But I know it’s there.
There in a puddle on the floor?
Don’t worry, man. I got your back. It’s there, I can see it. Slowly leaking into your pants.
Dude. Share the drugs.
I think I can almost feel my aqueous humour, but I’m not sure.
I have an a priori assumption that if I’m reading and posting on the SDMB that my CSF levels are in the pipe, 5 x 5.
I had some spinal fluid earlier today but it wasn’t mine.
Might’ve been yours. It looked a little off.
Ah, but I can feel your spinal fluid. shifty eyes
You know there are certain vampires that only feed on spinal fluid. They have special retractable teeth like normal vampires but they’ve evolved into long, sharp spines - much like cactus needles are highly evolved leaves. No one is sure how this might have happened since vampires don’t breed. However there is some speculation that they are the result of Atlantian cloning experiments involving vampires and zombies. This is based on inscriptions from a massive granite stele found near the Bimini Road formation off the coast of the Bahamas. It is written in an obscure Enochian dialect and its meaning is subject to interpretation.
As the Atlantians saw the rise of civilizations in Egypt, Akkadia, Sumeria, China and Greece, they realized that the more primitive members of the Homo genus, Homo Sapiens, would likely follow a development path similar to their own. They also saw that we breed like rabbits unless environmental controls are in place. Once our technology developed to the point that famine and disease were no longer adequate to the task, there would have to be fail-safes in place.
Since vampires can turn their victims, that was a solution that simply involved substituting one parasite for another (as they regarded any species that could breed without controls as parasitic). Zombies presented the same issue. The idea was to created a hybrid that would control the population but could not propagate as easily. It is believed that this is the genesis of the CSF vampire.
Little known fact: spinal fluid tastes like crab juice.
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Well I’ll be. Enochian you say? How devilishly clever of them.
Odd, I can feel mine. I like the jiggly feel of it when I shake my hips.
I felt mine once. I had a condition that made me have way too much (pseudotumor cerebri). There’s only so much room in your cranium for your brain, eye bits and spinal fluid so if you get to havin’ too much spinal fluid it just presses the shit out of the contents of your skull and you feel shitty.
Anyhoo, I had some of my spinal fluid removed (big. needle.) and while they were draining it I swear to Og I felt my brain move. They had me sitting up on a table and when my brain moved I almost fell face-first off said table (with a needle stuck in my back!) but luckilly the astute nurse in attendance caught me.
I’m all better now. But I’m acutely aware of how my spinal fluid feels and if it ever creeps up on me again, I’m gonna get it! Dammit!
Band name!
I’ve got the same thing, and while I can’t say I remember feeling the brain literally move, I did feel an immediate relief of the pressure buildup in my head (which I hadn’t quite noticed, because it was gradual). It was a strange sensation. The spinal tap was actually to detect for other stuff but I definitely felt better afterward (until the spinal headache set in from not laying down enough). It also felt like my eyes… deflated a little, I guess.
Suffice it to say, you don’t want to be in a situation where you feel your spinal fluid, or feel what happens when you don’t have enough spinal fluid. Both are not good.
Sweet username/post combo!
Did you feel the sky tumbling down?
The way to kill a zombievampire (zombire, vampbie?) is of course a wooden stake in the brain.
That just pisses them off. :eek:
One might assume that since both vampires and zombies can be killed by removing their heads that this would also be effective against CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) vamps - also known more colloquially as zampires. But as a consequence of having a limited ability to propagate, they were engineered to be much more difficult to kill.
Removing the head of a zampire will simply place it at a temporary tactical disadvantage. There is a psychic link between any dismembered part and the whole - even in the event of complete disintegration via mechanical means such as an industrial shredder or wood chipper. The parts will eventually recombine and the zampire will be reconstituted.
The only certain method for destroying a zampire is complete and thorough incineration. However this method creates the danger of infecting anyone who might breath the smoke. Zampires can propagate only by draining their own CSF and feeding it to a victim. A large quantity is required to be sure that the transformation will occur. Otherwise, it will simply kill the victim without producing a resurrection. It takes several months for the zampire to recover fully and during that time is extremely vulnerable.
Burning the zampire’s CSF seems to make it much more active an even a small amount can infect a human. Such people are turned immediately without the need for death and resurrection. They become virtually rabid and will kill every living thing for a radius of several miles. They do not however become full zampires and die within a few days. They are also much easier to kill and are susceptible to the same wide variety of methods that are effective against both vampires and zombies.
I should also mention that there are alternative explanations for the creation of zampires. Those of us who have studied their history are partial to the Atlantian theory, but the text upon which this is based is extremely difficult to translate accurately since the dialect used is very old and incorporates hieroglyphic symbols as well as characters from the Enochian alphabet.
The most commonly accepted theory is that body parts from both a vampire and a zombie had been placed on a pyre for incineration. Unbeknown to the hunters who had killed the vampire, it was in possession of certain powerful protective talismans. Through the magic of the talismans, the vampire was reconstructed but in the process absorbed certain aspects of the zombie.
While magical intervention can create completely unpredictable and unlikely outcomes, most of us believe that such deliberate specificity regarding zampire physiology and feeding habits is much more likely to have been created by design rather than accident.
Wouldn’t it be freaky if you could feel every cell in your body?