Post by rvm45 on Dec 11, 2019 2:00:02 GMT -6
Friends,
Anyone like Vampire TV Shows?
I Loved "Forever Knight" "Buffy" "Angel" and "Moonlighting." "Blood Ties" wasn't bad.
One of the fun parts is figuring out the rules, when watching the first few episodes.
One day, I got to pondering. The vampires in "Forever Knight" could fly. The were powerfully affected by garlic. They were sexless. They didn't have to be invited into a home.
The vampires on "Buffy" and "Angel" couldn't fly. They had zero problems with garlic. They couldn't come into a dwelling unless you invited them. On the other hand, they bred—or at least had sex—like rabbits.
So, I got to wondering, what if the two kinds of vampires existed side by side? What would they think about each other? Would there be any to say, "Damn, I wish I'd joined that group instead. They're notably physically stronger AND they can fly."
On the other hands, how many folks would give up sex to double their strength and to be able to fly?
Well, anyway, I played with the idea of a world that had several distinct varieties of vampires co-existing. Why not, there are several species of big cats?
I had color-coded mine.
Oranges are the weakest. They are only souped-up humans—about 3x as strong, on a pound-for-pound basis. Unhappy in sunlight, but not really damaged by it. Their condition is hereditary. They eat normal food, but they need blood from a human every three or four months. They heal maybe four or five times as fast as a human, but they can be killed fairly easily—for a vampire. Their lifespan is 400-500 years if they get to feed regularly.
Next are reds and greens. They are both about 5x or 6x as strong as the strongest humans—pound-for-pound. They can live indefinitely. They take a LOT of cutting or shooting to put them down and they heal maybe 50x as fast as a human.
Reds have red blood. They generally kill their prey and they're very combative. Think of Star Trek's Klingons.
Greens have so much bilirubin in their blood, that it makes it green. Vampires get a special power-up from eating each other's blood, but the greens' blood is so nasty that none of the other vampires can stand it. Greens generally keep a stable of partners and practice a sort of feeding that is euphoric for both parties. They dislike fighting.
Most folks think that the Greens are a mutant variation of reds. Greens are generally despised—especially by reds. One or two minutes of sunlight will kill most greens or reds.
Whites are maybe 10x as strong as a human. 10-seconds of sunlight will do them in. They're called whites, because they are both extremely good looking and very cruel and evil—i.e. Satan appears as an angel of light.
Finally there are the golds. Golds are about 12x as strong as a human.
They have a rather weird property that I only heard of once in reference to "Russian Vampires." Russian vampires appear at midnight and they disappear for twelve hours starting at high noon. They pop just like a soap bubble. Apparently there are several tales that end up with a vampire who'd lost track of how much time that he had left to work—and he just popped and vanished like a soap bubble at precisely noon.
A Gold vampire disappears about 15-minutes after sunrise and they don't reappear until about 15-minutes before sunset. Generally, they would reappear where they disappeared. If they were on a ship at sea though, they wouldn't reappear to fall in the ocean—they'd reappear on the ship—even if it had moved. Also, if someone was lying in wait for them, they could move their re-entry site up to a mile or so.
Now, imagine the logistics of being a gold vampire trying to protect a close human friend who is in danger, when you don't even exist in daytime…
O, since the green's blood is poisonous it is a tricky maneuver to get enough of it into someone to turn them without killing them. About one-in-three dies during the cross-over. The tried-and-true method is to give a partner small doses over a period of time…
Only, our hero pissed off a green, who knocked him unconscious and injected him with one of those small diabetic syringes full of green blood, just to see what effect that it will have. It was a very small amount, but it went straight into the bloodstream without going through the stomach…
And he discovers that he is different. For one thing, sunlight doesn't bother him—well, he finds it unpleasant. He hates the idea of "mutual ecstasy through feeding." It seems perverted to him. He also doesn't like the idea of killing innocent people—though he is far from being a crusading do-gooder. Also, since the greens have a reputation for being rather timid and others have looked down on him, he has developed a hair-trigger temper worse than a red's.
I only wrote the first two or three chapters—many years ago—and lost interest. Anyway, he wrecks a chicken-house (a brothel for pedophiles) Preying on all of the customers and the operators—and picking up some nice weapons and a double fistful of cash in the process in the first few chapter. He is trying to find a place to park the orphans he rescued and he meets a red who is a Sunday school teacher and runs a small orphanage…
And he starts to question if all vampires are evil.
Anyway, willc453 got me to thinking about it in a reply to my "Universal Sunlight Phobia" post.
Feel free to use the idea of multiple species of Vampires in one story.
…..RVM45
Anyone like Vampire TV Shows?
I Loved "Forever Knight" "Buffy" "Angel" and "Moonlighting." "Blood Ties" wasn't bad.
One of the fun parts is figuring out the rules, when watching the first few episodes.
One day, I got to pondering. The vampires in "Forever Knight" could fly. The were powerfully affected by garlic. They were sexless. They didn't have to be invited into a home.
The vampires on "Buffy" and "Angel" couldn't fly. They had zero problems with garlic. They couldn't come into a dwelling unless you invited them. On the other hand, they bred—or at least had sex—like rabbits.
So, I got to wondering, what if the two kinds of vampires existed side by side? What would they think about each other? Would there be any to say, "Damn, I wish I'd joined that group instead. They're notably physically stronger AND they can fly."
On the other hands, how many folks would give up sex to double their strength and to be able to fly?
Well, anyway, I played with the idea of a world that had several distinct varieties of vampires co-existing. Why not, there are several species of big cats?
I had color-coded mine.
Oranges are the weakest. They are only souped-up humans—about 3x as strong, on a pound-for-pound basis. Unhappy in sunlight, but not really damaged by it. Their condition is hereditary. They eat normal food, but they need blood from a human every three or four months. They heal maybe four or five times as fast as a human, but they can be killed fairly easily—for a vampire. Their lifespan is 400-500 years if they get to feed regularly.
Next are reds and greens. They are both about 5x or 6x as strong as the strongest humans—pound-for-pound. They can live indefinitely. They take a LOT of cutting or shooting to put them down and they heal maybe 50x as fast as a human.
Reds have red blood. They generally kill their prey and they're very combative. Think of Star Trek's Klingons.
Greens have so much bilirubin in their blood, that it makes it green. Vampires get a special power-up from eating each other's blood, but the greens' blood is so nasty that none of the other vampires can stand it. Greens generally keep a stable of partners and practice a sort of feeding that is euphoric for both parties. They dislike fighting.
Most folks think that the Greens are a mutant variation of reds. Greens are generally despised—especially by reds. One or two minutes of sunlight will kill most greens or reds.
Whites are maybe 10x as strong as a human. 10-seconds of sunlight will do them in. They're called whites, because they are both extremely good looking and very cruel and evil—i.e. Satan appears as an angel of light.
Finally there are the golds. Golds are about 12x as strong as a human.
They have a rather weird property that I only heard of once in reference to "Russian Vampires." Russian vampires appear at midnight and they disappear for twelve hours starting at high noon. They pop just like a soap bubble. Apparently there are several tales that end up with a vampire who'd lost track of how much time that he had left to work—and he just popped and vanished like a soap bubble at precisely noon.
A Gold vampire disappears about 15-minutes after sunrise and they don't reappear until about 15-minutes before sunset. Generally, they would reappear where they disappeared. If they were on a ship at sea though, they wouldn't reappear to fall in the ocean—they'd reappear on the ship—even if it had moved. Also, if someone was lying in wait for them, they could move their re-entry site up to a mile or so.
Now, imagine the logistics of being a gold vampire trying to protect a close human friend who is in danger, when you don't even exist in daytime…
O, since the green's blood is poisonous it is a tricky maneuver to get enough of it into someone to turn them without killing them. About one-in-three dies during the cross-over. The tried-and-true method is to give a partner small doses over a period of time…
Only, our hero pissed off a green, who knocked him unconscious and injected him with one of those small diabetic syringes full of green blood, just to see what effect that it will have. It was a very small amount, but it went straight into the bloodstream without going through the stomach…
And he discovers that he is different. For one thing, sunlight doesn't bother him—well, he finds it unpleasant. He hates the idea of "mutual ecstasy through feeding." It seems perverted to him. He also doesn't like the idea of killing innocent people—though he is far from being a crusading do-gooder. Also, since the greens have a reputation for being rather timid and others have looked down on him, he has developed a hair-trigger temper worse than a red's.
I only wrote the first two or three chapters—many years ago—and lost interest. Anyway, he wrecks a chicken-house (a brothel for pedophiles) Preying on all of the customers and the operators—and picking up some nice weapons and a double fistful of cash in the process in the first few chapter. He is trying to find a place to park the orphans he rescued and he meets a red who is a Sunday school teacher and runs a small orphanage…
And he starts to question if all vampires are evil.
Anyway, willc453 got me to thinking about it in a reply to my "Universal Sunlight Phobia" post.
Feel free to use the idea of multiple species of Vampires in one story.
…..RVM45
