[OOC] The Blood Compact

[akje]

@akje

Fresh Fledgelings are pretty much at a Captain America level of physical strength and speed. Also, they can't be killed by bullets, unless you manage to completely destroy the head.

I still don't get why SOLDIER even uses guns....

But yeah, the answer is that they are incredibly dangerous. The upside is that they have a mind of their own, and probably don't like Void very much. So at least half of them are going to be attacking Void, the other half will be running.

They only really become a threat when they get hungry...

@thewizardguy

How about silver bullets and all that stuff? Whatever they use. I kinda assumed SOLDIER'd be equipped to mow down a small dozen of fledglings.

This is pretty important, since, even if we catch void. If even one of those children bite something the infection spreads.

[Grombus]

i'm gonna have fun trying to get my sword back :D

[thewizardguy]

@akje

Silver bullets would do nothing. Although they're probably using hollow-point rounds to maximize the damage. If you manage to destroy the brain, you kill them. Other than that, nothing will bother them.

Also, I always thought there was more to turning someone into a vampire than biting them. Like, they have to drink some of your blood as well, or something like that.

But all these fledgelings aren't going to be biting anyone. I mean, if you were suddenly attacked and turned, would you go around spreading vampirism? Especially with a group of soldiers shooting at you, you're going to be running like crazy. They'll lie low until they get hungry, maybe return to the locations that meant something to them in life.

Also, wouldn't slaughtering the Fledgelings be illegal? I mean, technically speaking, they haven't broken the Compact. I'd think there would be some moral compunction to slaughtering what are essentially innocent bystanders.

[thewizardguy]

I'm going to have the SOLDIER boss-people refuse and then attempt to murder Kami no Kage, stating that the Purge is far more dangerous even than the vampires or something like that. This mentality would also explain why Matt attacked the Purge on-sight originally. I also think it muddles the borders a bit from the Purge being pure-evil to maybe being not-pure-evil-but-still-pretty-bad.

Any objections? Just checking, cuz story consequences.

[The Grey Dust]

@akje

Silver bullets would do nothing. Although they're probably using hollow-point rounds to maximize the damage. If you manage to destroy the brain, you kill them. Other than that, nothing will bother them.

Also, I always thought there was more to turning someone into a vampire than biting them. Like, they have to drink some of your blood as well, or something like that.

But all these fledgelings aren't going to be biting anyone. I mean, if you were suddenly attacked and turned, would you go around spreading vampirism? Especially with a group of soldiers shooting at you, you're going to be running like crazy. They'll lie low until they get hungry, maybe return to the locations that meant something to them in life.

Also, wouldn't slaughtering the Fledgelings be illegal? I mean, technically speaking, they haven't broken the Compact. I'd think there would be some moral compunction to slaughtering what are essentially innocent bystanders.

@thewizardguy

I had always considered the same. Or at least some sort of gestation period before they are risen.

I played with the idea of MI6 calling up Bedivere again.
Bedivere answers the phone: "I am trying to get some sleep here. This better be worth it or else I swear..."
Then they tell him about the currently Plane Crisis.
Bedivere: "Blow it out of the sky, British Airways will get a check from the government to compensate for the plane. As for the humans aboard, they are not worth the ink we will sign the check with. Now Disturb me one more time, and I shall personally come down there and demonstrate my Ire."

[akje]

@thewizardguy
True, true. But these fledglings are made by Void.
They carry a whole deadly cocktail of death that they will spread all over the city and coutry side when they get away.
How will civil war stricken america fare under a dozen new plagues?
We're talking shoot on sight and burn the bodies type of situation.

I had the soldiers hesitate because they are in fact civilians, but finally shoot because martin put them in a tight spot and pressured them as panicked vampires ran in all directions.

[akje]

As for turning (or as the fancy vampires call it "the embrace"), As far as I can there haven't been many in game turnings so it's hard to tell.
But I think I figured it out:
Drink from a human > nothing happens
Give blood to a human > create a ghoul (human with some minor perks and under your control)
Drain a human, then return some of your own blood > create vampire.

Many vampires have some rituals surounding these things.
Powerful vampires have more uhmm... "trippy" effects on their fledglings.
Aside from the effect of them inheriting some of their ability. (the older the generation of vampire, the better)
Also, vampires are bound to their "sire" and would normally never harm their sire.
This bond can't be broken without at least a few dramatic story lines between the characters.
Or until the sire dismisses their child.

[thewizardguy]

@The Grey Dust

See, it turns out the Purge and Bedhivere CAN see eye-to-eye on some issues. They should form a blow-Void-out-of-the-sky club.

But it can't be blown up now without MASSIVE retcons.

@akje

Totally fine with the way you handled it, makes sense. They're walking health hazards. Although trying to explain that to the Court Martial afterwards might be a bit amusing.

Also, are you referencing Martin's alternate-timeline Hippy Drug Addict Blood Cult?

[The Grey Dust]

@The Grey Dust

See, it turns out the Purge and Bedhivere CAN see eye-to-eye on some issues. They should form a blow-Void-out-of-the-sky club.

But it can't be blown up now without MASSIVE retcons.

@thewizardguy

They have entirely different motivations.

Purge is here to eradicate the vampires.
Bedivere is here to keep the humans from agreeing with the Purge.

Hence if Void must be destroyed, he must be destroyed to keep the sheep from making too much noise and alert the shepherd.

[thewizardguy]

@The Grey Dust

I wasn't being serious.......

[Wraithblade6]

Yo.

[akje]

@thewizardguy
yup

[The Grey Dust]

@The Grey Dust

I wasn't being serious.......

@thewizardguy

I have that problem where I cannot seem to detect sarcasm/facetiousness
Hence I tend to take people rather seriously to the point of escalation.
Which, as you can imagine, gets me into some trouble in communications.

[Wraithblade6]

I'm going to have the SOLDIER boss-people refuse and then attempt to murder Kami no Kage, stating that the Purge is far more dangerous even than the vampires or something like that. This mentality would also explain why Matt attacked the Purge on-sight originally. I also think it muddles the borders a bit from the Purge being pure-evil to maybe being not-pure-evil-but-still-pretty-bad.

Any objections? Just checking, cuz story consequences.

@thewizardguy

No objections.

[akje]

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I have that problem where I cannot seem to detect sarcasm/facetiousness
Hence I tend to take people rather seriously to the point of escalation.
Which, as you can imagine, gets me into some trouble in communications.

@The Grey Dust

[Wraithblade6]

Ill post again today.

[The Grey Dust]

Hrm... what to post.... what to post....

Maybe a brief bit on instructions for Mithias?

[akje]

Sun has gone down at this point.
Bedevere can wake up and go trough his morning routine.
Would he send those instructions himself or does he have servants that do that?

[The Grey Dust]

Sun has gone down at this point.
Bedevere can wake up and go trough his morning routine.
Would he send those instructions himself or does he have servants that do that?

@akje

He's far too prim to do something as menial as that himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO7t7fRk4IU

[Shikaru]

I'll try to get a post up today, been sick and busy with other stuff.