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plans for the inevitable undead uprising
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: jill the ripper on 21 Mar 2008, 16:16 ---It'd be not-so-bad to be a vampire, 'cept for the whole having to kill people all the time part, as long as it was the sexy kind of vampire.
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Vampires don't necessarilly have to kill people, just drink their blood. There's a difference. It doesn't even necessarily have to be human blood. Vampires have a far, far larger range of diversity than zombies. Some vampires turn everyone they bite into vampires unless they kill them. Some vampires have a special process (normally the victim has to drink the vampires blood as well, a la Anne Rice). Sometimes only virgins can become vampires (a la Hellsing), or, in a complete reverse, only those dedicated to evil can become vampires (a la Hammer Horror's Dracula). Sometimes those not turned into vampires die, sometimes they become zombies or ghouls. Sometimes vampirism is a physical virus, sometimes it is completely supernatural, sometimes it is a cross between the two. Sometimes vampires will be almost instantly vapourised by the sun (a la Blade), sometimes sunlight just causes them discomfort, or they have sensitive vision that must be protected with sunglasses (a la Razorblade Smile). Sometimes vampires have all the physical properties of humans, sometimes they can't be seen in mirrors, and sometimes they can't even be recorded or use telephones (a la Ultraviolet). Sometimes a wooden stake through the heart is instakill (Buffy), and sometimes it merely induces paralysis (World of Darkness). Vampires powers and abilities also vary dramatically, from humans with above average strength and speed who can take a few bullets without dying, to something more approaching demigod status, with powers up to and including: flight, true superstrength and superspeed (able to chuck cross-country locomotives around like chaff and move so fast that a human cannot even see the movement), teleportation, full psychic powers, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, climbing sheer surfaces, seeing through walls and other super-senses, becoming insubstantial at will, turning into fog, bats, insects, shadows, complete mastery of their own physical form, raising and commanding the undead, omnipotent hypnosis (able to force someone to kill themselves with a thought), stopping peoples hearts at will, mastery of black magic, summoning demons, precognition, etc. etc. etc.
Planning for a vampire apocalypse would be impossible.
Melodic:
Unless, of course, you're Robert Neville. In which case you bust out the record player and get drunk.
StarmanJr:
and then of course stalk the daytime searching for sleeping vampires to stake and take to a cremated end.
man, vincent price the action hero. priceless. that was terrible.
Boro_Bandito:
Starman, I know I've seen your avatar somewhere, its a movie, right?
But anyway, http://www.white-wolf.com/
read those books, and you'll see why vampires, werewolves, mages and the like can't take over the world. Because, despite the inherent weakness of being human, there are more of us than there are of them. Only reason zombies pose the apolcalyptic threat is because there is the potential for there to be more of them than us, really, really quickly. Preparing for anything other than a zombie apocalypse would be a waste of time, and i'm with Patrick, I'd totally dig being a vampire.
Nodaisho:
We would have to agree on the type of vampire if we were to discuss that. As I understand it, the Bram Stoker version wasn't as easily killed as the modern versions. It took an ash limb through the heart to pin him into his coffin, he could survive sunlight (but couldn't use his powers in it), could survive holy symbols (though I think they discomforted him), but I don't think he had super strength or extremely fast movement. I have never read the book, though, so I don't know.
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