Goonhub
01-15-2017, 03:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2017, 03:35 AM by locusts. Edited 1 time in total.)
Vampire siring is interesting but I'm also extremely wary of anything that turns others into full antagonists, out of concern that people might intentionally help and feed the vampire so that they turn them into one themselves. Even with a high blood cost, given that in this overhaul vampires can regenerate blood points it may cause issues.
The short term hypnosis I actually really like, as seduction is a major part of vampire myth. I didn't include it because of the sexual connotations, but a temporary mindslave effect might be good. There might be some difficulty there in the "how much you've drunk" thing. It would have to include a resistance to low blood pressure, and they should return to normal as soon as they naturally regenerate their blood. This provides immediate benefits to the vampire, the target does what the vampire wants, the target doesn't die which prevents bodies piling up and the vamp being discovered and the target can be later targeted again for even more blood. It of course has the big drawback of the target ratting out they were bitten as soon as the spell wears off, and it comes with a fun subtle discovery method: someone's wandering around, acting perfectly fine but my prodocs say that their blood pressure is critically hypotensive! What's going on?
Transformation as a distraction is another thing I like, but I would suggest that instead of cockroaches, the vampire summons two bats, a homunculus that looks exactly like themselves, and the vampire transforms into a bat. To someone on the outside, it simply looks like the vampire has summoned some bats.
Finally, I would like to suggest that if the vampire wins the round end music changes to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLe2lDIdkw
The short term hypnosis I actually really like, as seduction is a major part of vampire myth. I didn't include it because of the sexual connotations, but a temporary mindslave effect might be good. There might be some difficulty there in the "how much you've drunk" thing. It would have to include a resistance to low blood pressure, and they should return to normal as soon as they naturally regenerate their blood. This provides immediate benefits to the vampire, the target does what the vampire wants, the target doesn't die which prevents bodies piling up and the vamp being discovered and the target can be later targeted again for even more blood. It of course has the big drawback of the target ratting out they were bitten as soon as the spell wears off, and it comes with a fun subtle discovery method: someone's wandering around, acting perfectly fine but my prodocs say that their blood pressure is critically hypotensive! What's going on?
Transformation as a distraction is another thing I like, but I would suggest that instead of cockroaches, the vampire summons two bats, a homunculus that looks exactly like themselves, and the vampire transforms into a bat. To someone on the outside, it simply looks like the vampire has summoned some bats.
Finally, I would like to suggest that if the vampire wins the round end music changes to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLe2lDIdkw