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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Delightful!

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Jon Millington's avatar

There was never anyone so fearfully obstructive to a vampire hunter’s quest than a Transylvanian burgomeister with muttonchop whiskers

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

Or his bent backed old wife, obsessively wrapping crucifixes with garlic, pausing only to cross herself every time a wolf howled

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Jon Millington's avatar

And the coachman who will take you no further than the inn

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

“But I must be at the Borgo pass by midnight to meet the coach sent by the count!”

“The count!”

<villagers mutter to each other in Hungarian. Old woman ostentatiously crosses herself>

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