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I think one thing to keep in mind is that playing in a Gaia universe setting need not restrict us. We can make up our own "rules" for vampirism and powers and so forth. Just because Gaia says certain things, doesn't mean we can't build on those things to get to something greater. I just think Gaia is a stable baseline that we all are familiar with, instead of having all different clashing basic beliefs of vampirism and other things.

EDIT: Another possibility we could look at would be getting hunters involved. I don't necessarily mean opening our coven guild up to hunters to invade. We could always make up some NPC characters for the RP to give some interest and an actual "enemy" to RP with that can be a foil to all our vampires.

One account may be sufficient to RP a hunter group if we wanted. Or maybe if some of our members wanted to get involved in that "other side," they could make up some hunter characters. We just have to be careful not to let ourselves get mixed up between the two. Such as Hunters knowing Vampire secret plans and vice versa.

We could also go into the traditional rules, such as the rings of salt and sensuality.
Turning into a bat started with the first dracula movie.
Sunlight is one of the first rules on vampire, seeing as how anything after the sun descends was considered pagan when the vampire was first born.
The crosses thing seems a bit offish, since not everyone is Christian and gaia is about diversity. We could even make up a fake symbol just to prevent the forum from going religious.

I may as well contribute my two cents as well:

I think that sunlight should be harmful to the vampires. I know if the roleplay takes place on Gaia that Vampires seem able to survive in sunlight (because the Von Helson sisters have been seen out during the day in the manga), but sunlight should at least weaken vampires and cause them some amount of pain, if it doesn't kill them.
According to the History Channel Vampire Hunters wore garlic around their necks so that when they dug up dead bodies to check for vampirism, the garlic could mask the smell of the corpses. Personally I don't care whether in the roleplay garlic actually weakens them or if it is just a myth.
I don't know about the crosses though. I know it's the symbolism behind the cross that drives vampires away but it always seemed a little silly to me that a horizontal line joined with a vertical one could actually harm them.

I didn't know vampires couldn't have sex. I guess it depends on who's writing what *coughAnneRicecough*. If we stick to the idea of them being unable to mate then I can't very well have Iris be a half vampire like I originally intended. But- I also don't mind having him be a human who was turned, like what happened in the event. What ever is decided, I can alter the character to fit the roleplay.

That's all I can think of at any rate.

»» Mhhh, let's see..... what I can remember about the few vampire stories I ever read (I really don't know anything mythwise *cough*)

The last thing I read was the Twilight thing where most stuff gets thrown over:
Sunlight makes them glitter, they dont mind crosses, etcetc.
There was one part of it that especially made me giggle, which was the Vampire MC and the Human girl promising to try making out after he once mentioned something about not having a beating heart... and I was seriously wondering how HE would make his body work to mate then >.>;;;
but ANYWAY.............
They could only be killed by being torn apart and all pieces being burned.

On Supernatural the vampires could be harmed by dead mans blood (like in Anne Rice stories? I was appearantly too young when my sister got into that and so I never got to -read- any of the stories) and sunlight hurt them more like a nasty sunburn?
They could only be killed by being beheaded there, by the way.

I do think Sunlight should definetly hurt us, but no turn-to stone badness.
Maybe just weaken us so that we're barely stronger (or maybe even weaker?) than an average human...while being in pain?

Not sure how much the point of mating matters in the end since we need to keep things PG-13 anyway *laughs lightly*
Though I guess Vlad had the skills, so as long as keeping Gaia aspect I think half-vampires are very well doable~

I'm personally not so sure of the whole crossthing either, I mean, what about poor vampires who were christian before being turned or still believe in a christian god? Soyhar, I say no to crosses too D;««

Just got an idea:
I've heard that there are crevices between some cliffs that are so deep, and the cliffs are so tall that the ground between the cliffs are always in shadow- the sunlight never touches them. Maybe a place like that that could be where our Coven home is. That way we could go outside during the day in our territory without being harmed by sunlight.

...Barton Cliffs ring a bell? cool


I honestly never been in the Gaia RPing forum. I wouldn't mind putting a topic in the recruiting forum, but I don't know if I'm the best one for the job.


For strength I personally like RPing as a weaker character. I guess I'm just strange, but it makes my time RPing much more fun. It gives my character drive and realism. And flaws equal points of adorability to me. whee

I am already thinking about my character's personality. I think making her fail a lot would make her so pissed off. SHE WOULD POUT SO ADORABLY!!! XDDDDD Man, I am going to torture my poor self.

I'm not the only one seeing this, right?

I'm not the only one with a plan for a weaker, shy character then whee
Ever since I created him, Iris has always been a timid character and I see him as being sort of the 'younger brother' type to other Coven members. He's not immature or anything though. Just very shy and a bit naive. I think I'll have him be human originally and be turned so he can be learning as we go along.

Barton Cliffs- Excellent choice, it would be perfect for the crevices.
I've done roleplay recruitment threads in the past so I can possibly help with that if you'd like.