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Disappointing. There's probably loads of old security holes he can use if he wants to look them up but he doesn't even know who to hack. Anybody vehemently denying the existence of demons and/or vampires? Any coverage of the incidents mentioned at the frat?

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The events merit a mention on the police blotter, where they've been rendered as vandalism. Sunnydale has a truly impressive obituaries page. No one seems super invested in denying the existence of demons or vampires except in the 'calling people stupid on the internet is fun' way.

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Okay, this is annoying. Does the library have any books that look handy?

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It has a decent selection of books on mythology and vampires and demons and stuff.

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He skims it all. It is disappointing.

He asks a librarian if this is all they have on vampires.

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The librarian makes a face. "Some are checked out?" She reads off some names.

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Cam dutifully writes down these titles. "That's it?" he asks.

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"That's it."

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"Thank you."

He motorcycles away and makes the books and skims those too in case they're any better.

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One of them is at least more detailed than you might expect from making shit up. It claims that vampires are demons inhabiting the corpses of previously alive people, that their faces transform, that they're universally evil because they're demons, that holy water and stakes and sunlight and decapitation all work to stop them, that they need an invitation into residences and can't enter churches, that Dracula is real and one of them, and that humans can train in combat well enough to take them on, though it isn't advised. 

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Complete works of this author?

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Also wrote some attempted translations of the Bible and a long commentary on Aquinas and a narrative account of the effort to hunt down a Shoggoth demon terrorizing his hometown and a diary which is mostly accounts of sex he had with his wife but does feature twelve different references to vampires and forty to demons, some metaphorical and some apparently literal.

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Does he have any citations?

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Lots for the Aquinas thing.

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Heck.

Is this the only library in town?

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The high school has one, as do the various colleges.

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...how hard is it to get into these libraries as a nonstudent?

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One college wants key cards, the others don't bother. The high school wants you to sign in at the front desk.

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Sure. His name is Cam and his arrival time is 10:47 a.m. In he goes.

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The Sunnydale High School library turns out to be the one with a lot of books about vampires for whatever reason. They are old and bound in all kinds of interesting materials and have fascinating Latin titles. After a couple minutes someone asks him what he's doing here, though.

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"Browsing. You don't have interlibrary loan set up with SPL, do you?"

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"Not for those books, no. This library is for students."

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"Sorry, I didn't see a sign. Do I need to clear out?"

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"You do." She looks like she expects saying this might go badly.

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"Sure, sorry to have intruded."

He goes out. Motorcycles to a nice park and sits down with a smoothie. Before he conjures up electronic format of that whole stack he checks his mail in case Talon has anything to say.

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