8

All that has brought you here. Here, to this swamp, where you and your maker delivered weapons and gunpowder to Jean Lafitte and General Jackson. You wonder idly who won. Momentarily satiated, you are able to focus your attention for a moment. Your maker seizes that moment to address his new progeny.

"Tonight, you are flush with my blood. But by tomorrow, the power that courses through your veins will fade. You will not be stronger or faster than you were when you were alive—not for many years, anyway. In the meantime, you will have to be clever, or else you will find yourself relying on the beast that prowls within you. It is a vicious creature. You can call upon it when you are overwhelmed, but it is a devil's bargain: you will always come out the worse for the exchange. What you do have is time. You will not grow old, you will not die. In time, you will see that everything comes in cycles. Learn patience and foresight, and you will discover how to bend mortals to your will. Heed my words, and you will survive to experience all that this unlife has to offer."

With that, he leads you into a future ripe with possibilities.

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