MavrickWeirdo
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If he wants to stay healthy, he should stick to the blood of vegitarians 
Effects of an all blood diet.
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dave_o
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Yeah, there's magic (this almost out-of-the box OA except with only humans, and set in feudal Japan). But I'm mostly looking for the medical effects since I want this behavior to be entirely a delusion and thus merit no benefits.
So, basically, he'll be pretty ill and sickly, and look bloated and ruddy? CON drop is a good idea, yes.
So, basically, he'll be pretty ill and sickly, and look bloated and ruddy? CON drop is a good idea, yes.
dave o,
To give your good aligned characters a moral Quandary (if you like that sort of thing) and to add new levels of RBDM-ness you might want to consider what has caused his Demented state of mind. Other than he is just insane and needs to be put down like a rabid dog. For something creative other than the tired myth of porphyria...
Ergot poisoning. During the Middle Ages, it was an epidemic. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, wheat and other grains. To an untrained eye, it is almost impossible to detect. The symptoms can include violent hallucination, difficulty breathing, sporadic lapses in consciousness, muscle twitches, numbness. Not only that but symptoms can appear and dissapear or change over time.
That way he 'could' look completely normal as for the majority of the time he eats a normal diet until his symptoms and violent hallucinations push him to drink blood for a while, and his selective memory makes him forget.
And then the grain is spread around the village......
he he he
To give your good aligned characters a moral Quandary (if you like that sort of thing) and to add new levels of RBDM-ness you might want to consider what has caused his Demented state of mind. Other than he is just insane and needs to be put down like a rabid dog. For something creative other than the tired myth of porphyria...
Ergot poisoning. During the Middle Ages, it was an epidemic. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, wheat and other grains. To an untrained eye, it is almost impossible to detect. The symptoms can include violent hallucination, difficulty breathing, sporadic lapses in consciousness, muscle twitches, numbness. Not only that but symptoms can appear and dissapear or change over time.
That way he 'could' look completely normal as for the majority of the time he eats a normal diet until his symptoms and violent hallucinations push him to drink blood for a while, and his selective memory makes him forget.
And then the grain is spread around the village......
he he he
VirgilCaine
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Nifft said:
Very good points.
In order to subsist only on human blood (or any other blood) you would need to consume 400 liters of blood per day. The reason is that blood is mostly water. That amount is about a bathtub every day. Clearly thats just not possible.
So looking at the technical side the guy needs to have some way to remove the water from the blood and then eat the dry matter (mostly protein) that will be left.
So looking at the technical side the guy needs to have some way to remove the water from the blood and then eat the dry matter (mostly protein) that will be left.
Eosin the Red
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While not an expert in the matter (who is?) I have seen plenty of folks with blood in their belly as an RN. IRL you tend to get sick (N/V/D) and would have some truly foul gas. Now that that is out of the way - since he his a fantasy sort of critter looking to transcend, I would suggest that he mix blood with various alchemical substances to balance himself (maybe something like wine, the aforementioned milk, or maybe nectar (soma)). These mixing would be to heighten various qualities of the blood/spirit.
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
ecliptic said:
He could eat feces too, that's how gorilla's survive on a vegetarian diet.
As stated below, the nutritional content of blood is actually pretty poor by volume. If you want reality, the answer I would say is pretty much, you could not live on just blood. Of course this is gaming, you don't need to concern yourself with reality.
If you want a little bizzare reading about Blood Drinking click the link. Warning: it is for mature audiences and it is really (IMO) weird.
