[OOC] The Bloodletting - Victorian Era Monster RP - 2 Spots Open

[Truth]

The bow irritates me a bit....

[Quadrophenia]

Truth said
The bow irritates me a bit....

It isn't really practical in a world where guns exist in my opinion

[Major Ursa]

Mmmm...maybe switch it with a crossbow?

Quadrophenia said
It isn't really practical in a world where guns exist in my opinion

My lady uses silver based throwing/trap explosives...she don't have a ranged weapon.
:x
A bow would be better, in some circles.

[Truth]

A crossbow could work I guess....

[Eddie Swiss]

I don't see the issue with a bow. People still use them nowadays as a source of weaponry, even while hunting.

[Themerlinhawk]

Put a wooden arrow through a vampires heart. Just as good as a stake if you ask me. You don't really have that option with a gun, same goes for werewolves. Just swap the arrow head for a silver version. With a gun the bullet has to be low calibur or you run the risk of the silver being dispersed before impact. Conceivably the only thing I could see a bow being less effective on than a gun as far as the super natural are concerned is maybe a ghoul or a spirit and in the later case gun wins cause you can load rock salt into a shotgun shell. so by the look of it Bow 2 Gun 1. So im with Eddie I don't see an issue

[xAsunaWolfx]

the fk /.\ does the type of bow she uses REALLY matter?...

[Eddie Swiss]

Alright, so I'll probably toss the opening IC post in the next few hours then.

[Eddie Swiss]

xAsunaWolfx said
the fk /.\ does the type of bow she uses matter?...

Not for me, no. Keep the bow.

[Nobodyman123]

Im also voting in favor of the bow. It has style.

[xAsunaWolfx]

Ok thanks haha xD

[Major Ursa]

Themerlinhawk said
Put a wooden arrow through a vampires heart. Just as good as a stake if you ask me. You don't really have that option with a gun, same goes for werewolves. Just swap the arrow head for a silver version. With a gun the bullet has to be low calibur or you run the risk of the silver being dispersed before impact. Conceivably the only thing I could see a bow being less effective on than a gun as far as the super natural are concerned is maybe a ghoul or a spirit and in the later case gun wins cause you can load rock salt into a shotgun shell. so by the look of it Bow 2 Gun 1. So im with Eddie I don't see an issue

Okay, look. In actuality, any sort of weapon is actually usable on vampires in most lore, it's just that people usually attribute their religion into this, and thus it has to be 'holy silver' due to the metal being deemed 'pure'. Stabby stabby, shooty shooty works on them all, wood-gold-iron-stone, so long as you do eventually cut off the head and burn all of the $#!t afterwards. Heck, there are even an array of herbs that are thought to be effective on vampires.

A bow is fine, I just thought a crossbow is more stylized to this sort of RP.

[Themerlinhawk]

I know my vampires Buffy, Dracula, Thirty Days of Night, Salem's lot, Blade, Van Helsing, Vampire the Masquerade and Requiem, as well as dozens of other mythological appearances of vampires or vampire like creatures (asanbosam, mandurango, ect.) hell i've even read twilight (Not that those are really vampires), Hence my characters use of a shotgun. Get close enough and 12 guage will take a head right off. However, and this purely because Eddie pointed out he's drawing on Bram stoker's Dracula, wood to the heart typically works. Which you really can't fire from a gun XD
The silver was reference to werewolves typical weakness but we could go back and forth on werewolves for days too.

But in conclusion: Yes I absolutely agree stylistically I'd have gone with the crossbow too.

[Major Ursa]

*whistles*

[Major Ursa]

*looks around, embarrassed*

[Major Ursa]

Hrmmm...mmm...grrr...

[Major Ursa]

Themerlinhawk said
I know my vampires Buffy, Dracula, Thirty Days of Night, Salem's lot, Blade, Van Helsing, Vampire the Masquerade and Requiem, as well as dozens of other mythological appearances of vampires or vampire like creatures (asanbosam, mandurango, ect.) hell i've even read twilight (Not that those are really vampires), Hence my characters use of a shotgun. Get close enough and 12 guage will take a head right off. However, and this purely because Eddie pointed out he's drawing on Bram stoker's Dracula, wood to the heart typically works. Which you really can't fire from a gun XD The silver was reference to werewolves typical weakness but we could go back and forth on werewolves for days too. But in conclusion: Yes I absolutely agree stylistically I'd have gone with the crossbow too.

Vampires and werewolves were previously in the same category. In fact, some myths had dead werewolves (who were killed without destroying the head) becoming vampires the next night. Silver was always considered a catch all for both, as it wasn't just the material, as the 'pure' silver usually had to be blessed by a priest in order for it to be effective. Wolf's bane was not originally a poison, but a plant that attracted the werewolf...though the poisonous (even to humans) attribute of the plant probably got it listed as a poison to werewolves as well.
A lot of citation needed, so might as well just ignore that all. We go Stoker-style.

[Truth]

Reposts?

[Themerlinhawk]

Sounds good to me, although I always love hearing more info on various myths. But in the end I do believe it's Eddies call.

You're incredibly knowledgeable that's really cool it's been a while since I've met someone as informed as you. I'd have to say that my knowledge base largely lies in variations on the theme of the Vampire including and after Stoker's Dracula. His version of the vampire has always really spoken to me as far these things go. And laugh all you want but my favorite version of a werewolf actually comes from Jim Butchers Dresden File: Fool Moon. Infact my avatar is actually that particular book's cover. And for clarities sake its the Loup Garou Butcher presents in the novel since there are actually something like six different types of "werewolves" that appear in the book.

[Major Ursa]

Themerlinhawk said
Sounds good to me, although I always love hearing more info on various myths. But in the end I do believe it's Eddies call. You're incredibly knowledgeable that's really cool it's been a while since I've met someone as informed as you. I'd have to say that my knowledge base largely lies in variations on the theme of the Vampire including and after Stoker's Dracula. His version of the vampire has always really spoken to me as far these things go. And laugh all you want but my favorite version of a werewolf actually comes from Jim Butchers Dresden File: Fool Moon. Infact my avatar is actually that particular book's cover. And for clarities sake its the Loup Garou Butcher presents in the novel since there are actually something like six different types of "werewolves" that appear in the book.

I've said it before (in a different thread, in a different place, different times), my favorite vampires are the original old lore ones...you know, the sucky ones that are pretty much OCD. Can't cross salt barriers like ghosts, have to count all the rice grains in a bowl, avoids religious symbols/symbols make them nervous, can't cross running water, have to be invited into a house, etc...well, that's actually a bunch of different lore stacked on top of each other.
>.>
My favorite vampires are...Malkavians, from Vampire: The Masquerade. The OCD vampire is my ideal interest vampire, and Malkavians are pretty much as close as it gets for me.
(Also, I think either Stoker's or another book's vampires...they can travel under the sun, but they lose their powers? I can't quite remember.)