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A small booklet written by Peter Walsh, using the pseudonym 'Camera Flash'
1st Edition written shortly after session 8
The Book is titled 'On Consentualists & feeding in Vampire Society - A brief analysis' Small Excerpts from the book read as follows.
'It appears that although one of the major vampire 'sects', the 'Camarilla', prohibits public 'feeding', it happens nonetheless. Even more worryingly, it appears they have developed an apathy toward policing their own kind, with humans punished for the flagrant actions of a few vampires, only ever taking action against one of their own when the 'cleanup' is too difficult.
A vampire appears to feed by grabbing their victim and 'biting' their neck for a period of 5-10 seconds. The victim does not appear able to resist once it has started, either due to being physically immobilised, or otherwise 'disarmed' by chemical or other unknown methods.
Based on some observations, it appears that an act of feeding induces a drug-like state in humans, with some reporting loss of memory for a period before and after the act. Despite interviewing known victims, none of them appears to be aware of being fed upon as a distinct action, and many seemed to be into a form of extreme 'bloodplay' which may be used by vampires as an indication that this victim is an 'easy target' or has previously been fed upon.
Unlike in popular fiction like Blade, there appear to be no visible marks on the victim's neck after 'feeding'. It is unknown by what mechanism the vampire drains blood without puncture wounds, but a few conjectures can be made:
A. The vampire drains blood with extremely thin teeth, akin to a mosquito. This does not line up with the length of feeding sessions observed.
B. The vampire drains blood without even piercing the skin; this raises the question of why the vampire simply doesn’t 'feed' from across the room instead of biting their neck.
C. The vampire drains blood in a way similar to mammalian hematophages such as the Vampire Bat, Vampire Finch & red-billed oxpecker, by piercing the skin and ‘lapping up’ the blood. Alternatively, they could use hollow fangs as a way to drain blood, but this is less likely due to the notable physiological changes it would require over a human. They would then have to somehow either heal or conceal the wound created. This could be possible with an Astringent 1).
A note is scrawled next the draft.
TODO: ask john for information about other blood drinking mythical creatures, there might be some explanation in how they hide their bitemarks there.