Chapter 1: Always Listen to Your Parents…
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Philip's parents hadn't thought to warn him about things like this. If only they had. They'd warned him against almost everything else he'd been up to tonight. They'd tried to instill in him wisdom against gambling, drinking, and spending money on the women who kept him company for coin. Those lessons he never learned, he never wanted to. What they never got around to telling him was that he should always just leave the naked girl in the lake to her fate.
'Ain't that just the way things go? I guess a good deed doesn't go unpunished…'
He isn't allowed time to contemplate much of anything else as the dark threads that have pulled him down into the depths of the water start to squeeze. The breath he'd been holding onto is forced form his body, bringing the short and unproductive life of Philip "Blinky" McGiven to a soggy end.
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A/N: Obligatory "The recognizable characters and places and such belong to Blizzard and/or Legendary" comment. Original characters belong to me.
Yes. These notes are going to be longer than the chapter I just posted. No, I do not care. :)
The first 2 ½ chapters are a little bit of a slow setup and don't really have any of the characters that you may know and love, but after that you won't be able to get rid of them. :D
Boring backstory to this story: I've played World of Warcraft just one month short of the entire time it's been publicly available. Yet… I managed to get through those many years without really getting to know the stories and the lore of the world. I owned the Warcraft games from my youth, but only played them long enough to discover that I wasn't any good at them even when using the God-mode codes. All of this changed when the Warcraft movie came out earlier this year. I knew the names of the people on the screen, but I wouldn't have been able to tell you much of anything about them even though I've spent almost a fourth of my life with some of them. I saw the movie in theaters at least seven times and started delving into lore websites. I fell in love with the characters that I'd previously viewed as a means to an end in the WoW leveling process.
Unlike the people who have lived and breathed the lore before me, I am a lore noob. I am aware of this fact and will no doubt make mistakes. I have attempted to meld the lore from the movie and match it up to established game lore and have even added a few twists of my own when neither lore was quite perfect for what I needed. The characters I am working with are the movie versions. While doing lore research I discovered I like the personalities of the movie versions a lot more than the game versions in most cases.
If you've made it this far, I thank you for sticking with me. Woo! This is the part where I touch on what this story will include. It's going to have stabbing, it's going to have death. It's going to have a vampiric theme to it that seems to work in this world well enough. The original version of this story as posted on another site has explicit content. I see that this site doesn't allow that so I am going to do my very darnedest to edit those sections down to what is allowed before posting them here.