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Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:15 am

Peebrain

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Thanatos wrote:
Yes, the funny thing is that all "Psi Vamps" fit into the same stereotype as in personality. Its almost like, that type of people like being "Psi Vamps" and not vice versa.


You win 10 cool points for using your head. Congratulations!

~Sean
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Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:30 am

Lightbringer

Joined: 29 Jan 2006
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So basically, you're saying it's psychological, like I said a couple pages back?

Where are my cool points? Razz
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Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:41 pm

Malou

Joined: 06 Feb 2006
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99% of all people claiming to be a vampire usually just need a healthy dose of attention and eye-opening. Ofcourse you can stereotype those people.
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Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:52 pm

Thanatos

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
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Maybe its there plee for attention that manifests as a "need for energy" in there mind. Kind of like manifested denial.
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Posted on Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:23 pm

WhiteRaven

Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 343

"I forget what the disease is but it causes your skin to get legions and burns in sunlight fairly quickly and can be relieved by drinking small amounts of blood. "

it's called porphyria
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Posted on Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:48 pm

Malou

Joined: 06 Feb 2006
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List of symptoms of Porphyria: The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Porphyria includes those listed below.

? Urine color changes
? Darkened urine
? Nerve complication symptoms
o Chest pain
o Abdominal pain
o Muscle cramps
o Muscle weakness
o Hallucinations
o Seizures
o Depression
o Anxiety
o Paranoia
o High blood pressure
o Rapid pulse
o Fever
? Skin complication symptoms
o Skin blisters
o Skin itching
o Skin swelling
o Sun sensitivity
o Photosensitivity
o Paresthesias
o Hair growth abnormalities
o Skin pigment changes
? Gastrointestinal upset
o Abdominal pain
o Vomiting
o Nausea
o Constipation

There's a little more to porphyria then sunburning.

Thanatos wrote:
Maybe its there plee for attention that manifests as a "need for energy" in there mind. Kind of like manifested denial.
That is actually a good point, I'll get back when I've found a way to turn it around as it's allmost 1am here.
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Posted on Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:34 pm

WhiteRaven

Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 343

uh... I was simply saying that porphyria creates a vampire like appearance, I.E. Red teeth and eyes, blisters all over, and sensitivity to the sun, all of those are often associated with vampires(obviously blood-drinkers would have red teeth)

Also there is catalepsy, and rabies,




http://people.howstuffworks.com/vampire5.htm
http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/vampire/rabies.html


I found this one faq that has some hilariously stupid questions on it, like, "can you really kill a vampire with a wooden stake to the heart?"

Uh... gee I don't know.

http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/vampyreresearch/faq.html#medical
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Posted on Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:11 pm

mattz1010

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
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I'm pretty sure you can kill MOST people with a wooden stake to the heart.

Or silver bullets.

But most can't be hurt by showing light on them and flashing the cross.
You can blind them, though.

I still stand by the 99% thing, it's a genetic defect those 1% are.

The rest 99% are just posers.
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Posted on Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:41 am

Malou

Joined: 06 Feb 2006
Posts: 27

mattz1010 wrote:
I'm pretty sure you can kill MOST people with a wooden stake to the heart.

Or silver bullets.

But most can't be hurt by showing light on them and flashing the cross.
You can blind them, though.

I still stand by the 99% thing, it's a genetic defect those 1% are.

The rest 99% are just posers.


You can kill humans with those methods, vampires are pretty much humans, just a little different. If you can kill me with a stake, I'm sure you can kill a vamp.

I think the 99% versus 1% is pretty close to the truth.

@WhiteRaven: I was merely pointing out that there's a lot more to porphyria, so it could be held against vampiric symptoms, and psi vampires btw hardly ever have (much) trouble with the sun.
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Posted on Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:54 am

Jeremy

Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Once when I was making a psiball in class, I pictured taking my energy for the ball from the auras surrounding other people. Does that count as being a psi vampire and is what I did bad?
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Posted on Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:39 pm

WhiteRaven

Joined: 13 Jan 2006
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define bad. Evil? is evil not just a concept. Useless? it works pretty well in my experience, and no, unless you felt you needed it to survive, it wasn't psi-vampirism.
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Posted on Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:36 pm

Vladimir

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
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Meh, they wouldn't have used the energy anyway, Jeremy. And it's not like glucose energy either. It's apparent sole purpose is to produce psionic effects.

Although, if enough was taken, the body might use up a lot of energy to replace it quickly, which would result in fatigue. Small amounts will hardly effect a person though. Unless they're sensitive.
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Posted on Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:18 pm

Lightbringer

Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 293

Vladimir wrote:
It's apparent sole purpose is to produce psionic effects.


How could you possibly know that? I've yet to see any studies that attempt to explain the purpose of auric energy, so unless you can show such evidence it's much more likely that you are wildly guessing at what such energy's uses are.

WhiteRaven: Psi-vampires supposedly require stealing energy from others (personally I think that's bull) but regardless of whether you believe in psi vamps or not, the act of psivamping does not have anything to do with need. It can be done for fun, unconsciously or, in the rather fictitious case of psivamps, out of need.
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Posted on Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:52 pm

bladeslinger

Joined: 10 Feb 2006
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Jeremy wrote:
Once when I was making a psiball in class, I pictured taking my energy for the ball from the auras surrounding other people. Does that count as being a psi vampire and is what I did bad?

did you suddenly scream, "I'M ALIVE!"? if you didnt i would say it wasnt being a vamp but one big flaw in there whole "psi for life" story is how did they survive before they used psi? they didnt always use it so therefor i agree with thanatos....
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Posted on Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:52 pm

Vladimir

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
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Lightbringer, notice how I said "apparent".

Although, in my opinion, if psi was vital to life, medical science would've picked up on some "unknown mechanism" involved in biological systems.
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