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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dagredhel" data-source="post: 1381151" data-attributes="member: 3421">Once you've dropped a vampyr below zero hit points, you've done it enough damage that its helpless.  After that, the old one-two on the heart and head is a good way to make sure its permanent, but I figure anything that'll destroy the corpse will work just as well.  Cremation (not just a light toasting, but really well-done  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ,) dropping in in that ol' vat of acid that just happened to be lying around, or a disintegrate spell or the like were the examples that sprung to mind.Cremating the body of a suspected vampire was standard practice in some parts of the world, although so far as I'm aware, the idea that vampires were especially vulnerable to fire isn't part of the folklore.  Its interesting to note that there are vampire myths from places where cremation was the standard practice.  I have to admit that my own cultural bias makes the idea of a  vampire that rests in a funerary urn rather than a coffin seem a little too I-Dream-of-Genie <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .</blockquote>

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