about, then he certainly isn't fit to be running this place. Money or no money, his rotten personality is not going to keep this place running smoothly. Either he gets an attitude adjustment, or we adjust him. Ibram agrees, Jose agrees, Miya agrees, Jay agrees. She hasn't said a word to anyone but me, of course (out of fear he'll snap her wings clean off, probably) but I'm not going to keep my silence on the issue. Enough is enough.

Also, I have a date tonight.

December 10, 2012

Everyone in this place has lost their freaking mind.
I'm not exaggerating here. First it was Warren, then it seems to have spread. So, is this insanity or is this hysteria, because I didn't think insanity could even spread this quickly.

Last night I went to warn Warren what would happen if he kept up this violent, aggressive personality of his. I told him that it would not be just me who takes action but in fact a group of people who would come for him. He insisted my threats were empty, when in fact they weren't threats but rather sworn promises. He still wouldn't take me seriously, so I tried to lay it down for him like it was when Karou came in. Of course, she took his side, went about insisting she could fend for herself and didn't need any protectors.

She's defenseless as a newborn baby. She doesn't know how to use her powers or that damned sword she's got now. She knows how to turn them on and hurt someone with them (in this case, try and hack off someone's hand), but she doesn't know the magnitude of them or what harm they can really cause. The right person pisses her off, she might intend on just roughing them up and wind up killing them instead. She doesn't know her own strength and everyone here just assumes she'll learn.

There is no way around it. Karou is a Morningstar. Whether she likes it or not, she's bound to act like one.
It's only a matter of time before others start catching on.