Would you become a Vampire?

mountainyman

As it is Halloween.
Would you become a vampire and gain the immortality and superpowers; on the flip side you lose your humanity and go around murdering people every couple of days.

The thought of immortality is one that scares me incredibly.

You would never be able to fall in love with anyone as you will have to watch them grow old and die. Every single time. You watch them get worse over the years while your face never changes.

Basq

mountainyman wrote:

..on the flip side you lose your humanity and go around murdering people every couple of days..

Nothing would change for me in that respect!

Nevyn

I would but not until I had lost a few pounds

The_Minister

I'd be an Ann Rice vampire, but not a Buffy vampire.

EDIT: You don't need to lose weight (if I remember you from the boards beers correctly)

OctavarIan

Who says that vampires have to kill their victims? If I was a vampire I'd drink enough from each person to keep them alive, and maybe drink from a few people if I was that hungry. I really don't see the point in killing the victim. Hell, if anything, keeping them alive means you could use them again if they tasted good. The immortality would become a problem after maybe a few hundred years, you'd have to be comfortable being a loner for that to work. 'Superpowers' would be nice to have though.

That being said, I'd still not become one.

[edit] I'm not gonna vote though, cos I don't entirely agree with the second option.

Rb

Deleted User wrote:

The thought of immortality is one that scares me incredibly.

What about the thought of death though?
Life isn't all that long for us mortals, at least with immortality you'd get used to people growing old and dying but you'd get to live on to love again, and again.
You'd also get to witness the future, see what its like 1000 years from now and you'd most likely get to witness the end of the world eventually.

I'm undecided at the moment.

monkeyfudge

I want to be a Luke Goss vampire.

Thaedydal

Thaedydal wrote:

I would but not until I had lost a few pounds

Generally most vampires seem to be thin so you wouldn't need to worry much then.

Basq

monkeyfudge wrote:

I want to be a Luke Goss vampire.

Pre or post Bros?

pbsuxok1znja4r

I'd only be the kind of vampire that goes 'round killing other vampires and hunting witches and stuff. And I could do that as a human anyway. Vampires suck.

Dragan

scouser.tommy wrote:

Vampires suck.

Legend!

Now then, i would deffo become a Vampire, once you fully knew the rules. There are a lot of schools of thought on Vampires etc....for me the Anne Rice one is one of the best, if only because it's classy.

But yeah, i would happily be a Vampire.

Joseph

Nah, don't see the point

Especially since I watched Dracula last night, I wouldn't want people chasing me trying to kill me

Karl Hungus

mountainyman wrote:

on the flip side you lose your humanity and go around murdering people every couple of days.

Huh? Lose your humanity? Says who? And again, who says you'd have to murder people?

Karl Hungus

Karl Hungus wrote:

Huh? Lose your humanity? Says who? And again, who says you'd have to murder people?

if you're going to be immortal you might as well do something to pass the time..

Dragan

Karl Hungus wrote:

Huh? Lose your humanity? Says who? And again, who says you'd have to murder people?

In all fairness it more of a food chain issue. Does the lion worry about the gazelle when it's eating it? Not really.

For me the whole joy of Vampires is the assumption that it's a step forward physcially as they become stronger, faster , tougher to kill, and a step towards the predatory as well. Thats the joy of a Vampire, until Luis came along and it was suddenly cool to be conflicted!

Anyway, i have my own ideas of Vampirism which has lead to me trying to write a pretty decent book....it may never be published but i'm enjoying the experience.

Zillah

I find it kind of ironic that lots of people are saying "Yes, but only the Anne Rice kind" considering that the core message we get from Anne Rice's vampires is that its a torturous existence that you would not wish upon your worst enemy.

I'd certainly consider it though. I'd really want to know all the rules first, and one requirement is that I'd not have to kill people every few days, thats the kind of thing that leaves you an absolutely inhuman nightmare after just a few months. I can't fathom the mentality that would appear after years/decades.

Binomate

If you had to go around feeding on peoples blood, and you were immortal, you'd be the biggest form of transport for the HIV. Soon everyone would become HIV positive and everyone would die off and you'd starve.

chamlis

White Wolf's World of Darkness campaign is the best imagining of the Vampire methos IMO. It combines elements of all the popular vampire myths and legends and puts them as different "clans". So you'd have the ugly Nosferatu type dudes, and the beautiful and haunting Anne Rice types.

EDIT: As regards people talking about knowing the "Rules", there are alot of set rules. Very handy.
The premise is that there is an organisation called the Camarilla, who work to preserve "The Masquerade" ie, hiding the fact of Vampires away from the general human populace. Anyone who breaks the Masquerade is dealth with severly.
"We live in the times of cellphone cameras and nuclear weapons. We can't afford f***ups"

abetarrush

I'd be the next Blade. Feed off the wxnkers in Dublin [the many that are there]

0ubliette

Ann rice vampires are such pantywastes. They look like they get up in the morning (or night) and style thier hair with some vidal sassoon and then spend a few hours adjusting thier make up. Basically theyre a bunch of gayers.
REAL vampires are like the vampires from the lost boys..now THATS some badass vampire'ing.

Faith

Yes. Yes I would. It seems like a lot of fun. And I enjoy sleeping the day away as it is.

monkeyfudge

0ubliette wrote:

Ann rice vampires are such pantywastes. They look like they get up in the morning (or night) and style thier hair with some vidal sassoon and then spend a few hours adjusting thier make up.

All without being able to use a mirror properly as well.

Feral Mutant

Only if I could get blood from somewhere like a butchers so I wouldn't have to or want to kill people.

mountainyman

You never hear about Vampires being broke.

Tazz T

Sod that. You wouldn't be able to go on a holiday in the sun.

Don1

Deleted User wrote:

The thought of immortality is one that scares me incredibly.

You would never be able to fall in love with anyone as you will have to watch them grow old and die. Every single time. You watch them get worse over the years while your face never changes.

Easy solution, just go out with sexy vamps! :rolleyes:

Sleepy

Hell yeah.

Lust4Life

Only if I could hang out with The Lost Boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dyr

hmmm..given its halloween and ive been playing vampire TM: bloodlines it'd have to be yes...hell even being a nosferatu could be fun

Bodhidharma

I think a lot of people are looking at vampires and getting confused about the message that is being sent out. Yes you get to be immortal, but it just means your a miserable, selfish twat for ever. It'd be boring after about twenty years.
Jesus, its bad enough going to the same nightclubs every week!
This kind of reminds me of "Gangsta's" infatuation with Scarface. They see the guy come from the streets and get it all. Yes he does, but he is demented and probably suicidal at the end. You'd think since every homeboy owns a copy of it one might actually see the point of the film. Or maybe they just turn it off with 30 mins left.

CerebralCortex

I'd love to be immortal. I wouldn't have to be involved in the meaningless rat race that is life.

Froot

The definitive vampire has to be Gary Oldman from Bram Stokers Dracula.

F*ck those gimps the rest of you speak of.

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I think immortality would be interesting. I have to say it would be better living in the centuries past rather than the potential future. I mean the world could end in 2007 becausde of some dick with a nuke... as opposed to the 11th-20th century where you could manipulate governments, embezzle billions, slaughter armies and fun stuff like that.

Also I'm assuming you would be able to make other vampires...

So just find a total minter, sexx0r her up and you have a vampire woman for the rest of eternity

Archeron

I'm the great great grand nephew of Dr Van Helsing and I'm gonna hunt you fiends down and jam pointy sticks in you til you cry like 2 year olds and then explode in a miasma of blood and ancient coffin dust leaving naught behind but the faintest idea of your earthly existence and the shadow of your screams as you get dragged to Hell for an eternity of torment which will make you realize that there is no such thing as immortality and even if there was, it is but the blink of eye in comparison to Hells idea of eternity.
Mwahahahaha.

So there.

Froot

Archeron wrote:

I'm the great great grand nephew of Dr Van Helsing and I'm gonna hunt you fiends down and jam pointy sticks in you til you cry like 2 year olds and then explode in a miasma of blood and ancient coffin dust leaving naught behind but the faintest idea of your earthly existence and the shadow of your screams as you get dragged to Hell for an eternity of torment which will make you realize that there is no such thing as immortality and even if there was, it is but the blink of eye in comparison to Hells idea of eternity.
Mwahahahaha.

So there.

I will be a vampire with evil lasers!!

Pew pew pew!!1111

mountainyman

Tazz T wrote:

Sod that. You wouldn't be able to go on a holiday in the sun.

You wouldn't be able to afford it.
Vampires are a bunch of scroungers to be honest.

MM

pbsuxok1znja4r

Don1 wrote:

Easy solution, just go out with sexy vamps! :rolleyes:

Touché!

And about the killing people...on second thought, there's no shortage of people to be found that I wouldn't actually feel a little justified in draining the blood from TBH.

But yeah no sunlight would be lame. Night time blows in comparison with daytime.

Dyr

Bodhidharma wrote:

I think a lot of people are looking at vampires and getting confused about the message that is being sent out. Yes you get to be immortal, but it just means your a miserable, selfish twat for ever. It'd be boring after about twenty years.
Jesus, its bad enough going to the same nightclubs every week!

not at all, if mother theresa was a vampire she'd still be doing good and would continue on doing so for eternity, okay she'd be drinking blood now and then but its all swings and roundabouts really

chamlis

Bambi wrote:

hmmm..given its halloween and ive been playing vampire TM: bloodlines it'd have to be yes...hell even being a nosferatu could be fun

Vampire TM: Bloodline ftw \o/

Tar.Aldarion

Roleplaying it is better, good game though.

Having roleplayed as a Ventrue, I would definitely be a vampire.

Dyr

chamlis wrote:

Vampire TM: Bloodline ftw \o/

indeed *headbangs*

Nightwish

Hell yeah. Vampires are sexy

daiixi

Would love to be a vampire but I can't give up the sun.

Zillah

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Having roleplayed as a Ventrue, I would definitely be a vampire.

Having played as a NWoD Daeva, I must concur

Zillah

Binomate wrote:

If you had to go around feeding on peoples blood, and you were immortal, you'd be the biggest form of transport for the HIV. Soon everyone would become HIV positive and everyone would die off and you'd starve.

1 - I doubt the virus could survive long inside a non-living body.
2 - How would you pass it on? Biting wouldn't do it.

Sean7

**** yeah. Who wouldn't want to be a vampire? As the lost boys tagline put it so well "Sleep all day, Party all night. Never grow old, Never die. It's fun to be a vampire"

mr_angry

Zillah wrote:

Having played as a NWoD Daeva, I must concur

Having played as a Mekhet... yeah, f*** it, I still would. Immortality, being a monster, and crushing your enemies over and over again... win.

Being immortal would be boring. No thanks.

Ruu_Old

bluewolf wrote:

Being immortal would be boring. No thanks.

Agreed, yawning galore.

Zillah

mr_angry wrote:

Having played as a Mekhet...

*shudders*

We had a Mekhet in our group. I suppose there's a slithering joy to it all...

chamlis

Whisht! Ya crazy Malkavians......