Vampire (EvilHack)

V vampire
Difficulty	2
Attacks	Claw 1d6 physical, bite 1d6 drain life

V vampire
Difficulty	2
Attacks	Claw 1d6 physical, bite 1d6 drain life
Base level	0
Base experience	?
Speed	15
Base AC	10
Base MR	0
Alignment	-3 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No (must kill Vlad the Impaler)
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, death resistance, sickness resistance
Resistances conveyed	None
A vampire: does not need to breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is a non-zombie type of undead. can follow you to other levels. is strong. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. never leaves a corpse. is vulnerable to fire.
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This article is about the placeholder monster in EvilHack. For the starting race represented by this monster, see Vampire (starting race in EvilHack).

For the starting race in other variants, see Vampire (starting race).

For other instances of the term, see Vampire (disambiguation).

A vampire, V, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack, and is used to represent vampire heroes and racial monsters. The basic vampire monster is renamed to the vampire sovereign to accommodate this, specifically "vampire baron" for a male vampire and "vampire baroness" for a female one.

The vampire is a strong and intelligent undead humanoid that shares many traits with other vampires: they are unbreathing, have infravision, can be seen via infravision, and can follow a hero to other levels if they are adjacent. Vampires feed on blood to survive, and can safely quaff potions of blood and vampire blood. They can wear all non-silver armor.

A vampire has a claw attack and a life-draining bite attack. Vampires possess sleep resistance and poison resistance like other undead, along with drain resistance and death resistance, and are vulnerable to both fire and silver.

Generation

Vampires cannot be selected as a genocide target unless Vlad the Impaler has been killed.

Vampire racial monsters leave behind vampiric corpses of the appropriate monster upon death.

Encyclopedia entry

He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship
arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as
bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as
friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my
friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come
in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him
of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on
moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those
sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we
ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
hairbreadth space at the tomb door.
[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]

The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal:
_vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in
the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated
corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking
the blood of sleeping persons. ..."

He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship
arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as
bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as
friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my
friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come
in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him
of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on
moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those
sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we
ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
hairbreadth space at the tomb door.
[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]

The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal:
_vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in
the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated
corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking
the blood of sleeping persons. ..."
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