[OOC] The Blood Compact

[Wraithblade6]

uhhhh...

[thewizardguy]

If your Aura of Ruin is capable of breaking apart biological materials, including flesh and organs, then it should also destroy bacteria. As such, food would cease to rot. Disease would also cease to function, as it relies on Bacteria, Virusses, or Rogue Cells.

A poison is a little harder. It's effectively a complex chemical with specific effects on the human anatomy. Breaking it apart would be much like breaking apart water, or sugar. Unless Hale causes materials to seperate into their base materials, his Aura of Ruin shouldn't have any significant effect on poisons.

This raises a number of questions. Can Hale kill people with his mere presence?

[Wraithblade6]

I think by aura of ruin, he means it promotes decay and rot and would accelerate bacteria, etc.but probably also rust, electrical shorts, oxidation...

[akje]

The main theme of the aura is supposed to be ruin and entropy.
It hastens destruction and decomposition caused by wear over time.
Metal rusts, stone erodes, plants rot, circuits short out.

I guess it speeds up the effects of time. And it doesn't break down molecules unless they would break down by themselves over time.
That would imply diseases have a faster and more aggressive effect as long as there is a host body to suffer it.
Faster incubation time, increase in severity of symptoms.
Disease outside a suitable host would however starve and become inert quicker.

Biological poisons decay, metal based poisons don't.

On living creatures this power would have a similar decaying effect, aka aging.
However, I made a specific downside for just that reason: the power is psionic based, to be resisted through willpower.
A living creature can resist the effect for some time.
Creatures that get more powerful over time might even find they grow faster from large amounts of exposure?

So his presence isn't lethal to people, though their smoking habit is even less healthy, and wearing a belt of grenades might be a bad idea.

[Wraithblade6]

I can buy that.

[Wraithblade6]

I should do weekly, "this is what happened this week" posts for this rp. Maybe i will do one once i get home tonight.

[thewizardguy]

@akje

Many biological poisons are capable of remaining intact for many many years. Furthermore, plants do not tend to rot while they are still alive. So I'm worried about the sheer speed at which this aura functions. If you could cause vines to rot in moments, then logically speaking, metal you touch will rust in seconds. Clothes will fall apart in a matter of minutes, unless they're made of gold or something equally resistant to the touch of time.

[Shikaru]

@thewizardguy One thing about the Holy vapour, only skin exposed is part of Magnus' hands and his head. So, it's not really effecting him much at all. Trench coat blocks water don'tcha know.

[thewizardguy]

@Shikaru
I would imagine that Holy Water in this universe functions as it's popularly portrayed: acid for vamps. As such, Holy Vapour is the vamp equivelant of Mustard Gas. It'll burn your face off. The main reason Kami is counting on the gas helping is because of the pain it would inflict.

[Shikaru]

@thewizardguy Main thing it's doing currently if anything would be pissing him off and activating his rage mode switch, in which Kami doesn't want to happen but doesn't expect :p.

[thewizardguy]

@Shikaru
Again, Mustard Gas to the face. Also, I'm waiting for him to give a speech or something. Breathing in a whole bunch of acidic gas? That's going to end badly.

[The Grey Dust]

@Shikaru
Again, Mustard Gas to the face. Also, I'm waiting for him to give a speech or something. Breathing in a whole bunch of acidic gas? That's going to end badly.

@thewizardguy

That would be along the lines of Bedivere.
You'd probably be able to catch him monologue at an inappropriate time.

[thewizardguy]

@The Grey Dust

Considering Bedhivere's speed, my current contingency plan for killing him is basically to dump enough Holy Vapour onto him to get him to burn up. If at all possible, I'd dump him into a lake of Holy Water.

[Wraithblade6]

*munches popcorn* Ooo this is good. Kami got hit with MY bike! I love that bike. *Munch-munch*

[The Grey Dust]

@The Grey Dust

Considering Bedhivere's speed, my current contingency plan for killing him is basically to dump enough Holy Vapour onto him to get him to burn up. If at all possible, I'd dump him into a lake of Holy Water.

@thewizardguy

Be careful what you Mist for.
You may get what you Vapour.

[Wraithblade6]

<Snipped quote by thewizardguy>

Be careful what you Mist for.
You may get what you Vapour.

@The Grey Dust

Gyahah!!!! *headdesk SO many times*

[thewizardguy]

.... Did Void just declare immunity to Holy Vapour AND immunity to a set of 4 flamethrowers being fired at his face? Because..... that's just a little bit overpowered. What DOES hurt him, is my question.

[Wraithblade6]

Yeah, i agree with wiz. Not well played.

https://youtu.be/7dmE-emrrAs

[akje]

@thewizardguy
I guess plants shouldn't rot with his mere touch. Though it could wilt at accelerated rate.

We could say that since the plants in Mo's domain grow at visible rate that means they also wilt easily when suddenly exposed to a more rapid
Or we could say that scene was exaggerated.

Either way, the speed of the ability is enough to heavily affect Hale's daily routine, everything he owns is either cheap or extra simple in design.

@Grombus
Being able to 'resist' holy vapor can be done in 3 ways:
1: Endure the pain and out-regenerate the burn. Magnus and a few other old-bloods have demonstrated this before.
Downsides are that you still feel the burning fully and that this spends energy. No matter how big of a boss you are, you'll generally want to avoid holy water.
2: wear a hazmat suit.
3: Predate religion. This holy water is christian made (I think), which is the lore most vampires her are based on. Lady Mo for example is spiritually tied to old world shamanism. Logically I would assume she'd be hurt by the shamanistic equivalent of holy water instead. Smoke of certain herbs, blood of a blessed creature, this would require in game research.

I actually had a hunter in one of the other incarnations of the blood compact that had a pagan holy symbol instead (golden sun), he might have been able to hurt her. We'll never know cause he's not in this game.

Now to resist fire, which can be done in the following way:
None.
All vampires are extremely vulnerable to heat and fire, to the point the sun gives them serious discomfort.
Vampires are dry and flammable.
Now If you have a specific power that helps manipulate or resist fire sure. Mithias can do that to some extent, but it's a specific power listed in his CS.

I would even argue Void especially is endangered by fire, as many diseases don't survive an environment over 40 degrees Celsius. (This is why we get fevers, to combat disease.)

Oh and burned skin is dry and thus absorbs water at faster rate! happens the air is full of water, water that burns!

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tl;dr: If you take a flamethrower to the face, you are: blinded, burned, severely if not mortally wounded, sterilized and more susceptible to holy vapor.

No matter how much of a boss you are, as a vampire: fire bad!

PS: what does the combination of flamethrowers and holy vapor do in general anyways? I mean let's assume the Purge designed their equipment to work in unison, so the flame throwing device is waterproof and stuff.
Would the fire boil the vapor in the air? What would that do?

[akje]

On an unrelated note: werewolves aren't hurt by holy water right?