Danadriel's Lair

Yes the first function of armor is to protect, but after some centuries of experience beating steel you can craft some really fancy pieces of gear, and for a arrogant eternal predator of the night, looking good is top priority c:

I decided to draw this when I remember how garbage the heavy armors on V Rising look like.

No she is not bluffing, vampires really don't need weapons most of the time, vampire claws and teeth are no mere bone protrusions, they are deadly weapons that can easily go trough steel,flesh and bone alike, a dedicated or really angry vampire can cut trough the armor of tank.

science never truly understood vampire nature and their natural weapons are included, upon microscopic inspection vampire claws and teeth seem to behave like some sort of inert metal, but on a live and active vampire they can be molded like they are clay, they will change their sharpness and lenght at whin depending on the will of the vampire, they can be completely dull and harmless when they are about to caress a loved one, and become unbelivably sharp again in a heartbeat if their owner desire to do so.

scientists of advanced civilizations usually compare the deadliness of vampire claws to monomolecular blades, there is only a handful of extremely rare materials that can resist this level of sharpness, this combined with vampire's ludicrous speed,strenght, resilience and regeneration make them apex predators extremely hard to beat even to high tech societies.

Danadriel in particular is a big fan of using her claws as a main weapon, she loves to see the despair of her enemies as their rifles and shotguns shots glance harmlessy away from her body before she gores them with her bare hands.

"Few weeks ago we found a strange surprise on our colony gates, a large strange hyena woman, she was naked and her body had large patches of exposed flesh full of scars, two small horns protuding from her forehead and only a damaged bang of hair hanged from her head, her voice sounded rasp , she was calm but I could feel she was desperate to find shelter among us, it was not the first time we had a supicious recruit so I just let her in and presented her for Danadriel's judgement.

Danadriel's "Truth Saying" never failed, we forced everyone who wanted to join the colony to pass trough it and we found many traitors and hidden cultists this way...but this time was different...this strange woman was imune to Danadriel's mind control, wich made Danadriel visibly infuriated, so we had to interrogate her in the old fashioned way, she claimed she had no name or memory of her past, she woke up in the remains of a improvized cultist temple 6 days ago and have been surviving out of carcasses she found trough the wasteland.

Despite our suspicions about her we let her stay, we imposed some conditions for it which she promptly agreed, first we had to ask her to shower, her stench was umberable, even after significant cleaning she still had a lingering smell that was unpleasant to stay around, but we remediated it some strong smelling herb oils we had. She claimed to be a nocturnal creature, she said the sun hurt her eyes and harmed her skin, so she was assigned to our night shift wich was good so Danadriel and Hatchet could keep an eye on her.

as the days passed she proved to be a quite resourceful workshop assistant, despite the suspicion Danadriel allowed her to create her own weapons and armor so she could help in a eventual fight. she chose to be called Abby , a very cute name for someone who looks so scary.

"Good night survivors of the wasteland Its 20:30, so it means time for your nocturnal news, and tonight we are not starting with good ones...the strange events and creature attacks are ramping up this morning we lost a entire patrol of Silver Rangers to a sightstealer attack here on Del Rey, we salute the 7 heros who died in the defense of this town, may their souls rest in glory. On the subject of the creature attacks, Ive been receiving radio calls non stop day and night about settlements on the Bismuth River region being attacked or sighting anomalous creatures, essentialy everyone on the range of my antennas reported something...listen people, the rangers are working hard killing capturing and studying this new treath, but there is a limit to what our boys and girls can do, they already have the usual vilanny of the wasteland to take care of, they dont have the manpower to stop whatever its happening right now, so my survivors you all gonna need to do your part on this. But as you all already know I Big Dog am a helper AI, so I spent the last days compiling data from all the calls I received and I do have some information to share with you all that can help with your survival! first lets start with the basics, stockpile,water,food and a shitload of ammo, dont bother with automatic guns, its time for ye ol' reliables: 10mm rifles and buckshot shotguns those seem to have the best damage against these abominations and are mor cost efective.Reinforce windows, doors and gates, these things will bash their heads against your walls until it crumbles, improving them will gain you more time, cavalry spikes, moats and barbed wire seem to work at some degree, these creatures dont give a shit about their own phisical integrity, try to funnel these monsters and reduce their efective numbers, and most import of all remember, they will defeat you trought atrition of you dont rotate your combatants or ressuply they in combat! "What if I don't have ammo anymore Big Dog?" well I heard some testimonies saying some tribes in the region were able to fight off the anomalies with bows,arrows and slings, but that's a gamble I dont envy, I also contacted a friend of mine that preffer to remain annonimous, she is a ex imperial blade and she knows ALOT about melee combat, she claims you can do alot against this monsters with a machete and a small metalic shield, but she recomends people craft spears with long blades, just weld a machete on the point of a long metalic pipe and you have a deadly weapon, but remember, be smart about it, if you fight in a open field you WILL die! corral the creatures in a door frame or a window before start swinging! The egg heads here in the town told me to not go in specifics about each creature sighted because they want to avoid the spread of misinformation until they figure everything out, but I can tell you all something with certainty, BURN ALL CORPSES thats not a joke or exageration, once the battle is over rush to decapitate and burn every single body that remains, dont stop to examine or study it, just toast it! I've been receiving many accounts that when that fetid mist starts the intact bodies rise back to life and yes your fallen conrades are included!..."

more rimworld slice of life c: