"Maybe the whole Mormon church are run by vampires, and that's why they don't use the cross. Don't they have a whole theological concept called 'blood atonement' too? Sounds kinda sus to me."

"I wouldn't really count the cross thing as evidence. It isn't really crosses that repel vamps, it's a symbol of whatever you have faith in. There's been reports of Muslims who've done it with the star and crescent or an inscription of the Shahada, Communists who've done it with the hammer and sickle, wizards who use a pentagram."

"Do Mormons have, like, a symbol of their faith that they commonly wear on their person like the cross or the star and crescent though? There's the magic underwear, but part of the point of it is it's not supposed to be visible."

"Huh, I don't think they do. I'm sure they could find some little object to repel a vamp, though, maybe a little pocket New Testament or Book of Mormon."

"Yeah, but how many of them actually carry one of those on their person all day? I'm telling you, the whole religion is a vampiric psyop. Them and the Jehovah's Witnesses. Wait a minute, both of those do the door-to-door missionary thing too. That must be part of it! In Mormon Utah, vampires invite you in! Wait, they do have like, houses, right? Because the butterfly thing said Dracula was accurate, but we don't really have dilapidated castles in the middle of the woods in America. And let's be real, even if we do, the Mormons probably send missionaries to those."

"The White and Red Courts do have houses; the Black Court tends to be more likely to live in a crypt, or something along those lines. I'm still not convinced of the Mormon Church being a conspiracy, usually supernatural conspiracies are known at least as rumors within the community before the lid gets blown off them, and I haven't heard any about the Mormons. You do make a good point about the tradition of door-to-door missionary work providing cover for all sorts of magical nastiness, frankly I should consider if there are any possibilities I could take advantage of there myself."

"You'd probably have to start a whole new religion for that one. Not many Mormons that look like you."

"Easy enough to temporarily illusion my hair!"

"If it were me, I would feel dirty having to put on the guise of a normie like that. What would you even be getting out of this, anyway? Clearly not money, you're not a vampire so not blood, you're not a warlock so not human sacrifices either."

"I don't know! But, like, I've already had one occasion to blast down someone's door, I should think of alternate approaches in case it comes up again in the future."

"Well this time you knocked and didn't get a response, which would be the same if you were in Mormon getup since I didn't see you, and if I did that would make me less likely to answer the door, not more. Frankly, anyone who would rather answer the door for Mormons than you doesn't deserve to have rights in the first place."

"True! Which is why it's convenient that I would be more powerful against someone who opens the door for me dressed as a Mormon than someone whose door I have to blast down—uh, if you haven't already heard, the threshold thing doesn't just apply to vamps. Wizards lose a chunk of our power when crossing one without permission."

"Huh. Does someone having a welcome mat count as them in inviting you in?"

"Nah, it has to be from them directly."

"Huh, does it go off legal ownership or occupancy?"

"There's some nuances to it, but basically occupancy. The more of a 'home' a house is, the stronger its threshold, and the ones who can invite people inside are the occupants of the home."

"So does it not apply to hotel rooms? That must be an easy way for vampires to get people if so."

"Honestly, the usual way for vamps to feed is more or less consensual—the Black Court is nearly extinct, and the Whites and Reds each have ways to addict people to being fed on. Regular people don't have much to worry about when it comes to defending their dwellings from vamps, it's more of a wizard concern. We do take a lot of precautions while traveling."

"I'm guessing from context that the addiction is in more of a scary fentanyl way than a hot sexual way."

"Um, it's kind of both? There is a sexual element to it—particularly with House Raith of the Whites, the Whites feed on emotional energy and the Raiths in particular feed on lust—but they tend to subject you to greater indignity than the sexual exploitation itself, and then you die."

"Emotional energy? There are really vampires that do that? Lemme guess, the ones who feed on anger invented social media."

"Heh, that would be clever, but if there are any White Court vamps who feed on anger, I don't know about them. The big three houses of the Whites in North America are Raith, Malvora, and Skavis—lust, fear, and despair respectively. The Raiths have the easiest time feeding and thus the largest population, unsurprisingly."

"Do they like, run brothels, or what? Presumably the fear ones feed in a kind of similar way to the ones who feed on blood, only deliberately letting their prey keep running until they collapse. What about the despair ones? Do they use social media as a food source, there's certainly a lot of despair there."

"The Raiths are heavily involved in the sex industry! Not just brothels, porn too, they use their influence to promote a no-strings-attached hookup culture because that's the kind of environment in which they can most easily feed. The Whites are hurt by the touch of someone who has most recently slept with someone they're in true love with. I don't know much about the Skavis's tactics, they don't have easily traceable investments in major industries like the Raiths do."

"You wouldn't happen to have a vampire in your basement we could use to test if we really have a connection or if I'm just blinded because you're hot and you kidnapped me, would you?"