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 Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:08 pm
Imperfect-Chaos themightyjello A vampire that dies in sunlight. Imagine that. ... I can't even wrap my head around that one. Sometimes your concepts are too out-there, jello. I boggle your mind. *Shakes it up, then turns the hourglass over and has at the damnable thing.*
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:12 pm
Now where did I put that...? *Digs through his PM Savebox.* I made a vampire once. ONCE. And so sickened was I with how the rabble portray them, the moment I finished the character I set to work and tacked this thing onto the end of the bio: themightyjello .: Vampires :.
a race description by themightyjello.: Turning :.The process of becoming a vampire from something else is known as 'turning'. There are two different methods that can bring about this scenario, 'infection', and 'induction'.
Infection is the most common way in which a person might contract vampirism. The 'race' itself is actually more of a glorified STD, transferring through contact with blood. An individual may become infected by coming into contact with already infected blood upon an open wound or bodily orifice.
Many people are under the impression that vampirism is transferred through a the bite of one that is already infected, though this is not the case. It is true that many instances of vampire bites do result in infection, but this is for a different reason.
The elongated fangs which vampires have amidst the normal teeth will often cut into the lining of the lips inside of the vampire's mouth, causing bleeding. When the victim is bitten, the blood that is mixed with the saliva gets into the bloodstream of the victim and spreads the infection.
An individual who has become infected has, on average, three days and nights to purify their body before the vampirism fully takes hold over their body. Within this time, the symptoms will slowly develop, becoming more and more prominent over time until, on the last night, the body undergoes a drastic change as the fangs grow to their full length, the digestive system becomes attuned to blood, and the cravings begin to become irresistable.
This form of vampire is the weakest, only having just reached it's full form and having had no time to develop it's powers or grow in strength, it has barely any advantages over the human that it spawned from.
Induction is another method for contracting vampirism, though based upon the same principles of infection, this is a process that (most times) requires the willing participation of the victim.
In this method, a vampire will induct another being into the ranks of the damned by cutting itself open and allowing it's blood to mix with that of the intended member. The increased amount of infected blood that is mixed with that of the victim allows for a faster and more complete conversion. Vampires created by this method are completely turned within a few hours and hold more power than those who are infected by accident. .: Appearence :.As any race does, members of the vampire race vary in size, shape, and coloring just as any others do.
Though it is a commonly held stereotype that a vampire has pale skin, this is not always the truth. Though, over time, a vampire's skin will sink towards a lighter shade due to the absense of the sun, those that have recently been turned will have a much darker complexion.
The second most recognizable feature about a vampire is that the canines on the upper jaw are overdeveloped, giving the appearence of fangs. They are not overly long, nor overly sharp, just enough to break the skin without too much pressure applied. It is this way for most races, but for those that already posess fangs of significant size, there is little to no change in them.
Lastly in the list of visual characteristics about vampires that differ from the races that they spawned from is an additional layer in the eyes that reflects the light, amplifying it for better vision at night. Because of this, in certain light the eyes of a vampire may shine like those of a cat. .: Natural Abilities :.The first and most prominent is sensitivity to light... it begins almost as soon as infection, the eyes become sensetive and the sun becomes painful. Not until fully turned does it become dangerous, however, but as a fully turned vampire, the light of the sun is like a hot coal pressed against the skin, burning away at the vampire's flesh the longer he is exposed to it... Direct sunlight burns, though when in the shade there is simply discomfort.
There are advantages to the light sensetivity, however... a vampire can see perfectly in any amount of darkness, and only when it becomes too light is his vision impaired.
The second most prominent 'power' is the thirst. As all vampires do, as it is their nature to, they are cursed to feed upon the lifeblood of the living to sustain their own longevity... this does not mean, however, that they is incapable of digesting other foods, no, but too much of anything but blood and they will become sick from it, causing weakness, fainting, and vomiting...
The blood, however, sustains the vampires, and as such, is necessary for them to both survive and to retain their powers... after a few days without a feeding they will grow increasingly weaker until they eventually deteriorate to nothing. The blood does not have to be human, nor does it have to be still coursing through the veins of some creature at the time, but due to the selective nature of a vampire's digestive system, blood it must be.
When drinking blood, the vampire is refreshed, and wounds begin to recover faster still than normal, the energy is restored, and it feels as if they had just awoken from the best sleep that they had ever had. Fully awake, not a bit tired, and brimming with energy...
Many other abilities are posessed, most of which are simply fortifications of what are already posessed... strength, stamina, and speed are increased, they can see farther and more clearly, smell things that they could never have before, and hear so acutely they can pick out the beating of a human heart from across a room... Vampires can also detect magical influences in an area, in a sixth sense, though this is an ability which must be developed over time. .: Resistances and Weaknesses :.The bodies of vampires are resiliant, able to overcome most injuries quickly and without incident, the exception to these are wounds caused by silver weapons.
Silver is a metal which proves to be the bane of creatures like vampires and werewolves, the wounds caused by weapons of this manufacture do not heal as normal ones do, in fact, they do not heal at all for a vampire... Wounds inflicted by silver weapons will not heal until either the vampire retreats to sleep for the day, or he feeds and, thus, restores his strength.
Most portions of the vampire's body will regenerate quickly from injury, the exceptions to these are those areas in which a killing blow may be struck... the first is, of course, the head. A severe head injury can kill a vampire as quickly as it can a small child, this includes anything that might penetrate the skull, as well as grevious injury to the neck. The heart is also a vulerable area, and any type of damage to it could put a vampire out of comission. It is not just a stake that has to be used, but any object can forseeably kill if it strikes the heart.
As far as normal injuries go, it is quite difficult to kill a vampire with these alone... not only will they heal over, but they are simply extrenuous body parts that are not essential for the survival of a vampire... If enough injury is taken, however, and enough of the precious blood which sustains a vampire's life is lost, then that life itself will also be lost.
As a creature of darkness, things such as holy powers and light magic strike a weakness within vampires. However, darkness is their element, and they have a resistance against it's powers. They also have resistances to cold, due to their naturally lower body temperature.
The slightly altered state of mind and body provides for protection against weak mental charms and poisons, though, with time and practice, this mental state may be developed to provide better protection. .: Superstitions :.There are a great many superstitions that people hold in regards to vampires, though not all of them have basis in reality. Some are simple folklore, and some simply blow things entirely out of proportion.
The first is that a vampire is actually a dead being, animated by magic in order to suck out the life of the living. This is untrue, of course, but as they do suck out the life of the living, it is not simply to sustain the magic which animates their bodies.
The myth that vampires are animated corpses arises from the naturally lower body temperature that they hold than normal creatures. The digetstion process for blood requires very little from the stomach enzymes themselves, as most of the nutrients contained in it have already been digested by the creature that the blood was obtained from. Since complex materials aren't needed to be broken down, the body can operate at a lower temperature, as it doesn't need to sustain the optimal temperature for enzymes that it doesn't use.
Basically, due to the low body temperature, the myth arose that the body of a vampire is actually 'cold and dead', and animated by dark magic.
Many people believe that the older a vampire is, the more powerful they become. This is not true. Age does not matter, only ability; though the myth IS true in certain instances, this normally doesn't last. A freshly turned vampire had not had his entire body fully converted yet, and will be lacking in comparisson to older ones until this happens. The process barely ever takes over a week, and after that, the only thing that matters in terms of 'power' is their ability, and how long they have practiced in making use of their vampiric powers.
Weakness to fire is something that revolves in superstition around vampires. Though they have no actual weakness to the element itself, there are two very simple reasons why this is thought to be so.
The first is that fire is often thought to be a good element against the undead, specifically, that the rotting flesh that their bodies are made from is much more flamable than living flesh is. Though as vampires aren't actually undead creatures, this point is moot.
Fire can be used to destroy shelter, and durring the day, a vampire needs shelter, lest they burn up under the sun.
A building that is set ablaze is a deathtrap, but if a vampire were to run outside to avoid the flames durring the day, they would meet an even quicker death under the rays of the sun.
This is also similar with those that atempt to move about in the daylight using wrappings and heavy garments to keep out the light. If their clothing is set ablaze then they have no choice but to discard it, in which case they would be unprotected from the sun and perish.
It is for these reasons that the element of choice against vampires is said to be fire.
Vampires CAN eat foods other than blood, though too much of them and the vampire will suffer from indigestion or food poisoning... they simply don't have the right type of digestive system anymore to deal with those types of foods, and their diet has become very specialized.
There are many different things which superstitions hold have power against vampires, though nearly none of these have any truth to them.
One that does hold true is that holy magic is effective against them, as creatures of the night, and because of this, the thought was carried over to other aspects of the church. Despite what some people may think, vampires will not burst into flame upon stepping into a church, though holy water will scald them as if it were boiling. A cross does not turn a vampire away, but a priest can do it quite effectively provided that they know a little bit of magic in addition to their scripture.
Garlic, however, is completely useless against them, unless you intend to serve it to one and hope that it vomits.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:41 pm
Perhaps vampires are way cooler when portrayed unrealistically.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:44 pm
Who wants a vampire that doesn't have big black wings for no apparent reason other than they're a vampire?
XD
You, know, there were a numbers of joke characters I could have entered if Chatterbox hadn't gone under. One was a vampire that walked in and as soon as they were out from under the entrance they burned up in screaming agony and died, resulting in a win for the other player. lol
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:46 pm
Imperfect-Chaos Who wants a vampire that doesn't have big black wings for no apparent reason other than they're a vampire? XD You, know, there were a numbers of joke characters I would ahve entered if Chatterbox hadn't gone under. One was a vampire that walked in and as soon as they were out from under the entrance they burned up in screaming agony and died, resulting in a win for the other player. lol Well sir, you seem to have too much ********' money.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:48 pm
Nope. Just nothing I want to buy.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:21 pm
crzycziri He can't exactly be killed because he is an avatar, but to defeat him, well, proper psionicists should be able to damage him in a "sandman" esque way, or if you can properly seperate his parts, you should be able to defeat him. I would suggest using seals against Cziri to defeat him. Like blood, dream and other seals. Too bad, you rarely see such like those. Seals are fun. smile My point; the character is not fair if he cannot be defeated by someone with no powers, even if bested by them. Because otherwise only characters with certain powers are even capable of ever being victorious. Think about what it'd be like for you to fight someone you couldn't beat no matter what because you lacked the single/couple of proper powers. Seems cheap, no? Now, if by 'seperate his parts' you mean someone just, like, physically using something sharp/pulling his limbs off, I'd see that as something anyone could do, if beyond the normal requirement to just down a fighter.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:35 pm
I believe you posted that up in a thread in Blood & Steel before Jello, very old Guild you may or may not remember. *Shrug* Still, that works very well.
A vampire that dies in sun-light, I never would've thought of that. Quite the concept. *Plotplotplot*
Nihil: Librarian seemed good to me at the start. Thought I'd have a quiet and intellectual vampire as opposed to some oddball dressed in a leather gimp suit bouncin' around Gaia and eating whatever was remotely human, alive and warm-blooded. domokun
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:50 pm
Nihilistic_Impact It is entirely your fault. You thought you could get away with something and now you face the results of your actions. I am the one to describe the damage to Cziri. -- Also, what the ******** are you talking about? Cziri doesn't have ******** ligaments? He's a ******** entirely different lifeform you ******** idiot. You ******** hypocrite. Don't you criticize those who say that they don't believe in it, it doesn't happen? I'm going to do away with you when I have time. I have to jet for now.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:09 pm
Here's some soap. 's for the mouth.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:19 pm
Jello, shouldn't you add that definition of vampires to the Encyclopedia Bartonica?
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:48 pm
Deity needs t'play as his own vampire character more often... > o;;
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:59 pm
@ Fish: I've been planning to. I just haven't finished the [EB] yet... hell, I haven't even changed the guild back over after SoG. Vincent. V Ex-~ I believe you posted that up in a thread in Blood & Steel before Jello, very old Guild you may or may not remember. *Shrug* Still, that works very well. Well, I wrote the thing like 2 years ago... hence why it has so many damn errors that I managed to catch injust a short perusal before I ran off. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE. *points to Tokent* I REMEMBER IT. I'M STILL A MOD THERE.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:52 pm
Does crzy's swearing make anyone besides me uncomfortable...?
I've been told I'm weird to have a distaste for swearing.
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