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To: tekboy who wrote (5940)	9/7/2000 9:43:40 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 22706

I got this incredible PM from a very sick person and I am posting it without permission, but also with attribution: Me and you and a dog named Q You are getting dangerously close to baying again... Howling brings to mind this horrible scenario: Renfield[Mike Buckley]: Oh, Dr. Seward [Apollo]. Send me away from this place. Send me far away...My cries at night. They might disturb Miss Mina [Boa Babe]...They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams. (A wolf's howl is heard as the sun sets - Dracula[cuf] rises from his coffin in the nearby Abbey.) Van Helsing [Dr. Id]: That sounded like a wolf. Seward: Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London... Van Helsing: We know why the wolves talk, do we not Mr. Renfield? And we know how we can make them stop. Van Helsing perceptively knows that the wolfish howling is the vampire's communication with Renfield. The doctor holds up a plant in front of Renfield - its scent makes him violently shriek, hiss, and back away. As he is taken back to his room to be closely watched, Renfield threatens that Miss Mina will be harmed. Van Helsing describes how the plant, named wolfsbane, is used in central Europe: "The natives there use it to protect themselves against vampires." Later that night, Renfield [MB], now a dessicated inmate of the lunatic asylum, is pleased to see his Master[cuf] in the Sanitarium's garden, but then, Dracula[cuf] silently and hypnotically commands the lunatic to obey him. The enslaved madman sobs uncontrollably: "No Master please. Please don't ask me to do that. Don't! Not Citrix. Please! Please don't Master! Don't, please! Please! Oh don't!" [Maybe we should stage this next time the group gets together...which role do you want?]