She turns around to look at him again. "What was the question?"

"The one about altering memories?"

Angela frowns and folds her arms. "You've already asked me this question."

"You didn't answer it properly!"

"I'm not sure what you mean."

"Maybe she doesn't want to admit that vampires can alter memories? Though, I don't think this is what happened?"

Fenris makes a face. "I know... it's just... her phrasing was weird? And she kept repeating the same answer."

"I'm right here, you know," she huffs.

"I am sorry. We shouldn't burden you with your problems. Maybe you could come back another time?"

"Or tells us how to revert vampire confusion?"

"It goes away on its own after a while."

    "We can come back later," agrees Alex. "It's been lovely, thank you for having us, and welcome to the neighborhood again!"

Then without waiting for anything else or saying another word the four of them just... leave.

"That... that was weird, right?"

"Welcome to my life."

"I guess we should figure out more about vampires?"

"One of us read about them. One checks the internet. One... watches TV?"

"I call dibs on the TV."

Thunder can find the channel guide next to their TV.

Their bookshelf is already populated with a handful of books—mostly fiction, although it does also contain an introductory book about painting and another about playing chess—but they share the vague memory that it is possible for them to acquire more books without having to physically go somewhere to get them. It feels like it should be... pretty intuitive to do. Almost a primitive action.

And as for the computer research, they can use Siimgle or Go Go Duck or Bang in order to start their searches into the topic.

Thunder searches for interviews with vampires.

Felix... tries the intuitive book-getting action.

And Fenris types "Vampire abilities" on Siimgle.

The TV channels are not so helpful. They have names instead, such as Network of Cartoons or Raccoon TV or XYZ or The WC or Lickenodeon. Fortunately, Thunder does seem to come equipped with pre-installed memories about the sorts of contents those channels might have!

Felix's intuitive book-getting action fails! Maybe he can use his phone?

And finally, Fenris's search is the most useful one, probably: he very quickly finds a Simpedia page about vampirism that seems to also be one of the current Hot Pages on the website's front page.

What does it say about vampire mind control?

This is fun, but maybe he should actually figure out something useful if he doesn't find any vampire-related content.

Okay, he will try that. It's weird that thing didn't work, but he will try that.

The header of the page mentions that active research on the subject of vampires is ongoing, and most citations seem to be pretty recent. There is a section on known powers, which goes into some detail about how turning into a vampire halts aging and starts a process of atrophying most other biological processes. The subsection on mind powers is relatively sparser, though, and it mentions that these more than any other vampire power can vary dramatically between individuals, so it's very hard to study. There have been claims of powers such as behavioural compulsions, hypnosis, emotional control, memory alteration, memory erasure, and memory creation, but not all of those have been demonstrated in experimental conditions. And more relevantly, every form of mind control or alteration that has been demonstrated in a lab could be resisted or reversed.

Thunder has, unfortunately, very little luck with interviews. However, Raccoon News is showing a section on how awful vampires are and how they want to take over the world and turn everyone into them and also they're ugly.

As for Felix, he can in fact very easily find a bookstore app with a large catalog. It even includes books about vampires, although most of them are pop science with sensationalist titles. A couple of them are anthologies of scientific papers, however.