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If we stick Velvet with a talisman, does she become one of those Chinese hopping vampires?

Doubtful
Unless it was a religious thing, she'd be a vampire with a talisman awkwardly stuck on her
If it was in fact a religious thing, it'd be like duct taping a crucifix to her and she would not be happy.
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That's an interesting question. My Western mind is struggling to answer. It'd be a Shinto talisman, but would a sealing talisman be a religious - you're right, that'd be mean - object? It'd be Kami powered, so I suppose so.
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That's an interesting question. My Western mind is struggling to answer. It'd be a Shinto talisman, but would a sealing talisman be a religious - you're right, that'd be mean - object? It'd be Kami powered, so I suppose so.


I know in SOME vampire lores of the modern sort, the weakness to holy symbols comes more from the vampire's own beliefs or the beliefs of the person wielding the symbol.
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I know in SOME vampire lores of the modern sort, the weakness to holy symbols comes more from the vampire's own beliefs or the beliefs of the person wielding the symbol.

Sure is a shame that's not Velvet's lot, she gets laid out by ALL the religious symbols. Shinto counts.

The ultimate power move to get her to leave Max alone, incidentally, is for him to pull an Uno reverse card and bite her. She'll be so confused she'll need to take a while to evaluate.
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Sure is a shame that's not Velvet's lot, she gets laid out by ALL the religious symbols. Shinto counts.

The ultimate power move to get her to leave Max alone, incidentally, is for him to pull an Uno reverse card and bite her. She'll be so confused she'll need to take a while to evaluate.


but if max bites velvet does velvet turn human

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Sure is a shame that's not Velvet's lot, she gets laid out by ALL the religious symbols. Shinto counts.

The ultimate power move to get her to leave Max alone, incidentally, is for him to pull an Uno reverse card and bite her. She'll be so confused she'll need to take a while to evaluate.


Well it’s a good thing Max views his mint condition Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 cover miss-print as a holy symbol.
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Max has a mint condition Amazing Spider-Man #1 cover misprint?
You got me, that might BE a holy symbol.

(For clarity, it's still attached to belief; it's 'that particular person' or 'that vampire' agnostic, rather it hinges on how much total belief and veneration is attached to certain things.)
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Resident list

Achieng Chima - Watumaji -Grad Student - 1-107.
Max - Human - Front Desk - 1-113.
Suzy Krause - Ghost - Deceased (Human) - Room 1-202.
Velvet Coventry - Vampire - Evening Bartender - Room 1-205.
Yumeiko - Kinko Seishin - Priestess - Room 1-407
Miyuki no Suzuyami - Freeloader - Room 1-407.
Nicholas Nightengale - Shapeshifter (local) - night guard - Room 1-501.
Iris Madril - Werewolf - no known employment - Room 2-105.
Elephtheria (Theria) Lasthena - Gorgon - Assistant Manager - Room 2-202.
Alphonse Dreary - Mothman - Former(?) Psychopomp. Room 2-502.
Qaymu - Dragon - Temporarily retired/part-time stage magician. Room 2-506.
Name Unknown - Shoggoth - Constructor - Room 3-112.
Khalid Alhazred - Human - Handler - Room 3-112.
Ryū - Red Dragon - No known occupation - Room 3-303.
Kai Nereus - Merman - Water Shaper. Room 3-305.
Varlam - Sirin - Janitor. Room 3-506.
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While the Shoggoth has no concept of name, Khalid calls it Horace.
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Sticking a talisman onto Velvet's forehead wouldn't turn her into a jiangshi. In most lore, jiangshi (chinese hopping vampires) are more closely associated with western "zombies" rather than actual vampires. And even if we do go the route of them just being a subspecies of vampires, it's kinda like... You can't turn a lion into a tiger by painting stripes on it, y'know? They're both big cats, but you can't really transform one into the other. :P

Unless you're like, some kind of horrible ancient eldritch nightmare creature, or a really powerful devil/demon/god. Thenn you could probably perform complete and permanenet body-transformation silliness.

... But this is all pretty much shruggable, since we - again - don't need to follow established (and often-times contradicting) real world lore anyway. ^^;
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Nah, the gorgon didn't just suddenly appear overnight. She was planned by our GM from back when the interest check was made.

But like others have said, if ya wanna play a gorgon, don't feel like you can't play one just 'cuz one's already here.

We got 2 dragons, 2 fish, 2 foxes, 2 humans... Lots of double-ups. ^^
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You can always try a variant of the thing. Yumeiko is specifically a golden spirit fox, while Miyuki is a Kyuubi, for example.
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My character's hook was that they walk around blindfolded because there's no other way, no tool that could prevent her from petrifying others.

So I'm going to make a centaur lol
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I'm going to try and make my Cs tonight, possibly as a WIP, because I'm on mobile
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My character's hook was that they walk around blindfolded because there's no other way, no tool that could prevent her from petrifying others.

So I'm going to make a centaur lol


Gorgons might walk around wearing special wrap-around fake sunglasses that contain a camera and lens-sized screens. Still, I could imagine what might happen if they encountered a Karen in the wild, ripping off their blindfold or sunglasses in the belief the gorgon is faking being blind only to get petrified.

And there may be two dragons, but one's red, possibly younger, and mine walks around small.
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So I tried this AI art generator thing out, and while it's not at all perfect, I...I never expected...



This is definitely not actually what I was picturing but I'm so shocked and mystified and just BLOWN AWAY by this AI art.

To edit, I gave it a simpler description first and got this one.


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So I tried this AI art generator thing out, and while it's not at all perfect, I...I never expected...



This is definitely not actually what I was picturing but I'm so shocked and mystified and just BLOWN AWAY by this AI art.

To edit, I gave it a simpler description first and got this one.



Love the mandatory AI writing gibberish 'descriptions'.
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