Would you willingly accept a vampire's offer to turn you? This vampire will honor your wishes. Do you invite teeth to your neck?
I would be sorely tempted.
I assume this is hypothetical? We are not talking about those wannabe-goth losers pretending to be actual vampires? (No offence intended for any one except the wannabe-goth losers pretending to be actual vampires)
If it is indeed hypothetical, yes, I'd go for it. If not... No, thanks. I don't need whatever diseases their saliva is riddled with.
Well that all depends is the vampire a form of some unholy hell spawn somewhere out of the bible suggesting God exists, or is he just some fantastical immortal creature.
If he does suggest that God exists I would probably say "I fucked up, but man I hope you didn't write the bible." To God not the vampire.
Another part of the equation is can I survive on animal blood. If not I would be tempted If I were able to find say records of why an inmate is incarcerated and probably drink the blood of rapists and child molesters.
Quote from: Pharaoh Cat on December 29, 2011, 01:38:18 AM
Would you willingly accept a vampire's offer to turn you? This vampire will honor your wishes. Do you invite teeth to your neck?
I would be sorely tempted.
Oh hell, no. I don't like the conditions at all. I might take up a werewolf's offer tho, esp. if I could turn anytime I wanted to.
Quote from: envilid on December 29, 2011, 02:19:08 AM
If I were able to find say records of why an inmate is incarcerated and probably drink the blood of rapists and child molesters.
Ugh! Putrid, bitter CRAP!
Every self-respecting bloodsucker knows that you gets the best taste out of babies, virgins and babies who are virgins. Preferably under the fool moon. In any case, blood of the innocents - good, blood of the scumbags - crap.
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2011, 02:29:46 AM
Quote from: envilid on December 29, 2011, 02:19:08 AM
If I were able to find say records of why an inmate is incarcerated and probably drink the blood of rapists and child molesters.
Ugh! Putrid, bitter CRAP!
Every self-respecting bloodsucker knows that you gets the best taste out of babies, virgins and babies who are virgins. Preferably under the fool moon. In any case, blood of the innocents - good, blood of the scumbags - crap.
I will sacrifice taste for moral, I'm like the Brad Pitt of vampires.
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2011, 02:09:46 AM
I assume this is hypothetical?
And there's by belly laugh for the day. Well done, Asmodean. Well done.
It depends on what the symptoms of vampirism are. If it doesn't involve making me "evil", or otherwise changing my mind, personality, or personal ethics, I could probably make it work. Instead of spending money on groceries, I could just pay homeless people for small (safe) amounts of blood to sustain myself. I'd have to experiment with sunblock, to see if there was a way to cheat the whole daylight thing. Tanning cream would be a must. The idea of permanent youth and immortality seems very attractive to me. I like the idea of my life ending, eventually, because I feel I've had a full life, not because of an arbitrary lifespan because of the way by body works.
If there's looking glittery, though, I'm out. That's just silly.
Quote from: Will on December 29, 2011, 02:39:25 AM
I'd have to experiment with sunblock, to see if there was a way to cheat the whole daylight thing. Tanning cream would be a must.
If there's looking glittery, though, I'm out. That's just silly.
Use cream cheese.
Also I don't know anymore the idea of living forever sounds terrible, but then again I could just fly over and steal some morphine...drugs still affect vampires right?
Quote from: Will on December 29, 2011, 02:39:25 AM
I could just pay homeless people for small (safe) amounts of blood to sustain myself.
Ugh..! You people!
At least go for Wall Street sharks, eh..? Their blood has all the cool vitamins and proteins and whatnots...
Quote from: envilid on December 29, 2011, 02:44:07 AMAlso I don't know anymore the idea of living forever sounds terrible, but then again I could just fly over and steal some morphine...drugs still affect vampires right?
Imagine being able to get every PhD, traveling to every country, learning to play every musical instrument, being able to pursue every dream you've ever had, all because you have hundreds and hundreds of years at your peak age. That doesn't sound awesome?
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2011, 02:45:49 AMUgh..! You people!
At least go for Wall Street sharks, eh..? Their blood has all the cool vitamins and proteins and whatnots...
Murder's murder. That said, Vampire Will wouldn't be above fucking with people.
Quote from: Will on December 29, 2011, 03:12:12 AM
Murder's murder.
Not if you are above the object of killing on the food chain. Then it's... Just food.
Quote from: Asmodean on December 29, 2011, 03:18:47 AM
Not if you are above the object of killing on the food chain. Then it's... Just food.
Interesting philosophical questions.
1) Does being higher on the food chain than another sentient being allow for your killing of that being for sustenance?
2) If one were to become a vampire, does one truly stop being human?
Quote from: Will on December 29, 2011, 03:46:05 AM
1) Does being higher on the food chain than another sentient being allow for your killing of that being for sustenance?
Yes, especially if you depend on something specific to that being to survive, but yes in any case. That's what being higher on the food chain
means. That you can, and do, eat that which is below your more-or-less noble self :P
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2) If one were to become a vampire, does one truly stop being human?
Undead vampire? Then I'd say yes. Some other weird variety..? Depends.
Quote from: Will on December 29, 2011, 03:12:12 AM
Quote from: envilid on December 29, 2011, 02:44:07 AMAlso I don't know anymore the idea of living forever sounds terrible, but then again I could just fly over and steal some morphine...drugs still affect vampires right?
Imagine being able to get every PhD, traveling to every country, learning to play every musical instrument, being able to pursue every dream you've ever had, all because you have hundreds and hundreds of years at your peak age. That doesn't sound awesome?
Well if you understood me and my apathy it would be terrible, but if I had the motivation, I so lack, (though I do have the want)to do all these things it would be awesome but then again certain drugs ad highly to my creative and motivational need. So I'm not exactly wanting to do them for the sake of being high. Some people are happy in their current state of mind I like altered ones.
I would also like to see current events unfold and the things I listed in "the things you will miss when you die" thread, but there isn't that cliche immortal saying of how it is terrible out living all of your loved one. I would have to convince my family to turn with me, which seems very hard to do on my end.
Though it might be a nice novelty for oh say 1000 years or 10 lifetimes, many seem to think that it would be a curse and would lose its meaningfulness, to live forever that is.
Edit: I guess you could always off yourself.
What kind of vampire...True Blood, Angel, Dracula?
Why has the subject of sex not entered this conversation? Can I have sex if I'm a vamp? The facts about vampires seam to change depending on which movie I watch.
I would be very happy to feed on televangelists, faith healers, psychics and anyone named Barry without any guilt.
Quote from: Pharaoh Cat on December 29, 2011, 01:38:18 AM
Would you willingly accept a vampire's offer to turn you?
Ye I did, it's OK too.
You can go out in the day just cover up, you should do this anyway, especially if you are unsightly or you live where the sun has a bite.
Innocence doesn't make any difference to taste, some things do, but you develop a nose for it. I can detect someone with Hemochromatosis from a mile away.
Oh and crosses, you don't have to worry about them, they are only a little more annoying than when human.
If you need a mirror to shave you may have a problem.
If you eat messy food just assume your face is grubby and wash it.
Beards are a problem unless you have an Egor to keep them free of crumbs.
You don't have to be a Count, you can choose your title. I'm a Magic at the moment.
Well I hope these points help those trying to make a decision.
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Quote from: Whitney on December 29, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
What kind of vampire...True Blood, Angel, Dracula?
Exactly. In general I'd reject the idea of living forever, or a single liquid diet, but if Bill Compton was offering... :-* Edward Cullen not so much.
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on December 29, 2011, 04:45:03 AM
Quote from: Pharaoh Cat on December 29, 2011, 01:38:18 AM
Would you willingly accept a vampire's offer to turn you?
Ye I did, it's OK too.
You can go out in the day just cover up, you should do this anyway, especially if you are unsightly or you live where the sun has a bite.
Innocence doesn't make any difference to taste, some things do, but you develop a nose for it. I can detect someone with Hemochromatosis from a mile away.
Oh and crosses, you don't have to worry about them, they are only a little more annoying than when human.
If you need a mirror to shave you may have a problem.
If you eat messy food just assume your face is grubby and wash it.
Beards are a problem unless you have an Egor to keep them free of crumbs.
You don't have to be a Count, you can choose your title. I'm a Magic at the moment.
Well I hope these points help those trying to make a decision.
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Very informative.
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on December 29, 2011, 04:45:03 AM
Quote from: Pharaoh Cat on December 29, 2011, 01:38:18 AM
Would you willingly accept a vampire's offer to turn you?
Ye I did, it's OK too.
You can go out in the day just cover up, you should do this anyway, especially if you are unsightly or you live where the sun has a bite.
Innocence doesn't make any difference to taste, some things do, but you develop a nose for it. I can detect someone with Hemochromatosis from a mile away.
Oh and crosses, you don't have to worry about them, they are only a little more annoying than when human.
If you need a mirror to shave you may have a problem.
If you eat messy food just assume your face is grubby and wash it.
Beards are a problem unless you have an Egor to keep them free of crumbs.
You don't have to be a Count, you can choose your title. I'm a Magic at the moment.
Well I hope these points help those trying to make a decision.
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Do I get to have sex?
If one believed that a vampire could turn you would you not also have to believe that one has a soul and was thus immortal anyway? Or are we talking accepting a proven immortality vs a promised but unproven immortality? If it were a 'natural' immortality and there were no 'supernatural' immortality I'd go for the turn.
Anne Rice's sexy vampires - hell yes. Wouldn't even have to think about it. Immortality, self-conscious evil, intimacy with people that look questionably young, having your life narrated in a baroque style with lots of curly Qs, c'mon.
True Blood's water balloon vampires - so long as I didn't catch the accent. Or EVER have to talk to that unbearable Sookie woman.
Twilight's sparkly idiot vampires - no, I'd rather fart my own leg off.
Quote from: Crocoduck on December 29, 2011, 05:16:24 AM
Do I get to have sex?
That depends, do you get to now?
It's not impossible, I'd say the likelihood after the change is the same as before.
You become infertile though so best to freeze some eggs or sperm before turning if that's a concern
Guys, guys...you don't have to worry about the sunlight, that was Bram Stoker's creation, not the stuff of legend.
I wouldn't accept, because of their immortality. Can't imagine having to live that long. ::)
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on December 29, 2011, 05:47:43 AM
Quote from: Crocoduck on December 29, 2011, 05:16:24 AM
Do I get to have sex?
That depends, do you get to now?
It's not impossible, I'd say the likelihood after the change is the same as before.
You become infertile though so best to freeze some eggs or sperm before turning if that's a concern
Well no, I'm old have COPD from years of smoking and huffing smoke from before firefighters wore S.C.B.A......if I live as I do now then I want no part of it. Immortality would suck.
Quote from: Whitney on December 29, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
What kind of vampire...True Blood, Angel, Dracula?
True Blood. Because Eric would kick Buffy's ass in a fair fight.*
But if adding shapeshifting and controlling dark beasties to the list of vampire powers is a deal maker for you, Whitney, then please be a Bram Stoker vampiress with my blessings. :)
* Buffy would still win, of course, because she's Buffy, and, well, she wins. Probably the moral of the story would be that her friends love her so she's invincible so long as she doesn't give up and they don't either.
Awww, Vampy Asmo is cute!
My first inclination is that I would pass. I kind of like the idea of a limited life span, and blood tastes yucky :(
If its the vampire depicted in Blade, Queen of the Damned (well all the Anne Rice novels), Underworld, and True Blood; then sign me up I'm sold.
However if its like those depicted in 30 days of nights, Priest, I am legend, Let the Right One In; then I have to say no thanks I will take a rain check.
Quote from: Whitney on December 29, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
What kind of vampire...True Blood, Angel, Dracula?
This is my question. It totally and completely depends on which interpretation. Some are very cool. Some are just awful.
I'd probably say yes.
If I didn't want to hunt, I'd pay off a Red Cross clerk for a few pints.
I'm a night parson anyway.
And if I get tired of living forever, I'd kill myself.
And I'd kick Edwards ass!
No. Don't know how much fun living forever would be.
Quote from: Guardian85 on December 29, 2011, 02:31:16 PM
I'd probably say yes.
If I didn't want to hunt, I'd pay off a Red Cross clerk for a few pints.
I'm a night parson anyway.
And if I get tired of living forever, I'd kill myself.
And I'd kick Edwards ass!
Oh... I didn't know vampires could kill themselves. I'm in.
I'd open up a fast food restaurant chain.
Nobody does Vampire burgers yet.
If any of you do turn vampire, here are a couple tips for your new life style.
1) STAY AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS! Clowns taste funny.
2) If you see someone reading a book go ahead and suck their blood.
3) If you see someone writing a book stay away from that person.
The reason? Writers cramp, but readers digest!
Ohhhh, I know that was horrible.
Quote from: lomfs24 on December 29, 2011, 10:34:47 PM
If any of you do turn vampire, here are a couple tips for your new life style.
1) STAY AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS! Clowns taste funny.
2) If you see someone reading a book go ahead and suck their blood.
3) If you see someone writing a book stay away from that person.
The reason? Writers cramp, but readers digest!
Ohhhh, I know that was horrible.
Nice of you to admit it!
Is it Edward? I probably would...
Quote from: Ali on December 31, 2011, 05:26:39 AM
Is it Edward? I probably would...
Now me, I'd pick Akasha from the novel
Queen of Damned.
I would be all for it if I could go out in daylight like the Twilight Vampires and not have to hide that I'm a vampire like in the True Blood series. It would also be nice if there was a True Blood drink(like in the series) available at every corner store so that I wouldn't have to feed on humans. I would love to possibly live forever. Before being turned, I would ask for 3 months to workout to get buff since I would have to live with the body forever that I had when turned.
I think I'd do it. I'm curious what 3000 will be like.
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If I get to be something like that, I'll seriously think about it. If not....yeah, I have nothing against fur and I'm not allergic ;D
It looks like you're staring into the eyes of the beast himself. And winning. :o
if i was bonded to that vampire afterward, they'd have to be the same sex.
i'd totally go for it.