Vampire idea help

[Archon]

This is going to sound ridiculous in a thread about vampires, but the whole 10% of your brain deal is an urban legend. That's not to say you can't use it, but I would try to address it differently, like saying that they rearrange the brain so that one part takes on more functions than normal, leaving another part free to develop psychic abilities. When people lose part of their brain, this type of compensation often occurs, so it would seem more plausible. Just an idea.

[Sigyn]

Hm, okay, thanks for the heads up.  Yes, rearranging the brain would make more sense.

[Ratlord12]

Here's how I thought vampires came to be:

When your sock disappears in the dryer, the sock has actually been possessed by a grumpy laundry spirit who decided long ago that it wasn't cut out for cleaning peoples' clothes. So the laundry spirit dresses up in your "missing" sock and flies to the moon, where it works at a strip joint to pay for vampire college.

But the laundry spirit (Melvin) experiments with drugs and sex until it loses its original dream of being a vampire. It splits hairs, keeps all its eggs in one basket, says never, and generally indulges in unwholesome behavior. Finally, Melvin discovers religion and decides to study Catholic Vampirism, which I'm sure is in one of Anne Rice's novels. He graduates fifteenth in his class (Professor Skywalker always picked on him) and ventures back to earth, where he bites people in the neck and avoids garlic because the college cafeteria served cloves every day.

But I might be wrong...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

while vaguely amusing, posts like that in threads asking for serious help that were concluded a month and a half ago are singularly unhelpful.