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Vampire. Small town would have access to holy water, fire, and numerous forms of wood. Garlic cloves (ideally a garlic rope) would be easily found as well. I'm sure there'd be at least one Harker-esque big ass knife.

I'd find the obligatory Catholic church first, bathe myself in the holy water, fill a garden sprayer with whatever's left, and then go hunting with a couple of butane torches. Actually, once I scored that gear, I'd probably just find the most defensible position I could, and wait out morning.

I give myself even odds, particularly if I have time to prepare. Really, I don't need to kill it, just survive the night. At that point, I have all day to burn down the town and get the hell out of dodge, hoping its coffin was in one of the buildings. I spend the rest of my life keeping one eye over my shoulder and keeping five gallon jugs of holy water lining every room in my house. I probably also pursue the priesthood.

 daedalus wrote:
Vampire. Small town would have access to holy water, fire, and numerous forms of wood. Garlic cloves (ideally a garlic rope) would be easily found as well. I'm sure there'd be at least one Harker-esque big ass knife.

I'd find the obligatory Catholic church first, bathe myself in the holy water, fill a garden sprayer with whatever's left, and then go hunting with a couple of butane torches. Actually, once I scored that gear, I'd probably just find the most defensible position I could, and wait out morning.

I give myself even odds, particularly if I have time to prepare. Really, I don't need to kill it, just survive the night. At that point, I have all day to burn down the town and get the hell out of dodge, hoping its coffin was in one of the buildings. I spend the rest of my life keeping one eye over my shoulder and keeping five gallon jugs of holy water lining every room in my house. I probably also pursue the priesthood.

You have to be...."Special"

You could also hide in a house and not give it permission to enter, or cross running water to esacpe a traditional vampire.

COuldn't the vampire just set the house on fire?

 Frazzled wrote:
COuldn't the vampire just set the house on fire?

Then you stay i the burnt remains of your house. It still cant enter it w/o permission

Actually you'd kind of be dead from the fire.

Not if I waas in my panic room

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not if I waas in my panic room

I'm glad your panic room has enough oxygen and your generator has the ability to cool itself while surrounded by fire and clean the air intakes of all that smoke and soot.

In his defense if his house was a concrete or abobe structure (or even better a castle), it might be quite hard to catch it alight from the outside. Also seems like they're not good at figuring that out.

Styrofoam products and gasoline = Napalm

Concrete, adobe, and/or castle = nice brick oven

You're thinking like a human. I'v enot seen notation yet where vamps go the burning down the house route.

Wolves, well, their dogs. Just chuck a squirrel out the window and they're off on a merry chase.

 Jihadin wrote:
Styrofoam products and gasoline = Napalm

Not anymore. They changed the formula of styrofoam years ago to prevent people from doing that. If you have old, old styrofoam lying around (like the kind GW used to package in its metal miniatures boxes... say in an unopened Necromunda box from '97 or so...) you might get some homemade napalm. If you try using modern styrofoam, you are only going to disappoint yourself.


...and your audience.

Powder sugar or corn starch then

Ha ha, I guess there are indeed quite a few technicalities one could exploit to win the scenario. You guys are no fun! Fight! Don't cower in a home and not invite the vampire in!

Some of the responses are interesting, like making napalm. See, I never would have known that, which is precisely why I'd lose. I'm not crafty. :(

I'd take on the Werewolf any day.

Easy to buy. Easy to use.

 kronk wrote:
I'd take on the Werewolf any day.

Easy to buy. Easy to use.

Why is the casing silver, too? Don't we use brass for a reason?

squidhills wrote:


Why is the casing silver, too? Don't we use brass for a reason?

I may be wrong, but I think that the metal properties make everything act a little differently... Alternatively, I have some white "brass" casings in my .380 ammo, so it being white isn't all that weird

Work my way towards the middle of the house spreading fine silver powder all over. Then for kicks fill water balloons up with Holy Water and Silver grinding. Then which ever doing the Happy Feet dance shoot em with silver buck shot and once on ground get my Hockey fix in and beat em with a silver lined blade of a Hockey Stick

squidhills wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I'd take on the Werewolf any day.

Easy to buy. Easy to use.

Why is the casing silver, too? Don't we use brass for a reason?

Well its probably because the whole thing is pure silver

Edit: also for WW, shotgun + reload a shell with silver bits and call it a day. Though i wonder if a vampire would care if he was shot with rock salt (do they count rock salt if its been vaporized?)

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
Ha ha, I guess there are indeed quite a few technicalities one could exploit to win the scenario. You guys are no fun! Fight! Don't cower in a home and not invite the vampire in!

Some of the responses are interesting, like making napalm. See, I never would have known that, which is precisely why I'd lose. I'm not crafty. :(

Flame throwers for when you want to set someone on fire but are too lazy to walk and do it yourself.

Also dog whistle. Blow it. Wolfie loses it, holding his ears and howling. .30-06 to the old brain pan.

Vampire.

Go in our house (vampire needs an invitation). Wait until day. I win.

I'm good with swords and unarmed combat, but I would never be able to best a werewolf due to the insane strength advantage and its primal instincts.

I pick option 5. Become a vampire. No need to fight the bugger.

Now thats thinking outside the box er..coffin!

Where's the option for:

'Does it really matter? all I know is when I regain consiousness I will have either developed an extreme craving for black pudding and a garlic allergy, or be easily distracted by noises outside my field of vision and gained the ability to clean my nads with my tongue'

Werewolf, I would try and escape with lycanthropy, cause that would be cool.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Werewolf, I would try and escape with lycanthropy, cause that would be cool.

Indeed. It would just take the relationship with Team Wienie to the next level. Time to run with the pack, where's that deer? Wuuf.

 4oursword wrote:
I pick option 5. Become a vampire. No need to fight the bugger.

Came here for this.

I'm amazed I'm only the second person to think of it. Why would I try to fight a beast that will rip me apart if I can fight something that makes me immortal if it beats me.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

I'm amazed I'm only the second person to think of it. Why would I try to fight a beast that will rip me apart if I can fight something that makes me immortal if it beats me.

Because you're assuming it will vamp you instead of just killing you. Even if it did, I think you'd be getting the raw deal. Personally, I'd rather not live forever.

I'd rather be incredibly handsome for a normal life time, than incredibly handsome forever.

I can't handle that pressure! I'm only one man!

It depends, what type of Vampire are we talking about? There are so many interpretations and variants of Vampiric lore.


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 Jihadin wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Vampire. Small town would have access to holy water, fire, and numerous forms of wood. Garlic cloves (ideally a garlic rope) would be easily found as well. I'm sure there'd be at least one Harker-esque big ass knife.

I'd find the obligatory Catholic church first, bathe myself in the holy water, fill a garden sprayer with whatever's left, and then go hunting with a couple of butane torches. Actually, once I scored that gear, I'd probably just find the most defensible position I could, and wait out morning.

I give myself even odds, particularly if I have time to prepare. Really, I don't need to kill it, just survive the night. At that point, I have all day to burn down the town and get the hell out of dodge, hoping its coffin was in one of the buildings. I spend the rest of my life keeping one eye over my shoulder and keeping five gallon jugs of holy water lining every room in my house. I probably also pursue the priesthood.

You have to be...."Special"

Ah that film.
The only part I liked about it was the animated opening, in all it's brutal glory.
Everything else was meh.