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[Stormdrake]

As Dracula is often called the "Son of the Dragon" and there is a dragon running around in that part of the world that was released from a jail has anyone played with that plot hook? A horror tainted dragon that feeds off of essence and can shape shift would make one heck of a creature of the night.

[HunterHerne]

As Dracula is often called the "Son of the Dragon" and there is a dragon running around in that part of the world that was released from a jail has anyone played with that plot hook? A horror tainted dragon that feeds off of essence and can shape shift would make one heck of a creature of the night.

That it would. Even scarier, is the idea that if it in any way inspired the dracula myth (and modern Vampires as a side effect of that), is that it would have more political/monetary power then the other dragons, since it would have been awake for the down-cycle...

Like combining IE's and GD's into one super powered, horrific being, and throwing Horror taint on top.

[ravensmuse]

This is probably appropriate in some way.

[Daylen]

I like it.

[Wounded Ronin]

This is probably appropriate in some way.

http://youtu.be/T4EV3Bhxe7M

[Neraph]

I've already made a Nosferatu build that I refer to as the Blood Lord. Combine him with Bloodmourne from my Ally Spirit thread and you've got what you want. The Blood Lord was the culmination of the ally spirit/inhabitation synergy I discovered, and was going to get immortalization in concept in the magic book that Ancient History stopped writing (he had a new metamagic for NPCs only called Ascention that did the same thing but used Possession instead).

[Snow_Fox]

Thinking this over I would say the son of the dragon was not the servant of an evil dragon, but possibly an evil person who studied under a dragon or, considering what manipulative sob's they can be, wasan experiment-let's see what happens to that culture if i take a promising member and twist his little heart..."

[Daylen]

Thinking this over I would say the son of the dragon was not the servant of an evil dragon, but possibly an evil person who studied under a dragon or, considering what manipulative sob's they can be, wasan experiment-let's see what happens to that culture if i take a promising member and twist his little heart..."

Or perhaps a drake.

[Neraph]

Count Dracula was supposedly descended from Atilla the Hun and inspired by Vlad III the Impaler. The title-name "Dracula" comes from Vlad's father's rank in the Order of the Dragon.

[HunterHerne]

Count Dracula was supposedly descended from Atilla the Hun and inspired by Vlad III the Impaler. The title-name "Dracula" comes from Vlad's father's rank in the Order of the Dragon.

While all very true, what is being proposed is an alternate history, to use for some "horror"-genre run in SR. All in good fun.

[Neraph]

How about a guy who is claiming the name of Dracula while the actual Vlad was simply a disgusting vanilla human? After all, the name is sometimes the most important part of the intimidation (so Dread Pirate Robers has taught us...).

[HunterHerne]

How about a guy who is claiming the name of Dracula while the actual Vlad was simply a disgusting vanilla human? After all, the name is sometimes the most important part of the intimidation (so Dread Pirate Robers has taught us...).

This is true. There could be many ways for it to play out. He could be pretending to be the count, claiming to have knowledge and power far above what he actually has. Or, he could treat it like a title, part of an underground Vampire culture, the (a) street/low society version of the Ordo. It could be anything.

[Neraph]

I'm just resistant to the idea of the "actual" Dracula being some dragonborn (Skyrim!) super-vampire-ish blood mage thing. I'm actually starting to get tired of all the "spike baby" stuff that SR has done. Let the vanilla humans have some remarkably nasty things that they did themselves without it all being a spike-this-or-that.

[Wounded Ronin]

Hey, back in 2nd Ed, could a vampire eat your Essence and take it for himself? Because wouldn't that count as an insta-kill against someone with 1 point of Essence or less?

[HunterHerne]

Hey, back in 2nd Ed, could a vampire eat your Essence and take it for himself? Because wouldn't that count as an insta-kill against someone with 1 point of Essence or less?

It does in SR4(A). Personally, I don't know about SR2.

On the topic of Spike Babies, I both agree, and disagree. It's nice to have the option of using spike babies as a reason some things happen, but if you blame everything on them, then mundane Homo sapien sapien becomes kind of worthless.

[Erik Baird]

Hey, back in 2nd Ed, could a vampire eat your Essence and take it for himself? Because wouldn't that count as an insta-kill against someone with 1 point of Essence or less?

Yep to both. Essence drain in 2E wasn't temporary for vampires then either, and the description in the Critters section specifically mentions killing through essence drain. Under the attributes description, the book states that "Characters can never have an Essence less than 0. If they do, they die." Note that this was before Cybertechnology introduced cyberzombies.

[Neraph]

Yep to both. Essence drain in 2E wasn't temporary for vampires then either, and the description in the Critters section specifically mentions killing through essence drain. Under the attributes description, the book states that "Characters can never have an Essence less than 0. If they do, they die." Note that this was before Cybertechnology introduced cyberzombies.

Technically cyberzombies are unliving.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Technically cyberzombies are unliving.

Technically they are not. They are kept alive through dark magic. They are Still living, but only just.

[Erik Baird]

Technically they are not. They are kept alive through dark magic. They are Still living, but only just.

That's how I read it too. Cyberzombies haven't actually died, but they are kept a hair's breadth away through magic and IMS.

[HunterHerne]

Project: Dracula 3000.
An attempt at creating a vampire (or otherwise infected) cyberzombie, with hopes that the essence drain power can be utilized to offset the psychological problems common with cyberzombies.

[Snow_Fox]

As i understood cybermancy- the bosy is dead but the spirit is tricked into not knowing it.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

As i understood cybermancy- the bosy is dead but the spirit is tricked into not knowing it.

If the body is dead, how does it develop rampant cancer? Dead cells do not become cancerous.

[Snow_Fox]

a degree of decay, the regulating systems are checked out , resulting in a loss of that control.
My dad RL had MS and in his case it affected his regulartory systems. Blood pressure and body temp would vary widely and skin cancer came back after being cancer free for 15 years and not being out in the sun much.

[Wakshaani]

On matters vampirellical, I do still have my 320 challenge Vampire sitting around here.

Corporate Secretary who got goaded by her friends into going out and living a little, met a hot guy, threw caution to the wind ... and wound up with HMHV.

And that isn't covered by her health insurance.

Oops!

So, fired after her sick days while transforming, kicked out of her corporate minimalist apartment, account cleaned out from health care costs, the poor thing has no choice but to turn to the shadows, where she's *woefully* underprepared. Good thing she has all those vampire abilities to pull her out of the fire!

(She was written up on a dare, to show that 320 points has a LOT more versitility than expected.)

[Saint Hallow]

Wasn't Dracula covered in 1 of the vampire SR novels involving Serrin? Or was it the Terminus Experiment with the stripper turned runner & the vampire who hunted other vampires?