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Just found this again after far too long. I had forgotten how overt the
plumphelmetman rebellion is becoming.After the queen has tried the cheese, tell her how the elves rescued you and were shot. Ask her why we can't all live in peace. Cry about Darkerdaffodil, but deny that you liked him.
Futile +1I'm going to laugh when a single bite of holy cheese has the power to cure vampirism, make you 10 years younger, and pay off your credit card debt. Then the entire Fortress will be all about the Cowsea.
I suspect that any actual holy power would obliterate the vampire more than cure, though that could depends on however the randomized magic/myth stuff works when it finally gets into the game.
DF vampires don't have any issue with the sun so they're not the our standard pop-culture vampires.
Vampires and werecritters are created by a god cursing someone and I see no reason to think a god couldn't hypothetically remove the curse if they were so inclined, honestly seem like one of the best way to do curse cures and Toady didn't rule it out when I asked about werecritters, just said "not yet".
I could see it going either way. Vampires are (originally) created by divine curse, so they have an obvious connection to divinity- and thus, in theory, divine products. We don't actually know anything more than that, though. Even the idea that the cheese is in fact holy and laden with divine energy is a guess.
There's also the question of what the queen knows/believes. Despite being a fanged horror of the night, she seems friendly and lucid, and if she's really an ancient blasphemer likely knows a thing or two about the divine. If she's willing to eat the cheese, that would seem to imply that either it's not harmful or she doesn't believe a word of our rambling story. This then opens questions about what qualifies as harmful (ie whether she wants to be cured and/or released from this unholy nightmare) and the fine nuances of the aforementioned assumptions about how much the queen knows. Maybe she's an airhead who knows nothing about the divine and so pissed one off, maybe she was turned and so doesn't even believe in gods, maybe she conducted extensive research before intentionally offended something to gain immortality and power, etc.
In short, I think we're gonna have to feed her the cheese to have any idea what it does or doesn't do.