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Personal Research Notes of Dr. Saint

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[SECURITY LEVEL: CONFIDENTIAL, INTENDED FOR INTERNSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMS]

The following is a series of personal notes by one Dr. _________ Saint, of the A____ Institute for the Study of Supernatural Creatures. While the Institute has large archives of research and reports on various entities, these notes were put together by Dr. Saint as a sort of beginner's guide. The main purpose is to give examples of some of the common types of creatures we encounter in the field. Each part contains brief descriptions of the overall creature type, as well as an example or examples of the creature from Dr. Saint's own work history.

For further case studies and information on other entities outside of these notes, especially in order to complete your current tasking, please ask your acting manager for which archives to consult.

Notes:

I'm doing something different for Drawtober this year!! You can probably tell by the name, but "Drawtober" is mainly for drawings, with 6 Halloween-related prompts for the month of October. This year's theme is monsters, with a bunch of general monster categories. I still did drawings for each prompt, but I also decided to do some writing to pair with each drawing!

So then the idea of this is that it's a bunch of research notes on each type of creature from the Drawtober prompts, a chapter for each one. Kinda inspired by stuff like the SCP writings and certain creepypastas. Even has "redacted" text! Mainly stuff like names and dates that aren't super important to the overall monster description. :P

Only one image will probably need a content warning, but the rest should be fine, I think. Also some of these might be shorter than others though, and you can probably tell which ones ended up being my favorites to write/plan out by how long it is, lol

But yeah, hopefully people will like this! Also let me know if there's anything else I could tag this as.

Chapter 1: Vampire

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

The term vampire is often applied to a wide variety of supernatural creatures which feed on the blood of other creatures. They are often, though not always, human-like or at least humanoid. Vampires can have various transformations and abilities to aid them in their hunt for food, as well as various weaknesses depending on the type of vampire. Natural sunlight is a typical weakness among most vampires, ranging from weakening them to outright killing them.

Their sapience and intelligence also varies, from being on par with a human, to not being much more advanced than an animal. Vampires tend to have some sort of human origin, especially if they already resemble humans. Said origins include situations such as being revived from a fresh human corpse, or being originally a human that was “turned” in some manner.

Others, however, are not of human origin. At least, in the sense of being made from a human body.

The specimen shown below is one such example. Research indicates it was created from a swarm of female mosquitoes, likely because only the female mosquitoes in most species will drink blood for nutrients for their eggs. The swarm was thus sculpted into a larger form using supernatural methods from the ____ region. The wings seemed to be useless for actual flight, though they still allowed the vampire to hover in the air for short periods of time. In addition, it was still capable of climbing in order to hide from prey, particularly high along vertical surfaces to ambush said prey from above.

It was linked to the murders of at least 5 civilians in the city of _____, _____, cases where the victims were drained of all their blood. By moving its wings at certain angles and at certain speeds, the sound of it turned out similar to human speech. It mostly mimicked cries of help, likely to lure in victims. The murders all occurred in alleyways, late at night and in parts of the city with few other humans nearby.

This vampire was captured on _/__/____, through the use of a fake corpse filled with blood as bait. After being deprived of blood for a long period of time during our subsequent studies, it eventually expired. While preparing for an autopsy of the vampire, researchers observed that it “fell apart” into the original swarm used to create it in the first place. Said swarm then quickly turned to dust, but at the least we were able to save the dust for further study.

Through an extensive search and investigation, hunters were able to track down the creator of the vampire, an individual known as _____ _____. She created it to collect blood for her to offer to a local cult, in an attempt to win their favor and be allowed to join. She would direct the vampire to leave the blood in metal barrels near a warehouse where the cult supposedly met to conduct rituals. Given that the vampire still needed to consume blood to stay alive, it is believed it may have consumed at least a small part of its collected blood for itself, before depositing the rest for the cult.

While investigating, our hunters found that the cult does exist, but it had moved its operations out of the city some weeks before the vampire and its creator were captured. In addition, _____ had evidently been leaving the blood next to the wrong warehouse this whole time, with the cult's actual warehouse being about a mile away from the one she directed the vampire to. _____ was unaware of both of these facts and became distraught upon learning this from the hunters. She has since been left in police custody to take the fall for the 5 murders.

For further information on this creature, please see Case# 347120-QW182.

Notes:

Yeah, a short first start already. :P

It was fun thinking about ways of making a vampire "different" from how they're generally depicted! Though at the same time, I feel like maybe I could have pushed the envelope a bit further? Since right now it's really just a big mosquito monster made from magic, which doesn't feel too creative? Well, it was still fun putting this together, so let me know what you think of this!