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Wooden bullets, used several times in Saberhagen's Dracula novels.Vendetta wrote: Most of the exotic anti-vampire weapons have been done somewhere though.
Carbon bullets and gas grenades laced with garlic in Ultraviolet (British TV series, not the movie)
Holy water paintballs in Dresden Files
Holy water firehoses in Top 10
A pencil in From Dusk til Dawn.
For that matter, holy water ice guns have been done before in "The Man With The Golden Torc" thought it was used there against demon infections not vampires.Vendetta wrote:Presumably that would require Buddhist vampires.
Most of the exotic anti-vampire weapons have been done somewhere though.
Carbon bullets and gas grenades laced with garlic in Ultraviolet (British TV series, not the movie)
Holy water paintballs in Dresden Files
Holy water firehoses in Top 10
A pencil in From Dusk til Dawn.
He said he soaked candle wicks in holy water and let them dry out. 'That just leaves holy'. It was heavily implied he was just faking the guy out.PainRack wrote:How about Holy Water as steam?
Vimes used something akin to this against a Vampire in Feet of Clay
They also actually exist as factory loaded ammo from god bless, Romania; my dad managed to buy a few rounds of 7.62x54R like this at random gunshows. A good number of blanks in the world used to be produced, and some still are, with little varnished wooden plugs instead of wadding to hold in the powder, so those ought to work as well at close range.Lord of the Abyss wrote: Wooden bullets, used several times in Saberhagen's Dracula novels.
The Pope, in the novel Vampire$. "Bless you, my son." <FWOOSH!>
If you've got Jewish vampires, sure...Zwinmar wrote:Would kosher products count?
The notion that "it can only hurt them if they believe in it" is out there often enough that usually you have to have even a slight margin of rationalization for something that hurts vampires. For example, say they're aliens from a planet where a cross-shaped tree was poisonous to their species, so they have a reflexive fear of the cross shape. Something like that... there's not a whole lot of logic necessarily inherent in the whole "vampires are y so they fear/are harmed by x" stuff, and I've always thought that vampires who were only harmed by actual physical damage were more logical. As far as vampires being logical goes, anyway.The way I figure it, vampires are magic, and thus not operating entirely within the laws of physics. This has upsides, like being able to take liberties with conservation of energy, and downsides, like being subject to damage from things that are harmless to humans. For example, in my story that I'll probably never get written, vampires are magically associated with evil and disease. As a consequence, they are susceptible to things that represent Good, like a crucifix, a Buddhist scripture talisman, or the sun. They're also susceptible to silver, because of its association with purity; so while lead and copper alloy bullets barely register for them, silver bullets hurt. This also explains, in my world, why vampires are said to have no reflection--back in the day when mirrors were backed with silver, they didn't. Modern aluminum-backed mirrors reflect them just fine. (So what exactly is happening with the light that does and doesn't go through the vampire depending on how you look at it? It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit!)Something like that... there's not a whole lot of logic necessarily inherent in the whole "vampires are y so they fear/are harmed by x" stuff, and I've always thought that vampires who were only harmed by actual physical damage were more logical. As far as vampires being logical goes, anyway.
I see what you did there.Zwinmar wrote:How about if you can bless anything why not just bless [insert weapon/ammo of choice here] and be done with it? The trees, the squirrels....bless them all and get freshniquet.
Simon_Jester wrote:"WHERE IS YOUR MISSILEGOD NOW!?"
Starglider wrote:* Simon stared coldly across the table at the student, who had just finnished explaining the link between the certainty of young earth creation and the divinely ordained supremacy of the white race. "I am updating my P values", Simon said through thinned lips, "to a direction and degree you will find... most unfavourable."
"The invention of the silvered-glass mirror is credited to German chemist Justus von Liebig in 1835." -- WikipediaSmall problem- the silver-backed mirror wasn't created until the 19th century far as I can tell
I remember giving up on 'religious' vampires as legitimate threats at exactly the junction of the "the human body is mostly water" and "Holy Water is any priest-blessed source" ideas. From both the "priests become walking pyrokinetic anti-vampire weapons" perspective and the "Go ahead, bite me; I fucking dare you." perspective.Jub wrote:One idea, if a priest can bless enough water at once, would be to have a priest attached to every fire hall to bless each trucks load of water. This could also work with riot vehicles that carry stores of water with them. Now instead of sending out a vampire hunting unit, you can send in a much more mundane looking unit that can still deal with a vampire threat.
Grow tree in hydroponics tank filled with holy water, make arrows/bolts/whatever from wood where every pore and capillary is filled with holy water?Batman wrote:Besides, wouldn't the holy just evaporate right along with the water? If the holy clung to the material you drenched in holy water even when the water is gone, holy crossbow bolts/arrows should be child's play (or maybe not-how does getting soaking wet affect those? I honestly don't know).
