Re: Weak Vampires?

Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David DeLaney) wrote in 
>> Though much depends on the time periods involved in both 'breeding' and
the
>> lifespan of the predator. If they really do have the ability to live
for
>> millenia if not squashed by accidents, and if making a new vamp is
fairly
>> rare, _and_ if they have enough tricks amassed to avoid many avoidable
>> accidents - then they can breed fairly slowly and still sustain
themselves,
>> leading to a much smaller "breeding population" than one might expect. 
>
>And how did that evolve? Long generations is going to make it harder to 
>keeo up with your evolving prey, by the way.

Eh. So maybe they experience time differently than we. Magic magic magic.

>> This also is helped if they don't need to predate very often; one human
a 
>month going missing in a city is much more likely to be lost in the pre-
>industrial noise than one a night. Etc.
>
>Uh huh. Of course, until relatively recently, there were no cities. And
how 
>do you get by feeding once a month--are we talking some sort of reptile?

Perhaps they only need to feed _on hu-man blood_ once a month. An addition
to
the menstrual cycle that ended up non-gender specific. And can get by on
yummy
radishes, turnips, and bacon the rest of the month.

Until we actually find some, we won't _know_ how it 'works' or how it
evolved.
At present, we're missing anything to theorize on outside of archetypal
imaginings, and we may never run into any at all. Doesn't stop people
saying
"Well, obviously it SHOULD work like this because that's the most elegant
way of doing it if this magic works like that"...

Dave
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