only wooden stakes kill vampires?

[lunatio_gordin]

Sorta like that <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />

 

[chebby]

Klingon disruptors, C4, anti protons and nukes are all fine and dandy but using them on vamps results in what is called an IVT (improper vampire termination) which causes them to be reborn (usually as your neighbor 's cat.)<br /><br />Traditional stakes, and (prolonged) sunshine exposure has been proven to permanently ban them from the Human Realm. I will test gasoline additives and tanning creams and will get back to you later.<br /><br />Achy Breaky heart? Now that's just vampire cruelty! I'm calling PEKV! (people for ethical killing of vampires) <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[lunatio_gordin]

Agh, the PEKV! sometimes i wish they were on the island when we nuked it...<br />Um, i mean...

 

[avaunt]

The weapon that Nessus the Piersons' Puppeteer gives to "Speaker to Animals" wouldn't do a Whampire any good.<br /><br />A modified Tnucnipian "Digging tool" it had the original beam-that-suppresses-the-charge-on-the-protons of the target backed up with a SECOND beam, one that suppresses the charge on the NEUTRON at the same time.<br />There was a small distance between the beams' focal point on target.<br /><br />"You must be careful when using this "Tool" that you do not use both beams at once. A charge will flow between the focal points",says Nessus to "Speaker".<br /><br />"Speaker" grins slightly, and clutches the "tool" possesively. "Certainly".<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br />

 

[lunatio_gordin]

*still grumbling about PEKV*<br />Can't call them Vampires anymore... "Transylvanian Americans".... Pfft.

 

[lunatio_gordin]

Actually, they're not so fond of boy scouts... <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />

 

[cbxsix]

I love the 'digging tool'. Anything that makes elementary particles repulse from each other from a distance is definitley... useful.<br />But the Tnuctipun digging tool is like a cork gun compared with the 'soft weapon' they found inside a stasis box. Specifically the mode of the weapon where it fires a "direct matter-to-energy conversion ray". <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <br />Game over, man.

 

[spacefire]

A portable minigun should take ANYTHING out! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

Yeah the Conversion tool was pretty good, , ,EXCEPT that it was ITSELF sentient , and extremely high grade AI, and of the "Enemy of my enemy is still MY enemy" school of thought.<br /><br />And once it figured out that the creatures that it was built to serve no longer existed, converted ITSELF, from my reading of the story. It happened "off screen" though, so there is the germ* of a story there.<br /><br />-- Conversion weapon (CW) convinces the Kzinti renegades to carry it outside the ship ( Traitors Claw? ) to test the weapon. As soon as it is in a position to act, fires itself into the ground, calibrating its "amount" of conversion to produce a shock wave sufficently robust as to destroy the kzin holding it, while not destroying itself.<br />Remember, it was a sort of multi-purpose tool/ spy/infiltration weapon for a Tnuctnipian commando, controlled by a high level AI. It was semi-shape shifting.<br /><br />This suggests that it was able to subvert computors, and fabricate things, or at least control fabricating machines it subverts.<br /><br />CM hitches a ride off planet by attaching itself to Shaffers' ship, subverting and controling the ships systems so it doesn't get detected. Heads to a place of concealment or a place it can gain control of resources.<br /><br />Rebuilds the Tnuctip from memory!.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />We already know OUR Genome ( see: * ), and the HISTORY and culture of our race will some be storable on a disc or sonething of the sort, all CM needs after that, is the DIRECTION from its programming.<br /><br />And the Tnuctip were famously long thinking, warlike, pragmatic critters, ne?.<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />* as in GERM PLASM. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[lunatio_gordin]

Guns take all the fun out of it. Besides, it takes like 13 bullets to take them out!

 

[lunatio_gordin]

For the record, this thread hasn't had a note of seriousness in it from the start. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />

 

[vogon13]

Sorry this took so long, my 17th century files are a disaster.<br /><br />The preferred method for dispatching a vampire depends on its ethnic origin. You must determine this before you attempt to kill it.<br /><br />country / method<br /><br />Albania / stake thru heart<br /><br />Bavaria / decapitate with ax<br /><br />Crete / boil head in vinegar<br /><br />Ireland / pile stones on grave<br /><br />Poland / bury with face down<br /><br />Serbia / sever toes, nail the neck<br /><br />Saxony / lemon in the mouth<br /><br />Spain / no method known<br /><br />So there you are, please be careful. If I find any more info (Eskimo vampires, for instance) will post post haste!<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

WOW.<br /><br />Interesting that the myth is so widespread.<br /><br />Paralell evolution of legend?. Or is it that on horrific occasion in many countries, someone that has just been in a coma, has clawed their way free of their dirt nap, and very sick, semi comatose, tried to go home and get their loved ones to help?.<br /><br />Maybe it is just our nasty little human/upstart ape minds all work the same &%$#@!ed up way, so people invent the same nasty stories.

 

[contracommando]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p> “only wooden stakes kill vampires?”<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />What about a moon pie, will that work? <br /><br />………it’s 4:54 in the morning, things are getting a little weird. <br />

 

[beartooth]

What about a moon pie, will that work? <br /><br /><br />Chocolate or Vanilla?

 

[tomnackid]

In the book Dracula was killed by a bowie knife to the heart (wielded by a cowboy from Texas no less!!! Really, look it up!)<br /><br />Most vampire killing involved piercing and or removing the heart. Removing the head is also commonly called for. For good measure many authorities also recommend burying the headless/heartless body at a crossroads with garlic stuffed in the mouth.<br /><br />Happy hunting.

 

[lunatio_gordin]

That's only logical. If his head is in a different place, he can't possibly get up and find it!