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                        VAMPIRES
     By Stewart N. Thorpe (high_druid@juno.com) Copyright 1997
       More writings of Stewart N. Thorpe can be found at
             http://www.chez.com/stonecircle/

The Vampire's Bite

The vampire's procreation bite takes three consecutive nights to
successfully create another vampire. When the vampire comes back again,
the victim they will be utmost passive to the vampire. The victim will
neither resist nor cry out, but they will only act frightened. This
results from the strange spell that this bite casts over the victim. And
may only be broken if the vampire is prevented from delivering a
consecutive bite. If the vampire is stopped from a continuing bite they
will be forced to start the whole process over again. Take note that
vampires are very persistent, so persistent in fact, that it is
legendary. See Vampiric Procreation in the rulebook on page 251 for more
details.

The memories of their encounters with the vampire are blocked out from
their conscious mind altogether. However, if they are put under
*Hypnotism* and asked a question pertaining to something to the period
when the vampire was with them will cause there memories to stir and they
will confirm all what happened. When they wake up they are still totally
ignorant of what they spoke just seconds ago.

The victim during this procreation process will be plagued whenever they
sleep by foul nightmares of bats, wolves, coffins, darkness, graveyards
and/or a feeling of a presence of evil. These nightmares are so
terrifying that each time the victim has one of them they will gain one
insanity point. Any mental illnesses developed during this period
involving [partly or fully] insanity points from the vampire nightmares
will always be one of a phobia of bats, wolves, scotophobia or of coffins
and graveyards. The victim will not know why as they never remember what
happens in these nightmares. The only thing they will ever remember is
the feeling of absolute fear.

If one of these nightmares by the power of *hypnotism* is brought up to
the hypnotized victim's mind they will gain an insanity point because
they re-experience the nightmares. What they say out loud during a
hypnotic trance will be hard to put together and they will sweat, jerk,
and scream more then talk. After the trance, they will have the look of
pure fear that will fade seconds later. As always they will not remember
anything whatsoever. A person who has been bitten by a vampire in this
way and escaped from being turned into a vampire develop a 'sixth sense'
whenever the vampire is around 100 meters away, they can also sense when
the vampire is getting closer. Because of this, many survivors of such
vampiric bites become vampire hunters who also seek out necromancers and
cultists of Khaine and are basically specialized witch hunters.

The New Unborn

The vampiric 'new born' or more accurately 'unborn' awake in the mind of
savage hunger and confusion. Their memories of their human life is
clouded and pushed back into the deepest corners of their minds. There
beginning victims are usually close friends and family. The reasons for
this vary. Sometimes it is a distant but unmovable human emotion of shame
of what they have become and attempt to reduce this shame by eliminating
those that would make them feel ashamed. Or it could be that they view
them as easy prey to begin with since it is easier to lure a close friend
or family member to a corner then a total stranger. Beginning victims
will also frequently be rivals they had during their human life.

The vampiric unborn will not automatically be able to cast spells. Of
which they will gain spell abilities gradually over the months [GM's
desecration, roughly a level every two months]. Once a vampire has
reached the 3rd and 4th spell level they become exceedingly more distant
and more independent of their vampiric 'parent'. Eventually, the vampire
will more then likely set out and claim their own personal 'hunting
grounds'. Few vampires ever maintain relationships with one another as
most of the time they treat non 'parent' vampires with hostility. They
treat their vampiric 'parent' with respect but indifference nevertheless.

The Vampiric Sleep

Vampires sleep during the daylight hours and may not operate properly
during the daylight hours. If they are awakened during the day, they will
be in a *drowsy* state. And will immediately deal with what has awakened
them and go right back to sleep. A vampire must make a WP test for every
1D6 minutes to stay awake. They can not however stay awake for more then
an hour in these conditions and will fall into a coma like sleep. Quiet
sounds won't wake them up, a loud noise or if they are touched will wake
them up.

Soil From it's Native Land

A vampire may only sleep on soil from the country it was born in as a
human. If the land they were born in isn't a country then the geographic
region they are in [like the land between two such and such rivers]. They
cannot sleep on foreign soil, if their soil is 'contaminated' with holy
water it is effectively 'destroyed' as a source to sleep on. And if a
vampire cannot fall asleep they will be destroyed by the day's first
minutes. Before this happens the vampire in a display of hatred and rage
will go in an attacking frenzy killing everything living as possible. For
this reason, smart vampires carry enough soil for three coffins while
traveling in foreign lands.

Methods of Destroying a Vampire

Most of these ways are not new ways, just new methods of the ways stated
on page 251 in the rulebook but were not stated:

If a vampire swallows [willingly or unwillingly] water or garlic it will
cause 2D3 points of damage and cause the vampire to vomit up blood [more
then their night's feeding and more] causing a loss of 10 magic points.
They will also be in terrible pain and are treated as prone targets for
1D3 rounds which afterwards all their characteristics and tests have a
penalty of 5% until the next night. If they swallow holy water or a
symbol of a non-evil non-chaotic deity there body will catch on fire and
be treated as an *inflammable target* initially causing 2D3 wounds. If
this symbol was of Morr it causes an additional 1D3 wounds. This will
ultimately destroy the vampire if the fire doesn't die off by itself as
they cannot immerse themselves in water or wash themselves [as it is
considered water in motion] since that will destroy them. A person who
eats lots of garlic [25 encumbrances worth or more] will have an aura of
a meter that will act as a repellent as long as they have the garlic
breath.

Vampiric Cults

Just like in the real world, the WFRP world has it's share of vampire
wanna-be freaks. But unlike in our world, vampires in the WFRP world are
a very real thing and are hunted down by witch hunters and bounty
hunters. Because this is the case and also that they worship Khaine
vampiric cults don't advertise their lifestyles and keep a low profile.
Another note for vampiric cults is that they nearly all follow Khaine-
lord of murder and the undead. They are treated as normal Khainite
cultists although because of their practices and way of life they are a
sect of the main Khainite branch of religion. This sect is known as the
Bloodhood, and about 5% of the Church of Khaine are part of the
Bloodhood.

The Bloodhood members avoid daylight as much as possible and live in the
shadows and the dark, preferring to sleep during the day and be active
during the night. They have gruesome vampiric rituals and usually travel
in groups of four or five. Because of their way of life their skins are
abnormally pale and they live a lifestyle away from the civilized part of
society. They are only active during the night and many jobs are
unavailable to them, except for a number of rogue careers such as
footpads, grave robbers, rat catchers, smugglers, general thieves, and
burglars. Bloodhood members also tend to be very gothic because of their
lifestyle and ultimate goal- to die and become a real vampire.

However, this case is very rare and one must be more then dedicated to
Khaine. The chance of getting such a blessing is getting a 1 on a D1000.
When a Bloodhood cultist awakes as a vampire they will also have the
benefits of having full vampiric status automatically and have an entire
vampiric cult to serve them. Some non-Khainite vampires ally themselves
with this Khaine sect to become influential and powerful leaders with
petty mortals bringing victims for them to feed on. Every Bloodhood
member will always obey a vampire leader to the last word no matter what
it is. Disobedience is not appreciated in the eyes of Khaine. Bloodhood
clerics may buy Night Vision once every level, and may roll skills also
on the rogue skill chart.