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I think this qualifies as a private execution, therefore bypassing the “3 Public Executions a Year” rule.
They also had to kill him in an extremely specific and thorough manner. Something like “cut his head off simultaneously with staking his heart and also as the sun is coming up”.
She could kill a common pony and they’d throw her a parade…
Edited
So I guess I’ll take this opportunity to say that in the original Stoker novel, Dracula could transform into a variety of animals native to Romania, including wolf.
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Wait, did I say saved? Sorry, I meant ruined. Sparkles! The Wonder Horse has RUINED the day!
Gold and silver are the two holy metals of the Christian God. In general, gold represents the sun / day and silver represents the moon / night.
Classical vampires are generally understood to be undead, which makes them a violation of the sanctity that only God determines life and death. Because of this, the symbols of God repel / purify / destroy the undead, which is why the very Christian-based “Cleric” class in every RPG is loaded with anti-undead powers. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, vampire expert Van Helsing even uses crushed wafer (the body of Christ) to stuff gaps underneath doors that vampires would otherwise squeeze through in mist form like cats.
Silver tends to be used more often - particularly against werewolves - because it is considered poetic for the moon-metal to be the one you use against creatures of the night. I see no reason why gold would not be at least equally as effective, if not even more so against vampires specifically, given that over time they have been given a greater and greater weakness to the sun.
Garlic, by the way, is one of the world’s earliest commonly-used antibiotics. In many ancient cultures it was hung up as a charm against various evils because people in the olden times considered evil, unpleasantness, and disease to all be synonymous - vampires and “evil spirits” alike are thus “cured” (i.e. destroyed) by garlic and would instinctively avoid it. Another example of this sympathesis is the classical plague doctor’s mask, which was stuffed full of lovely-smelling flowers in the hopes that stopping the smell meant stopping the disease. The afore-mentioned Van Helsing would hang up whole cloves of garlic by windows, but many cultures would actually grind it up or smear the “juice” on surfaces like a disinfectant.
Garlic also happens to repel mosquitoes… but attracts leeches.
OOOORRRRR you can just buy a power UV Ray lamp and a battery backpack
“Silver bullet; hex-scored jacketed hollow-point filled with a gel made of Holy Water, wolfsbane, garlic, fugu toxin and curare, laced with dimethyl sulfoxide to provide tractor-solvent Spreading Factor. Traditionalists can also cut crosses in the bases of the bullets, and have them blessed by a priest. .44 magnum 240-grain load over the standard Elmer Keith hunting load, 24 grains of IMR 2400 (the manual says 21.8 grains is maximum, so don’t use the 24-grain load if you have a cheap revolver). These work reliably on Vampires, Werewolves, the generic Undead, and Evil Human Minions like Renfield, with sublime indifference.”
…and a couple of things jump out at me from that. Silver is slightly less dense than lead, such that with .44 caliber projectiles in this mass range there’d be a mass difference of about one and a third grams, or 20 grains avoirdupois. Silver is harder and tougher than lead but softer than pure annealed copper. A skilled machinist could make machined solid silver hollowpoint bullets that would expand nastily in soft tissue. You’re not going to have an easy time casting silver bullets, by the way–the melting point of silver is quite a bit higher than the aluminum or brass of the common molds, and molten silver contracts upon solidification instead of expanding like ice or lead.
A 240gr. silver .44 caliber bullet will be the same length overall as a 260gr lead bullet, all measurements being equal. So this is doable, though a machinist will have to whittle the bullets down from round stock. If I were designing the bullet I’d add a little more length for a little more mass then cut in some shallow relief grooves on its sides to reduce the bearing surface in contact with the rifling in order to bring bore friction down to the same as a modern copper jacketed bullet of the same length. I’d also try to adjust the shape of the “nose” of the bullet to put a bit more mass forward so that I could seat the bullet at the same depth in the cartridge case as a jacketed 240gr. This is because smokeless powder is highly sensitive to tiny changes in initial working volume and pressure, and if you crowd it into a smaller space, you can get some nasty nonlinear pressure spikes–the kind that get cited in reports of what are euphemistically called “catastrophic failures,” in which the guy holding the gun pulls the trigger and finds himself holding half a gun (at best, if he isn’t missing a few fingers).
I’d also probably look at a different propellant with a burning rate more suited to a bullet that behaves more like a copper jacketed bullet, like Winchester 296 or Hodgdon H110. 24.0 grains of either one (rumor has it that since the late 90s the two are identical and made in the same Canadian plant, put in different labeled containers by different importers) is an old standard .44 Mag load with 240 grain jacketed bullets. Elmer Keith’s oldschool load was a 250 grain solid cast lead bullet made of a relatively hard lead alloy like linotype metal or hardened wheel weights, over 22.0 (not 24) grains of oldschool Hercules Powder Company #2400, which I think is still available, now made by Alliant Techsystems if memory serves. And there’s nothing wrong with #2400, but when the rest of the specs suggest something closer to a jacketed bullet I will stay closer to known ground. Either of these is a full-power, may-singe-shooter’s-eyebrows-off load, and even if you don’t hit the vampire you may set him on fire.
I also would not fire these from a rifle, as either of these is a very high pressure load, maybe over the safety limit for the locking mechanism of certain lever action rifles in .44 Magnum. I would also only shoot these in a revolver, since I am thinking in terms of a very wide-nosed bullet likely to hang up on the feed ramp of a semiauto pistol.
Also, the idea of handling fugu toxin or curare dissolved in DMSO gives me the heebie jeebies, and not the good kind. I think I would have to settle with putting a blob of holy water/garlic/wolfsbane paste into the hollowpoint cavity and then putting a thin wax disc over it to hold it in place, along with, perhaps, blessings performed by whatever priests, priestesses, or holy hermits I can find on short notice.
All of this also raises questions about the exact nature of the effect silver has on supernatural creatures. If it’s biochemical, silver plating on conventional bullets would work. If its presence somehow disrupts their magic, then solid silver would work, and possibly in either case it might be more effective if bits of silver remained in the creature instead of passing through. Perhaps what is needed is a shotgun loaded with cartridges containing stacks of pre-1964 silver dimes instead.
Anything long and pointy will do because you need to nail their coffins closed until they starve to re-death.
Me:
“Fluttershy. Fluttershy stop staring at my butt. Flutter - OW! What the hell ‘shy!”
“Srry. It’f fo juiffy.”
“What the heck are you talking about? Werewolves don’t exist, Fluttershy.”
“But… vampires don’t really exist either. I just have bat characteristics now.”
“Typical vampire doubletalk.”
“You were there when it happened! You were the one who did this to me!”
“Blaming your friend as well? Is there no end to your evil, foul creature of the night?!”
“Wait, I thought Rarity was the creature of the night.”
“Lady of the night. Big difference.”