Albannar Discussion Thread

[Dragonsbane]

IHMN.........why do vampire bats drink blood? They make their own blood too, don't they?

Why do leeches and mosquitoes drink blood?

Vamps just regenerate faster when they drink blood, consider it a perk.

[Dante]

Damn, I feel the need to bust a few cans of biology kickass all over this thread...

[IHateMakingNames]

Dante, please do. I just guessed (I would respond to the animals drinking blood thing, but some bio lessons first might help).

Also, DB, vampires need blood for healing, and because they can't make their own blood. If a vampire could make their own blood, then they would always have blood to go to the wounds, which would then make them near invincible. Do you really want that?

[Dragonsbane]

we're thinking of different things. I'm saying their blood, though infected with the disease of Vampirism (since you said injecting it into a victim causes the transformation), is otherwise much like human blood, meaning they can recover from poisons in their bloodstream which don't kill them, so you were incorrect in claiming that getting garlic in their blood would require them to drain it all out. They regenerate much more quickly after drinking someone else's blood, and are temporarily strengthened by it (this can also heal them after they are struck with a garlic-stained weapon). Otherwise, they regenerate slowly. Also, blood is practically the only nutrition (food or drink) they need, but without it they "starve" to death.

That help?

[edit] we've toned down the vampire a bit, both in strengths and weaknesses......I'm not convinced on shapeshifting now, though, is it really necessary?

Another thing, what effect would drinking another vampire's blood have on a vampire?

[Dante]

All right, hatfuckas, listen up! Dis is Dante's Vampiric Parabiology 101, so sits the fuckz downz and shutz da fuckz up!

Originally Posted by Dragonzbanez

IHMN.........why do vampire bats drink blood? They make their own blood too, don't they?

Is to supplement nutrients dey don't get from PLANTS! Vamp bats eat fruit too, just dat they suck blood as a past time of sorts!

Why do leeches and mosquitoes drink blood?

Because blood is predigested nutrients for leeches and they don't need to evolve digestive systems, yo! And mosquitoes (female mosquitoes, mind) drink blood so that they can produce their eggs (don't ask me why, dat's waaaay above my pay grade). See! Mosquitoes dey are herbivorous, as in dey suck plant sap to live. Males suck plant sap to lvie, and so do females, but dey be needing a dose of blood ocne every 25 generations to remain fertile, dig?

All right now.

Assumign that vampirism is a supernatural disease of some sort, We can say that vampirism causes extreme allergic reactions to sunlight and fire and possibly garlic, but no inherent positive energy vulnerability unless God (IE Kamifuko) sez so. Side effects of the vampirism disease include the ability to boost physical attributes and regenerate damage by "burning" blood (actually a metaphysical process involving the cannibalization of some spiritual aspect of blood). Blood is burned slowly every day, because the disease propagates itself by this release of spiritual energy (or whatever) If a vampire sucks not, then the disease will consume him, and he will assuredly die as his life force is consumed by the parasitic organism in his veins.


So wat does dis all mean?

1: Vampires are allergic to etcetra thingies.

2: Vamps need not be allergic to positive energy (or negative energy)

3: Vamps are fundamentally human or whatever barring their special conditions. IE you can still excise his lungs and he will still die, but if he had enough blood to burn he couldr egenerate the organs...of course, if you have your lungs excised it means you're pretty much screwed, because whoever's doing the excising can do it voer and over again.

4: Blood is damned essential to vampires. They will literally die without it.

5: I am bored.

Endeth the lesson. Now reflect upon your sins, supplicants, and learn!

[Forever Zero]

Thank you Professor Dante, that is the most intelligent thing posted so far in the Great Vampire Debate!

[IHateMakingNames]

So, basically, Dante just said what I've been saying, but with scienic and odd spelling choices, and better, and smarter.

But, these vampires aren't weak against fire. And I don't know what you mean by positive energy (Or negetive energy).

Though, I would rather say the disease shuts down what ever organ produces blood (Just to keep with the basic vampire thing of no blood being made) instead of using it really fast.

Edit - Also, since Kami never mentioned it, I assumed these vampires didn't have to breath... She didn't seem to put a lot of thought into the vampires, so I figured they were basically the undead vampires, but not undead.

[Royalspork]

do we have to take exams now???

are we geting to play the rp albannar or annoy DB some more?

[Dragonsbane]

I am humbled........thank you, Dante.

he seemed to be saying what I was trying to express, only with a few corrections concerning the disease instead of undeath query, and with a higher degree of eloquence. Whatever he said, I agree with.

I guess that settles it, except for the two questions I posted in my last edit, which are...

1. the effect of a vampire drinking another vampire's blood
2. shapeshifting

[edit] Kami doesn't know much about them, she was relying on my judgement.........feel free to call me a dumbass and laugh at me for anything I told her that was incorrect.

[IHateMakingNames]

1. That would be a form of an attack, since it is killing the vampire by removing there blood.

2. Bats for flight, wolves for forest, panthars for jungles, other mammals to fit into the enviroment that the vampire is in.