Here we'll talk about allsorts of vampire lore, vampires in fact and fiction,
etc.

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This is now linked over to SciFi item 50.

I think this topic is quite dead.

 owwwwww my topic of expertise heehee i can have fun here.
corse what good is it there isnt much i dont know left on this subject 
ok well ill start it out with a tidbit just driving a stake through a vampires
heart wont kill or parilize a vampire. anyone know what you have to do to make
the stake work? anyone anyone!

Umm, Cold Iron?  

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        "Filet stake, and marinate in olive oil and garlic.
         bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Take out of oven, let
         stand for 15 minutes. Serves 2 vampyres."

        -Taken from the "Evil mean beasties" cook book.

You mean, besiddes also severing the spinal cord by chopping of the head
and filling the mouth with garlic?

re: #2- I declare this item undead!

Say, shall we stick to fantasy, or shade over into the realm of paranoia:
psychic vampires and silliness like that?

Now, pwychic vampirism, there's a more appropriate topic for this
conference.

We met a pair of psychic vampires in Elias Bros. once... not a plesant 
experience at all!

please do inform.

as for BLOOD vampYres....
they probably don't exisats, although i don't
rule out anything i haven't experienced

By my estimation, a psychic vampire is someone who, deliberately or not,
sucks energy off of another's aura.  I've met vampires who suck off negative
energy, which is an infringement upon my personal space, but can be helpful.
The temporary loss of the negative energy, without anything to replace it,
though, is outweighed by the increase in someone else's negative energy.
More dangerous, though, are the people who suck off positive energy.  
I met a person in Elias Bros. once who I swear had no aura at all to speak of;
I don't know if it was just that deeply hidden, or if it was gone, but it
was clear that she wanted a new one, and mine would do fine.  Forget for
the moment that *I* needed it, and it didn't fit her anyway.  She had an
acquaintance who was not nearly so bad.  They were trying to witness
Christianity to me, and while I geenrally have no problem at all with Xians,
these two gave me the willies big time.  I pulled outwhatever defences I could,
which wound up being hysterical laughter, which was rude as hell but blocked
the vampirism.  I don't even think she was aware that she was  doing it.

i have met one person who is a total energy sink.  i don't know if its 
vampirism, but even if i'm in hte most hyper mood before i see him i end 
up tired when he leaves.

 i can feed off peoples ecsess energy if i want to but i rarly bother as i have
 to much of my own and only then with permision...
no to stake a vampire the stake must first be oak and nailed through the
vampires heart and into the ground this does not kill them simply pins them to
the ground. as they have to have some one else remove the stake.

and trust me gerund blood drink vampyre do exist. tho mostly its not the blood
but a quilty of testosterone or estragen there after and this can be bleed out
through the aura and the other part is expitated through raw good old fashi
 se and sexualty. youll never find a ranchyer bunch then the vampyres. corse
 there just is no geting around the fact that blood tasts good. you have to
 learn to do with out or make the right deals with willing peoples.

There are people today that have made claims to vampire powers; whether or
not they're true I don't know. But there is precedent for actual blood
drinking. There is a blood disease called poryphia, where the corpuscles
break down faster than normal. I don't know what the modern treatment for
it is, but in ancient times, the only way to treat it was to drink human blood.
 Poryphia also carries with it an aversion to garlic <which would make the 
blood break down faster in poryphia sufferers>, an aversion to sunlight, and 
in some cases, the gums pull back, making the person look as if they had fangs.

One of the best books on the subject is 'Vampires Among Us' by Rosemary
Eileen Guiley.

And as for the stake bit: In Stoker's novel it's enough, but in the Anne
Rice novels as well as the Vampire RPG, you have to burn the body as well.

It's actual porphyria.

I don't know if "vampyre" is putting  out flame bait or if that's for real.
I have also met people that seem to leach my life away, you know the type
black holes of neediness. But I've never had anyone acctually "drain"
me, I guess to my knowledge. (Reminds of a Kids in the Hall skit:)
Anyway, I think it's an interesting thing to believe, maybe like believing
in other Mythical beings. Who knows?!?
People that claim great power are ussually full of it!
"Those who talk don't know, and those who know don't talk."

 I don't know about the truth or not of this idea of psychic vampires,
which is odd, considering that I was informed some years ago that I *am*
one, and according to the guy who told me, quite a good one as well. I'm
careful about believing it because I'm just a fantasist at heart, and I'm
perfectly aware that a part of me *wants* it to be true. All I know is
that I am usually lethargic away from people, and the longer I spend in
the company of a small number of people, the more engergetic I get and
the tireder those around me get. This could just be that I'm a really 
tedious person 8).

 If it is possible to "drain" a person, it could explain a few things -
we all hear about (or even have) those old,incredibly grouchy relatives
who just *refuse* to die, and their relatives always come away from
visiting them feeling physically drained...

 As for porphyria, I thought the victims drank blood because it eased
the pain in their gums?

Mabye, I don't know. but it DID help to replace the lost blood.

That's like they belive that the ancient "witches" had inadvertently consumed
some hallucinogenic substance.

In some cases they DID, that's what gave them the visions of flying.
\.

How about lycanthropes? Forget the finesse of the vampire. Give me the savagery
of the shape-shifter!

re #13: Vampire RPG: Isnt it dead if it takes more than 7 levels of
aggravated damage?  Down with the Sabbat!

I'm not sure; I'd have to look it up. And watch it, my liege is a Lasombre.

Who do you mean by "liege"?  Lasombre, Lumbago, Lobotomy. Go Glass Walkers!

<The prince of the city calls a Blood Hunt.>

We(rewolves) step sideways and are ignored.

The Wyrm gains in power...

Malkavians put chocolate bars and rocks in a bag and dance happily.

Beware. Ashteroth is watching and waits to make His move.

<Brighn eats the rocks and smears the chocolate bars all over the 
mental concept of the Wyrm.  Yum!  Malkavs unite!>

<smirk>

These are the Final Days
The signs are clear
The homids have choked the air, poisoned the soil, clogged the waters,
slaughtereed the beasts, unleashed the Eternal Fire
 Now, the Wyrm rises to Strike its Deathblow
When Will You Rage?

Not right now, but I have a spot in my calendar open for 2 pm next Thursday.
How about then?

"These are indeed the last days. The time of prophecy is upon us. Act now
we must, for we have no time left for words."

Hey, but but what are those impressions on my screen I just read?

Wyrm tracks?

There is nowhere we can run to, no garden in which we can hide.

When will you rage?

Whenever I don't get enough coffee.

Sounds familiar.

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