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Warning: This tale contains scenes of graphic sex and violence, such as rape, torture, and murder. Sensitive readers may be offended by the content within.

Character Bios: From "Apocalypstick"

Claira Carnafex:
As a child, Claira was an abandon orphan in Romania who led an even tougher life after world war 3. Once a shy and slinky teen-ager with auburn hair, she transformed into a battle-obsessed, psychotic warrior empowered with strange and fantastic abilities from a mysterious parasite. Claira is a feared icon in the New World, widely known for her cannibalistic, torturous killing sprees. Her foreboding appearance boasts a right eye encircled with an oddly beautiful dark spot, which consists of thousands of parasitic worms. Her mouth sports four long fangs, capable of injecting flesh-liquefying venom that can also temporarily turn her victims into slave-like drones. In addition, when in season, she can use these fangs to impregnate a chosen lover. Even more bizarre is her ability to exercise her gelatinous "Sticky-Lips", which can possess a victim into a sexual frenzy. Claira has a missing "wedding" finger on her right hand and is extremely vulnerable to damaging sunlight. In regards to this, she must travel with addictive "Demon-Stones", which she ingests in order to travel around in daylight. Her trademark weapon is a self-made melee/gun combo called a "Trigger-Whip". Claira can be frequently seen roaming the Romanian countryside, usually with two wild drones she keeps chained to her side. As can be expected, in this new Dark Age, she is considered a true monster...a nine-fingered demon that legends bestow as the "Phage".

Marishka Von Tepis:
Beautiful beyond compare and probably one of the most intelligent people ever born, Marishka is the adopted Romanian daughter to the new Pope. This genius is also the last descendant of Vlad Tepis, the dreaded "Impaler" of Romanian legend and Dracula mythology. As a leader and general, she has orchestrated the political and military spectrum of post-apocalyptic Italy into a New World order overseen by Church-and-State. However, these new-age Romans are being threatened by barbarian hordes and powerful Mongol conquerors that are trying to gain world domination. Like her childhood friend and betrothed wife, Claira, Marishka has a strong Romanian accent and fanatical Christian ideals. Marishka’s long blonde hair tapers down into a silvery white and her wide, pale blue eyes belie her somewhat sly nature. Petite of body, but very curved and semi-voluptuous, Marishka is often a target for hopeful lovers who obsess with possessing the sultry Vatican Princess.

Shakespeare:
Shakespeare was a fired Highschool chemistry teacher that sought refuge in the deep wilds of Europe after the atomic holocausts of world war 3. As a part-time theater actor, his sexual obsession with teenage boys kept him in trouble throughout his life. Unusually bright and inventive, Shakespeare is a quick-witted outdoorsman and self-made alchemist. Seven years after the bombs hit, he found himself exploring the dark and pristine forests of Romania. There, he encountered Claira, who was hell bent on killing the British pedophile. However, his strange and gentle nature, plus, his ability to create pills that allow Claira to live in sunlight, eventually cemented an unlikely alliance between them.

Omega Kahn:
Tough, smart, and clever, the leader of the new Mongols, Omega Kahn, is a powerfully built Tibetan warlord and drug runner who shows no mercy to his victims. Kahn took on the prefix of past Mongol warlords and has already conquered the entire China mainland. As an ex-"Ultimate Fighter Champion", Kahn now sports a prosthetic left arm, which he fixates with deadly weapons. With his sights set on New Rome, he and his massive army make a detour through oil-rich Romania with intent of financing their traveling army. But little do they know that they are about to encounter a rabid monster in the darkened woods of Transylvania...a monster as feared as the devil himself.

(Battle Journal #0)
Daughter of Darkness
Scene #0: Catching "The Buzz"

Daisies; blood-soaked daisies…Once, such fantastically beautiful flowers taking on a bit of the grisly crimson shade seemed uncommon in the Old World forest. But recently, in Transylvania’s south woods, blood was pouring far more profusely.

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