My GF is a vampire what do I do???

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

You don't need to be worried unless she puts all of her dots into Vicissitude. Then you got a nutjob on your hands.

However, girlfriends with a high Celerity can be...highly entertaining.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

This post is almost surreal.

How ya doin Dema.

Where to start.
First off, Vampires arent a joke, and i'm not talking about LARPers i'm talking about a full fledged subculture. Many cities in the US and Western Europe have a subculture of individuals who worship blood, and the benefits that drinking blood gives you. Some just embrace the night life, the parties, and the community.

Either way its all serious stuff. Vampires who bloodlet, and are serious about it, are carefull. They know its not a joke and they do so responsibally. I hope your girlfriend is one of those "true" vampires in the sense that shes really part of the subculture and knows what she's doing. As opposed to someone who's facinated with the "scene" and puts on a good show through fancy words and irresponsible acts.

I've dated more then one girl who claimed to be a vampire. One was...quite frankly a complete and utter basket case. The other was very serious and down to earth. Though i never participated with her, we didnt really date long enough for me to be convinced to try it.

I'm not sure what advice to give you, except to tread carefully and make sure its something serious, not a game. There are some sick people out there who live out their fantasies and end up hurting one another. And then there are some serious individuals out there who hold real faith in the entire thing and know what they are doing.

As for Gaming...
DND Meetup later today! 4pm EST at kings games.

 

[Dogbrain]

I don't know, just wanted to know if anyone else out there has been in a similar situation.

There was a group of those back in Ithaca. Due to various other social entanglements, I would interact with them on occassion. There were two members who were major egotists and got off on manipulating all the other members. All the other members were too clueless or indoctrinated to see what was so glaringly obvious to everyone outside their group. Lots of neuroses on parade. A great deal of unsafe bloodletting--especially since at least two others would tend to make recreational use of illegal injected narcotics, and the idea of any sort of sexual fidelity, even within their "clan", was anathema to many of them. The girls seemed to do far worse than did the guys in this group. They tended to chew up and spit out a lot of young girls looking for a sense of belonging, but the core membership was mostly male.

 

[Tobold Hornblower]

If you get your fang teeth filed to a point she'll think you're teh sexy!

 

[Cergorach]

Let me get this straight, these are not LARPers, but actually they want to be vampires?

I've never LARPed, but wanted to (just never had the oppertunity), to me it would be like playing cops and robbers (make believe, just like paintball for example). Evidently others see it as a lifestyle, and that's a bit scarry (you never know when some idiot decides that you are better off in torpor for the next decade with a stake through your hart), the bloodletting is definately very freaky.

 

[Turanil]

As a firefighter/EMT, this gives me the shivers. In this day and age, group activies with blood are just a bad idea. I do not care if she thinks she knows these people and is not at risk. She does not know them that well. Plenty of ways to contract a disease and it is not always based on drug-use or sexual partners. By her joining this group, she is likely endangering you in the process, beyond the risk she is taking with her own health.

Dont want to be preachy here, but man, this is a bad idea!

I second this opinion, with AIDS around, better be careful with "drinking blood" and such activities.

(BTW: Meowzebub, your avatar is the coolest IMO, that I have seen on these forums. Congratulations!)

p.s. she told me I'm a vamp now that I sucked her blood, and she sucked mine.

Sorry for being harsh, but I find this pathetic and ridiculous. It reminds me of players who absolutely want to play drow characters. Once a drow only gets the same abilities as an elf, it then suddenly loses many of its appeal. So some people engage in bloodsucking, then call themselves "vampires"? C'mon, it's just feeling weak deep inside, but by pretending to be a vampire one fancies himself having become a predator, a teriffying and above all IMPORTANT person... However, limit yourself to saying you like to drink blood just because you are a little strange and like the taste; then forget it is to be a vampire (the real vampire of legend / literacy is well beyond a mere dude drinking blood): much less people will be interested in it.

 

[Dogbrain]

Let me get this straight, these are not LARPers, but actually they want to be vampires?

No. Most of them don't think they are or will become fictional or legendary vampires. Instead, they get into blood drinking and blood "sharing".

Mostly harmless, actually, but a bad place to be if one is not already a strong-willed and well-defined person.

 

[Dogbrain]

Uncooked pork/beef blood can carry pathogens that infect humans, including a form of tuberculosis.

 

[tarchon]

As a firefighter/EMT, this gives me the shivers. In this day and age, group activies with blood are just a bad idea.

Hmm... wondering when it was a good idea. As well as the issues of communicable disease and the psychological pitfalls of retreating into fantasy, actually taking blood out of the body has some risk of infection or injury too. If done carefully, I suppose it can be - if not quite "safe" - not imminently dangerous, but my experiences with the vamp wannabe crowd don't make me very confident. Most of them seem likely to be future Darwin award contenders.

 

[tarchon]

No. Most of them don't think they are or will become fictional or legendary vampires. Instead, they get into blood drinking and blood "sharing".

Well, that's a bit of an overgeneralization. I've encountered both the hemovores and the flat-out insane I-think-I'm-Dracula types. It really depends a lot on which little local subculture it is, and the boundaries often blur. Some of them are unaware that the whole "clan" thing (and blood bonding, "vauderie," etc.) is from a roleplaying game too. It's kind of like Satanists - you'll find some that regard Satan as a metaphor for a particular ethical system and some that actually literally worship a horned dude with a pitchfork.