[Glorantha] Vampires to Zombies? Naaaah!

>> Untreated the void will eventually suck the >> person dry leaving a zombie.

> where "eventually" is a highly variable time span (as
> long as the plot requires). Leaving a zombie? Yes, I
> suppose so, if nothing else happens.

Whooooaah! Hang on a sec! I don't get that at all. Zombies and Vampires are very different beasts, and I don't see a vampire degrading into a slow, shambling, brainless automaton however bad they get.

If a vampire does not get to feed, I'd say that two things would happen. Firstly they would be driven to increasing levels of desperation and insanity, until all that's left is an animalistic frenzy, devoid of any possibility of control, and secondly, they would weaken, slowly shrivel up as the Void devours them from the inside, until all that would be left is a dried up remnant, tortured and driven within, whilst incapable of satiating their need because their body is just a husk. Unless some daft bugger goes and spills blood on them of course, or kindly consigns them to Oblivion in one of the tried and tested methods.

A vampire in the last stages of mobility would be less akin to a zombie than to a skin-clad skeleton in a beserker rage that would make Zorak Zoran look merely petulant.

IMHO. Malk. Received on Wed 05 Apr 2006 - 11:25:21 EEST