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My Birth, Death and Return:
My life began in the near future in the year of our lord 1754. I was born to Josiwa
Collins and his wife Neomie Collins. I was taught at an early age to be a gentleman and help others. Father was the founder
of the small fishing village in Maine. He opened and ran the first fisheies in the the new world. My little sister Sarah was
born when I was 25 years of age. How I loved her so as she always seen life in a new light. I got to see things like I never
did before. On my 27th birthday I went to Marcinque where I met Josette Depray. She was a image of an angel and I fell in
love with her. We courted for the next for the next nine years.It was on my birthday when She came to Collinsport so we could
marry. But her Hand maid *Angelique had other plans as she was a witch and bewitched my belove Josette to fall in love with
my best friend Jerit Johnson. In a fit of rage I challaged him to a dule as I planned to allow him to take my life but Angelique
mysticly removed my pellet from my pocket and as Jerit fired I was missed and he was killed. Jostte said I murdered her lover
and pushed me away. I soon discovered the truth and I stabbed Angelique to death. But with her dying breath she Cursed
me as she said,"I CURSE THEE BARNABAS COLLINS. ONE OF NO LOVE AND ON GOING SUFFERING!!!" It was later that evening after I
helped my faithful servent *Ben Stokes bury the witch that the curse came to pass as The spell on Josette was broken. A giant
bat crashed through my bedroom window and savagely ripped my throat out. I died fortyeight hours later from the lost of blood.
I was told by Stokes some time later that my family was still grieving for my lose. Father told the people of the village
that I left for England to stay. I was buried in secret in a secret room in the family Crypt. Three days later I returned
form my grave as one of the undead. To my horror I was a VAMPIRE! Weeks passed as reports of mysterios deaths was
heard around the countryside. Young women found dead with their heads severed from their bodys. I learned over the next few
weeks that a Reveren Trask was in search of a witch and had accused the new goveness for the crimes. She was put on trial
as my aunt Abiegale Tessifide that she witnessed witch craft from the goveness and said she was bewitched. Angered I seeked
out my aunt and caused her to fall to her death. Four days later the case againest *Vicoria Winters was dropped as the good
reverend left town. The truth was I forced him to write a confession of his his crimes againest Miss Winters and I then Blocked
him in behind a wall in the Old House the home I lived in as a boy. I late went to my father and pleaded with him to end my
cursed exsistance. He loved me to much to do so as he instead Chained me inside my coffen and entombed me in the secret room
in the family crypt. Over the past few months I caused the death of my mother, Aunt Abigale and my dear sweet sister Sarah
as she die for fright as she learned my dark secret. That was in 1795. For the next 275 years I remained a prisoner of my
coffen till the fatful night when a greedy drunken fool named Willie Loomis freed me.
| The old house the childhood home of Barnabas |
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| This house is also the final resting place of Revern Trask. |
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| Barnabas and Victoria Winters |
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My Time In The Present To My Arrivel In The Land Of Shadows....:
I made Loomis my day guard as I had him to move my coffen to the secret
room in the basement of the Old House. Weeks pasted as new reports of a killer was reported to be stalking victums in Collinsport.
Again women were found dead. Their bodies drained of blood and their necks broken. I went to Collinwood and met my distant
cousins. I told them I was a cousin from England and wanted to move to the states to start a new business. Cousin Elizabeth
was thrilled and offered me the Old House. I agreed as I appeared to move in the very next day. Over the next few years I
had many interesting adventures as I saved the Collins family form the shadows that surround the Great house of Collinwood.
I was surprised to see that the Goveness of this time was *Vicoria Winters. The same woman who Trask accused for witch craft
over 275 years before. I soon learned how that came to me as Miss Winter vanished one night during a saeonce. In her place
was a women name Phillis Wick who according to the true history of the Collins family was to be the new goveness to Sarah
and cousin Danial. On a fine summer day in 1971 Victoria Winters and her husband Peter Bradford was drawn back in time where
once again she stood trial for the crimes of being a witch. I returned to that time to discover The family Atterny *Nicolas
Blair was behind the mysterious disappearance of Victoria Winters and the witch Angelique. I killed Blair and freed Ms Winters
as I was returned back through time to the present. In 1978 A brother of Ms winters arrived in Collinsport in search of his
twin sister. While helping him I was once again drawn back in time where I got to face Nicolas Blair just to return home when
a mysterious stranger killed Blair and his DEMON servet Flelisha. Once home I was drawn to a door in the East wing of collinwood.
I discovered that it lead to a strange new world called the Land of Shadows. I enter this land when I heard a woman screaming
for help. I was shocked to see the Mystic door vanish and I was trapped in these new and mysterious land of SHADOWS.
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The Land Of Shadows; My Arrivel, My Two Deaths and My Return...:
I discovered I was trapped in these new lands. At first I didn't really care for I thought
there might have been another enterance to this place but I learned that there wasn't. I found a cave and decided to bed down
for the night. But I soon discovered the terrible truth as when I awaken the next morning I found that I was once again cursed
to be one of the undead. I was trapped now in this cave till night fall for leaving the safty of it's darkness ment certin
death. At sun set that night I set off for answers to why I became a vampire once again. To my delight I found that not only
did I have the supernatural powers of a vampire but this world some how magified the strenghths of these powers. It was a
month later when I was attacked by creatures so large that at first I thought they were Grizzly Bears. But the were faster
and stronger then any natural creature I ever encountered before. In a deadly battle of life and death I discovered I had
also gained other powers. Powers that only could be discribed as being magical. For with a simple thought I had created a
sheild that protected me and I was able to destroy these monster with mystical FIRE.....
For the next three months I roamed the countryside in search answers to how and why
I hade these fantastic powers. It was on a warm summer's night that I came to a clearing in the center of the Haunted Forests
of the east. There I met a blind old wizard named Orzak Windsong. To my surprise he asked me into his home. He told me of
his fight againest these creatures that he called NIGHTSTALKERS. He told me how the just suddenly appeared in this land over
900 years ago and how his entire village was wiped out. Only his family surived the attack. I asked him where is family was
and he told me his wife was killed two months after the first attack and he had secretly hidden his two daughters away. He
spent his every waking moment hunting and killing off these nightmarish monsters. Orzak became my teacher as for the next
year he taught me how to use my powers. He then told me to go the the DARKEN TOWERS and seek out the Queen mother of the land
named Dejavu. I left Orzak on the first day of spring and traveled southeast down Skull mountain and in to the green
valleys of the DARK SHADOWS. There I found myself standing in front of twin towers so dark and forboding that any wise man
would have avoided them. I instead knocked on the giant oak door. I was greeted by a woman named Devi and she took me to see
her sister Dejavu. I was taken in and treated like a honored guest. I was finnaly home....
Over the next few months I met more of the Darks and became good friends with them.
When I told them about the Nightstalkers I was told that they knew of them and the towers were protected mysticly. I was glad
to hear this and decided to settle down here in this peacful valley. It was on my birthday when I met the woman of my dreams.
Her name was StarFae and she was one of the healers of the clan. I fell deeply in love with her and we were married late Augest
and had a happy life. It was on my second year with the Darks that the towers were visited by the old wizard Orzak and his
white Timber wolf Scar. He came to warn us of an attack on the towers. But as Dejavu said the towers were the only safe place
in the valley as for the night of the attack every living soul in the surrounding area was wiped out of exsitance. That night
I joined forces with Orzak and together we wiped out all the nightstalkers and learned that a sorcerer named NORFARIOUS
was the one that created the Nightstalkers and he wanted to destroy me and my entire family. He created more of these monsters
as the terrorized the countryside. One night in the second year of the war with Norfarious I was captured by one of the creatures
and I was taken back to the future where I was forced to watch my entire family out. Collinwood was distroyed and my first
wife Julia and my two sons gone. I escaped and soon learned the shocking truth that Orzak Windsong was really an Elven Sorcerer
and he was my Father in-law. For StarFae was his daughter and she had a sister named LillieFae.Over the next few months we
faught Norfarious and killing him. I discover in the end he was really Nicolas Blair!!! Or a clone that he created during
the final battle with the *PHANTOM of time on December 25, 1795. I soon be came an overseer for the clan to live a long happy
life in the valley till Dejavu remarried and her new husband killed me. I was reserected by Dejavu and I went insane for a
few months. Left the Shadow lands to retrun home in the future. Once again to be draged through space and time as the Nightstalkers
were back again. My family was now truly gone as I witnessed first hand their distruction. With Orzak's help we discovered
it was the wizard who served my good friend and blood brother Marcus The king of the Saints of Camelot who brought back the
nightmarish creatures then once again terrorized the land. I learned of Marcus' murder and how this Zorius went mad
as he vowed to seek revenge for his dead king. Orzak, an Empathic Healer named Osgood Travis and I searched out Zorius and
defeated him. In his last dying breath he cused us to become Living Stone. That was how we remained for over a year.Till one
fateful night King Irvin of the uV and his daughter's personal guard freed use of the curse. I soon learned that Orzak
didn't survive as his statue was destroyed by savage orcs the loyal servents of Zorius. I spent some time wondering the lands
an then decided to re turn to the only true home that I ever knew.... As I returned to the lands of the DARK SHADOWS........
I was home at last.
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| Barnabas fighting a Nightstalker in the Collinwood he created in the Shadow Lands. |
EPILOGE: What dose the future hold for me here? I'm not sure but I know I am
home again. Time will tell as I live out the rest of my life in the lands of the DARK
SHADOW'S.............
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| Barnabas and Julia Hoffman his first wife. |
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| This was soon after their wedding. July 4,1975. |
The Life and Death of Julia Hoffman Collins:
Julia came to Collinwood soon after my arrivel. She said she was a historian and wanted
to update the family history of the Collins Family. In truth she was there to investigate the strange deaths of young women
in the area for she was a doctor of Biocemistry. Reports of strange findings in the trace evidence of blood brought her to
Collinsport. She soon discovered my deadly secret. I couldn't do anything but trust her. Over the next few months she discovered
that my curse was really a strange viral disease that made me the way I was as a vampire. He soon cured me. I married her
on July 4,1975. She died three years later when monsters from the Shadows killed her and my entire family. I was drawn back
in time to aid Orzak Windsong as he was once again battleing the Deadly Nightstalkers.
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