Hello Grandmother,
Psychics are just assholes. Maybe I need to rephrase that. Most psychics, your bendy spoon type of people, are good people, but the ones who get hired by vampires, the psychics who are good enough you never hear about them, are generally just pricks. They’ve decided they’re better than everyone else, and that justifies [...]

Hello Grandmother,
Vampires like devouring people. I understand that they procure most of their blood through other means these days, but you can still feel the shiver up your spine when you meet one. They want to consume you.
Apparently warlord Fang (who hates being called warlord) is upset with the bureaucracy’s investigation that I have been [...]

Hello Grandmother,
The Illuminati really thought that they could have conscious machines that would just happily do all their work for them. It seems like they couldn’t even grasp the idea that self-aware machines might not have out best interests at heart.
That’s the train of thought that keeps going through my mind as I tour the [...]

Hello Grandmother,
Someone in a very high place is upset. I know this because my services have been requested by an agent of the vampire bureaucracy who is displeased with the state of the investigation into Jakob Lawrence’s death. I had only a second to wonder what you would do at such a request before my [...]

Hello Grandmother,
It’s hard not to be paranoid at this point. I know someone is out to get me. Someone thinks I owe them a favor, and I’m going to have no choice but to repay it. And in all likelihood, they are a vampire. So the best thing to do, to calm my nerves, while [...]

Hello Grandmother,
L.A. is a strange place. It used to be a desert, and from what I’ve seen in my life, deserts are places of great magic. It’s a place of used up dreams and dream factories. It’s a pivotal place to visit, if you are looking to have any kind of understanding of the magics [...]

Hello Grandmother,
So who is the man at the top? Who, in the grand scheme of things, really runs the world? All I have is a title: the Blacksmith. He designed, built, and executed the vampire takeover of the Illuminati. Other than that, I have little to go on. Legend has it he designed weapons for [...]

Hello Grandmother,
So I think it’s about time we address the issue of why we’re still here.  August 10th, 2009 was a pretty likely date for the end of the world.  Sure, it’s not 2060, 2000, or 1843, but it seemed fairly preordained, at least according to the arcane sources I look into.  August 10th itself [...]

Hello Grandmother,
I just can’t trust vampires.  I’m not saying that vampires don’t do good things, but at the end of the day, if they put their neck on the line for you, they except you to do the same.  And I’m not giving them access to my jugular that easily.  So it makes me [...]

Hello Grandmother,
The funniest misconceptions I think that people have about robots is that you can’t program them to feel.  If anything, emotions are more programmable than logic, because they have a set of rules.  You get information that is detrimental, you get angry.  You learn something positive, you smile.  Once a being has a set [...]