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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 4:20:14 GMT
Where have you been? Morsereg has been eating people for AGES...Of course, it isn't technically cannibalism unless he eats other Maia, cause Elves, Dwarves, and Men are of a separate race. The definition of cannibal:
N. An organism which eats others of its own species.
So, unless there is a Maia out there who is willing to die, I'm going to have to deal with simply eating men and elves. Dwarves are too grimy, they make the inside of Morsereg's mouth all black.
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 4:22:06 GMT
I thought it was just blood drinking like a vamp. Oh whatever...  |
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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 4:26:24 GMT
Nope, but Morsereg IS a Sanguinarian, too. Oh, are we in for some dark times. We have Morsereg, Nurutyave, and Chi'Gandir all at once...
All hell will break loose.
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 4:30:34 GMT
A...whatta what?!  |
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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 4:33:51 GMT
Sanguinarian. Basically, someone who drinks others blood for enjoyment.
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 4:35:27 GMT
Where do you learn these things? Lol, sheesh!
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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 4:39:28 GMT
My number one hobby is studying serial killers, what did you expect? lol. Metal does not count as a hobby, because music is my life, not a hobby.
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 4:44:17 GMT
You cease to amaze me! lol
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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 4:59:07 GMT
I cease to amaze you? Why? Am I becomming predictable now?
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 5:00:14 GMT
I meant to say never cease, sorry mate. -_^
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Post by Morsereg Dîndaedel on Jul 9, 2006 5:19:58 GMT
Figured.
But, yeah, my biggest hobby is studying killers throughout history. I've got fairly big files on my computer about Erzsebet (Elizabeth) Bathory, Vlad III Tepes Dracula, and Charles Manson, as well as minor files on people like Varg Vikernes and Rosemary West. Sometime this week I think I want to try and get some research done on Jack the Ripper, or the Zodiac Killer. Either one would be interesting, considering they weren't caught.
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Post by Siranna on Jul 9, 2006 5:28:16 GMT
Do Jack the Ripper. I like him.  I took a tour in London about him. One of the old alleyways stillstood so we walked down and then I knew why it was easy for him to kill, lol. What I don't understand is why it was random prostitutes. |
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Post by Lebennen on Jul 9, 2006 9:31:53 GMT
I read quite a lot of that stuff too, I have quite a few books on old Jack. Why prostitutes? because he could. In those times, and in that place, they were easy targets, as they are now, taking a client down some dark alley for a quick tupenny upright. I do not believe all the stuff about him being Queen Victoria's grandson, Eddy, or the Queens personal physician, or it was a plot by the Freemasons, I think he was some-one pretty normal( if you can call any serial killer normal ). But every single book you read puts forward a good hypothesis, so you almost have to do your own kind of research.
The east End of London then was a warren, a maze of poverty stricken humanity, filth and degradation, almost ALL women would turn to prostitution to feed their kids and there were very few charities, except for workhouses ( which were appalling, people would often beg rather than go in one ) and some church organizations, no welfare state. Once you were down and out, and a woman, that was it, mate, there were not an awful lot of options. And since they had nothing to alleviate their lives but booze, they drank , needed more, and went out on the streets more to get more money for it.
There was no fingerprinting or forensics then, the fact that one man could disappear into all that and never be captured, does not really surprise me.
The popular images of a top hatted and cloaked figure looming out of the London smog, and a black carriage drawn by black horses bearing him away, is nonsense, some-one dressed as a '' toff '' in those areas would have stuck out like a sore thumb, and so would a smart carriage. And there was an enormous panic, seeing some-one or something so out of place would have been reported, people were terrified of their own neighbours.
I think he got away because he was so '' ordinary '' he just blended in with the teeming thousands.
Yes, he could have been disguised, he could have been a '' gentleman '' out for psycho-kicks , by taking out some mangy whores and carrying away parts of their insides, a lot of serial killers do take '' souvenirs '', and he did completely butcher Mary Ann Kelly, the last ( supposed ) victim. As if he wanted to completely dehumanise her. ( In fact that might not even have been her, she was unrecognisable - her boyfriend identified her but he expected that it was her, every-one did, after all it was her room and she lived there. However, there are reports of her being seen afterward. )
He was not the first serial killer by a long shot, Morsereg mentioned Elizabeth Bathory, and there several others. But Jack appeared in the then largest city in the world, the capital of the British Empire, and at a time when pushing for social reform was getting big.
He was probably the first serial killer to get press coverage in a '' sensationalist '' way. It showed up the terrible poverty and crime of London, and the apparent ineptness of the police and those in power to do anything. ( However in those days, without the evidence we have now, all they could have done was literally caught him red handed, or almost and got a confession )
It brought to the fore focus on prostitution - with an offshoot on child prostitution , which was rampant, in short in uncovered a big can of worms, and the fact he got away with it did not reflect well on the " higher ups " . It seems a perennially engrossing subject, which probably will never never die out. Even FBI profilers have written about him and said what they believe he was like.
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