The D-Man Checks Back: Not so much a lecture as a core-dump of personal knowledge/belief and ideas. Didn't figure you'd take to all of it. I'm just hoping to avoid yet another Buffy The Vampire Slayer uni' here--only this time written by you, whom I know can do better--wherein the vamps pretty much wander around blissfully unaware that they are being hunted & slaughtered, and even the vamps who -are- aware of the threat take no credible measures to protect themselves or their lairs, or to utilize modern technology and/or weaponry to deal with The Slayer. Cripes, if a comman gang-banger can get his hands on a semi-automatic or even a fully automatic weapon to use against the police... why can't the vampires do so to use against The Slayer?!
Also don't care (personally) to see another vamp' uni' where vamps walk around in the daylight, eat solid food, and are essentially just humans with fangs & a certain fondness for blood.
Also not wanting to see a comic book uni' where the good guys (your Undying) are sacred cows who can never make a mistake or be killed. Okay, it kinda kills the whole comic book if Spiderman or Wolverine gets decapitated or blown to smitherines, but it also gets tedious for the readers & fans when a main character is immune to harm and basically unstoppable... even when up against a credible opponent who should be able to defeat them.
How do you kill something that regenerates & cannot die?
You destroy all tissue that could logically regenerate, usually with fire or acid. (Duh...) There is also the option of sealing the un-killable thing inside something it can't escape from while it is recovering and then storing it someplace secure. If you can't kill it, fine... just remove it from the game board & keep it on ice. Personally, I always liked the idea of an oil drum welded shut, then surrounded by quick-drying cement... and then dumping the resulting cement block over the side of a boat into a really deep part of the ocean. "Let's see you get out of & come back from this one, Dracula."
No human minions? Why not? Why risk your own kind when there are hundreds of highly expendable lesser creatures to be had who will risk life & limb for you in exchange for enough cash? ...Or at least wake you from your slumber if your lair is intruded upon? Human minions also make for tasty snacks if worst comes to worst; kinda like emergency rations. If vamps can't operate in the daylight... are they just too (Buffy The Vapmire Slayer) stupid to hire somebody who can if they have this ability?
As a possible sideline idea: Maybe, if you choose to go with the parasite idea, the vampire parasite could be of alien origin? Perhaps the vampire parasite carries the vampire virus. The virus can be passed to another in sex to produce unintended off-spring (the Undying), but the parasite can't be transmitted in this way. This could explain the difference between Vampire & Undying.
Also don't care (personally) to see another vamp' uni' where vamps walk around in the daylight, eat solid food, and are essentially just humans with fangs & a certain fondness for blood.
Also not wanting to see a comic book uni' where the good guys (your Undying) are sacred cows who can never make a mistake or be killed. Okay, it kinda kills the whole comic book if Spiderman or Wolverine gets decapitated or blown to smitherines, but it also gets tedious for the readers & fans when a main character is immune to harm and basically unstoppable... even when up against a credible opponent who should be able to defeat them.
How do you kill something that regenerates & cannot die?
You destroy all tissue that could logically regenerate, usually with fire or acid. (Duh...) There is also the option of sealing the un-killable thing inside something it can't escape from while it is recovering and then storing it someplace secure. If you can't kill it, fine... just remove it from the game board & keep it on ice. Personally, I always liked the idea of an oil drum welded shut, then surrounded by quick-drying cement... and then dumping the resulting cement block over the side of a boat into a really deep part of the ocean. "Let's see you get out of & come back from this one, Dracula."
No human minions?
Why not? Why risk your own kind when there are hundreds of highly expendable lesser creatures to be had who will risk life & limb for you in exchange for enough cash? ...Or at least wake you from your slumber if your lair is intruded upon? Human minions also make for tasty snacks if worst comes to worst; kinda like emergency rations. If vamps can't operate in the daylight... are they just too (Buffy The Vapmire Slayer) stupid to hire somebody who can if they have this ability?
As a possible sideline idea: Maybe, if you choose to go with the parasite idea, the vampire parasite could be of alien origin? Perhaps the vampire parasite carries the vampire virus. The virus can be passed to another in sex to produce unintended off-spring (the Undying), but the parasite can't be transmitted in this way. This could explain the difference between Vampire & Undying.
Just trying to be helpful...
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