The same holds true here. Every myth, every legend, every author, every movie producer ascribes different and varied vulnerabilities to the vampyre being depicted. A few of the more commonly accepted quirks are detailed in question [201] in the Traditional FAQ located at http://www.altvampyres.net/newsgroup/faq.

In these books, I wanted to boldly explore the definition of the term vampire and to take it into a whole new realm. I didn't want to tread the common ground, but rather I let loose my imagination and wanted to expand the genre and see just where it could take us. These are vampires like you have never seen them before.

Yes. In the same way goths tend to enjoy things relating to magick, ghosts, the paranormal and alternative religions, they will very often seek out and absorb anything vampire related too. Threads in UPG regarding shows like Ultraviolet, The Masquerade and even Forever Knight back this up, and the idea of more movies based on Anne Rice novels is always a source of excitement. Vampire legends exist in most cultures and hence are an important part of world mythology.

No! Your average goth thinks that people pretending to be or acting like vampires represent all that is pants in goth. Plastic fangs are not merely frowned upon, they are completely and utterly taboo and anyone wearing them might as well go the whole hog with a T-shirt saying "I am tosser. Please do not talk to me or even make eye contact".

Oh yeah... refer to section [3.03] of the Traditional FAQ located at http://www.altvampyres.net/newsgroup/faq.

alt.culture.vampires - alt.culture.vampires is a place for those who are involved with blood-fetish activities, people who just have a taste for blood, people who live vampiric lifestyles, people who think they're vampires, people who know they're vampires, vampires, vampires who think they're people, and people who want to argue with people believing in any of the above.

A trickle of reports has arisen in Eastern and Central Europe, most provided by professional Vampire hunters. Several isolated Vampire-Typical injury reports (neck bites, severe bleeding from small wounds), also need investigation. This is almost impossible, as no health service categorises wounds in a useful way - and victims often go to great lengths to disguise or deny such injury.

Only if they get a ticket. Vampires have been shown turning into bats, wafting effortlesly upward, even leaping out of windows with a 'bat flight' soundtrack to suggest flight. It's all hokum; an exhausted vampire could not fly across Los Angeles and look fresh afterward, any more than I can - whatever Nick Knight might suggest. And why a vampire should even want to turn into a swarm of bats, as suggested by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, beats me.

Not necessarily; vampires just "are"; as a lion is not evil when it kills a zebra, so a vampire is not evil for feeding off a person; living creatures do what they must to survive. The consensus is, however, that for the most part, Vampires are "not very nice".

If Vampyrism began somewhere in Eastern Europe in the1400's, and given the extremity of their physiology, it would be logical to assume that if they have survived this long that they may have evolved in order to survive.

The advance of technology must pose a threat to the vampire; bureaucracy, finger print identification and security photography may force vampires to finally decide whether to risk life within the 'normal' community - or to survive in the netherworld of the drug and crime community, illegal immigrants and the homeless: they must be tempted to want the advantages of each, without the disadvantages of either. I suspect a fear of the tightly-ordered modern world will make the decision for them.

In certain circumstances those who expire from this parasite's visitations and quaffing of their life-blood will themselves be at risk of becoming vampires in their turn. This does not occur where the person is in a state of grace, however, where any mortal sin that stains their soul has been absolved. And by no means are the great majority of victims destined to return as undead. It would seem that those chosen to increase the cult are fewer than we might imagine.

Exorcism does not "kill" the demonic agent. It rids the supernatural predatory wraith from our sphere or dimension. The corporeal host obviously returns to its true state and is no longer plagued by the apparent supernatural ability to manifest as though it were living.

The vampire is a predatory entity that feeds on the life-force, ie blood, of others. It is but one of many types of demon. However, in all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons.

In earlier editions of the game, House Tremere had vampiric members. This was given as a rumour in Second Edition, confirmed in Third, and explored a little in the Fourth. At fullest flower the idea included statistics for vampires, given in "The Medieval Bestiary: Revised Edition", a note that they had been destroyed in "Houses of Hermes", and an origin story foreshadowing their return in "Triamore: the Covenant at Lucien's Folly".

There are many, many different versions of the vampire myth, both in legend and in fiction, so just about any ability you could name has probably been ascribed to vampires at some point. If you want to know about the powers of specific vampire types, take a look at the next question, and at the non-fiction books listed under question 7. The ability to change their shape. Common forms assumed are wolf, bat, rat, cat, owl, fox, weasel, raven, spider, Does not cast a reflection.