Vampire Weaknesses, where the fuck do they come from?
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wanna be really hard on vampires?
remember how sunlight kills them?
how reflected sunlight kills them too?
guess what moonlight is? bingo! sunlight!
and do you see all these stars up there?
each one is a sun, yes, you are in sunlight.
remember how sunlight kills them?
how reflected sunlight kills them too?
guess what moonlight is? bingo! sunlight!
and do you see all these stars up there?
each one is a sun, yes, you are in sunlight.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
You only have to remember two things about vampires. They are:
So, next time a vampire corners you in a dark alleyway, shine a light on your shoelaces and laugh as they crawl on their knees to spend hours worshipping your feet as they try to work out how knots work.
- Obsessive Compulsive to an absurd degree.
- Really, really stupid. As in I can't show just how stupid they are.
So, next time a vampire corners you in a dark alleyway, shine a light on your shoelaces and laugh as they crawl on their knees to spend hours worshipping your feet as they try to work out how knots work.
It could work if you turn it back into a magi-biological function, where the condition of vampirism defies death, and thus symbols of death hold power over them. A vampire strapped into an electric chair is paralyzed, and can't use his magic walking dead guy powers to survive the shock. A hanged vampire is paralyzed from the moment the noose hits skin, and it's more likely that his head will just pop off when the rope jerks taut. A dedicated executioner's axe is actually a fine weapon against vampires.Maj wrote:The problem is that it takes a "hard" restriction and turns it into an emo soft restriction.
One is, theoretically, a biological reason - no matter how stupid - and the other is just angst. Which isn't to say it couldn't work, but it needs better flavor text.
Fucking knots, how do they work?Parthenon wrote:So, next time a vampire corners you in a dark alleyway, shine a light on your shoelaces and laugh as they crawl on their knees to spend hours worshipping your feet as they try to work out how knots work.
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I could be wrong, but I think you have your squares and rectangles mixed up. The sun is a star, but not all stars are suns. So far as I know, "the sun" is simply how we refer to our star.Stahlseele wrote: and do you see all these stars up there?
each one is a sun, yes, you are in sunlight.
Now, if you want to posit that all the negative effects of the sun on vampires in fact come from stars (which the sun is), then you'd be right.
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Ok, yes, i got that mixed up.
But even if not all those stars you can see are suns, all these stars you can see are either suns or the reflected light of suns, so the point still stands i think . .
But even if not all those stars you can see are suns, all these stars you can see are either suns or the reflected light of suns, so the point still stands i think . .
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
And scythes - those are symbols of Death! Too bad Death's Scythe is hidden from the world... If it made its appearance, it would annihilate all vampire kind entirely.Prak_Anima wrote:It could work if you turn it back into a magi-biological function, where the condition of vampirism defies death, and thus symbols of death hold power over them. A vampire strapped into an electric chair is paralyzed, and can't use his magic walking dead guy powers to survive the shock. A hanged vampire is paralyzed from the moment the noose hits skin, and it's more likely that his head will just pop off when the rope jerks taut. A dedicated executioner's axe is actually a fine weapon against vampires.
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...this...Stahlseele wrote:Ok, yes, i got that mixed up.
But even if not all those stars you can see are suns, all these stars you can see are either suns or the reflected light of suns, so the point still stands i think . .
No. That is a non-thing. The Sun is a star, but not all stars are the sun. In fact, only one star is the Sun. The rest of the stars are not Suns.
Stars are definitely not reflections of the Sun, lern2astronomy. You may have confused stars with one of the following:
- Luna
- Planets
- Other moons
- Comets
- Asteroids
- Your mom
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Technically, only with the Vampire Killer whip or certain magical powers derived from Dracula himself.
Alucard can stab Dracula to death with his sword (or just hold his magical shield out for a few seconds) because he's Dracula's son and thus has a fraction of the same vampiric power.
Shanoa can kill Dracula because she has the Dominus gylphs, which are fragments of power stolen from Dracula.
The Belmonts can kill Dracula because they have a magical whip that contains the soul of Sara Trantoul, a pure-hearted young woman who was transformed into a vampire against her will and chose to sacrifice herself in order to create the weapon. And this can only be used by a Belmont because of her connection to the clan. Anyone else who tries to use it will either fail miserably or die from the strain channeling its power depending on how much Belmont DNA they have.
In all cases, you need a vampire's power to kill a vampire after beating them down. Sources of that power are quite rare.
Castlevania is one of the worst settings to be a vampire hunter in, especially since Castlevania vampires can be resurrected fairly easily. All they need is loyal human minions willing to do some sacrifices and they're back in business.
Alucard can stab Dracula to death with his sword (or just hold his magical shield out for a few seconds) because he's Dracula's son and thus has a fraction of the same vampiric power.
Shanoa can kill Dracula because she has the Dominus gylphs, which are fragments of power stolen from Dracula.
The Belmonts can kill Dracula because they have a magical whip that contains the soul of Sara Trantoul, a pure-hearted young woman who was transformed into a vampire against her will and chose to sacrifice herself in order to create the weapon. And this can only be used by a Belmont because of her connection to the clan. Anyone else who tries to use it will either fail miserably or die from the strain channeling its power depending on how much Belmont DNA they have.
In all cases, you need a vampire's power to kill a vampire after beating them down. Sources of that power are quite rare.
Castlevania is one of the worst settings to be a vampire hunter in, especially since Castlevania vampires can be resurrected fairly easily. All they need is loyal human minions willing to do some sacrifices and they're back in business.
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