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Title: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: zenten on October 28, 2011, 09:38:26 PM: How long would it be after being turned that a Black Court Vampire could pretend to not be supernatural/dead when having a long in person conversation with some not-clued-in police detectives?
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: Richard_Chilton on October 28, 2011, 09:43:25 PM: Quote from: zenten on October 28, 2011, 09:38:26 PM
How long would it be after being turned that a Black Court Vampire could pretend to not be supernatural/dead when having a long in person conversation with some not-clued-in police detectives?

Does the Black Court Vampire have any magical powers? Can it project veils? If so, the answer is forever.

You might want to read the short story "It's my birthday too". It has more on Black Court Vampires than practically anything else by Jim.

Richard

Richard
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: The Mighty Buzzard on October 28, 2011, 10:11:24 PM: Likely as long as it wanted. Domination + surprised (defend at +0 because they're not clued in enough to know to defend themselves) = the cops see what it tells them they see.
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: wyvern on October 28, 2011, 11:17:31 PM: Setting aside various mental powers / illusions / whatever, I'd imagine a few days at base. Up to a couple of weeks could be dealt with via makeup (if the BCV knew what it was doing, or had a dominated makeup artist or two), and it'd get increasingly difficult past that point - but would probably never get to the point where a full team of movie costume artists couldn't render it at least vaguely presentable for a few hours at a time.

Edit: But this depends a lot on your definition of how a BCV decays. If they work like a normal corpse, a trained policeman might be able to figure out that there was something wrong in a matter of hours.
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: The Mighty Buzzard on October 29, 2011, 01:17:57 AM: Yeah, absent Domination, the smell might be an issue too. I don't remember any couple days dead BCV examples to say one way or the other though.
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: Chiroptera on October 30, 2011, 09:00:29 AM: In "It's My Birthday Too" Harry says that Drulinda smells but I think she was a year old.

I wonder if it would depend on how hot the weather was? :P
Title: Re: How long until a BCV is obviously not alive?
Post by: The Mighty Buzzard on October 30, 2011, 06:50:24 PM: Probably. Unless they've been chilling in an industrial freezer, most of the decomp smell is going to be gone in a year and wouldn't have set in for those she turned that evening. Blood Rites is the only one I can think of with BCVs that were old enough to smell but young enough for it to not have worn off; I can't remember if it was mentioned there.