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Iceheart
Undertaker / Pink Star Lover
 
Australia
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 Posted - 14 April 2004 : 9:32:42 PM
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On Thanksgiving Day 1996, Roderick Ferrell, 16, from Murray, Kentucky, led a pack of kids to Eustis, Florida, where he killed the elderly parents of a former girlfriend. Ferrell had lived in Eustis for a year and had then returned to Kentucky, where he'd gotten involved with a fantasy role-playing game called Vampire: The Masquerade. Since he wanted something more edgy, he formed The Vampire Clan. When Heather called him endlessly and asked for his help, he decided to go to Florida, make her part of his vampire coven, and take her away. Aphrodite Jones wrote a book in collaboration with Heather called The Embrace, while Clifford Linedecker worked on a similar project independently.
Somewhere along the line, Ferrell decided to kill the Wendorfs. He disclosed his plan to one of Heather's friends before he arrived at Heather's house in Eustis. While he and four other kids from Kentucky went out to a cemetery to exchange blood and "cross over" Heather into their vampire club, Ferrell figured out what he needed to do.
Heather remained with the two girls while Ferrell took Howard Scott Anderson with him to the Wendorf home. Inside, he clubbed the sleeping Richard Wendorf with a crowbar and then stabbed Naoma, Richard's wife, to death. On Richard's chest, Ferrell burned the shape of a "V" with some cigarettes. Then he and Scott went to meet the girls so they could run away to New Orleans.
One of the girls revealed their whereabouts to her parents and the police soon found and arrested them. Ferrell claimed that he was a powerful vampire and they wouldn't be able to hold him. He also blamed a rival vampire gang for the killings.
Even as prosecutors developed a capital murder case against him, Ferrell's mother, Sondra Gibson was indicted for allegedly writing sexually-explicit letters to a 14-year-old boy to entice him into a sexual initiation ritual. In the letters she stressed how she longed to become a vampire. She asked him to "cross me over and I will be your bride for eternity and you my sire." Gibson pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful transaction with a minor.
Since there is no "diminished capacity" law in Florida, the defense offered in pretrial motions the arguments to be advanced for mitigating the penalty phase. Among the points they raised were that Ferrell was mentally disturbed and had been allowed by his mother to participate in violent and self-destructive role-playing fantasy games, which impaired his judgment about what was real or normal. They claimed that he suffered from his beliefs in vampirism.
Apparently Ferrell had said that he had no soul and was possessed. He had devised vampire rituals that gave him an adrenaline rush. He liked to threaten others and make them believe that his vampire nature made him all-powerful. He believed there was a group of vampires that really existed and since they had chosen him, he had the power to do anything he pleased.
For him, role-playing a vampire had crossed over into the real word in a brutal manner and he soon found out that he was not only accountable for his psychopathic acts but was going to be executed.
While those who have been tried for their vampiric activities have looked into an insanity defense, it's clear that one man actually adopted vampirism after the fact as a means to plead insane.
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Oh be still my beating heart......ok, not THAT still!
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Mazeppa
Zombie
 
USA
897 Posts |
Posted - 16 April 2004 : 09:58:55 AM
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The vampyre fantasies and legends live on. Have any of you ever met one? I expect it would be someone just like this kid......or??????
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Haematomania
Ghost
 
USA
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Posted - 26 April 2004 : 11:06:08 AM
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If you was to meet one which race are you speaking of meeting?-Immortal Blood Drinker(meaning)looks like a human,living,color is good and stuffies,but never died of physical harm/Mortal Blood Drinkers-a human who thinks he/she is a actual vampire/Unitentional Pyschic Vampre-vampires who feed off of the psychic energy of others unconsciously/or the scary ones-laughs-Intentional Psychic Vampires-vampres who can not be killed by physical things or harmed by them either.So which ones would you guys rather meet?
Demomns that have no shame,
seven are they!
Knowing no care...
knowing no mercy
They rage against mankind:
They spill their blood like rain,
Devouring their flesh[and]sucking their veins.
Where the images of the Gods are,there they quake
They are demons full of violence
Invoke the ban against them,
That they no more return to this neighborhood.
I may be female and young but I have enough courage to suffer this death and thousands more.
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Jade_Delicious
Ghost
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Posted - 20 May 2004 : 4:48:50 PM
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Cool Picture Haematomania.
Role playing has me confused. It does not fit into my Vampire Theory so I have trouble understand the whole point of this.
What exactly does Vampire Role Playing mean you do?
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Iceheart
Undertaker / Pink Star Lover
Australia
1157 Posts |
Posted - 07 June 2004 : 1:49:55 PM
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Cool Picture Haematomania.
Role playing has me confused. It does not fit into my Vampire Theory so I have trouble understand the whole point of this.
What exactly does Vampire Role Playing mean you do?
From what I've read, Vampyre Role Playing largely relates to some Computer Game called "Masquerade".
Im not sure what it means to do it in real life, or what you would base your Vampyre Character on and what you would do, but I will have a hunt round and ask some people if they know about it....
As for this game, does anyone here know what Masquerade is all about.
Cant say Im much of a computer game player.
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Heaven bent to take my hand, and lead me thru the fire.
Be the long awaited answer, to a long and painful fight.
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Nothing
Ghost
USA
117 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 06:51:46 AM
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It is the same as other role playing except most of the charectors are vampires.
You have a charector and that charector has a name,a back round,a description,and anything else the person can think of and the people fight,talk and they live in a different place and do things like you do here(Fall in love, Drink, Fight, talk,and anything else)
My sister does it.
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bloodsfire
Ghost
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - 20 June 2004 : 04:18:36 AM
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Nothing wrong with a little role playing, as escape from reality...
Let's just remember that our friendly neighborhood serial slayers begin thier careers lost in a world of fantasy which lets them off of the reality hook. Too bad we often find the co-players hanging on meat-hooks in the basements of deluded 'dungeon masters'....
Time and place for everything...
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B5160-8
Lost Soul
 
USA
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Posted - 17 November 2004 : 7:22:24 PM
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Reminds me of the time I saw about ten people dressed in full vampire regalia running around in the Cradle of Forestry in America state park in Transylvania County, NC. They looked sort of embarassed when they realize I was there. The side of the blood mobile there reads "Transylvania County wants your blood", hey I thought it was funny.
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When Vampyre role-playing goes to far...
