demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
Well, we've gotten a thread on their powers, but what about vampiric weaknesses? there are as many, if not more?
Demiurge out.
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How many vampiric weaknesses are there?
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WayneLigon
Adventurer
Sunlight: destroys or prevents from using powers
Holy items: repel
garlic: repel
insence: repel
hawthorn branches: repel
thorns: cause damage when other things cannot
mustard seeds: must count to proceed along path
Can't come in unless invited
running water: cannot cross unaided, even via bridges
leaves behind body/skin: can kill it by damaging the body
must return to coffin to rest/during day/to heal
No reflection: reveals to be vampire
No shadow: reveals to be vampire
Scares animals: reveals true nature
Must feed on blood or soul essence every x time period or weaken/'die'
Fire: repels or destroys
Holy items: repel
garlic: repel
insence: repel
hawthorn branches: repel
thorns: cause damage when other things cannot
mustard seeds: must count to proceed along path
Can't come in unless invited
running water: cannot cross unaided, even via bridges
leaves behind body/skin: can kill it by damaging the body
must return to coffin to rest/during day/to heal
No reflection: reveals to be vampire
No shadow: reveals to be vampire
Scares animals: reveals true nature
Must feed on blood or soul essence every x time period or weaken/'die'
Fire: repels or destroys
WayneLigon
Adventurer
Mordane76 said:
I can see Buffy wrasslin' this vampire to the ground. "Xander! His sock, get his sock!"
Hardhead
Explorer
There are all kinds of wierd vampire beliefs.
Some Gypsies in Kosova once believed that a brother and sister born together as twins on a Saturday could see a vampiric ghost if they wore their underwear and shirts inside out. The ghost would flee as soon as it was seen by the twins.
A Gypsy practice in Moravia, now the eastern province of the Czech Republic, was to use a hen's egg to bait and ambush an invisible, vampiric ghost. When the egg suddenly disappeared, the men would fire their guns at the spot.
Some Gypsies in Kosova once believed that a brother and sister born together as twins on a Saturday could see a vampiric ghost if they wore their underwear and shirts inside out. The ghost would flee as soon as it was seen by the twins.
A Gypsy practice in Moravia, now the eastern province of the Czech Republic, was to use a hen's egg to bait and ambush an invisible, vampiric ghost. When the egg suddenly disappeared, the men would fire their guns at the spot.
Sagan Darkside
First Post
Candle lit dinners, starlit walks on the beach, playing with puppies...
Oh, not those kind of weaknesses?
SD
Oh, not those kind of weaknesses?
SD
Drawmack
First Post
Actually when you are talking about vampiric myth the weaknesses depend greatly on the culture whose myth you are reading.
For example:
The celts believed that you could kill a vampire by placing a carn (sp.) on their grave. This did not actually kill them but rather immobilized them. In celtic lore a vampire must stop to count anytime a large amount of small things is placed in it's path. Therefor if you built a carn on their grave they would spend all night counting the rocks.
Another culture (I forget which one though) believed that vampires could only come out during the day.
Many cultures believed that vampires not only had to sleep in a coffin, to block out light, but had to sleep in some of their burrial soil which would be placed into the coffin. This is where the left sock of burial dirt comes from. The left sock contained the dirt they needed to sleep in so by destroying that sock you forced the vampire into the daylight thereby destroying them.
HMMM - I think I've finally found the topic for an article to write for gaming frontiers, thanks for the inspiration.
For example:
The celts believed that you could kill a vampire by placing a carn (sp.) on their grave. This did not actually kill them but rather immobilized them. In celtic lore a vampire must stop to count anytime a large amount of small things is placed in it's path. Therefor if you built a carn on their grave they would spend all night counting the rocks.
Another culture (I forget which one though) believed that vampires could only come out during the day.
Many cultures believed that vampires not only had to sleep in a coffin, to block out light, but had to sleep in some of their burrial soil which would be placed into the coffin. This is where the left sock of burial dirt comes from. The left sock contained the dirt they needed to sleep in so by destroying that sock you forced the vampire into the daylight thereby destroying them.
HMMM - I think I've finally found the topic for an article to write for gaming frontiers, thanks for the inspiration.
Sagan Darkside
First Post
Ok, a semi-serious reply:
In Malawi it seems a stoning/beating can kill a vampire:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/12/24/malawi.vampire/
SD
In Malawi it seems a stoning/beating can kill a vampire:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/12/24/malawi.vampire/
SD
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Zander
Explorer
Holy water burns them.
Beheading and/or putting holy wafers in their mouth kills them.
Burying them at a crossroads kills them or prevents them from rising.
Stake through the heart destroys them (or paralyses them until it's removed).
Freezing them paralyses them but does not kill them.
Beheading and/or putting holy wafers in their mouth kills them.
Burying them at a crossroads kills them or prevents them from rising.
Stake through the heart destroys them (or paralyses them until it's removed).
Freezing them paralyses them but does not kill them.
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