Vampires 

<<Lord SwS>> Welcome to my node where I posted everything I could find on the world of Vampires. Listen & Learn, and you may just survive the night if you ever meet a vampire.

First and formost, a vampire can be any race. I have seen humans, trolls, orcs, dwarves, and even elves. (you must purchas race and vampire. Vampire cost 15BP) All it takes for someone to become a vampire is for a vampire to drain all their essense (killing them) and not have their body destroyed. Ways to destroy the body is incineration, stake through the heart, and cutting off their head. The most common way is a stake throught the heart because of books and vids.

Once someone has contracted HMHVV (Human Meta Human Vampiric Virus) and awakened, the first thing that happens is their body rejects ALL cyberware and bioware. Even limb replacements get rejected. The body regrows limbs, organs, everything makeing it whole. There isn't even any sign of scars.

<<Hunter>> Yeah, and if you hurt 'em without killin 'em then they just regenerate later.

Here are the known powers for Vampires. They have enhansed sense (for all senses; hearing, smell, vision), thermographic vision, Immunity (age, desease, drugs, alcohol), essance drain (it's how they feed), mist form or animal form (only one, not both), natural wepon (bite DV 2P,AP0 -1 reach), regeneration, and sapiance.

<<No Eyes>> Sapiance? You mean these things are intelegent?

<<Hunter>> Yeah, their smart. They even have the memories of their past life. They just don't remember their death or who the vampire was that killed 'em.

<<Lord SwS>> Not only that, but they seem to live in groups that they call houses. Working to gether to stay out of the light. In more sense than one.

Vampires are known to have magical abilities. Only hermetic magic as the spirits and totems don't like the abomination of the undead. Vampires also are known to be adepts, both physical and mystial. (normal cost applies)

Vampires can NOT be technomancers due to them not being able to stand the VR world. They are revolted by the matrix. Vampiret that used to be hackers miss the matrix, but they get physicly ill vomiting blood from trying. They go into a feeding frenzy (willpower 4 to avoid) after this illness.

Luckily, vampires do have weaknesses*. They all have an allergy to sunlight (moderate), an allergy to wood (sevear), they have a dietary requirement of blood (essense), and they have essense loss. If their essense reaches one, the vampire will go into a feeding frenzy (willpower 6 to avoid). The vampire takes one essense per feeding and gains one half per point taken.

All vampires have some inherited skills. They are: infiltration, perception, shadowing,unarmed combat, and any skills that the person had before changing. All hacker/rigger skills are remembered, but can't be utilized (no BP cost. If changing an existing PC, then you gain half of the BP back for all hacker/rigger skills.)

For plane english rules go here.

* you can not buy off the weaknesses of a vampire.