Sandbox Discussions

[Alicorn]

Elcenian vampires are not supposed to drink blood from a nonconsenting person. They may drink from animals, can drink potions, and could drink conjured things including conjured blood that didn't come from anybody.

[Shoal]

how does conjured blood affect their lifespans?

[DanielH]

My guess, being not Alicorn, is that wizardry cannot conjure blood that affects lifespan at all (and witchcraft can’t make a potion that simulates it, etc.), but Bar would be quite capable of creating lifespan-affecting blood from the longest-lived non-magical blood-containing species in the known multiverse.

[Alicorn]

Your guess is correct.

[Kappa]

The blood Leekath habitually drinks is already wildly out of the bounds of normal vampire-meal lifespans, and she'd be in trouble if she lost her supply. If she drank arbitrarily high-lifespan blood from Bar, would that cause her problems too?

Is it possible to create an 'infinite lifespan hack' by having high-lifespan kyma let vampires sip from them, steal the extra years of the vampires' lifespans and concentrate them all on a single kama, let vampires sip again, repeat as needed?

[Alicorn]

If Leekath drank something significantly tastier than Talyn once, she might be able to go back to drinking from Talyn after that with a little difficulty. More than just "significantly", and/or more than once, and she'd be in trouble.

Vampires plus kyma totally make an infinite lifespan hack.

[Kappa]

How mad would Rhysel be if someone suggested infinite lifespan hack to her face? XD

What happens if you add extra lifespan years to a dragon - how does it interact with the bizarre mechanism of dragon death?

[DanielH]

Ah, yes, vampires come in plural.

I tried developing the infinite lifespan hack, but ran into problems where I couldn’t get it to work with just a single vampire and kama (because drinks average out, so you add fewer years each time and the infinite series converges). With plural vampires it would probably work, but I’m not certain. Averaging out all blood drinks might require a growing number of vampires to escape to “infinite” lifespan instead of just “very far extended”.

[PlainDealingVillain]

If you had some very young vampires who hadn't eaten blood before (or only a couple times), it could escape very quickly without more than a handful.

[Kappa]

It might matter exactly how the lifespan averaging mechanism works...

I kind of want to math this now, but I don't want to make Alicorn decide things about exact mathing of vampire nibbles if she doesn't want to.