favourite vampire types youd like to see rifted in

[Eclipse]

Mine would be the Whampiri from Brian Lumley's Necroscope series. I highly recommend reading the first book at least (Necroscope) and the first two trilogies are all I read (and have no real interest in his followup books that came later - suspect they jumped the shark..) and liked greatly. I really dont want to spoil the surprise because they were really freaky - a million miles away from traditional vamps let alone sparkly ones - lets just say the Splugorth would find them veerry interesting..

Quite a bit of psionics in the books and Harry Keogh is a bit of a Mary Sue but a rollicking good read otherwise

So what are yours?

[DevastationBob]

The Count from Sesame Street? He definitely has the OCD obsessed with numbers and counting.

[Razzinold]

Mine would be the Whampiri from Brian Lumley's Necroscope series. I highly recommend reading the first book at least (Necroscope) and the first two trilogies are all I read (and have no real interest in his followup books that came later - suspect they jumped the shark..) and liked greatly. I really dont want to spoil the surprise because they were really freaky - a million miles away from traditional vamps let alone sparkly ones - lets just say the Splugorth would find them veerry interesting..

Quite a bit of psionics in the books and Harry Keogh is a bit of a Mary Sue but a rollicking good read otherwise

So what are yours?

I agree, I would rift them in as well and a True Wamphyri Lord would mop the floor with any Palladium Vamp and even give some other races a pretty good run for their money too! I've read Necroscope 1 - 5 (I own these as well), Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie and the first book featuring Jake Cutter (borrowed these ones) and that is when I was like "nope, now this is getting dumb".
I like Lumley, except I find he is too repetitive, the first 15 pages of the original series always said the same stuff, and he repeated his same lines over and over when comparing E-Branch's tech to psionics. Other than that I enjoyed the books.

[MurderCityDisciple]

Re: favourite vampire types youd like to see rifted in

The kind that glitters in sunlight.
Before and after a savage beating and dismemberment.

[taalismn]

Financial Vampires.
They don't suck your blood, they suck your livelihood....the wallet out of your pocket, every last penny, all that cool stuff you acquired, and the clothes off your back(they MIGHT, however, provide you with a barrel with suspenders as a parting gift).

[Comrade Corsarius]

Re: favourite vampire types youd like to see rifted in

The kind that glitters in sunlight.
Before and after a savage beating and dismemberment.

I disagree. "During", is the word you are looking for.

[MurderCityDisciple]

Re: favourite vampire types youd like to see rifted in

The kind that glitters in sunlight.
Before and after a savage beating and dismemberment.

I disagree. "During", is the word you are looking for.

Oh c'mon that's over the line there buddy!!

Show some mercy....NOT!!!

[taalismn]

Show some mercy....NOT!!!

Mercy ain't in my dictionary when it comes to Sparkly Boy...

It's like showing mercy to a dog tick that's been prettied up with gold paint.
It's still a blood-sucking parasite.

[Razzinold]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

To quote the illustrious Jack Crow, Vampire Hunter Extraordinaire (edited for language)

First of all, they're not romantic. Its not like they're a bunch of f*****n' f**s hoppin' around in rented formal wear seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents Forget whatever you've seen in the movies: they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna stand with garlic around your neck...one of these buggers will bend you over and take a walk straight up your strada chocolatta while he`s sucking blood from your neck, all right? They don't sleep in coffins lined in taffeta.
You wanna kill one, you drive a wooden stake right through his f*****' heart.
Sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters.

[MurderCityDisciple]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

To quote the illustrious Jack Crow, Vampire Hunter Extraordinaire (edited for language)

First of all, they're not romantic. Its not like they're a bunch of f*****n' f**s hoppin' around in rented formal wear seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents Forget whatever you've seen in the movies: they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna stand with garlic around your neck...one of these buggers will bend you over and take a walk straight up your strada chocolatta while he`s sucking blood from your neck, all right? They don't sleep in coffins lined in taffeta.
You wanna kill one, you drive a wooden stake right through his f*****' heart.
Sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters.

Yeah John Carpenter's Vampires vampires are what I base my Palladium vampires on. The crosses, bats and garlic stuff is excised.

Oh and by the way....have you ever tried the Strada Chocolatta Mochachino from Starbucks...deelish!!

[Eclipse]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

[Kovoston]

I've always wanted to see vampires from Vampire: The Masquerade in Rifts. (Note: that's The Masquerade not Requiem) You know, the kind you can't squirt to death with a kid's water pistol and that laugh at your little silver cross.

This !!!

[keir451]

I want to see Alucard and Seras Victoria from the Hellsing anime/manga. Alucard (IMO) has the power to wipe the floor w/any Palladium Vampire as well as potentially kill off Vampire Intelligences, the throw in "Police Girl/Seras Victoria" and the Anti-Midian Harkonnen cannon and I'm good! I'd also take D&D vampires, no "immunity" to lasers/energy weapons, regular vulnerability to magic/psionics and NO vampire intelligences!

[Eclipse]

I want to see Alucard and Seras Victoria from the Hellsing anime/manga. Alucard (IMO) has the power to wipe the floor w/any Palladium Vampire as well as potentially kill off Vampire Intelligences, the throw in "Police Girl/Seras Victoria" and the Anti-Midian Harkonnen cannon and I'm good! I'd also take D&D vampires, no "immunity" to lasers/energy weapons, regular vulnerability to magic/psionics and NO vampire intelligences!

Alucard's like a vampire intelligence in disguise - Vlad Tegor from the palladium world would be a good fit with some tweaking I guess.

[DevastationBob]

I always liked Alucard's peculiar sense of honor where he'd only use just enough of his power against an enemy to keep the fight interesting and would only step up his game if the opponent could handle it, getting more and more excited that he'd met an actual match for himself.

[Razzinold]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

Yeah it was pretty cool when they killed the "vampire" only to have the headless slug thing come ripping out of the body and make a break for it.

@MurderCityDisciple no I have never tried that particular drink from Starbucks and after the Jack Crow quote, probably never will.
I remember Vampires getting a bad review, but I liked the movie. Have you read Vampire$ Inc. by John Steakley ? It's a good book and it's what the movie is based off of.

[Looonatic]

A massive raging horde of Bunniculas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnicula

[Razzinold]

A massive raging horde of Bunniculas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnicula

I vote for this as well, we've read the book many times as a family

[Eclipse]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

Yeah it was pretty cool when they killed the "vampire" only to have the headless slug thing come ripping out of the body and make a break for it.

@MurderCityDisciple no I have never tried that particular drink from Starbucks and after the Jack Crow quote, probably never will.
I remember Vampires getting a bad review, but I liked the movie. Have you read Vampire$ Inc. by John Steakley ? It's a good book and it's what the movie is based off of.

Oh no, you've spoiled the nature of the whampirii for the readers .

Ah well, now I've done a Bachelor of Applied Science: Biotechnology degree, I'm now a little familiar with yeasts and fungi and leeches etc,I can see where he got some of the details for his vampires from. Truly disgusting, the way they can seem dead, but send up a fruiting body like a mushroom to infect the unsuspecting. And the different lifecycle options, like the 'true egg' to create a genuine offspring, like some kind of self-sexual production shuffling the genes, vs other types of infection, in a way producing lesser clonal varieties. The addition of psychic powers like necroscopy etc to the narrative, through Harry Keogh and E-branch, certainly lends itself to the palladium game system. And the cold war intrigue in the first book tops it off as a pretty cool story, leading to travelling through to the alien world through a 'rift' in some caves and interacting with the true whampirii in the other books and how they interact with the human natives (related to the gypsies/Roma I believe).

I can imagine gene splicers being very curious about them and for sure the Splugorth would investigate them for their biowizardry.. possibly to play them off again their rivals - the alien intelligence-controlled Rifts vampires, if they got them under their control - otherwise I guess they'd try to exterminate to eliminate the traditional vampire apocalypse that wouldn't be good for business, including the slave trade.

[Razzinold]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

Yeah it was pretty cool when they killed the "vampire" only to have the headless slug thing come ripping out of the body and make a break for it.

@MurderCityDisciple no I have never tried that particular drink from Starbucks and after the Jack Crow quote, probably never will.
I remember Vampires getting a bad review, but I liked the movie. Have you read Vampire$ Inc. by John Steakley ? It's a good book and it's what the movie is based off of.

Oh no, you've spoiled the nature of the whampirii for the readers .

Ah well, now I've done a Bachelor of Applied Science: Biotechnology degree, I'm now a little familiar with yeasts and fungi and leeches etc,I can see where he got some of the details for his vampires from. Truly disgusting, the way they can seem dead, but send up a fruiting body like a mushroom to infect the unsuspecting. And the different lifecycle options, like the 'true egg' to create a genuine offspring, like some kind of self-sexual production shuffling the genes, vs other types of infection, in a way producing lesser clonal varieties. The addition of psychic powers like necroscopy etc to the narrative, through Harry Keogh and E-branch, certainly lends itself to the palladium game system. And the cold war intrigue in the first book tops it off as a pretty cool story, leading to travelling through to the alien world through a 'rift' in some caves and interacting with the true whampirii in the other books and how they interact with the human natives (related to the gypsies/Roma I believe).

I can imagine gene splicers being very curious about them and for sure the Splugorth would investigate them for their biowizardry.. possibly to play them off again their rivals - the alien intelligence-controlled Rifts vampires, if they got them under their control - otherwise I guess they'd try to exterminate to eliminate the traditional vampire apocalypse that wouldn't be good for business, including the slave trade.

Yeah, guess I should have put it in a spoiler, but I figured the books are so old most people would have read them by now, well most people here on the boards that is, and they're the only people that matter in this discussion anyway.

[Killer Cyborg]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

Yeah it was pretty cool when they killed the "vampire" only to have the headless slug thing come ripping out of the body and make a break for it.

@MurderCityDisciple no I have never tried that particular drink from Starbucks and after the Jack Crow quote, probably never will.
I remember Vampires getting a bad review, but I liked the movie. Have you read Vampire$ Inc. by John Steakley ? It's a good book and it's what the movie is based off of.

It's not a good book, it's a great book.
Easily 20x better than the movie.
Shame Carpenter got his budget slashed out from under him after that first scene in the hotel.

And if you like that one, you should probably read (and have probably already read) Armor, Steakley's homage to Starship Troopers, which is easily as good as Heinlein's book, albeit in different ways.

[Killer Cyborg]

A massive raging horde of Bunniculas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnicula

I vote for this as well, we've read the book many times as a family

The Celery Stalks At Midnight is one of my favorite titles of all time.

And it has some of the best scenes too, like when the cat is staking the drained vegetables with toothpicks, and the dog thinks he's making hors d'oeuvres.

[Razzinold]

Monsters not romantic tragic ueros and half breed vampires. I want blood su king killing mechines that eat people

That's the true Whampiri for sure. They're basically hosts for the real vampire - a truly non-human internal parasite that distorts the mind and body..

Yeah it was pretty cool when they killed the "vampire" only to have the headless slug thing come ripping out of the body and make a break for it.

@MurderCityDisciple no I have never tried that particular drink from Starbucks and after the Jack Crow quote, probably never will.
I remember Vampires getting a bad review, but I liked the movie. Have you read Vampire$ Inc. by John Steakley ? It's a good book and it's what the movie is based off of.

It's not a good book, it's a great book.
Easily 20x better than the movie.
Shame Carpenter got his budget slashed out from under him after that first scene in the hotel.

And if you like that one, you should probably read (and have probably already read) Armor, Steakley's homage to Starship Troopers, which is easily as good as Heinlein's book, albeit in different ways.

You are correct sir I have read that book as well and really enjoyed it. Loved the movie as well.

I used to own a copy of Vampire$ Inc. but it was old and I think I need to replace it.
The movie could have been epic if the stupid studios would have even given him half the money they hand out to all those crap movies that somehow constantly get made.
For example the remake of Total Recall, ok I admit it, I liked the first movie, it's not my favourite movie but I liked it. Lets be honest though, it was so epically ground breaking that it needed a remake of it. Although it did make my company some money because when they were filming in Toronto we got to dye some of the clothing and stuff used in the movie.

[Killer Cyborg]

I used to own a copy of Vampire$ Inc. but it was old and I think I need to replace it.

Whenever I see a copy of Vampire$ or Armor, I tend to buy a copy.
Then I give them out when I meet somebody who needs to read one.

[Razzinold]

I used to own a copy of Vampire$ Inc. but it was old and I think I need to replace it.

Whenever I see a copy of Vampire$ or Armor, I tend to buy a copy.
Then I give them out when I meet somebody who needs to read one.

Well money is a little on the low side right now, so feel free to visit me anytime you'd like!