1 | [[AC:FanWorks]] |
2 | ->"How come you have so much money?" Seth asked.\ |
3 | "I married into a family of vampires with good investment strategies such as "be hundreds of years old" or "have precognition"," I told him. |
4 | -->--'''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}''' |
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6 | [[AC:{{Literature}}]] |
7 | ->Every [[Fiction500 qualified buyer]] who responded to the Dark Invitation was offered the [[DealWithTheDevil Dark Pact]]: a lengthy contract promising the end of aging and disease, plus magic-powered mental and physical vigor, in exchange for the specified sum and other unusual but completely legal commitments. |
8 | ->A few of the [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport oldest and sickest]] took the deal. They got what they paid for. |
9 | ->When colleagues and competitors saw the results, the trickle of customers became a flood. Within five years, a high portion of the elite had embraced the Dark. Those who hadn't... well, they were mortal, weren't they? Tick. Tock. Attrition happens. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the price of membership had soared, and "super-rich" was synonymous with "Darkling." |
10 | -->--''[[Literature/AllThoseExplosionsWereSomeoneElsesFault All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault]],'' by James Alan Garner |
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12 | ->"I could use the additional coin. The gods know Juno Moneta has not lent her grace to me of late. If I had half, no, one-third of the relics this fool government is keeping from me..." |
13 | ->The Roman goddess of money wasn't going to be much help to Marcus these days. Her time had passed. Marcus had frittered his substantial wealth into a long string of poor investments. First, the dot-com bubble burst; then he tried to double down with real estate before the bottom out of that, too. By human standards, he could be considered wealthy, but [[InvokedTrope by vampire reckoning]], [[Fiction500 particularly Ancient standards]], he was a pauper. |
14 | -->--''Graveyard Shift,'' by Michael F. Haspil |
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