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Message no. 1
From: dEdDaWg utomo_hadi@*****.com
Subject: Oriental Vampires (was A Van that is also a Boat that is also a Submarine...)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:53:55 +0800
> > What about those Penge-something or other, Al? The
> > ones who go around as normal people during the day,
> > then, at night, their heads detach from their bodies
> > and they fly around chomping on people? I THINK those
> > are Oriental critters, and, apart from the head
> > detaching bit, they sound rather vampirish to me.
>
> Penangalaan and I always thought they were turkish or one of the
> semidi-mediterranean myths for some reason. Persian???? (trying to
recall,
> frustration showing).

Actually, they're from the Malayan Peninsular and Indonesia. Of course
there's always the pontianak... but I'd rather not talk abt it (being the
superstitious sort). Had a few friends who said they encountered such
creatures. Scary stuff.



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Message no. 2
From: Fyre - AKA Colin fyre@******.demon.co.uk
Subject: Oriental Vampires (was A Van that is also a Boat that is also a Submarine...)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:17:35 +0100
In article <003b01bfcf17$2c718da0$9aa915a5@*******>, dEdDaWg
<utomo_hadi@*****.com> writes
>> > What about those Penge-something or other, Al? The
>> > ones who go around as normal people during the day,
>> > then, at night, their heads detach from their bodies
>> > and they fly around chomping on people? I THINK those
>> > are Oriental critters, and, apart from the head
>> > detaching bit, they sound rather vampirish to me.
>>
>> Penangalaan and I always thought they were turkish or one of the
>> semidi-mediterranean myths for some reason. Persian???? (trying to
>recall,
>> frustration showing).
>
>Actually, they're from the Malayan Peninsular and Indonesia. Of course
>there's always the pontianak... but I'd rather not talk abt it (being the
>superstitious sort). Had a few friends who said they encountered such
>creatures. Scary stuff.
>
Hmm. Anyone ever played 'Kindred of the East'? It's an add-on to
Vampire: The Masquerade which details the Kuei-Jin (sp anyone?),
oriental vampires.

They're created when their Po (demon) awakens in life (cruelty & evil
acts etc. bring this on) and become vampires after a trip to the Yomi
world (hell, in various different flavours, there are quite a few of
them. Think of them as metaplanes). They then return to their body on
earth and rage around for a bit while they're under the control of their
Po before they get themselves under control.

LOL. Anyone tried a Vampire / Shadowrun crossover? :)
DarkFyre
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fyre@******.demon.co.uk
Message no. 3
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Oriental Vampires (was A Van that is also a Boat that is also a Submarine...)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:24:51 -0500
From: Fyre - AKA Colin
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:18 PM

> LOL. Anyone tried a Vampire / Shadowrun crossover? :)

http://members.aol.com/talonmail/worldofshadow.html

No less a person than Steve Kenson has at least thought of it, though I
haven't actually done it.

--
Patrick E. Goodman
remo@***.net
"I'm going to tell you something cool." -- Gene Wolfe
Message no. 4
From: Manolis Skoulikas great_worm@*****.com
Subject: Oriental Vampires (was A Van that is also a Boat that is also a Submarine...)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:23:14 +0300
Fyre - AKA Colin wrote:
Hmm. Anyone ever played 'Kindred of the East'? It's an add-on to
> Vampire: The Masquerade which details the Kuei-Jin (sp anyone?),
> oriental vampires.
>

Sure have! Great work on the philosophy part of the game!

> They're created when their Po (demon) awakens in life (cruelty & evil
> acts etc. bring this on) and become vampires after a trip to the Yomi
> world (hell, in various different flavours, there are quite a few of
> them. Think of them as metaplanes).

1000 as the orientals agree! See "1000 hells" for Wraith the Oblivion.

They then return to their body on
> earth and rage around for a bit while they're under the control of their
> Po before they get themselves under control.
>
> LOL. Anyone tried a Vampire / Shadowrun crossover? :)

Where do you think the vampire plots in my shadowruns come from? :)
And I certainly have used Werewolf in interpreting the "nature" aspect
of SR shapeshifters.

the wiz
Message no. 5
From: Fyre - AKA Colin fyre@******.demon.co.uk
Subject: Oriental Vampires (was A Van that is also a Boat that is also aSubmarine...)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:04:59 +0100
In article <005a01bfcf81$a8e25800$bd95eb94@*******>, Ahuizotl
<cuellare@*******.net.mx> writes
>>
>> LOL. Anyone tried a Vampire / Shadowrun crossover? :)
>> DarkFyre
>> --
>Yes I'm guilty of this charge. :-)

LOL. Respect.

>I have storytelling (that's the name of Gmastering?) a Vampire game where
>the characters found themselve in a strange word after 50 years of "torpor?
>" As you can guess it was the shadowrun future.

Smooth. I'd like to see an 850 year torpor game... Dark ages to
Shadowrun. Anybody played Redemption (Vampire computer game) yet?

>At the same time a group of
>runners meet with some very strange vampires that claim that they was in the
>earth before the awakening and that they share the earth with the metahuman
>for centuries. There was a little "what you do in one game affect the
>other game" and finally a Vampire sit this side of the table and
>shadowrunners in this other site. (2 GM and 1 storyteller for running the
>game) big finale. It was good. Long time ago the players of the shadowrun
>side never hear about vampire before this so every thing they found about
>vampire clans and legends was new to them. The vampire side never had heard
>of shadowrun so they enjoy this "strange bladerunner with AD&D cross over
>word". It was a big effort of change of the rules, double cross Word of
>darkness setting with Shadowrun ( the last nights with the awakening,
>werewolf that swear that they was the ones that call Gaia and teach
>conjuring, the travels to the metaplanes, and the same time old mage that
>said the same but in thweir point ofr view. Everybody telling that Coyote
>was one of their kind, a pact between the Technocracy and the traditions.
>Well you get the idea) and approximation of game mechanics. (Don't ask
>about, I think I loss the file but I'm still looking) Was fun to do it but
>I don't think I will try again soon. (I'm getting old you know :-))
>
>
>
>

DarkFyre
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fyre@******.demon.co.uk

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