[UA] Re: UA vampires

[rex monday]

I've been thinking some more on the idea and putting together some of the 
ideas from the list as well as some from my roommate (this semester he's in 
a class named Vampires in Literature). Here’s the idea pretty much finished 
(if someone wants to archive it anywhere):

(An alternate)Vampire

Vampires are some of the saddest of the Unnatural creatures in the Occult 
Underground. A person volunteers to be vamped by another vampire, but is 
unwittingly duped into what is really a curse. This is because vampires are 
horrendously lonely and they need fellow human contact desperately. The only 
way to gain lasting, remembered contact is to bring someone else into the 
same "zone" as them. Like demons, vampires are likely to lie to people to 
get them to agree to the procedure.
Some benefits are gained from the condition, including relative invisibility 
to humans and machines, increased physical capabilities, and technical 
immortality (stop aging now and forever).
The curse only dawns slowly as the new vampire realizes the reason he is 
invisible to people, machines, and even his own reflection is that the world 
has stopped looking at him. Since he basically volunteered to "die" the 
universe granted his wish and now considers him for all intents and purposes 
dead. He didn't even have the decency to pass the Veil and become a demon. 
And the universe doesn't like dead people to mess with the activities of the 
living. It does everything synchronically possible to ensure that no action 
the vampire takes has a lasting effect. He must concentrate a great deal of 
effort to get a living person to even acknowledge him, much less remember 
him from moment to moment. So, any push the vampire makes to the world is 
met exactly with an equal push that erases or invalidates the vampire's 
actions. Of course, this doesn't apply to other vampires.
However, this doesn't explain why they are called 'vampires.  Vampires can 
drain the ‘lifeblood’ of a living person and use that energy to become like 
the living for a while. Able to interact with the world in a somewhat normal 
manner, the vampire feels the rush of finally being real again. Some 
vampires ritualize the act into an actual drinking of blood. This isn’t 
strictly necessary, but many do it because it was how they were taught by 
their progenitor, or maybe they just enjoy it.
This inability to truly affect the world raises the question of how vampires 
ever got into the popular culture in the first place. Amongst those in the 
know, rumors abound. The most likely is that this form of vampirism is 
entirely a product of the postmodern age, a pop culture icon granted unlife 
by the whims of the Stratosphere. But whether the first vampire was formed 
by accident or by some strange new ritual is unknown.

Vampire (significant)
Be careful what you wish for…
Body:	75
Speed:	75
Mind:	50
Soul:	50


rex monday

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