Hello Grandmother,
I tend to take it personally when someone steals all of my stuff. So I’ve kind of had a chip on my shoulder about Flux especially now that it has resurfaced. The big lesson that I’ve learned from my dealing with Flux is that it likes to manipulate information. So when Flux tells me [...]

Hello Grandmother,
The tests are going out. The Seven Deadly Ministries are turning on themselves, as draconian tactics dismantle the fragile trust that the vampire community has in one another. That’s the only way I can explain it. It’s getting very hard out there to be a creature of the night. The vampires, at least for [...]

Hello Grandmother,
When you’re dealing with someone you know you can’t trust, every interaction becomes more and more complicated. You start looking for the lie in there words, what they benefit from and how you can avoid being played. The problem I have with Flux at this point is that I have no idea how it [...]

Hello Grandmother,
As the Ministries implement there new policies, their enemies inside the vampire community are starting to institute changes of their own. Namely, they’re forming a competing organization, grouped together from the vampire houses left powerless in the vampire revolution. They’re given voice by Richard III and the growing community of frustrated vampire lords seeking [...]

Hello Grandmother,
History is a matter of perspective. Which means you have to be careful with who you get your history from, and how much you trust of what you get. I’m getting competing views of robot history, and maybe they add up to the same whole, or maybe I’m being lied to straight to my [...]

Hello Grandmother,
Vampire policy changes are being put into action. One of the big ones I’m seeing right off the bat is a power sharing deal in Los Angeles. No longer will competing warlords battle for supremacy in the streets. What this means in practice is that Fang has to start sharing his dominance [...]

Hello Grandmother,
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the evolution of robotkind that I have at the moment. So it’s only natural that the most duplicitous robot I know would come forward with answers. Flux, the faux-junk dealer who stole my most prized possessions (which, honestly, I didn’t mind since they seemed to put [...]

Hello Grandmother,
Vengeance. It’s a common trait amongst vampires. It makes sense, you live long enough, you eat people, you’re going to have a grudge against someone. The Ministries work by subverting that, though. Like they’re trying to creat egalitarian vampires who suck from everyone equally. Personal grudges get submerged into big, goal-oriented structural issues.
So what’s [...]

Hello Grandmother,
The problem with researching the past is, sometimes it comes back to bite you in the ass. I mentioned yesterday, the robot Turk who may have been one of the first robots to live successfully hidden in society as a human. Well it appears he’s written me a letter. In which he promises to [...]

Hello Grandmother,
The fear and panic over the shadowy threat of the Infiltration has allowed me access to robot history that I wouldn’t otherwise have available to me. One of the biggest questions I’ve been asking is: since when have there been robots capable of emulating people? I know, in general terminology, about the robots [...]