It’s not what you think. It’s a lot of task based activity being a vampire. That’s a hard sentence to sell someone tracking vampires, but the people who know the right way never get found. It’s the ones who stray from the rules that get caught or killed.
The first trick to being a vampire is not to get found out. Don’t do fancy tricks or read minds of win too much at poker or sleep around and leave puncture marks. Simple stuff really. These behaviors attract not only vampire hunters but people who would trap the vampire to get those powers. A trapped vampire held in direct sunlight and ultraviolet optical bar cells will transform anyone after four days of hunger. Clever humans can organize an entire gang. Without training.
The second is not to hang around with the wrong people. The wrong people are those who want emotional release from problems they had as a human. Since irresponsible transmutation takes place among irresponsible individuals, it’s extremely likely a certain type of personality will use vampire powers to act out frustrations they had as an adult. This type of personality rarely ages long. They make trouble and endanger the afterlives of the afterliving.
The third trick is something can only be groomed from the making vampire. Skills and knowledge from the making vampire must be passed on. Leaving an “orphan” to transmute makes for later chaos that attracts the very vampire hunters vampires strive to avoid. Vampire hunters gather proof of vampire existence better off left undiscovered and uncaptured. Many vampires specialize in isolating these and ending their afterlives.
Fourth rule is to observe laws of man. Killing innocents and children makes for huge spotlights and criminal law enforcement activity vacillating around areas where it’s least wanted. Avoid killing women, children, members of the clergy, celebrities, and people with a large support network or population dependent upon them. The disappearance of these types or murder cases bring media, news, Internet, and vampire hunting attention.
Fifth Rule is to enlist only qualified helpers or trained staff. Good help is so hard to find. People helping vampires should not be high-profile individuals for many reasons. Their lives warrant press attention, tax collection scrutiny, investigative analysis, and outright stalking and voyeuristic watchers at any time of the day or night. Paparazzi with telephoto lenses see a lot. Avoid movie stars, sports athletes, wealthy philanthropists, politicians, or anyone whose company makes the vampire the focus of third party attention . This is one way hunters find us if the vampire gets in the publicity and attracts comment more easily.
Sixth Rule of vampirism is to feed as rarely as necessary. Excess kills and corpses attract law enforcement case records and documentation. Exercising discipline when taking blood from the fresh kill can disguise vampire death as normal accidental death. Tearing of the skin, ripping flesh, vein twisting or draining can elicit publicity about a wild animal. Law enforcement typically classifies such deaths as animal maulings or wild animal killings. Indices of these can allow vampire trackers to closely map vampire activitiy.
Seventh Rule of Vampire Activity is to manage your identity. Modern culture requires documents, likely identification, birth records, and more. School records and photos of childhoods need to be substantiated. A suspicious human will notice when these are not in evidence, and paired with nocturnal activity may sound the alarm or set a trap. Identity thieves can steal everything you have if you can’t disprove their claims or prove your own case because “you” don’t exist.
Eighth Rule of Vampirism is to observe the sanguinity of the eldest of our race. The older ones have powers and abilities humans covet. By revealing the old ones humans get greedy and ambitious. The oldest vampire in any coven is always the most powerful and whose blood has the most power to convey those powers and more. Their orders must be obeyed without explanation.
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