Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her "The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman", written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called "F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)", which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko's interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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Pal at work is trying to figure out the finer details of a DnD plot where some wizard wants to fake being a vampire. He doesn't know why, I think he's just working backwards from the encounter. He approaches writing very different than me and we've figured out how to make a guy seem like he's trying to conceal that he's a vampire in order to seem like a vampire, but why the hell this guy is doing it in the first place is just not there. Any ideas? They can be dumb as hell. I don't know the dnd world at all and generally bring irl mideval history/knowing more folklore and shit to the table to flesh ideas out. Anyway, evil wizard who wants people to think he's a vampire pretending not to be, why would anyone do this?
A Tiefling/Aasimar lineage can add some gravitas in those settings. Faking that you're some vampire or demon makes you a little extra imposing, especially depending on how common magic is. If you're a vampire, goodness knows how many years you had to train.
I'll suggest that but tbh, I have no clue what that means.
i can see the vision but the explanation needs to have a killer punchline or its a lame excuse to change the rules. depends on how he plays it but pretending to be a vampire to try and sleep with someone--vampire fetishist? an actual vampire? might work. think a buffy monster of the week who really hams it up and turns out to be a lame nerd
other option that bends the parameters: vampire's kiss style, dude is convinced he's a vampire, but isn't.
I think Vampire's Kiss style actually makes everything fall into place perfectly. It bends the parameter but I think it's a good bend.
Maybe he's practicing some type of forbidden Lovecraftian magic that leaves crazy evidence behind, but evidence of a type that can also be passed off as vampire attacks: confused amnesiac witnesses, mysterious lightning, the beating of monstrous wings in the night. Maybe he was making progress, but then some kind of magic cops chased him off and he found himself on the run. He found a ruined castle or something to set up shop in, but needed some ruse to keep nearby villagers away from his lab until his work is done.
Maybe things are getting out of hand right as the PCs show up. Might be fun for the players to prepare for a creepy vampire's castle, only to stumble into Fantasy Black Mesa.
They need to afford reagents to cast wish or otherwise create a 9th+ level spell. Wish is easy motivation, or there's some megalomania involved in creating a beeg beeg spell.
In order to do that, the wizard goes around haunting places so that their friend can offer vampire slaying services and charge them out the ass for it. The vampire already has a reputation because they destroyed a prominent city (and looted it if you're perceptive). So people from all over have come together in defense of the next victim town to pay for the slayer's services.