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Author Topic: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.  (Read 844 times)

Grinly

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Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« on: April 11, 2016, 08:38:33 am »
Assuming a fortress is being run properly and your dwarves are being properly boozed, of course.

Older vampires would sometimes have a "dips beard" flag, and a vampire accused by someone who has recently licked their beard - or who sees someone else being accused of being a vampire after their beard is licked - would gain this quality.

I feel this is very important for immersion.
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Re: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2016, 09:55:00 am »
What? And why?

Vampires drink booze socially now if you have a tavern.
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Re: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2016, 10:04:58 am »
Curses! Foiled again by those clever vampires.

Honestly, it just popped into my head that any real dwarves beard would almost constantly be soaked in alcohol but that a vampire's beard would likely be suspiciously dry. It's such a small interaction - involving spilling and the dwarf not pathing randomly to water, getting rained on, just having been released from medical care, or a lot of other tiny things right before a body is found drained of blood - that it could lead to interesting and unexpected interactions.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2016, 10:06:43 am by Grinly »
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Re: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2016, 04:28:42 pm »
Can you tell the difference between a blood and gore soaked beared and a sewer brew soaked beard? It's not as easy as you'd think!
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Re: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2016, 10:09:51 pm »
Vampires should always be nobles and some Romanian name. Should avoid sunlight, glow in the dark and die from goblin blood.
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Re: Dwarven Vampires should be detectable via. a dry, non-alcoholic, beard.
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2016, 08:59:18 am »
And they should never eat tomatillos.
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