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The Froggy Ninja

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #105 on: May 08, 2015, 11:49:35 am »

Well we know we don't need anything but blood to live. We also share not needing to sleep or burning in daylight with DF vamps. Did I miss anything? Otherwise that's all we have to go on.

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #106 on: May 08, 2015, 11:51:08 am »

a list of experiments

Ok, a few things to try:

 * Turn to mist
 * Shapeshift into bats, wolves, animals, etc
 * Telepathy, people and animals. Can we sense them? Can we read mind? Can we send messages, or commands?
 * Close our eyes and see if we can feel the presence of people, bats, animals, etc. in the area.
 * Try to enter Nym's dream. If we can, chat with her. If not, focus on her and try to make her dream about giant oranges.
 * Exhale, stop breathing, see if we're ok without air
 * Check ourselves for a pulse
 * Try to grow/retract fangs

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #107 on: May 08, 2015, 05:47:26 pm »

Tell Nym not to steal the chickens or we WILL get blamed for it.
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #108 on: May 08, 2015, 06:12:22 pm »

Tell Nym not to steal the chickens or we WILL get blamed for it.

Tell Nym to wait until just before we leave, so that we ain't around to take the fall.
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #109 on: May 08, 2015, 08:22:36 pm »

Nym is asleep. How about we not tell her anything right now.

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #110 on: May 08, 2015, 08:44:27 pm »

* Turn to mist
 * Shapeshift into bats, wolves, animals, etc
 * Telepathy, people and animals. Can we sense them? Can we read mind? Can we send messages, or commands?
 * Close our eyes and see if we can feel the presence of people, bats, animals, etc. in the area.
 * Try to enter Nym's dream. If we can, chat with her. If not, focus on her and try to make her dream about giant oranges.
 * Exhale, stop breathing, see if we're ok without air
 * Check ourselves for a pulse
 * Try to grow/retract fangs
-1. Not while there's so many witnesses around.
-1. Same issue.
+0.5. Telepathy on animals is fine but not on people.
+1 feeling for peoples'/animals' presences.
-1. Let's get her permission before we do this.
+1 not breathing.
+1 checking for a pulse.
-1. If we have a problem retracting our fangs we're done for.
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #111 on: May 08, 2015, 09:53:27 pm »

Not while there's so many witnesses around.

We're in a private room at an Inn. The witnesses in the room are Nym and Omo, our travelling companions. Both are asleep, and Nym already knows we're a vampire. There is some risk that Omo could be awake and see, but if we wait a couple hours and hear her snoring, it seems unlikely.

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Let's get her permission before we do this.

...ok.

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If we have a problem retracting our fangs we're done for.

We're a kobold. Would anyone think it especially odd?

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #112 on: May 09, 2015, 12:44:18 am »

Activate chicken radar? :P

Do push ups. Any excercise. Even if vampires don't develop unusual strength or agility, we can still test stamina. How long can we keep it up?

And we haven't actually put our body to the test yet, now have we?

We do feel pain still, right? Pinch ourselves to find out! We know we feel nausea, from consuming too much water. Have we felt dizzy since sobering up? These are attributes of DF vampires, at least. Go hug some garlic and maybe a holy relic or two.

The only other attributes we could test for would be;
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #113 on: May 09, 2015, 09:59:30 am »

Well, you have all night.  Might as well be productive.  You decide to see if you have any cool vampire abilities beyond sleeplessness and bloodlust (which frankly feel more like cons than pros).  You spend a good ten minutes trying to turn yourself into mist.  You maybe feel a bit lighter, maybe it's just your imagination?  You try jumping and there's no noticeable effect.

You walk downstairs and find the barmaid still up, cleaning the bar.  You ask her for a clove of garlic.  It's weird, and she thinks you're weird, but she thinks you're weird anyway so she gives you one.  You ask for a bowl of water and a stick of chalk and get those too.  You pop back upstairs and chew on the garlic for a bit.  Your breath is pretty awful now, but you don't seem to be reacting poorly to it.  You check your reflection in the bowl of water - still there!

You sit down on your bed and try to focus on turning yourself into a wolf or a bat.  A good half hour passes by with no effect, and you try just turning into an animal full stop.  After another fifteen minutes you feel your eyes tickle, like the gel within them just wiggled about.  You check your reflection again.

"Oh, wow."

You have cat's eyes, bright blue and with a single slit down the middle, as opposed to your three-lobed yellow normal eyes.  You take a look around the room; you are pretty sure your night vision has improved, although it was pretty good to start with.  You check the rest of your body; no change.  You spend about five minutes concentrating before they turn back.  You try growing fangs as well, but that bears no fruit.

You shut your eyes and try focusing on the world around you, seeing if you can sense the presence of any people or animals.  After about a minute of focus, you get definite results.  You can hear three sets of heartbeats, two very slow, one quite fast.  More than that, you can place their location.  One slow beat in your chest, one in Omo's, and the fast in Nym's.  You keep focusing for about ten minutes more and your awareness spreads out until you can feel each heartbeat in the tavern around you.  You keep concentrating, and the range doesn't expand.  You are about to give up when you feel another heartbeat enter your range, and your awareness of it spreads out to the full pulse of blood across its entire being; heart to head, to tail and four paws.  It takes a minute to map the geography of the creature in your head, but you're pretty sure it's a cat.  You try sending it mental commands, but the best you can do is make its heartbeat increase a little.  You can't even manage that with the humans (and elf) in the tavern around you, nor what you think might be a dog's heartbeat (much quicker, and you know the landlord has a terrier) on the ground floor.

You stop focusing, and your awareness returns to yourself.  You try focusing on Nym, and your awareness of her heartbeat pops into your mind.  You try and get inside her head, read her dreams, make any sort of communication.  Unfortunately, you don't really make any progress on this front.  Again, all you can really feel is her heart.

You let your focus drop and exhale, holding your breath.  After about fifteen minutes, you start to feel yourself blacking out, so you take another breath.  Another fifteen minutes pass before you need to breathe again.  So, not breathless, but you can apparently manage longer without it.  You check your pulse with a finger against your throat, and it bears out what your heart-sense suggested; you have a pulse, but it is slow.

You pinch yourself.  Yep, still hurts.  Seems to be within normal pain limits too.

Time for your last test.  You take the chalk and start drawing holy symbols - Zotho Wraithesteemed's skull mark, the Keeper's key sigil, the swirl of Ramstom, the circle and line through of Acik, the upward facing half-crescent struck through with a horizontal line of the Terror of Law -

AAAUGH!!!

With an effort of will, you stop yourself from screaming outside your own head.  The mark of Ulash Escortcurses blazes at you with a searing silver light, threatening to blind you and sear your skin.  You dash the chalk symbol apart with your hand, and the light fades, but you are left with blisters across your fingers.

Well, crap.

You spend the rest of the night quietly, nursing your burns, until Nym wakes.  It's a little before dawn, and she bothers Omo awake and everybody dresses.  You head out of the tavern, instruments and belongings in hand.  The night of testing and focus has left you thirstier than before, but not as bad as before you drank last night.

"Alright," says Nym.  "We're going to stop off at that chicken coop unless you think it's a terrible idea, but where from there?  On to the next town, or should we, ah, stick to the villages and country for now?"

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #114 on: May 09, 2015, 10:00:07 am »

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #115 on: May 09, 2015, 10:51:49 am »

So only specific holiness bothers us. Good to know. Let's raid the coop and move on to a village. Better to start small. See if you can maintain heart sense while remaining active.

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #116 on: May 09, 2015, 02:46:26 pm »

So only specific holiness bothers us. Good to know. Let's raid the coop and move on to a village. Better to start small. See if you can maintain heart sense while remaining active.

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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #117 on: May 09, 2015, 03:00:05 pm »

NO RAIDING!

discus possibility of hunting for food.
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #118 on: May 09, 2015, 05:21:14 pm »

Yeah we can't exactly raid the chicken coop since we'll be with Omo. She'll have no idea why we're stealing chickens and as Nym already mentions, she really hates night creatures.

NO RAIDING!

discus possibility of hunting for food.

+1. No raiding and discuss hunting, though considering we're musicians we probably wouldn't make very excellent hunters.

Move to the next town after buying a chicken. Again, we're musicians, so we won't make much money in the small villages and we'll thus not be able to buy chickens.

Tell Nym about our experiments, save our attempted telepathy.
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Re: You are a Vampire
« Reply #119 on: May 09, 2015, 05:45:20 pm »

If we find a cat with our heart sense attempt to interact with it (telepathy again, talking to it, giving it commands, general behavior observation, etc.) I want to figure out what's up with our cat powers.
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