about VAMPIRES

***BE ADVISED THAT VAMPIRES SHOULD NOT EXCEED 2,000 YEARS. EXCEPTIONS HAVE AND CAN BE MADE, BUT IT MUST BE DISCUSSED WITH THE ADMIN. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!

Powers

• Vampires have heightened senses (sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing)
  
• Vampires have increased strength & speed
  
• Vampires can be overpowered by a strong enough human (ie. body builder)
  
• Vampires are self-healing
  
• Vampires are "born" with an additional, unique power -- which one specifically will be made known to you by the admin that accepts your character
  
• These powers are triggered by strong emotions: anger, joy, fear
  
• These powers take several years -- often centuries -- to be able to keep under some sort of control
  
• Being powerful is exhausting, vampires need to sleep from time to time in order to function on a daily basis.
  

Appearance

• Vampires are sexy beasts
  
• Vampires are vain creatures because they are so ridiculously good looking
  
• Vampires are not invisible in mirrors, but rather have a faded reflection
  
• Failure to feed regularly will make them hideously ugly
  
  - hair will turn a yellowish-grey color
  - teeth will rot and eventually fall out -- including fangs
  - eyes will turn red (generally this freaks humans out)
  - skin will wrinkle severely and start to match the color of their hair
  - they will smell like they're decomposing
  
  
• People of every race will avoid such grotesque creatures
  
• Vampires can -- and often do -- have scars
  

Feeding

• Vampires can consume human foods/drinks and often do for appearances
  
• Human blood is highly addictive -- they have an extreme lust for blood
  
• It is very difficult for a vampire to fast
  
• Not feeding = immense increase in physical power (almost invincible if they fast long enough)
  
• Not feeding = immense increase in ugliness + extreme vulnerability to sunlight & fire
  
• To return to sexy-ness, a vampire would have to drain at least four humans in a 24 hour period
  
• Such binging = lots of weight gain

Sex/Breeding

• Vampires are naturally seductive
  
• Vampires naturally have a rather high sex drive
  
• Female vampires (strangely enough) are more easily impregnated by werewolves; it is not possible for males and females to reproduce "normally"
  
• Pregnancies have a less than 1% success rate in vampires
  
• Male vampires can impregnate humans most successfully
  
• Said baby would be born human; 30% of the time that baby will be born with one of those unique powers
  
• The changing process (should that child become a vampire later) would be a very smooth transition with minimal pain
  
• Should they end up being turned into a werewolf, that changing process would be horrendously painful
  

Changing

• Conversion from mortality to immortality is incredibly painful.
  
• A human must have their blood almost entirely drained by a vampire and, with what little life they have left in them, they must drink some of the vampire's blood in return.
  
• The vampire blood will act quickly and course through the veins, destroying what human blood is left and shut down each organ; save for the heart, which beats very slowly and will continue to do so for eternity.
  
• This is VERY painful.
  
• Then they "die" after about a day.
  
• And then they wake up.
  
• This starts a horrid three day cycle of searing pain everywhere and an uncontrollable urge to kill.
  
• Newly "born" vampires should be kept in as secluded a place as possible
  
• It would be good idea to give them a human or two before they can even consider being put into a mildly social situation

Death (for real)

• The sun (usually) cannot kill a vampire.
  
• Most of the time, a vampire will experience slight discomfort via itching when in direct sunlight.
  
• Exception to this is if the vampire is starving itself.
  
• The less you eat, the more the sun hurts.
  
• Vampires are not at all affected by religious artifacts, holy water or garlic.
  
• They can go into the churches, though the rarely do. Being stuck on earth for eternity tends to give vampires a rather agnostic outlook.
  
• The bite of a werewolf is highly deadly.
  
• There is a cure, but comes from a rare plant that only grows in India.
  
• As the mixture of bodily fluids between the two races is highly dangerous, it is wise to stay away from one another. (Not that that should stop anyone.)
  
• Pure silver daggers or daggers covered in the blood or saliva of a werewolf can be fatal.
  
• The best course of action is to stab 'em through the heart, cut off their head, and burn the remains.
  
• Given enough time [and power], a vampire could feasibly make a full recovery from a beheading/stabbing through the heart.