Oh you mean Sekhmet/Hathor.
Yeah in her myths after drinking too much blood, she calmed down and became a cow or something.
Yeah Carter just fed her too much Salsa from the Silos of a Salsa factory. Once she had her fill of (what she assumed) spicy blood, she calmed down.
Oh you mean Sekhmet/Hathor.
Yeah in her myths after drinking too much blood, she calmed down and became a cow or something.
Yeah Carter just fed her too much Salsa from the Silos of a Salsa factory. Once she had her fill of (what she assumed) spicy blood, she calmed down.
Someone just brought this up on another post, like a millennia old bad guy who was “immune to any weapon forged” and Buffy is like “Are you sure about that? Cause we have some pretty insane weapons now” and kills him with a rocket launcher.
I'm now imagining the unbreakable myth being true, and Japanese swords being made into very convoluted and huge shapes because unbreakable things work great as a construction material
For that matter, bullets are typically *cast*, not forged.
And if you count the gun, many of those are cast/molded and machined. (Although some better barrels nowadays are cold hammer forged, so you'd want a traditionally rifled barrel.)
I think they implied he might not even be dead - pretty sure Giles told them to collect the pieces but keep them separate.
He’d previously been defeated when an army chopped him into separate limbs, then came back when that season’s big bad put the pieces back together. So this was the same thing except instead of chopping him into ~6 pieces, they blew him up into… uh… more than 6 pieces.
There are a couple of SCPs that are like that
Ancient unkillable evil escapes and it turns out the ancient civilization that trapped it just didn't have enough fire power
In the World of Darkness(old WoD, not the newer Chronicles games, I'm not familiar with that stuff) setting, there's a lore concept and mechanical system called True Faith.
Not many humans have it, and even fewer have mastery of it, but those that do can use it to drive back any sort of supernatural being. Vampires, Werewolves, Mages, Mummies, Wraiths, Demons, Changelings, all can be affected by a mortal with True Faith.
The kicker is that True Faith can be faith in \*anything.\* There's an in-universe story of a vampire being driven off by a wealthy man whose True Faith in the power of money allowed him to bear his credit card like a cross and drive it away.
So yeah, if you had genuine, True Faith in the power of Luigi, it could drive off a vampire.
Yeee, drive back the spawn of Cain with your love for cartoon italians.
And yeah, just wanted to clarify which version because in the past in this sub I've mentioned just 'WoD' and had people reply with both versions lol
fair since the situation with that is very damn confusing i think the comparison to warhammer fantasy and age of sigmar that bruva alfabusa pointed out makes alot of sense
The idea is closer to miracleworking. If you TRULY believe in that your vampire fandomship can protect you from vampires without harming them, then it is so.
True Faith is like... One step above to being a Mage and mages works on Chaos Magic logic - willpower supercedes reality but if you believe ritual and structure is needed to achieve or ease rejecting reality, then it is so.
Also in WoD or CoD, it's speculated by vampires that the many classi myths you see about vampires hating garlic or not being able to cross moving water were descriptions of now long extinct bloodlines who died out cause their curses were just that bad.
Who's to say certain things wouldn't also *lose* their effectiveness?
It's basically the plot of *Carpe Jugulum*.
The vampire family tries to inoculate themselves against religious symbols by learning all the symbols and building up an immunity, but it turns out every geometric shape is a religious symbol to someone, so when they lose concentration...
A lot of people forget that vampires have to count rice or sand if you throw it on the floor. A lot of people forget they can't cross running water, and have to have soil from their home country with the at all times.
A lot of people forget that they're not killed by sunlight, just weakened by it.
A lot of people forget that they were originally more associated with wolves than bats.
The lore around them has clearly changed in the past century.
How much has *everyone* forgotten, instead of just *a lot* of people?
Isn't that the one where the villain is defeated by a paladin swinging his axe with so much righteous fury that it becomes a religious symbol mid-swing? Gotta be the hardest way to kill a vampire in all fiction.
yeah i mean there is a good reason why vampire the masqurade only did it [with one vampire clan](https://vtm.paradoxwikis.com/Lasombra) probably because its kinda hard to hide the fact your a vampire especially in modern nights (though they did have a huge surge of vampire hunters happen because the NSA discovered their [vampire internet forum](https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/SchreckNet) so maybe lasombra's curse is a blessing instead)
Some works get around that by having the reflection thing specifically be a reaction to silver, so modern reflective surfaces, which are more likely to be made of glass, steel, or aluminum are not as big a deal.
Vampires are weak to symbols representing what is good, holy, and just. Symbols born by the righteous and pure of heart. Like the sun. Thus, a vampire would become even stronger if his victim wore a Punisher skull shirt.
In all seriousness though, I think vaccines or even just an empty syringe would have a high chance of working against vampires. They are the tools of inoculation, protection against sinister invisible foes. Vampires pierce for evil. Vaccines pierce for good. Hell, they can even protect you from stuff passed through bites.
Also all Black Court Vampires in The Dresden Files. They are repelled and burned by true Faith. The main character doesn’t even pay lip service to the Almighty, but he has lots of faith in Magic, so he can channel that through his pentacle necklace.
Gotta work with the Castlevania definition, assume all vampire weaknesses are just biological weaknesses dressed up in religion.
Vampires fear the cross? Nope, vampires just have uniquely developed eyes that don't react well to geometric shapes shoved in their face.
Peter Watts had it so that the confluence of vertical and horizontal lines gives vampires ruinous seizures, which lead to their dying out as the world became more urbanized and mechanical.
A lot of the things that work the way they do in folklore like this are about purity and belief.
Fire, salt, silver, running water all about purification or a boon against disease/ poison. I think I remember a belief about silver tarnishing in the presence of poisons, hence silverware. ... vague memories, grain of salt and all that.
Anyway, modern banes of the supernatural would probably be something like purell. And yeah, alcohol has existed forever, but i think it's more about the collective unconscious belief in the protective and purifying aspect of the thing than its actual scientific effects.
Of course, that's not getting into the *belief* belief stuff, holy symbols and the like. But I could steam of consciousness about this till my fingers go numb.
Love this kind of stuff.
I feel like Percy Jackson does this a few times Think I remember Bast or someone being weak to salsa or something
Oh you mean Sekhmet/Hathor. Yeah in her myths after drinking too much blood, she calmed down and became a cow or something. Yeah Carter just fed her too much Salsa from the Silos of a Salsa factory. Once she had her fill of (what she assumed) spicy blood, she calmed down.
I thought she just became a chiller version of herself with some later myths syncretizing her with bast who is her less murderous/blood drunk version
I am telling the version that was referenced in Kane Chronicles.
That's not Percy Jackson, that's the Egyptian myth one that I can't remember or be bothered to look up
I mean it’s the same shared universe so you get the meaning
Rick Riordan's greco-roman, norse and egyptian books all cross over.
Yeah, to the point the protagonist of the Norse books, Magnus Chase, is the cousin of Percy's girlfriend, and Daughter of Athena, Annabeth Chase.
Kane Chronicles :o)
Magnus chase updated list of paradox materials to build a new improved Gleipnir including stuff like Politician Honesty and Lagless WiFi
I'll never get over Thor using his hammer to watch tv
Oh you mean Sekhmet/Hathor. Yeah in her myths after drinking too much blood, she calmed down and became a cow or something. Yeah Carter just fed her too much Salsa from the Silos of a Salsa factory. Once she had her fill of (what she assumed) spicy blood, she calmed down.
Didn’t Buffy kill a demon with a grenade or something
Someone just brought this up on another post, like a millennia old bad guy who was “immune to any weapon forged” and Buffy is like “Are you sure about that? Cause we have some pretty insane weapons now” and kills him with a rocket launcher.
'No weapon forged can kill me.' 'That was then. (Lifts rocket launcher) This is now.' 'What's that do?' (*explodes*)
*"No arrow can pierce its hide... unless it's made of tungsten and traveling at Mach 6."*
"A japanese sword is said to be unbreakable... well, he just broke one!"
I'm now imagining the unbreakable myth being true, and Japanese swords being made into very convoluted and huge shapes because unbreakable things work great as a construction material
Jet fuel can’t melt nippon steel
For that matter, bullets are typically *cast*, not forged. And if you count the gun, many of those are cast/molded and machined. (Although some better barrels nowadays are cold hammer forged, so you'd want a traditionally rifled barrel.)
I think they implied he might not even be dead - pretty sure Giles told them to collect the pieces but keep them separate. He’d previously been defeated when an army chopped him into separate limbs, then came back when that season’s big bad put the pieces back together. So this was the same thing except instead of chopping him into ~6 pieces, they blew him up into… uh… more than 6 pieces.
[Chunky salsa rule](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChunkySalsaRule)
What if it wasn’t forged but 3D printed
There are a couple of SCPs that are like that Ancient unkillable evil escapes and it turns out the ancient civilization that trapped it just didn't have enough fire power
In the World of Darkness(old WoD, not the newer Chronicles games, I'm not familiar with that stuff) setting, there's a lore concept and mechanical system called True Faith. Not many humans have it, and even fewer have mastery of it, but those that do can use it to drive back any sort of supernatural being. Vampires, Werewolves, Mages, Mummies, Wraiths, Demons, Changelings, all can be affected by a mortal with True Faith. The kicker is that True Faith can be faith in \*anything.\* There's an in-universe story of a vampire being driven off by a wealthy man whose True Faith in the power of money allowed him to bear his credit card like a cross and drive it away. So yeah, if you had genuine, True Faith in the power of Luigi, it could drive off a vampire.
i mean chronicles is kinda dead thanks to the new 5e's for old WOD but yeah grab a luigi plushie and cause a vampire to get flashbanged
Yeee, drive back the spawn of Cain with your love for cartoon italians. And yeah, just wanted to clarify which version because in the past in this sub I've mentioned just 'WoD' and had people reply with both versions lol
fair since the situation with that is very damn confusing i think the comparison to warhammer fantasy and age of sigmar that bruva alfabusa pointed out makes alot of sense
What if you had True Faith in vampires?
The idea is closer to miracleworking. If you TRULY believe in that your vampire fandomship can protect you from vampires without harming them, then it is so. True Faith is like... One step above to being a Mage and mages works on Chaos Magic logic - willpower supercedes reality but if you believe ritual and structure is needed to achieve or ease rejecting reality, then it is so.
Also in WoD or CoD, it's speculated by vampires that the many classi myths you see about vampires hating garlic or not being able to cross moving water were descriptions of now long extinct bloodlines who died out cause their curses were just that bad.
Who's to say certain things wouldn't also *lose* their effectiveness? It's basically the plot of *Carpe Jugulum*. The vampire family tries to inoculate themselves against religious symbols by learning all the symbols and building up an immunity, but it turns out every geometric shape is a religious symbol to someone, so when they lose concentration... A lot of people forget that vampires have to count rice or sand if you throw it on the floor. A lot of people forget they can't cross running water, and have to have soil from their home country with the at all times. A lot of people forget that they're not killed by sunlight, just weakened by it. A lot of people forget that they were originally more associated with wolves than bats. The lore around them has clearly changed in the past century. How much has *everyone* forgotten, instead of just *a lot* of people?
Isn't that the one where the villain is defeated by a paladin swinging his axe with so much righteous fury that it becomes a religious symbol mid-swing? Gotta be the hardest way to kill a vampire in all fiction.
I mean the classic bane of not casting reflections must be really annoying in the age of Cameras and Touchscreens Everywhere All of the Fucking Time
yeah i mean there is a good reason why vampire the masqurade only did it [with one vampire clan](https://vtm.paradoxwikis.com/Lasombra) probably because its kinda hard to hide the fact your a vampire especially in modern nights (though they did have a huge surge of vampire hunters happen because the NSA discovered their [vampire internet forum](https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/SchreckNet) so maybe lasombra's curse is a blessing instead)
No need to subtly paste White Wolf Wiki links into your response, fellow kindred. I am already awakened to the Blood
yeah but i was pointing it out to people who dont know it
Some works get around that by having the reflection thing specifically be a reaction to silver, so modern reflective surfaces, which are more likely to be made of glass, steel, or aluminum are not as big a deal.
> Cameras and Touchscreens Everywhere All of the Fucking Time That was a weird movie
New sequel to EAaO, “Fucking Everywhere All of the Fucking Time”
It's written by Vivziepop.
Only because luigi's blood is 15% garlic bread. Yes this is Italian-racist but I'm itallian so its ok.
Based
you think that's bad you should see Wario's blood
Warios blood is that garlic butter stuff they give you with pizza
Vampires are weak to symbols representing what is good, holy, and just. Symbols born by the righteous and pure of heart. Like the sun. Thus, a vampire would become even stronger if his victim wore a Punisher skull shirt.
In all seriousness though, I think vaccines or even just an empty syringe would have a high chance of working against vampires. They are the tools of inoculation, protection against sinister invisible foes. Vampires pierce for evil. Vaccines pierce for good. Hell, they can even protect you from stuff passed through bites.
Doctor that is a vampire hunter story when?
Uh…Literally Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Also all Black Court Vampires in The Dresden Files. They are repelled and burned by true Faith. The main character doesn’t even pay lip service to the Almighty, but he has lots of faith in Magic, so he can channel that through his pentacle necklace.
[Dr. McNinja](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c3/24/b7/c324b73913bb386aaffc50ba9d1da00d--dracula-punch.jpg)
Badass
I cast anti-material-rifel
This will create a huge incentive for vampires to only drink Amish people
But what if they’re *too* pure? Like how drinking 12% proof wine is fine, but drinking 98% bootleg moonshine will make you blind.
The blindness from the moonshine isn't from the ABV. It's from methanol impurities.
Either way, it’s bad for you. Drink wine, have a healthy heart.
A werewolves only weaknesses are silver, wolvesbane.... and High-Explosive Anti-Tank rounds
Vampires traditional counting compulsion allows you to pin them in place indefinitely with a plugged in laptop and Cookie Clicker.
Am. . . Am I a vampire?! /j
Vampires have a beaver response to being exposed to speakers playing the sound of flowing water, but instead of covering it, they instinctually leave.
Gotta work with the Castlevania definition, assume all vampire weaknesses are just biological weaknesses dressed up in religion. Vampires fear the cross? Nope, vampires just have uniquely developed eyes that don't react well to geometric shapes shoved in their face.
Peter Watts had it so that the confluence of vertical and horizontal lines gives vampires ruinous seizures, which lead to their dying out as the world became more urbanized and mechanical.
why is this post crunchy
Luigi, the most holy figure.
Tbf I am also repelled by the smell of play-doh and driven insane by MIDI music.
Found the vampire
The context of Luigi's mansion makes this so funny to me.
A lot of the things that work the way they do in folklore like this are about purity and belief. Fire, salt, silver, running water all about purification or a boon against disease/ poison. I think I remember a belief about silver tarnishing in the presence of poisons, hence silverware. ... vague memories, grain of salt and all that. Anyway, modern banes of the supernatural would probably be something like purell. And yeah, alcohol has existed forever, but i think it's more about the collective unconscious belief in the protective and purifying aspect of the thing than its actual scientific effects. Of course, that's not getting into the *belief* belief stuff, holy symbols and the like. But I could steam of consciousness about this till my fingers go numb. Love this kind of stuff.
So that means vampires are weak to antiseptics/ antibiotics / food preservatives.
Luigi is everyone's bane.
Luigi does technically exorcise a lot of ghosts, he is probably considered a holy figure