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[Now he's had more time to practice filters, he's trying one out. He's sure this matter has been brought up before at some point in time anyhow, so it's not like it's too sensitive. But he has to ask, since it seems like people never discuss it. At the moment, Mulder can be seen holding a small handheld mirror and tapping it absentmindedly into the palm of his other hand. He has a thoughtful expression on his face.]

...I bet it's been tried before, but... Has anyone ever had the barcode on the back of their neck examined? Is there a doctor in the house, or anyone with a medical background who's ever tried removing it from someone? ....Or maybe just someone in possession of a state of the art grocery store scanner to check it out? [What, YOU NEVER KNOW.] For that matter, can we be entirely sure they haven't implanted anything additional in us?

Aside from that, I'm almost starting to feel a sense of routine and normality, between my ongoing quest to commune with the spirits and now working on what's essentially becoming the Lucetian X-Files. I have some faint hope that documenting the experiments will give me a better understanding of this place. Although I would kill for a computer to type them out on. Uh... not literally kill, for the record.
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A flood of newcomers means I get to officially upgrade my New Feather badge to the next level... [Warning! Warning! Incoming snark mode!] Welcome to paradise, everyone. The food is free, but the TV reception is terrible, the recreational activities consist of reality-altering experiments which will make you wish you were on reality-altering drugs, and the vacation staff running the place have a mysterious fetish for wings. Overall I give this resort a half star. You really should have gone to Disneyworld instead.

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Checkout any time you like, but you can never leave...

...By the way, how did everything turn out with that problem you were having?

About as fixed as it's going to get, barring a miracle.

...it's safe to take walks again.

['Safe as it's going to get', implying he's not CURED cured, but... Hm.]

You're still a vampire, or at least have the potential to be one, but that part is... dormant now?

Just kicked back to where I was when I first got her. Still infected, still likely to go downhill again. But for now, yeah.

Ouch, now that's some exceedingly crappy timing on behalf of our ever friendly abductors. Of course, they probably did that deliberately, to test how you would react, in that state...

I'm glad to hear that you're at least better for now.

I think in this case, it was the best that could be done.

Yeah. It got me some time back.

That's one lucky thing about this place, the stasis we seem to be in. But... I realize now that I've never questioned this... what had changed to make it speed up in the first place?

The virus itself is...something of a living thing on it's own. So it pushes.

And I died during one of the drafts, so it got a better toe-hold on me.

Oh... the 'penalties' that they give us? Yours was a hastening of that virus?

...Can you always sense the virus inside of you?

[This is all so very very intriguing to Mulder, especially given that virus-inflicted vampirism isn't as commonly documented in his files.]

Yeah. Right to the edge of when I'd go over normally.

I can. It's always there; always pushing. It's not so bad the first day, but if it's allowed to progress, the push gets worse as it goes. Like an addiction, eventually, you end up giving in if you don't end it before then.

Addiction is a prevalent theme for vampirism in general, with that insatiable thirst for blood... You seem to know what you're doing in not listening to it, though.

...You managed to keep it from infecting anyone else, I hope?

Only managed to infect one person, unintentionally, and their own nature protected them from it. They've gone home, now, but other than a sort of 'scar', they're fine.

That's a relief that it didn't become widespread. I think you have a good handle on keeping it contained, usually.

Figures that our lovely captors wouldn't go through the trouble of curing you fully though. You have to figure they potentially could, if they wanted. [But for the sake of mad science? Yeah, he knows that people like that would never fix anything they found interesting.]

Don't think they can cure me. Just slide me along the timeline until I'm not as bad off.

Ah, so there's another limit to their power.

Yeah. God they definitely aren't.

Maybe we'll know the full extent of what they're capable of, eventually...

Maybe.

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