QUOTE (toturi @ Jan 3 2009, 01:22 PM)
While I agree with the conclusion that by the rules, a nosferatu could only have Carrier (HMHVV II & III), I am curious where you are getting HMHVV Bruckner-Langer strain from.
Paranormal Animals of Europe.
By SR4 fluff, that would most likely be called Bruckner-Langer syndrome now (similar to the term Krieger strain being replaced by strain III and Krieger's syndrome in 4th ed), caused by a variant of the
Ghilani vrykolakiviridae, or HMHVV strain I. Based upon the nomenclature of nosferatu in PAoE, i'd suggest the taxon
Ghilani vrykolakivirus caecus.
BTW, i also agree with thew notion that the character could only carry strain II and III besides the strain that created him.
One could think about local variants of strain III, such as the ones responsible for creating sasabonsam or ghaki, but these would also be mutually exclusive.
So being completely Essence-drained by the character would be automatically lethal for a nonhuman, while a human would either die (unlikely unless Edge is burned) or turn into a nosferatu (strain I takes efect one minute after complete drain, so strain II and III would not have time to set on).
All (Meta)humans coming into contact with the character's body fluids without being drained completely would have to fight off strain III, unless they are humans or trolls.
These would have to roll against strain II first, as it takes effect quicker, then they'd have to defend themselves against strain III.
Most likely, all metahumans would receive the carrier qualities for all the unexpressed strains afterwards.
I'm not certain how to handle this when your character would come to close to a sasquatch, as they can only express strain II, though, but the character certainly deserve his street name with these two qualities.
Oh, and besides the carrier issue, it's a solid build, too.
@ The Jake : the rules for increasing attributes temporarily by spending Essence are in the critter section of the BBB IIRC, under the description of the Essence Drain power.