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[Wimopy]

So, we all know vampires love bling, but what was the most jewellery you saw on a vampire?

I just had my first quest to kill this vampire who had 1375 kills in my starting village and he was carrying roughly 410 pieces of jewellery (based on his drops in announcements. (Line 50 to 410)
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Not giving up on adventurer yet, so I'm not able to tell you his kills, sorry.

So, what's the most items of jewellery you've seen on a vampire?
Also, for the !!SCIENCE!! in it: We can check the kill-jewellery ratio to see how they relate to each other.

EDIT: Holy... Well, since I was just spammed by an army of messages from a vampire with barely a few hundred kills, I'm considering the number of jewellery uncountable and this thread obsolete. However, feel free to post more absurd amount of jewellery vampires mass. (Might as well be a nice memorial slab for when Toady decides to lower jewellery numbers.)

[SuicideJunkie]

A commoner recently asked me to go and kill a vampire with FOURTEEN THOUSAND kills...

Say... maybe the encumbrance of all that loot will slow the vamp down so much that I actually have a chance?

[Fen]

what surprises me is how little everyone seems to care that their neighbor wears multiple dozen forms of jewelry, ALL FROM DEAD THINGS.
I mean obviously if you weren't knowledgeable about bones and stuff you couldn't tell where they're from, but in that quantity you think they'd get suspicious.

[Xangi]

Some 90 odd pages of jewelery on a master vampire who was alive since year 58 (world history was 1200 years). If I had to guess, that'd be about 90*30 lines per page (I expand my screen a bit), so 2700 pieces. No pics, didn't think to take them, and I don't even think the announcement box would hold all that anyway. On a side note, the guy was a lord, and had something like 30000 kills. He later beat me to a pulp with his bare hands through my iron armor.

[Jeremy66]

what surprises me is how little everyone seems to care that their neighbor wears multiple dozen forms of jewelry, ALL FROM DEAD THINGS.
I mean obviously if you weren't knowledgeable about bones and stuff you couldn't tell where they're from, but in that quantity you think they'd get suspicious.

I've noticed that veterans will occasionally wear the remains of sentients they have killed. No where near as much as a vampire, but I could see how a new vampire with few trinkets could go undetected for a while.

[SirAaronIII]

Certainly not the vampires with collections of epic proportions, though.

Or maybe they're just saying "Hey man, see all this jewelry? It came from stuff I killed, don't bother me" and nobody bothers them.

[Xangi]

Certainly not the vampires with collections of epic proportions, though.

Or maybe they're just saying "Hey man, see all this jewelry? It came from stuff I killed, don't bother me" and nobody bothers them.

This is what I like to think. Vampires are like Bloods and Crips, people are too afraid/have too much self-preservation instinct to call them out. That's where we come in...

[Matoro]

what surprises me is how little everyone seems to care that their neighbor wears multiple dozen forms of jewelry, ALL FROM DEAD THINGS.
I mean obviously if you weren't knowledgeable about bones and stuff you couldn't tell where they're from, but in that quantity you think they'd get suspicious.

I've noticed that veterans will occasionally wear the remains of sentients they have killed. No where near as much as a vampire, but I could see how a new vampire with few trinkets could go undetected for a while.

That's true. War veterans have often animal/animal men bone trinkets, some times lots of them. And normal peasant probably can't see is material of ring human bone or wolf bone.

[Kamamura]

Pffft, rationalizations. It's excessive, therefore a bug and should be corrected. Why vampires even bother to seek cover-up identities and blame cats and infants for their deeds, if on the other hand, they are confident enough to wear dozens of human bone, nail, hair, whatever bracelets? If your adventurer recognizes the material, I think the other characters should too.

[TheLinguist]

If your adventurer recognizes the material, I think the other characters should too.

While I agree with you that vampire trophies are excessive, should we really be generalizing from mass-murdering psychopaths' glorious heroes' knowledge of bone types, to that of random farmers and woodworkers?