[UA] All the Vampires, all together now!

[Edward Parsons]

The Thing...now theres a movie....




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cooper" <insectking at yahoo.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] All the Vampires, all together now!


> 
> --- Saul Peers <rexmundis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I was watching Blade again just a moment ago, and an
> > idea popped into my 
> > head.  I know that UA officially explains vampires
> > by way of a Vlad Temps 
> > blood disorder, but I have another idea.
> > 
> > What if vampiers draw power from the concept of the
> > preditor, much like an 
> > adept gains charges through his obession?
> Ever thought about using your vampire as an Avatar
> with channeling acolytes? 
> 
> Vampires are awkward multicultural myths. Every
> culture has some sort of vampire critter that lives
> off the blood of the living - stealing the very life
> of the living - and subsisting off that, living ever
> after.
> 
> Vampirism, in my typical games, is purely a
> descriptor. A magus that sucks up some victim's
> "etheric body" or soul by enacting a terrible blood
> sacrifice is pretty much a vampire. Any person or
> thing that gains supernatural power out of harming
> another - or magic parasitism - is a vampire.
> 
> Like I see the alien behind John Carpenter's The Thing
> as a vampire.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
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