Tell me how you get your blood.

a needle/syringe thing, to actually get the blood then a contact with the local hospital to have it screened, then, i drink it *shrugs*

I ment where did you get the blood to fill the syringe. Donar? Blood Bank? Hunting?

sorry i thought i had added that bit in *smiles* whoops, i get it from donors, maybe two or three different ones......

hmm. Why is no-one voting :huh:

You many find that this is perhaps a subject that some will choose not to talk about. There are perhaps many reasons for this ... not the least of which is that it is a very personal statement about oneself ... and one that opens the door for issues that many chose not to talk about.

I suspect you will get a few answers ... but not as many as you may have suspected. There are many issues that are related to the blood side of vampires.
Issues that although not something you might see on the surface ... are issues none the less. I would take the answers you get with a gain of salt ... at the very least.

Prince ... I am not meaning to cast doubt on your reply to this post. But drawing blood is not the most simple of tasks ... and does take some training. You would have had to have been taught such a skill ... and it is a skill.

Anyone who has ever had a blood draw can agree that a lack of skill by the person drawing the blood is not a fun experience. You run the needle throught ... blow a vein, have it roll on you and miss a few times... and your donor ain't gonna be happy.

As for taking blood somewhere to have it tested ... that is a new one on me. Here in the states ... you would find that difficult ... if not next to impossible. I cannot even imagine where you would have such a thing done. A hospital would never do it. Their procedures for handling blood would not allow then
to do so. And those procedures are Federally regulated. Even if you have a connection at a blood bank ... there are still issues and concerns there.

Blood is viewed as a bio hazzard in any business that has association with it. You cannot just wander in some where and pick up a pint. It don't work that way my friends. There are also issues of transmitting blood born illnesses that will in the end ... only get you sick or dead. Vampires are not immuned to what kill the body and AIDS and Hepatitis will get you dead as easy as it will a non-vampire.

As for donors ... care here must also be taken. Most countries frown on cutting or drawing someone elses blood. It is considered "battery" where I live. There is also the matter of having a donor cut or draw blood from themselves ... if they are minors (under 18) you have yourself some serious issues .... including legal ... there as well.

My point here .... the question you are asking .... is not as simple as it may appear on the surface.

All I am saying is that this poll might not provide you with the information that you are looking for... the reality of vampires and how they aquire blood. Those who take in blood are not usually very forthcoming about the means in which they aquire it.

and she poo poo's my way of life without learning anything about it *shrugs* i have been trained, a little thing called works experience, i did two weeks work in a hospital with school, they showed me how it was done and everything, they also let me test the blood that was given in by blood donors, needless to say i made some friends while i was there and they offered to do it once they found out the truth about me, YES I TELL PEOPLE, i used to just drink without having it screened but they said that would be dangerous and offered to test it for me, i do not drink very often, i have found ways to curb the thirst, and since it will not kill me, it can be ignored in it's early stages....

a little off topic, and i'm sorry, but y would u tell a human?

There also maybe legal issues to it too , if some people say hunting, they are exposing themselves to been or at least commited assult.

dohnors are always good but the worrie about disease always bothers me :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Very, VERY true, Dead^Soul. While it's incredibly unlikely that anyone here has ever hunted, saying you have (even in the internet) does have it's legal implications in every country on earth.

At the least, it gets you detained and investigated for a possible assault and battery. In worse nations, you get hung without having your story checked.

Before anyone makes a comment on my hunting remark; listen closely. 90% of this site's users are minors. First and foremost, I do not want to give the impression that it's ok to wander around looking for someone to physically attack. It is not ok in any sense of the word, for any lifestyle/soul blight/condition/disease you may have named vampirism. Moreso, hunting constitutes legal implications for you that most of you probably have not considered during your "Out-Badass" competitions on this site.

The funniest thing is that most of you think of hunting as "going around and finding someone to bite on the neck or cut with a blade". Much more complicated than that, I'm afraid.

First off, the jaw was not designed to cause teeth to pierce live flesh (and no, none of you have fangs). In the instance of a biting attack, if there is blood drawn, the wound is impressive. It is not two pock marks on the neck... it's severe bruising, possible flesh loss (which creates a ragged hole being torn into the victim), and for those dreaming of a classic neck bite, broken necks would not be hard to make. Collapsed trachea would also be no hard thing to create. There would also be the problem of a hysterically screaming victim. Factor in also the fact that like it or not, biting someone is a physically close act, and there's virtually no way to conceal your face from them when your eyes are locked 3 inches from theirs. You'd be busted within a day.

For those who think that hunting is with blades... have any of you ever been in a fight that blades were present? I'll bet no, again mostly due to your age and generally pacifist natures.

Even while surprising someone with a blade from behind, it is nearly impossible to make an incision neatly (one used for blood harvesting and not murder). The victim's first reaction is to jerk away, causing one of two things to happen... you don't cut at all, and are now faced with an aware victim, or two, the victim's jerk causes a massive laceration. Now instead of a tiny harvest incision, you've got a gaping wound bleeding heavily, which adds to the hysteria of the victim. Should you attempt to continue, your well intended cuts become deep gouges as you try to (nicely) hit a prey that wants you dead or 5 miles away. In the end, you'll butcher them.

Lets say you do cut them nice and neat the first time. Sure, after being attacked from behind and cut with a blade, the victim will go, "You got me! Now suck my blood, somehow I know that is what you are after!". Sure. They're gone, man. Gone. And you do not have super strength, super speed, or spider webs to catch them with.

This is the R E A L vampires section. This is not roleplay. To anyone who in the future is going to post a "hunting" thread in this topic, read this first and evaluate what I have said. Legal aspects along with the reality of what you are implying. If you post RE: hunting, you'd better be damn sure of yourself. I'll want to see your court case number (which I will look up to verify), or I'll assume that for some reason you decided to use the vampire forum as a confessional.

Not that I'm a cop, or would report it to the police... but ask yourself; do you think that the FBI would keep an eye on a vampirism site, with the inherant bleeding edge ruleset it would entail? This is the internet; this is not an alternate dimension.

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You lot make me laugh with your talk of donors and all that.

Blood comes from the Bachabond....all of us drink from it....though true it is possible to have donors- some prefer it, but it is a lengthy process and is considered cruel. Keeping a human in your house, without light, feed high protein food and constantly injected- purely so you can feed off them is not as romantic as the 'would-be donors' here seem to think.

;)

vampires and blood..... gekos ,that's legal, and other animals but then if they want human they can take it from lovers ( i really don't know but thought it counts)

Other, when it comes to sang I am a sexual sang. so when it comes to time of the exchange it is worth more then a million words and emotions and is extremely powerful and meaningful..and rare.

Isn't this a site were people and vampires go to talk about what kind of a life they live and what kind of life other people live. I don't think anybody should get offended if some vampires hunt for thier food.

Vampires or human, I'd simply like to stress Olivia's post about not many people wanting to talk about it. If they really did it, that is.
It's not my position to say who here drinks blood and who dosen't, I'm just saying that if I did, I don't know if I would want to talk about it.

I'm of the mind to think that probably not many people here do, but I won't mention any reasons as to why I think that.

But some vampires might want to talk about it. I know some vampires who think that hunting gives them such a serge of energy greater than you could imagine. Its like the whole world stand still, so they say. But I believe them when they say that because they get this look of pure satisfaction.

[FONT=Arial] To smell the fear on the one you hunt is so exciting it drives you on. I have hunted my prey or my meal, but mostly I get it from donors.

and it is nice to see everyone again.......

Myself, I like the taste of blood quite a bit, and that is no word of a lie. My friend Christina and I have talked about drinking a small amount of eachother's blood. A little pin-prick on the arm, perhaps. Yet to drink the blood of another, though. So I suppose the answer would be a voluntary and mutual "victim"...

[QUOTE]Come out, Come out wherever you are

The hunt.

DO you mean doner as from stored blood in a hospital? If so the blood tastes horrible like that, much better strait from the body when the heart is still pumping.

Donars... Hunting is pretty much illigal even to us "vampires"... If you do hunt then I would gues you killed a few people and I am sure I will be hearing this on the news.

Sorry I am in a waked mood today. :lol:

there are some places where you can get blood and any type you want.but i'm not sure if you people know about it cause i've been there.
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