A Good Place to Put Your Feet Up

[whatamithinking]

There is a woman at the bar. She's drinking some sort of coffee beverage, and grading papers.

Comments

[whatamithinking]

"Sounds unpleasant. And it can't help matters that the people most likely to have gotten hip replacements are the ones with the least time to get turned in."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. We go as fast as we can. The anesthetist works full time and the witch who copies powers takes his for occasional shifts too."

[whatamithinking]

"Anesthetist?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Turning into a vampire hurts a lot." (This is an understatement.)

[whatamithinking]

Shiver. "Aha. Venom indeed."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Someone who needs to jump the line and can't displace a pending batch may choose to turn without Alec or Addy helping, and that used to be what anyone who turned had to do anyway, but it's not advised."

[whatamithinking]

"I can imagine it would be preferable to dying..."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Not during the process. Rates of regretting it afterwards are pretty low, though."

[whatamithinking]

"Close enough. If I know I'm going to regret something I'll refrain even if it feels good while it's happening."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Makes sense."

[whatamithinking]

"So unless literally every vampire turned before your mother took over had it done without consent probably there are emergency circumstances where it would be warranted."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"...Most vampires turned before Mama took over were without consent, or at least without informed consent, but not all, and plenty of them would have died without it."

[whatamithinking]

"I suspected most. I did specify literally every."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Well, Mama herself was a consensual non-anesthetized turning."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm not sure if I should be offering my congratulations for the consensual part or my condolences for the non-anesthetized part."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She did spend some of it in an induced barbituate coma to skip part of the process. So it wasn't as bad as most were."

[whatamithinking]

"That sounds better than not."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Morphine was also tried but that didn't work."

[whatamithinking]

"I imagine if synthetic bones get eaten away then drugs wouldn't have much of a chance, no."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"The entire process takes three days, so the drugs don't get obliterated right away, it just turned out morphine was ineffective."

[whatamithinking]

"Ah."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"And paralytic."

[whatamithinking]

"Really? That seems vaguely arbitrary..."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"A little, yes. We've hesitated to experiment more with 'what effects do drugs have on turning people' for the obvious reasons."

[whatamithinking]

"Yes, that would be a problem, wouldn't it. Well, I suppose my powers are no less arbitrary, really, and it's not terribly important to know why an unlikely-to-be-relevant combination of chemicals would produce a particular effect."