[First Season]
     Like where Akasha brings the twins to her court
   Khayman like rapes them, and Mekare then asks the
 spirit of Amel to avenge them (Jim and Mary Barr like this
   and think you will like it too). Akasha fuses with, oozes
     out Maharet and makes her a vampire who in
   turn makes Enkil a derivative. Together they wax, green
 eyes aglow as they go to ground. Hand over fist. Maharet
   has a mortal daughter, Miriam (not Catherine Deneuve)
     who begets the Great Family and scores a scholar-
   ship at the Royal College of Art in London, England.
 Khayman hits the roller deck and takes Maharet and Mekare
   back to Egypt. Akasha makes Khayman a pyramid
     (Carlo Ponzi loves this). Khayman pokes
   Mekare who pokes Maharet (Tee-hee!). Maharet and
 Mekare are separated and sealed into coffins; both escape
   but fail to find each other on YouTube. Ruark Lewis would
     like to be their friend, but first must face his past. 
     Akasha and Enkil make other arrangements;
   they are worshipped, of course, they have 666 friends
 in common, but are trapped for many years so other vampires
   get to steal, and bank, their blood. This was 5000 BC
     remember: no one worked through their issues
   back in that day. Finally, they free themselves but, dis-
 enchanted, they whine, they wane and begin their gradual
   melting away from the world. Whereas Khayman, he
     returns to the islands and makes vampires who
   war with those undead clones Adoboli and Iksil. Ad
 nauseam. Akasha and Enkil go into their ‘deep image’ tranche
   and must now rotate providers, or face retrenchment.
     Maharet makes Eric a vampire, Anais a toad and
   retreats to a tax shelter. The pitiless Elder places Akasha
   and Enkil in the sun, causing 2nd season vampire burns with-
   out exemption. God of the Grove (Chief Druid blood
             sucker) turns 40yr old Marius. 
     Evil blue-eyed Mael becomes a sphere entire.
   An Alpha networker, he’s on a role (Sp). All the while old
 Marius ages and takes Akasha and Enkil out of Egypt to Antioch.
   Maharet goes to Antioch too and takes the creative writing
     course. During the crit she claims she plunged a
   dagger in Akasha’s heart to establish the truth of the legend
 that Akasha must exist for all other vampires to exist, and is re-
   commended to Iowa by her Professor. Whereupon she draws
     down her funds in Girls Gone Wild. Santino’s now
   a vampire (Suck and swoon!). John Hurrell receives some
 surprising new information. Marius makes Armand a virgin
   when Armand is seventeen, and Akasha’s like, that’s so
     random! Who’s your secret server? After ingesting
   derivatives Magnus too becomes a vampire. Anthony
 Hecht likes that, which is not like him at all. (to be continued) 
 Louis de Pointe du Lac’s mortal birth: blood’s all over, every
   body slips and slides, and gets sticky (Aw, that’s so
     icky!). Mortal Lestat gets into the Grove and
   slays werewolves, swinging his blade with soft hands.
 Remediated, he elects to go with Alaric (guest star, Matt
   Davis, Legally Blonde) and Robespierre to Paris, to be-
     come an actor. Flashback: enjoying new powers
   Magnus makes twenty-year old Lestat a Premium Stake-
 holder Vampire (PSV), bloods him and then he goes into the fire.
   With Brian Boyd who knows the story, Lestat makes his
     Mother Gabrielle a vampire. Lestat encounters
   Armand’s coven. Lestat makes a tidy sum, a killing.
 Lestat gives Renaud’s Theater to four vampires who, with
   Nicolas Bourriaud, turn it into the Theater of the
                 Retired Vampires. 
     Lestat and Gabrielle become frequent flyers;
   Lestat pens the first of his many bestsellers. Nicolas
 goes into the fire. Lestat’s mortal family is killed during the
   famous French Revolution. After dying of the plague,
     Edgar Allan Poe suggests Anais and he go for a
   coffee. They do the rounds. Gabrielle leaves Lestat to go
 into the woods for a spot of extreme self-rendition, and experi-
   ences déjà vu. She’s drawing blood, sucking up bodily
     fluids wherever they may be. Lestat goes underground
   in New Zealand, where once again he proceeds to push his
 portfolio. Marius subsequently subdues Lestat (Tom Cruise), and
   takes him to the Samoan islands where Akasha and Kim
     Dotcom sit as statues. Big Time. Face to face with
   the terrifying new danger in the jungle. About now Lestat
 awakens Akasha who’s slept through the entire Equinox, but
       Marius relents and sends them both away. 
   Lestat and Louis drink the blood of slaves from Pointe
     du Lac, draining the labour pool. Unbeknownst
   to his shrink, Lestat makes twenty-five year-old Helena
 Sword a vampire. He’s so unconscionable! Next thing you know
   the three of them have set up house on Rampart Street.
     Helena pokes Lestat, she sucks him, and tosses his
   remains into the swamp. Which’s all the thanks he gets.
 Still, when Lestat’s buoyed up again on the King tide, regurgitated
   so to speak, an infuriated Witi burns down the house.
     Downs another bourbon; and on the proceeds
   from Sunday’s fund-raising carwash, flees with Helena
 to Europe where they melt into the crowd. She’s got red curly
   hair, flashing eyes (green) and an unbelievable bundle
     of swaps. Helena and Witi seek out Old World
   vampires in the linen fields of Brittany, the remnants
         of the famed Fang Gang of Finistere. 
 (Now read on) First they find nothing. Helena and Witi repair
   to the Ecole Supérieure, and take a blood bath (bain de
     sang), whilst Lestat makes a blazing comeback
   from his writer’s retreat on Ibiza. Henri Louis Le Cren
 shares a link with Audrina and shortly thereafter invites her to the
   Theater of Cruelty. They go into the Cul-de-Sac by the
     side door, bleeding profusely from their wounds.
   Sheriff Forbes delivers some unsettling news to Adoboli
 and Iksil. Louis bites Madeleine, also a vampire (Suck and wipe!)
   Armand’s bloodthirsty coven, who once were were-
     wolves, destroys Helena and Madeleine, outraging
   Louis who retaliates by burning down the Theater
 of the Plastoscene (Sp) Vampires (TPV). Louis then returns by
   way of Spitalfields to New Orleans, where he claims
     to have seen Lestat again. (Martin Creed loves
             this, you should too.) 
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