Drug Dealer
The vampire who promised Archie “eternal life” took off just weeks after the Embrace. Now Archie’s got an Islamic preacher and a vampiric church telling him he’s got to abandon his life, his wife and his drug money to go get tutored about damnation from a stylish club owner in Old Boulevard. Eternal life’s not what the salesman said it was.
Archie has been put under Eric Torillo’s authority by the Lancea Sanctum, courtesy of Brother Cassius. It’s Eric’s job to make Archie into a vampire capable of fitting into Kindred society and acting as the Sactified scriptures say a vampire should. (That first job may be harder than the second.) Cassius just wants Archie to learn the kind of discipline and pious respect a vampire needs to be a holy monster, but Stenholm seems to hope that mentoring Archie will help ween Eric off his close ties to mortal existence.
January 1, 2007 at 10:24 pm
[...] Eric’s little domain was granted to him by the Primogen, on behalf of the Prince, as a reward for nights spent keeping the city’s Kindred under control. Tonight, two other vampires live inside the boundaries of Eric’s domain: a former drug-dealer named Archie and an undead surgeon named Dr. Jarod Walsh. Both of them owe some degree of service to Eric, and each of them feels differently about their debt to him. [...]