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To get things a little better organised, I've decided to split up the old tasks. Let's start over in this tasks what "our" vampires - The Vampyres - are supposed to have for skills and weaknesses.
So please give a shot for each "classical" vampire attribute you would like to be considered, and then people can start discussing the pro&cons.
Of course, examples from films/books/etc are very welcome, as well as your own pros&cons :D
Vampires should have like Super Hearing and could be able to see Far away also a good Sense of smell. As for Weakness a special made sword like seen in the poster .
It would be super if light didn't kill the vampires, but hurt like HELL!!
Carl L.
September 01, 2010 20:21
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The Vampyres are infected with a virus that changes their metabolism and/or gives them access to magic.
They have all the classic powers, and weaknesses/disfigurements (i.e. bald, long fingers, etc.) depending on their viral-strain.
The sometimes quite drastic changes to their body cause a sort of rift between it and their soul/self/essence/life-force whatever you can call it.
They need to feed on their victims life-force which they ritualistically do via drinking their blood.
A few powerful vampyres may have found out that they can bypass the ritual aspect, and simply feast on negative emotions, mainly fear, literally scaring their victims to death.
This is a sort of sci-fy/magic crossover solution, loosely based on http://wiki.dumpshock.com/index.php/HMHVV
I was thinking about her super powers. When she is over attacked, her alter ego could take over and she could get berserk and become unstoppable.
Holy water burns the skin of vampires like acid and is harmless to humans.
Priests have used their ability to make holy water to give themselves a powerful position in the human society.
The well guarded secret however is that there is nothing holy about the water they provide, it is the work of alchemy, silver is used in it's making along with other chemicals, this is why vampires also think that it is the holiness of the water that makes it so powerful. They can touch normal silver without problems so they cannot conclude that holy water has the same effect as something they know.
The church is against alchemy and prosecutes anybody who engages in it, and that is because they do not want anybody to stumble on their secret.
Maybe this can play a role in the development of the plot or subplot.
(this be my first shot ever ... heart shivers)
Ok, call me old fashioned, but i do like the classic vamps skills and weaknesses.
If we are going to play the film in a sort of goth hybrid location, then lets have vamps that hate sunlight and can die through it, holy water, but it must come from a baptismal font which limits supply. Could this also mean that priests are held in isolation by humans for what they offer as a weapon? If the font also has to be refilled and blessed, this also becomes a time when the vamps know where the humans, and their priests, will be. This offers them a regular target and tracking opportunity?
Crucifixes have limited power (burns skin on contact, but little else).
They cannot walk on holy ground, but the ground cannot just be "created" and made holy ground by beign blessed (maybe it is the prayer, devotions etc, built up over centuries that define the strength of the bar "holy ground" gives vamps?).
This might aid in storlines when X holy ground will give you shelter for a full night, no worries, yet another holy ground location can be entered by a strong vamp (but causes him discomfort) but will allow a fight to take place with a hiding human, which also makes it a more equal fight?
Swords/knives could be used to kill vamps through beign cooled whislt still red hot in holy water which impregnates itself in the blade? Maybe this is also done whilst saying prayers throughout the process or something that may make these blades special and so there are only a few around?
I'm not certain I'm remembering this correctly, but I seem to recall that Stoker's vampires weren't killed by sunlight -- that the sunlight merely prohibited their more supernatural powers. No shapeshifting in the sun, normal strength, and the like. That always seemed better to me than the old, "Step into sunlight, burn up instantly" bit.
"You need FAITH for that to work on me, Boy!"
How can on forget that classic line from Fright Night.
The act of using a cross or any holy symbol should be an act of Faith on the part of the user, not a factor of crosses. What is important is the FAITH behind the object, not the object itself.
For example, a priest who molests little boys wouldn't hold a vampire at baywith a cross , but a certified Nutcase ex-CIA operative who has absolute faith in the America could wrap himself up in the American Flag and run through a crowd of vampires, knowing with absolute Certainty that his Jingoism will protect him.
Also, If the faith of the person is what powers the objects, an area can 'soak up' faith, if enough people go there or believe in it. The creation of Holy Ground would be dependent of activity of an area. An active church vrs an abandoned one. But one really faithful person could 're-activate' an area and push all the vampires off, but only as long as he concentrated.
OOo! If you wanted to get REALY CHEESY, one could use the True Faith angle as the rational for True Love and have some sort of Climatic Moment where True Love conquors all by allowing sheer force of will to allow someone to MELT a vampire with a touch, or cure them, or something of that nature.
The idea of fighting vampyres with garlic is a thing I couldn't understand even when I was a child. I don't think, you should not use things like garlic-extract-filled-bullets or garlic gas like some "modern romanpire movies" do.
Of course we have to remember silver. In some books and mythologies, vampires can only be hurt with silver weapons. But I think silver is more for Werewolfs and I have been thinking, that the Iron is the metal that can hurt vampires. I can't remember now, where I have heard this, but it makes sense somehow.
I think that the lake or something can't stop vampire, but river can if it's fastly streaming. And Oceans can also, because the salt water.
The Senses of the Vampires.
Vampires has über senses compered to humans. They are like cats, they can see, hear, smell, taste far more better than humans. They also are quick and silent killers. They make no sound if they don't want.
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