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.

Felix orders one of the non-sensationalist anthologies.

Well, if they can do the kind of thing the three just experienced, then Thunder can kind of get it, but the sensationalism is pretty suspicious.

Also, they are not all ugly. Kind of the opposite in some cases, and the fangs are hot.

Interesting, Fenris searches for "vampire memory recovery" next, then just "memory recovery."

Felix's bookshelf now has the anthology!

The Raccoon News commentator sounds weird in the same way those visitors sound weird—she says random sentences that are all related to the topic, but they don't form a whole coherent narrative and don't seem to be logically connected otherwise. After a few minutes of this, she starts talking about one specific high-profile vampire—yep, you guessed it, Caleb Vatore—and the way he seems to be all over everywhere relevant nowadays. Not only is he a "vampirist", he's also a public proponent of the recent "free bodies movement", and has also held protests about that, a couple of which even included some spontaneous public orgies. Here's the uncensored footage taken by one of the participants on their phone.

Fenris can find some kooky articles about that, but his best bets are probably the same papers that got cited earlier on the Simpedia page. The papers go on in detail about their methodology, but if he keeps to the Abstracts to be quicker about it it seems like mere introspection is enough to identify the ways vampire powers have affected you and to throw it off. The issue is that the effects can be made so subtle the subject doesn't even consider introspecting on said effects. Also, memory alteration is one of the powers that has not been independently confirmed by a rigorous laboratorial study.

Okay, maybe this is more interesting than he thought. And they definitely should make friends with the guy. Thunder watches the footage closely. How fascinating.

Felix feels weird over having to relearn this basic and pretty normal sort of action. But... anyway, he checks the relevant book and starts reading.

Well, this does not make Fenris feel less paranoid, but sure. Maybe they can do the instrospection thing. Is there any particular method to it, or just paying attention to one's mind should be enough?

The footage, low-quality and taken from a phone, does indeed show a rally, one in which... the majority of people are naked. Or various levels of naked, there's actually a ton of variation. Caleb himself is giving a speech, and he's wearing Galce & Dobanna sunglasses, an extremely expensive-looking faux-fur scarf, a faux-leather belt with a golden buckle, and ridiculously fancy designer shoes. He is otherwise nude, but somehow manages to look more richly appointed than anyone else there, even in the low resolution. Also, he sounds like an actual person and his sentences have actual logical coherence. Not that anyone remarks on this.

Felix's new book is indeed an anthology of scientific papers! This specific book is covering a slightly different subset of papers than the ones Fenris has run into, but the content is very similar—replication and all that.

As for how to resist vampire powers, it seems to suffice to pay attention to the fact that it's happening and to actively want it to not happen and focus on one's own emotions and thoughts. This seems to work in all cases when it comes to straightforward suggestions, although a couple of volunteer ancient vampires seem to be good enough at this that it takes rather a lot of mental effort to throw them off.

Okay, that does turn out to be more informative than expected.

"Guys, check this out."

"Yes... and what are you watching?"

Fenris goes to stand in front of the TV. "Huh."

The bit the news show shows is short, and focuses on Caleb talking about how society needs to abandon the traps of tradition and move forward, as well as how the status quo is holding everyone back. He admits that this is related to how he's a vampirist and he believes that the long history of this world of treating anything occult as, well, occult has done it more harm than good. But he believes in almost full generality that holding onto the status quo for itself and not questioning it is keeping humanity (et al.) from reaching its full potential.

That's when the video is cut short, and the news commentators say vaguely-related sentences such as "He wants to destroy our society's values!" and "Vampires just want to take over everywhere." and "I thought vampires couldn't be out in the sun!"

"Caleb is not wrong."

"The way he talked made sense too? It's like everyone else can't string more than two sentences together."

"Maybe we could try to reach him?"

"Maybe, maybe one of us does that and the others continue the research if that is productive?" He looks down at his clothes.

He spins around... and the clothes are still there. He tries it again.

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to get naked, but it's suddenly hard for some reason?"

"Suddenly into the free bodies movement?"

"I don't think clothes are more comfortable than not-clothes."

Felix looks up and down. "Huh... the shirt and the pants. I think we could remove them by pulling them up and down, respectively?"

"It's not urgent, but we will need to take a shower eventually."

Maybe if he is on the floor, he can do that himself? He tries that.

Felix will help.

So will Thunder. And between the three of them, they soon acquire a naked triplet.

"We look good."