When Mrs. Plant (v.2.0) and her daughter moved to my trailer in the woods, the step daughter was terrified of werewolves in the woods. I thought of a brilliant idea, and as usual it Made Bad Things Worse.
“Look, we’re Jewish, so crosses aren’t really magic, are they?”
“WE’RE DOOMED!”
Report him/her to the bar.
“You know what I hate about this town? All the damn vampires!”
From “The Lost Boys”, 1987.
If it’s the traditional Eastern European vampire, not the Hollywood type, any weapon cable of disabling him or her until you can cut off his or her head will be sufficient.
Mitchell?
Claimed!
(Yeah, I like Mitchell. He can…well, whatever.)
I am reminded of the ending of Love at First Bite as the vampires fly away.
“You know, we can only live by night.”
“Well, I never could get my shit together before noon anyway.”
I have a bokken that should be pointy enough to give a vampire second thoughts, a very sharp broken escrima stick if that won’t do, and lots of garlic in various forms in the meantime. If any beheading is required, I have a machete for that.
My Wife just got me a new pair of Nikes.
Garlic salt
Only works on undead snails and slugs.
Meh. Stake to the heart gets it done.
Considering my adolescent obsession, lo these many years ago, I’m surprisingly ill prepared. I flash some AA chips at it, and we could finally settle whether 12 steps is a religion or not.
When I was a little kid, I often asked my Dad what we’d do if Dracula or Frankenstein or the Wolfman came to our house. I guess I was hoping he’d reassure me we had several machine guns loaded with silver bullets, super soakers loaded with holy water, a few torches…
The answer Dad always gave (one I appreciate now, but didn’t then) was “Why is he coming to OUR house? Why can’t he go to the Clarkes’ house or the Conlons’ house? What’s so great about OUR house?”
SO we’re back to the “All we have to do is run faster than the Clarkes’ family” theory.
:dubious:
Faith is important, but to some extent it’s also the faith of the Vampire, and the imbued holiness of the item. Thus, if it was Vlad and you have a 1st Class relic, he’d be turned even if you were atheist.
Now, if you are full of faith- then two Popsicle sticks would turn a Jewish Vampire.
Myself, altho I do have a few relics, crosses and what-not; since I am a Carpathian “of the blood” I am apparently sorta immune. Unless of course it was one of the Revenant Vampires and I had personally done them in- but in that case nothing will stop them outside of total destruction.
The vampire my GreatGrandfather staked required to be staked then reburied in holy ground with the proper ceremonies. The staking takes them down but only the holiness “puts them to final rest”.
The vampires from that area were powerless and would go back to decomposing in sunlight. But not crumble into dust.
Makes sign of the extremely cross and rather grumpy.
Hmm, get to sleep all day, party all night, never grow old or die? And the downside is being limited to a high protien liquid diet?
Are they hiring, perchance?
Breath like a charnel house, dreamless sleep that you never are refreshed from, no sex, no food or drink, no friends, few possessions, having a really bad addiction… and vampire hunters.
No sex?
Is that canon across the genre or just in certain stories?