Poll: Supernatural Diseases
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Bah, what are you, 12 year olds?
Oh wait, this is the internet. Of course you are.
While I do not fear these conditions per se, I have looked into them more than most (and that doesn't mean I've watched every movie, but actual research)
First Lycanthropy, Most of you probaly consider it to just be getting hairy and losing your mind at the full of the moon, and being immune to anything less than silver bullets or wolfbane. Not quite. For the most part you can be wounded normaly and the wound will show in both forms. There is also the fact that according to most ledgends, they MUST kill to survive during such transformations. wether due to having to eat the flesh or drink the blood of a human victem. Often they are considered to perish at the Touch of silver, not just from being dealt a mortal blow from a weapon crafted of it. This leads to it being a rather regretable condition, best solved quickly.
Another interesting fact about werewolves of ledgend, is that if not slain by a weapon of silver they would rise again as a vampire...
Vampires you must remember are undead, they are no longer the people they appear to be, and quite honnestly I am offended by the recent flood of vampire romance entering the mainstream. These creatures are in most older tales bear the hallmarks of being corrupted by disease, the hungry dead lusting for blood and all that. Yet in modern times they have been turned into mesmerising seductors, suddenly considered to be "cool". Creatures that slowly drain the life force out of people until they die are currently being portraid as "not so bad people" and it irks me.
And then there is the most generic type of living dead, or "Zombie" if you prefer (Actualy a misnomer in this case, zombies being undead servants being raised by magic, while infectious undead tend to be far less intentional). These infected have a tendance to quickly degenerate to a point of non-sentience and rot in a bizzare fashion (in most cases they appear to dessicate rather than bloat as one whould expect, as if only the surface tissue was affected. but I digress, it would be a condition where if you were infected then a dramatic act of self sacrifice would most likely be your best way out (at least for the remaining uninfected around you).
to quote the last human, "better dead than smeg"
Oh wait, this is the internet. Of course you are.
While I do not fear these conditions per se, I have looked into them more than most (and that doesn't mean I've watched every movie, but actual research)
First Lycanthropy, Most of you probaly consider it to just be getting hairy and losing your mind at the full of the moon, and being immune to anything less than silver bullets or wolfbane. Not quite. For the most part you can be wounded normaly and the wound will show in both forms. There is also the fact that according to most ledgends, they MUST kill to survive during such transformations. wether due to having to eat the flesh or drink the blood of a human victem. Often they are considered to perish at the Touch of silver, not just from being dealt a mortal blow from a weapon crafted of it. This leads to it being a rather regretable condition, best solved quickly.
Another interesting fact about werewolves of ledgend, is that if not slain by a weapon of silver they would rise again as a vampire...
Vampires you must remember are undead, they are no longer the people they appear to be, and quite honnestly I am offended by the recent flood of vampire romance entering the mainstream. These creatures are in most older tales bear the hallmarks of being corrupted by disease, the hungry dead lusting for blood and all that. Yet in modern times they have been turned into mesmerising seductors, suddenly considered to be "cool". Creatures that slowly drain the life force out of people until they die are currently being portraid as "not so bad people" and it irks me.
And then there is the most generic type of living dead, or "Zombie" if you prefer (Actualy a misnomer in this case, zombies being undead servants being raised by magic, while infectious undead tend to be far less intentional). These infected have a tendance to quickly degenerate to a point of non-sentience and rot in a bizzare fashion (in most cases they appear to dessicate rather than bloat as one whould expect, as if only the surface tissue was affected. but I digress, it would be a condition where if you were infected then a dramatic act of self sacrifice would most likely be your best way out (at least for the remaining uninfected around you).
to quote the last human, "better dead than smeg"
Change the title to which one do you WANT to catch the most... also add an option of all 3.
Also hazuka3377 you're taking it too seriously, besides when has something remained constant? Even in a battle forces switch sides sometimes. At the moment we seem to be transforming everything corrupt and really low into something magnificent. Be it Vampires, Werewolves, zombies, pirates, ninjas, androids... etc. You can't stop this rampage but you sure can enjoy the bloody mess afterwards
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Also hazuka3377 you're taking it too seriously, besides when has something remained constant? Even in a battle forces switch sides sometimes. At the moment we seem to be transforming everything corrupt and really low into something magnificent. Be it Vampires, Werewolves, zombies, pirates, ninjas, androids... etc. You can't stop this rampage but you sure can enjoy the bloody mess afterwards
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Hazuka has a point. The creatures that are called werewolves, vampires and so forth today have almost no basis in legend. Creative license can be taken way too far, and I blame Anne Rice and Mark Rein-Hagen. Hazuka did miss a couple of points though...
Belladonna, aka wolfsbane, is lethal to werewolves, but can be used as a cure (according to ye olde legende) for someone with the disease if prepared properly and administered on the night prior to transformation or on the night of a null moon.
Zombies have to be raised by someone (do some research on voodoun, and not on the internet, it's all crap), and there is a limit to the number that a single person can control. Without that control, the corpse becomes exactly that again. Also, walking corpses tend not to last long, falling apart at the seems rather quickly.
Whilst the things used in movies and video games may be rather "cool", and a sweet plot device / bulletbait, they bear little to no resemblance to the creatures born of fear and superstition (and possibly fact, though any such creatures would have been purged from existence by the end of the inquisition. Crude they may have been, but very effective).
Belladonna, aka wolfsbane, is lethal to werewolves, but can be used as a cure (according to ye olde legende) for someone with the disease if prepared properly and administered on the night prior to transformation or on the night of a null moon.
Zombies have to be raised by someone (do some research on voodoun, and not on the internet, it's all crap), and there is a limit to the number that a single person can control. Without that control, the corpse becomes exactly that again. Also, walking corpses tend not to last long, falling apart at the seems rather quickly.
Whilst the things used in movies and video games may be rather "cool", and a sweet plot device / bulletbait, they bear little to no resemblance to the creatures born of fear and superstition (and possibly fact, though any such creatures would have been purged from existence by the end of the inquisition. Crude they may have been, but very effective).
if i caught vampirism or lycanthropy it would be fucking sweet... zombification would suck though you become a mindless husk but as a vampire or werewolf you can still think and behave like a normal human.... in some ways anyway...
Considering the relative amount of stupidity and lethargy in society, I guess everyone goes with zombification nowadays. In that regard, becoming part of that makes me afraid of future brain shortage to feed on.
I'd rather be a wolf once in a while or vampire as I am a nightperson anyway.
I'd rather be a wolf once in a while or vampire as I am a nightperson anyway.
Unless you have a shitty 4 book series about you that ruins the whole concept and awesomeness of vampires.J-Man said:
