Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Slightly OT: Vampires in T2K

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Slightly OT: Vampires in T2K

    Original content deleted by moderator. This thread has been split from a previous, now-closed thread, and it now dedicated to the not-so-serious topic of vampires. Enjoy!
    Last edited by Raellus; 05-14-2012, 08:13 PM. Reason: Now OT
    I'm from Germany ... PM me, if I was not correct. I don't want to upset anyone!

    "IT'S A FREAKIN GAME, PEOPLE!"; Weswood, 5-12-2012

  • #2
    Originally posted by Graebarde View Post
    I've been a member on this board since it was created I think, after the other board folded, and was there for many moon before. I have been an avid Twilighter way before it became synonymous with vampires, which I might add I am NOT a fan of.
    Ya know Grae, I've been thinking the same thing...and really...

    Picks up used K-Pot, dons worn LBE

    I say it's time we took back the honored name of Twilight from those fangeeks and emo twits. I say we hunt down those baseball playing bloodsuckers and kill them deader than Rasputin! Hell, if Wesley Snipes can do it, we sure as hell can!

    Taps magazine on K-Pot to seat rounds then shoves magazine into the well of his weapon, and thumbs the bolt release, making a satisfying CHA-CHUNK as it chambers a round and the sound puts a smile on my face.

    Dibs on the HMMWV .50 Cal! Web brew us some hooch! Grae, you're driving! And somebody get us a LAV! I let you all figure out who's crewing. They wanna see Twilight...we'll show 'em Twilight!

    (This comedy break brought to you solely by a Twilight 2000 fan who wants his shorthand name back).
    Author of "Distant Winds of a Forgotten World" available now as part of the Cannon Publishing Military Sci-Fi / Fantasy Anthology: Spring 2019 (Cannon Publishing Military Anthology Book 1)

    "Red Star, Burning Streets" by Cavalier Books, 2020

    https://epochxp.tumblr.com/ - EpochXperience - Contributing Blogger since October 2020. (A Division of SJR Consulting).

    Comment


    • #3
      Originally posted by Jason Weiser View Post
      Dibs on the HMMWV .50 Cal!
      I would love to see what a .50 cal round through the thoracic cavity would do to a vampire. Then a few more in case he was inclined to get back up and capable of doing so. What about in the head The brain is still the CPU, right Break the computer and surely the undead die.

      P.S. Not at all convinced you want to leave me in charge of the moonshine. It'll get brewed just fine...
      “We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.

      Comment


      • #4
        Originally posted by Graebarde View Post
        I've been a member on this board since it was created I think, after the other board folded, and was there for many moon before.
        Grae, I've been wondering where you got yourself off too. You predate me on the previous Board, and that's saying something.

        Ah, if only I had the time to write like I did before kids! I miss having the luxury of spending an entire Saturday writing "The Storm in Germany". Those were the days! I think regularly about finishing that piece--at least through the lull in hostilities resulting from NATO reaching the borders of the DDR. I dream about finishing the Sino-Soviet War up through October 1996. I dream about getting Thunder Empire finished through 01 APR 01, along with Poseidon's Rifles and Silver Shogunate. If I could find a few more hours, I could finish the rest of my guide to northern New England and maybe get started on the San Francisco Bay. Of course, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.
        “We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.

        Comment


        • #5
          Originally posted by Olefin View Post
          And why did I put them up - because Legbreaker asked me directly on a post what I disagreed with specifically about HW and I stated it directly as an answer politely and without rancor.
          I said I had nothing further to say, but I'm sorry, I simply can't remain silent on this one.
          I have spent the past 45 minutes intensively searching every post I have made in the last two weeks. Not once have I asked Olefin to list what what he disagreed with. The above statement is a blatant lie.
          The question he may be thinking of is my single question in the Howling Wilderness thread after he started listing his issues.

          Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
          Originally posted by Olefin View Post
          I have made arguments that the HW timeline is incorrect so I will post some of them here.
          Ok, lets turn this on it's head for something different.
          What do you see is right
          I STRONGLY object to my name being used to justify another's poor judgement and offensive actions.

          If somebody can show where I have in fact made such a request, I will happily withdraw my comments and offer public apology to this forum.
          If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

          Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

          Mors ante pudorem

          Comment


          • #6
            Originally posted by Jason Weiser View Post
            I say it's time we took back the honored name of Twilight from those fangeeks and emo twits. I say we hunt down those baseball playing bloodsuckers and kill them deader than Rasputin! Hell, if Wesley Snipes can do it, we sure as hell can!
            I've said it before and I'll say it again: vampires should sparkle only after you apply the white phosphorus.

            - C.
            Clayton A. Oliver • Occasional RPG Freelancer Since 1996

            Author of The Pacific Northwest, coauthor of Tara Romaneasca, creator of several other free Twilight: 2000 and Twilight: 2013 resources, and curator of an intermittent gaming blog.

            It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you're in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you're dealing with someone who can't.
            - Josh Olson

            Comment


            • #7
              Originally posted by Tegyrius View Post
              I've said it before and I'll say it again: vampires should sparkle only after you apply the white phosphorus.

              - C.
              I love the smell of burning vamp in the morning....
              Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven.

              Comment


              • #8
                Originally posted by Webstral View Post
                I would love to see what a .50 cal round through the thoracic cavity would do to a vampire. Then a few more in case he was inclined to get back up and capable of doing so. What about in the head The brain is still the CPU, right Break the computer and surely the undead die.

                P.S. Not at all convinced you want to leave me in charge of the moonshine. It'll get brewed just fine...
                I do not remember the name of the game I played, but it did have Vampires. My character was a vampire hunter. My lead weapon was a .460 Wembly....

                I played anti vamp like this, Newton's Laws of Motion. Yes I could shoot a vamp in the head/chest/wherever. Vamp still was MOVED by the force of the 460 hitting him/her/it. BUT...I had to follow up with the traditional wooden stake through the heart. SO...modern weapons were my lead in...traditional weapons, (cross, garlic, stake) were the follow up.

                It would be interesting to see a small Special OPs group put into Romania...their mission, destroy Polesti oil fields/refineries....

                Yeah, the GPS/nav system/map reader fubar'ed....

                They are now in TRANSYLVANIA.....

                And all of the rucus of WWIII woke Vlad Dragul up...

                And he is PISSED>>>>>

                THat could be a fun night of T2K vs Vlad the Impaler!!!

                My $0.02

                Mike

                Comment


                • #9
                  Originally posted by mikeo80 View Post
                  It would be interesting to see a small Special OPs group put into Romania...their mission, destroy Polesti oil fields/refineries....

                  Yeah, the GPS/nav system/map reader fubar'ed....

                  They are now in TRANSYLVANIA.....

                  And all of the rucus of WWIII woke Vlad Dragul up...

                  And he is PISSED>>>>>

                  THat could be a fun night of T2K vs Vlad the Impaler!!!

                  My $0.02

                  Mike
                  I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)
                  Author of the unofficial and strictly non canon Alternative Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    Read an excellent World War Z story about a bunch of vampires fighting zombies in an Asian country during that war - will see if I can find it. Sounds like a perfect Twilight Nightmares kind of encounter.

                    Comment


                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Rainbow Six View Post
                      I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)
                      It was also written up as a novel trilogy.

                      Also try "The Keep" by F Paul Wilson for WW2 and "Twelve" by Jasper Kent for Napoleonic vampires.

                      In conventional T2K a castle, a plague of rats, a pet wolf, superstitious villagers, etc could make the players (and villagers) THINK the marauder chief is a vampire (especially if he survived a wound using a hidden flak jacket) - he might even believe it himself.

                      Comment


                      • #12
                        To continue the vampire motif - did anyone ever see (I think it was either the revival of The Outer Limits or the New Twilight Zone) episode where after a nuclear war a vampire is trying to lure the surviving duty crew after they launched their nukes out of their bunker and is sitting there entering random codes into the lock, saying how he has eternity to get the code right

                        Scary stuff

                        Comment


                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Olefin View Post
                          Read an excellent World War Z story about a bunch of vampires fighting zombies in an Asian country during that war - will see if I can find it. Sounds like a perfect Twilight Nightmares kind of encounter.
                          There's a movie supposed to be coming out soon about Abraham Licoln, Zombie Hunter. I think it may be straight to DVD, looks really low budget.
                          Just because I'm on the side of angels doesn't mean I am one.

                          Comment


                          • #14
                            Originally posted by weswood View Post
                            There's a movie supposed to be coming out soon about Abraham Licoln, Zombie Hunter. I think it may be straight to DVD, looks really low budget.

                            I think you are confusing the title a bit it is

                            Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter



                            It is a bigger film than you would expect
                            3D
                            70 million dollar budget
                            release date in over 20 countries.

                            Comment


                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Olefin View Post
                              To continue the vampire motif - did anyone ever see (I think it was either the revival of The Outer Limits or the New Twilight Zone) episode where after a nuclear war a vampire is trying to lure the surviving duty crew after they launched their nukes out of their bunker and is sitting there entering random codes into the lock, saying how he has eternity to get the code right

                              Scary stuff
                              Think it was the Twilight Zone redo. So, yeah, I do recall seeing it.
                              Member of the Bofors fan club! The M1911 of automatic cannon.

                              Proud fan(atic) of the CV90 Series.

                              Comment

                              Working...
                              X