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Creating a Vampire Breed - A critique would be appreciated
seekmore:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 26, 2009, 08:28:20 PM ---Sunlight could "turn off" their abilities.
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If a vampire goes out into the sun, he will immediately start rotting.
It's hard to do much of anything when your insides are liquefying.
If the vampire were to constantly feed while he were in direct sunlight, its a non-issue.
But that doesn't exactly lend itself to secrecy.
comprex:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 26, 2009, 08:28:20 PM ---Sunlight could "turn off" their abilities.
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In that vein, yes, but building up semi-permanent histories of choices made and consequences thereof.
Do you know who Kurt Hahn, the founder of Outward Bound was? He used to talk about seven forces of decline that affect the modern world: decline of fitness, care, skill, initiative, self-discipline, imagination, and compassion. All of which are functions of experience.
Now, the funny thing is we associate most of those declining quantities _but_not_all_ with *lack* of being out in sunlight. Now flip that. Imagine a tennis champion vamp, who, the more he plays outside, gets weaker, less imaginative but also crueler, while at the same time less assertive. That's right, sunlight makes him into a cheap weak bully.
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