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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Innocent Blood
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:38:14 GMT
Organization: Universite de Moncton

In article <BvCJ49.Ko6@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> conner@qucis.queensu.ca (Mike Conner) writes:
>From: conner@qucis.queensu.ca (Mike Conner)
>Subject: Innocent Blood
>Date: 29 Sep 92 15:31:20 GMT

>I just saw _Innocent Blood_ on the weekend and had just a couple of
>questions to ask:

>   1) If a church is on holy ground why was Marie inside.  Now she was
>      flying around so I guess if she does not touch the floor then
>      shes ok?

>   2) Lead bullets kill vamps.?  Now she did shoot them in the head so
>      she could have hit the spinal chord.  Having your head snapped seems
>      to be her favorite form of killing.

>   3) Did Marie not saw at the start of the flick that she "killed her
>      last lover for food"?  I think that would make me nervous.  I would
>      definitly make sure dinner was on the table when she gets home.

>Just a couple of thoughts.  I did infact enjoy the movie.  Kind of a comedy/
>thriller/fright-night kind of thing.  Don Rickles was an unexpected sight.


And I'll also mention that she didn't have any fangs.  But, according to the 
true legend of vampires, they can't look at a church.  So how come she could 
fly in it??  Maybe she didn't touch the floor, but she touched the door to 
open it, touched the walls to climb it, touch the window to break it and 
then..... touched the floor to take a shower.  Sucks.

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From: uslave@mcl.ucsb.edu (Sir Prize!!!)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Innocent Blood
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:58:54 GMT

In <1992Oct1.164836.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:

>In article <453@asylum.UUCP>, quark@asylum.UUCP (I think I know you.) writes:

>> Dracula was based on somone who had a penchant for putting people on stakes 
>> to prove points (so to speak).  It was penned by a victorian actor, if my 
>> memory serves me right...

>I don't know if Stoker was an actor, but he was the agent of one of the 
>best known British actors of that time.  Irving was his name I believe.

Sir Henry Irving I believe his name was.  The character of Count Dracula was
probably loosely based on Vlad the Impaler (to prove points?  He did it for
pleasure!), but I think the book was a commentary on the time period 
(Victorian) and what was going on at the time (feminism, etc.).

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From: ctatro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher D Tatro)
Subject: vampyric population
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:00:50 GMT

Does anyone have an idea of the most "efficient" human/vampyre ratios.  More 
specifically, how many vampyres a city of, say, one million human-types
could support.  I know the Vampire RPG gives some guidelines on that, but
I have heard that they are a bit...open to debate.

Disturbitas Vobiscum!
-kristoff
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: shayden@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Sean Lee Hayden)
Subject: Re: foreVER NIGHT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:51:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.152321.6137@watson.ibm.com> dave_lutz@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Lutz) writes:
>In  <1992Sep23.194557.4412@news.iastate.edu>  txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Angela KAY Rolling) writes:
>> Could any one tell me whin this is on. i havent seen it yet (central time
>> please I live in Iowa).
>
>It's part of CBS's CrimeTime after PrimeTime and comes on Tuesday nights
>at midnight (EST, sorry).

Is this some kinda net gag?  I have scowerd the television for the past week
hoping to see it!  All i see in the guide is:

11:05	Cosby
11:30	Designing Women
12:00	Jenny Jones
01:00	Designing Women
01:30	That amore
02:00	Eyewitness News
02:30	Up to the minute
05:00	Morning News.

That is the whole lineup.....So where do Forever Night fit in?

Sean
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From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: Lillith
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:18:56 GMT

In article <92Oct06.041427.15810@acs.ucalgary.ca> beeler@acs.ucalgary.ca (Karin E. Beeler) writes:
>>Just to continue (I love seeing my posts.  =) ), God then created another wife
>>for Adam (her name escapes me at the moment)... but the problem with this one
>>was he watched as she was created (bones, then muscle, fat, skin, hair,
>>etc...), and this sort of grossed him out.  He wouldn't touch her, so God sent
>>her away, and put Adam to sleep so that he could create Eve.
>>	Well, that sums up the story, boys and girls.  Take care..  and always
>>cover up....
>>
>Where are your sources? Although you mention some interesting
>information on Lilith and Adam's second wife, I think many
>readers would like references to specific texts in order
>to verify such general assertions. It is also important to
>remember that like Greek myths, legends about Lilith are
>quite diverse. (At least according to Midrashic literature
>and Jewish mysticism.) Can you recall where you read about
>this disgusting second wife of Adam's? This story is new
>to me. Thanks for your input.
>Karin Beeler
>

I am not sure where to look them up, but from a play I saw which
depicted the creation myth (Jewish one), Adam had a total of three
wives:  One of the first 2 was Lilith, which turned out to be much too
liberated for him (after all she insisted to being on top! :) ), the
other one, I cannot remember.  Eve was perfect because she was 
submissive and created from Adam's body.

My only suggestion is to go to the library and look up Judaism,
it will be somewhere there.

And don';t forget to examine the Talmud and Torah - you will be
suprised at what you uncover.

Take Care!
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From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Warren Publications/ Vampirella
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:15:33 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca

In <lk_ph0f.magus@netcom.com> magus@netcom.com (John Schmid) writes:

>In article <ir50444@pro-amber.cts.com> rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki) writes:
>>Did anyone ever get the rights to the Vampirella character?
>
>Harris - a comics publisher has the rights to Vampi and some of the other Warren	 titles (at least Creepy as well).
>
>	 They have issued (so far) either 2 or 3 Vampi collections of storylines	 from her magazine.
>
>	 They are also publishing new stuff, so far a 4 issue limited series
>	 with more planned.

Thats great! Now all I have to do is find 'em. I have quite a few of the
origin Warren Vampi's in my collection and was wondering if she had
resurfaced with a new publisher. Thanks for the info.


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From: moon!cyberden!jwlhyfer@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: The existance of Vampires
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 01:49:27 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

We are here whether you choose to believe in us or not..Your belief does 
not affect our existance or our lives.

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   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N       [ moon!cyberden!jwlhyfer@well.sf.ca.us ]
From: kat@wpi.WPI.EDU (Flame's Passion)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: cain; killing vampires; silver; real vampires
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:40:19 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Oct6.002743.19384@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bchapman@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Bruce Patrick Chapman) writes:

>real vampires: well...i've been able to convince a class of 30 adults
>	that vampires exist...

oh - do tell, how did you accomplish this?

kat
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From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Killing your neighborhood vampire
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:42:43 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca

In <92275.183526MI7555A@auvm.american.edu>
Michael D. Isenburg <MI7555A@auvm.american.edu> writes:

>Recently a friend of mine and I saw real vampires.  We have been trying to find
> sources of information but have been unsuccessful.  Any info shared on backgro
>und and ways to kill them would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your time a
>nd help.  I'm sorry if I did not use proper etiquette I am new to the system an
>d computers.
>
>
>

Happy Halloween to you too!!

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:28:04 EDT
From: Sean Rearick <SWR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: god(Lowercase Intended)

Just like to make a comment.  I've been an athiest for the past 6 years.
While this may not interest anyone, the reason for my desicion is from
'The Vampire Lestat'.  Before reading it I hadn't really thought about god,
just sort of took it for granted.  However, the part in the book, when
Lestat realizes that there is no god, got me thinking.  I basicaly
decided that he was right.  Anyone else's life affected by the 'Vampire
Chronicles' this strongly?
                                       Amadeo
        'Death is the only reality, its the end of the illusion.'
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: dickenjd@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (DICKENJD)
Subject: Re: Help with "Tale of theBody Thief"
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:18:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.182503.24127@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, cdonnahee@mta.ca writes...
>I'm looking for more info. on the affore mentioned book.
>Is this a new book[duh!].If so.How recent is it.And where can I get it.
> 
>                                                  -averyveryveryBIG
>                                                     Ann Rice fan.
	From what I've heard, the new Vampire Chronicles book, Tale of 
the Body Thief is due out around Halloween this year.
From: nbennet1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nathaniel Bennett)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Vampire rpg
Date: 28 Sep 92 02:02:59 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

In article <1992Sep18.141503.7613@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep16.021342.6820@usl.edu>, cgc2646@usl.edu (Cech Claude G) writes:
> > In article <8k!zlaj@rpi.edu> battlec@cs.rpi.edu (Clark Battle) writes:
> >>	The Vampire RPG has a novel interpretation of vampire lore.  All
> >>	Vampires are descendents of Cain who are forced to relive Cain's
> >>	sin of murder.  The Bible does mention that all Cain's progeny 
> >>	will bear his mark (the vampiric curse) and says *somthing* about
> >>	immortality.  Also, their vampires are not killed by a stake but
> >>	only held immobile. Holy stuff has no effect, the only ways to
> >>	kill them is fire, sunlight, or severe physical damage (tossing one
> >>	into a log mulcher!). 
> > 
> > You can go back a bit further, if you want:  I've seen some suggestion that
> > it goes back to Lillith.  (first wife of Adam, in some accounts)
>                   ^^^^^^^
> 
> I'm sure Fraser will be glad to hear that ;-)
> I've never heard this one, can anyone out there explain/elaborate?
> Mike 
> 
> 

What's been said about Vampire:The MAsquerade (the rpg in question) on the
net so far? I am an avid role-player and vampire enthusiast as I'm sure
many of you are, and I'm curious about what you think of the game and the
Cain idea. Persoannally me and my players like the Cain idea better than
Rice's Akasha bit. Anyway, would someone be so kind as to fill me in. If
anyone's interested in the game I've been invovled in it as a Storyteller
(GM) for almost a yera, and have just started playing and i'd be glad to
talk about it. Tank you in advance.

Nathaniel Bennett
nbennet1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: "no such thing" (was: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Interview!)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:01:27 GMT

In article <ROUGAN.92Oct4164823@wpi.WPI.EDU> rougan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Untitiled) writes:
>
>>   I think a correction in this thread might be made 
>>   for the sake of the scientific method.
>>   While we  may not believe that vampires exist
>>   we only can say that is our HYPOTHESIS.  Granted, all evidence is pointing 
>>   towards the non-existance of their 'powers' all we can say, therefore, is
>>   that they likeley do not exist.  
>
>   Ok then....by your logic I can say that...."I believe that their are a bunch
>of invisable little people running around who hardly interact wiht us except to
>hide our keys and do other little things that we find annoying...and that if we
>could see them they would look all look like Gonzo from the muppets except for
>the fact that they were diapers on their heads and a watch around their noses.

Sure, you are entitled to that pretty ridiculous hypothesis.  Proving it
will be a bitch though for you.

>I also believe that dogs can talk but prefer not to....and that rocks are 
>intelligent but have a real hard time expressing themselves.   Now prove me
>wrong.  If you do ' I'll just say that your scintific methods are garbage,

Actually, as a scientist, you would have to present evidence to support your
carefully thought out hypothesis, it is up to others to prove you wrong
or confirm your work.

As for scientific methods being 'garbage':  That call has been made by one
scientist on another time immemorial, and is all part of the 'game.'
Science, like most things, sometimes has old beleifs and politics creep in
in that form.

>because at one time scientists thought: dirty rags gave birth to maggots,
>the earth didn't move and was the center of the universe, all things were made
>from four elements namely fire,earth,air, and water, etc.  So how do we know 
>that our methods of today wont be proven bogus in a few years."

Well, we don't.  Some scientist may find out that some such theory does
not jive with his data, so the theory gets modified or re-done.  It happens
all the time and is part of scientific discovery.  
Perhaps even the 'scientific method' will be disporoven by some superior method
(though I can't think of any offhand).

>>   To state that, no matter what, vampires do not exist, is to display the
>>   same superstition that 'rational types' discarded about 300 years ago!
>    
>So what do you do when a black cat crosses your path?

Kick the cat. >;)

My whole point being that all we gan by accepting things as facts without
testing them, propels us back into the superstitions that for the most part
have faded into the background.  
>
>Shawn "I'm an invader from mars prove me wrong!" Pezzuto
>
I'd like to see your evidence proving you an invader first.


-- 
Brent L. Irvine					"Dyslexics of the World
irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu			UNTIE!"		- Kral Mrax
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Interview!
Date: 30 Sep 1992 23:08:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	Carol Page is the author of a book on modern vampires and victims
and even vampire hunters.  "Blood Lust -- Conversations with Real Vampires"
Through her bodyguard during the interviews for her book comes an offer to
be on TV.

The producer of the TV show "Night Talk" is having a halloween show with
witches and vampires (really) and is seeking vampires and vampire victims
 -- victims in the sense of providing blood for vampires -- it may be a 
willing donation.  They are offering a ticket to Boston and accomodations
during the filming.  Please reply to my account or contact Rich Grant at
(800)795-5970.

	Yeah I know, this sounds like a hoax or a fake post.  Well if you're
not serious, then yeah it is.  But if you're actually interested, give Rich
a call and tell him that you got the number from Matthew.

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From: sauron@ascoli.WPI.EDU (Amy Rich)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Coppola's Dracula
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:02:13 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: ascoli.wpi.edu

In article <461@asylum.UUCP> quark@asylum.UUCP (I think I know you.) writes:
>ueh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard) writes:
>>How do you Pronounce "CTHULHU"???
>
>Like it's spelled.  
>
>The proper answer if it's pronounced correctly is Gesuntheit...   


I assume you mean Gesundheit......  }*}









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From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Innocent Blood
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:58:11 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>>I just saw _Innocent Blood_ on the weekend and had just a couple of
>>questions to ask:

[Numerous questions about seemingly unvampiric behavior in IB deleted]

Well, that's the wonderful thing about the vamps. What's true in one story
isn't in the next. Just because the vampires don't follow your favored
vulnerabilities doesn't make them any less vampiric. Oriental vamps are
invisible, African ones like hiding in trees, Theodore Sturgeon's feed on
menstrual blood.

A somewhat related example:  one of my favorite vampire short-shorts is
about a very business-minded, practical vamp who figures he has nothing to
fear in today's world from religious symbols because faith has declined --
and, after all, it's the faith behind the symbol that counts, not the symbol
itself.

So, he gets business cards made out, mails them to his victims (just to make
sure they'll be home...), and then shows up at their door.

Until he picks on this yuppie couple, who, in their panic to keep him away
from the door, pick up wads of money and their credit cards, saying "No!
Stay away! We'll... we'll give you all our money!" And, the vampire,
repelled by the true belief the yuppies had in their cash, ran flaming into
the night.

Later...
-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
For Kate is a jealous God, and requires sacrifice./What was your question?--K
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992 11:11:00 CDT
From: <U61171@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: garlic

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE EFFECT OF GARLIC?  WHERE DID THE IDEA THAT IT WARDS OFF VA
MPIRES ORIGIONATE?  EASTERN EUROPE?    -VF
From: v116qhth@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (I'm not evil...I'm just good looking)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: VAMPIRE RPG
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:28:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  When determining one's starting Humanity and Willpower is the following
correct...

		Willpower = Courage + Self-Control
		Humanity = Conscience
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From: bkdavis@eos.ncsu.edu (B K DAVIS)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Pale blood
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:43:13 GMT
Reply-To: bkdavis@eos.ncsu.edu (B K DAVIS)
Distribution: alt
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Originator: bkdavis@pepe.csc.ncsu.edu


Has anyone seen pale Blood. It is a very good movie. I am sure that you
guys and gals will like it a lot.
Brian
From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Innocent Blood
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:04:16 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>Bram Stoker was the business manager for Sir Henry Irving. Stoker was a
>British writer. He wrote many other supernatural-type books i.e. The White
>Worm.  He wrote _Dracula_ as a sequel to a horror story by Joseph Sheridan
>Le Fanu. I don't remember the name of the story by Le Fanu, but it may have
>been "Schalken the Painter". In this story, a woman is seduced by a living
>corpse.

You are referring to, of course, Le Fanu's "Carmilla," one of vampiredom's
all-time classics, not "Schalken the Painter," which is a whole 'nother
matter.

My personal favorite scene in "Carmilla" is the one with the spectral
cat-thing in the bed room, but your mileage will undoubtfully vary.

-- 
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"Boy, do I love PLASTIC!" -- TJ Teru // What was your question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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From: jjam@ug.cs.dal.ca (J. J. A. MacDonald)
Subject: RE: god
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:52:10 GMT

While it does seem a little bit silly to base your religious beliefs
on the Anne Rice novels...isn't it equally silly or even more so to

believe in a religion because of something that was written many
centuries ago that makes claims about a "being" that could walk
on water, raise the dead, heal ailments and disabilities and
replicate food at will??

I think you all know who I am referring to:)

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