I concur about the technological issues being preferable if you understand the technology, but given the choice between technology I don't understand and supernatural I don't understand, I'll take the latter. I know how to go about investigating bumps in the night, even if I have no context for it.

[Alucard is getting a new roommate or striking out on his own. He is not going to deal with someone's bad magic experiments if they keep going like this.]

As for horses, they are simply God's worst dog.