I know you guys are probably sick of people asking about vampire fics that don't suck, but I've been more or less hooked on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for the past week and a half or so. Never played the original RPG or the new World of Darkness, but I'm intrigued, especially given the lack of development of vampires in the Potter 'verse. It wouldn't be too unreasonable for the oWod to be worked into the Potter 'verse, since the individual games didn't interconnect much from my understanding. Hacking away at body-horror geodudes with a fireaxe and Blood Shield and turning thugs into bombs got me wondering why we never see a vampire version of Harry doing something this awesome.

Searches on ff.net show no Harry Potter-White Wolf crossovers (at least since the crossover category was put in), and searching "masquerade" only seems to turn up masquerade-ball based slash fics and the like.

So, is there anything that sounds like what I'm talking about or am I just dreaming?

 

I think there was a discussion about HP and Vampire: The Masquerade on this site a few years ago, but I don't know of any actual stories.

 

Can't say I'm surprised. I guess I'll just file it away somewhere until I feel like writing it or put together a challenge.

Thanks.

 

...if you want Vampire: The Masquerade readings, why don't you grab one of the five hundred plus rulebooks and splatbooks set in the oWoD universe or any of the dozens of oWoD novels? You know, instead of looking for fanfiction crossovers with a completely unrelated franchise?

Now go back and play Bloodlines again as a Malkavian.

Because... there's plenty of non-vampire versions being just as awesome, if not more, that can do it during the day AS WELL AS at night?

Here's the HP/VtM crossover plot bunny thread.

 

1. I'm cheap.

2. I like Harry Potter. I like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Crossover sounded plausibly good.

3. Currently in Chinatown as Malkavian. Stop signs can suck it.

4. Harry being that awesome as a vampire interests me for no particular reason. Just another spin on things.

5. Thank you, kind sir.

 

Firstly, Vampire: the Masquerade is an old edition of the game. The latest is called Vampire: the Requiem, I think.

Secondly, there are no such thing as a fireaxe or Blood Shield in the game...unless you have some funny house rules. And vampires aren't going to turn thugs into bombs... Well, that could be possible with Thaumaturgy (or whatever that is called in the new edition).

Thirdly, vampires suck. And mages lose their magic when they are turned into a vampire.

 

Trust me on this: do NOT go there. oWoD and nWoD is a battle that has been raging for five years, and makes D&D 3.5 vs 4e look like a slapfight at pre-school.

Also, nWoD is a piece of shit.

And Random Shinobi has made it clear that he has no fucking idea what he's talking about, otherwise he'd realise that Bloodlines is a video game based on the oWoD. He obviously played a Tremere, because he explicitly described two of their five signature powers.

 

OP said "HarryPotter/Vampire: The Masquerade Crossovers." VtM doesn't have any Disciplines that can produce effects like that. The video game might have, but that's beside the point.

 

I didn't read this one but here

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2747625/1/Dark_Paths_We_Walk

possibly it's piece of shit

Tremere has bloodshield in the game (videogame). Thaumaturgy 3. dot if I'm not mistaken and with 4. dot you can blow up humans.

edit: here another one.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3203849/1/Take_a_Look_Through_the_Masquerade

edit2: and another .... remind me why am I sending these? You can find your self don't be lazy ass

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3230475/1/The_Thaumaturger

 

You can explode random thugs with five points in the Thaumaturgical Path of Blood - Cauldron of Blood. You can explode them more literally with high-level Lure of Flames. And blood shield was just a fucking fort buff to balance out the fact that Tremere can't go above four in stamina and have no access to Fortitude - which is a permanent boost to damage soak on the tabletop, but a temporary buff in the video game.

As for burning axes? Look into the sort of shit werecreatures and mages have crafted in their spare time. Burning weapons are quite definitely among them.

 

Perhaps you could actually read what I say? Besides, Lure of Flames doesn't do enough damage to actually explode anyone, and I don't think that Cauldron of Blood makes the target to blow up either.

I thought were speaking about a Discipline of some sort and not an actual axe. But yeah, a vampire could probably use a fetish or technocracy weapon.

 

Yeah, I found these once I realized that Vampire had it's own category on ff.net and there was a c2. Thanks though.




I feel I should clarify that by "fireaxe" I meant an axe that a fireman would use, not a literal flaming axe.

 

Actually, once you start hitting Bonfire and Inferno, explosions ain't exactly uncommon. And read the fucking description on Cauldron of Blood. The victim's blood burns him from within, or more specifically boils him from within. Blood turning to vapor = expanding gas = explosion.

Also, between this and the 40K thread, you're really setting out to look dumber than the average bear.

 

Lure of Flames has the maximum damage of three points of aggravated per round. A pretty pathetic explosion if you ask me.

And humans don't explode if their blood suddenly vaporizes, they merely rupture. Besides, the spell doesn't even vaporize, it boils.

 

Erm, boiling is the phase change from liquid to vapor. So, yes, it is vaporization.

 

I actually wrote a HP/Vampire Chronicles xover at one point. I had something like 40K words written before I had to scrap the project. Apparently Anne Rise despises fanfiction of her work, and a few people saw my request for a beta in my user profile and threatened to report me to the admins if I posted the story.

 

As Snarf said, it is vaporization, and fine, they rupture. Violently. With all their blood turning to a gas, expanding, bursting flesh and flinging viscera everywhere. Kinda like... an explosion, if you think about it.

 

And if they had, the admins might have gotten around to acting on it, in a year or three.

But yes, Anne Rice is on the list of authors who get apoplectic about fan fiction. (Of course Anne Rice is insane and gets apoplectic about lots of crazy shit.)

Ah, White Wolf geekery and arguments over whether or not Tremere can make people explode. Reminds me of the last con I went to, lo these many years, now. Also reminds me why it's been many years.

 

We are not speaking physics here, you know. Generally speaking, when you boil water, you merely heat it to its boiling point, you don't entirely vaporize it. The description of Cauldron of Blood uses words "are brought to boil," which makes it even clearer. Besides, that spell boils only one blood point per success.

Me thinks you have watched too may scifi movies. Humans don't explode even when all water in them boils.

 

... Do you not understand the principle here? There is X amount of space within the human body. Even if you only boil them just a little bit, you fill more room than it is designed to accommodate.

Under normal circumstances, the slow rise might help, but if you use magic, and bring to a boil in seconds for long enough, you can violently rupture the skin.

Try this; put an empty soda bottle on the ground and stamp on it as hard as you can. Constricting the space without emptying the contents. What happens? POP! Lid flies off violently.

Or watch Mythbusters. Just adding air can cause the same reaction.

Actually... you do. Its the definition of boil. You just dont sit around until its entirely done. In cooking, you stop the process at a point that suits you.