My name is Casca Gibbis. I was born in 328 A.D. I was born into the higher bracket of society. I had every thing I wanted. I lived in Constantinople. When I was 19 I liked to walk the streets. But one night in 359 A.D. I was attacked, by what I now know to be a vampire.

Now a days we vampires have money and safety. We can buy houses that have rooms with no windows that we can stay awake during the day if we so choose. I see on the internet that some people claim to be vampires, just drink blood. These mortals are not vampires, being a vampire is a lot more then just drinking blood. We are amused by the movies and books that we see and read about our kind. I am heard to set the facts right.

We are affected by sunlight. It will kill us. It takes about 60sec to die if you are hit by sunlight. Your age doses not affect how long you can stay in it.

We drink about 7-10 pints of blood a day, but we like not to kill our victims. So we feed on about 5-10 victims a night.

Our bite doses not look like to holes in the neck or the arm, instead just a bruise.

We look the same as the day we are turned and there are no, non immoral vampires.

[Edit] If you have more questions feel free to ask me. [Edit]

That is so erotically appealing to me.
I'm just a lil' human girl, maybe a little clairvoyant and some natural awarensses.

My question is, in this era. Do we have houses and protected societies that even concern themselves with this?? And if so, what are they like?

Ok, who did the Romans appoint Governor of Constantinople at the time of your turning then? If you were living there and in that day you would know.

How many languages can you speak?

How many books have you read?

How many countries have you been in?

How many years are there between 347 and 359?

How many wars have you lived?

Are you amazed with the "technology bumpings" that have happened in the last 4 centuries?

Casca, I am very interested in your post. I would like to ask some questions, please do not think I am challenging you or trying to discredit you, I am simply curious.
I am thinking you must be living in a human body, forgive me if you have already covered that as I did not see it in your post. The human stomach cannot hold that much fluid at one time and cannot effectively digest blood. How do you manage it?
If you are not in a human body or host, how have you managed to survive all this time?
Are you what is called an Immortal? Will you tell me more of such a being if that is in fact what you are?
I am open minded and consider it far beyond me to challenge anyone's history. I applaud anyone brave enough to come right out and state such things. I know some people make statements such as those to "fake out" and then laugh at those who would believe them. This is very discourging because the vampire and otherkin communities have a tough enough time as it is trying to get people to believe in us and accept us.

Who were your parents? Have you ever been famous for something? Are you dead?

Oh and what happens if you don't feed?

Casca, I am not trying to insult or challenge you, but as someone who does not personally believe in immortality, I have some questions. I am open-minded, and truely would like to know your answers, so don't take any of this offensively.

First of all, as an immortal, which is what I believe you're saying you are, do you have any idea what might happen to you and those of your kind when the world comes to an end? If the sun burns out and everyone freezes to death and the Earth falls out of orbit, where will that leave you? Would you just be a frozen block of ice floating around in space for eternity?

If you are in a human body which can perform the same funtions as the rest of us, how is it that you cannot be killed, or physically aged? Do you have any scientific of anatomic explanations of how this is possible?

If you really do take in 7 to 10 pints of blood a day (which is already breaking the rules of human anatomy since we can only take in 2 pints of blood before getting sick), I assume this means you'd have to kill/completely drain your victims. Why is it that we haven't seen any huge breaking news stories about people being killed by vampires? Their drained corpses can't go undiscovered forever, and I imagine it would make a huge news story if such a case was discovered.

Having lived as long as you have, you must have had a great deal of life experience, and hundreds of years of memories. Since the human brain was not made to handle that many years of information, how has that affected you? Are you able to remember and retain information just as well as most mortals, of have you experienced difficulty in this area?

Finally, I ask you why do you leave this post? If there in fact has been a race of immortals that have stayed hidden for thousands of years, I imagine great measures must have been taken to retain secrecy... why post your secret on the internet where the world has access to it, to simply say what you are and answer a few questions?

Again I don't speak insultingly, I am simply looking for legitimate answers that no one else has been able to answer, and being what you say you are, I'd like to take advantage of meeting the one person who should be able to answer them.

Looking forward to your response :-)

Greetings MoonlightVamp

I would like to answer one of your queries from my own hypothesis..

"Having lived as long as you have, you must have had a great deal of life experience, and hundreds of years of memories. Since the human brain was not made to handle that many years of information, how has that affected you? Are you able to remember and retain information just as well as most mortals, of have you experienced difficulty in this area?"

Humans use but 10% of the brain. This indicates to me greater abilities to recall, almost certainly mental "powers" if the remaining 90% were put to use. I would surmise that if the immortal vampire had the brain structure of a human, s/he would have this reserve activated and be able to remember for long times and have some of these powers.

This is assuming a human brain structure. Any being engineered for immortality is going to have a mind desgned for the storage of hundreds, thousands of years of events.

My issue with immortality is the boredom factor. Regardless of how wealthy, how powerful, the being is going to tire eventually. There must be some trait within these beings that allows for the years to pass freshly.

Casca Gibbis, have you encountered ennui yet and how do you cope with this?

I have not observed a human body to take 2 pints of blood a day. I have observed illness at naught more than a cup or less. The immortal vampire would have to have a metabolism designed for this, to run exclusively on this.

They wouldn't have to kill, leaving empties hither and yon. A pint here, a pint there.

These are but the suppositions of the non-educated peanut gallery. I would love to converse with you, Casca Gibbis.

I would like to make a point as to the line of some queries I am seeing in this thread: there is no way to prove Casca Gibbis' story via historical data available to anyone on the net. Anyone could make a story with a bit of research. And if s/he is able to provide information not available to the masses, how are we to prove this? This all comes down to a matter of pure belief or disbelief.

To kick in with the "we only use 10% of the brain", i can tell you that is quite some bull.
The thing is that scientists didn't know what the 90% of other activity was, and they could only determine of that 10% what it did exactly. Don't you think that redundant brain would be a waste of energy and insanely vulnerable? We're eggheads, and the less brain you have, the less risk of injury. So if we would effectively use only 10% of our brain, why are our heads so big, can you explain that?

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The size of our heads have absolutly nothing to do with brain usage. A large portion of that size is made up of fluids and bone to protect the brain that sits inside it.

Lets also mention all the "wiring" from eyes ect that feed into this area.

But all of you are missunderstanding the "use" f only 10% of the brain.

This 10% is mental capabilities, which is, the ability of reasoning, remembering, storing, creating and else, not whole 10% fo the brain.

There are other functions the brain does rather than just thinking.

Was it needed to refer to my words as "bull" when simple disagreement would have sufficed? Provide facts to disprove me rather than say "bull".

I am not a doctor, hence am going by what I learned and my suppositions. I am always open to learning new ideas or having my old ones disproved.

What I am referring to is the part we have conscious control over.

We are not using the full capacity of our minds. Period. If you observe the few who have psychic abilities... why not the majority?

See how those trained in such as the Eastern meditations have greater control and even abilities. Has to come from somewhere. And upon that I am firm. Such training does increase abilities. I see the potential of the trained human mind to be endless.

We have savants, those with eididic recall. Talents. Gifts. Could they not be using part of the brain not accessed by everybody?

Redundancy? Why not? We have 2 kindeys, portions of the liver can take over the whole job. Would not a system be best suited for survival if it can back itself up? What of the brain trauma victims whose brains retrain themselves and end up functioning at a much higher level than expected? This indicates that part of the brain, healthy tissue, is being called into play.

I am woundering why this "vampire" has not responded to any of the questions asked here. I am starting to think that this person has not answers to the questions asked. I am a very open person but this is sounding more and more like the who Emanual bull shit. I am sick of people comeing in here makeing this kinda post and then not answering the questions asked. That in itself make the whole thing sound like one big lie.

Not everyone is here everyday Blacksista,(like you and me are) They only made the post yesterday. Some of the questions too were out of line, and some are just designed to try to trick them as well.

Rikkar has been kind enough to take some time voicing his thoughts as well.

I feel that after that time you might not remember who was who so long ago. I am just surprised that in that time we have not met.

Have you ever been exposed to sunlight??

Firstly, there are Sanctuary's very correct words. S/he might not be a forum hog akin to some of us. Points at self. Also, s/he might be one of those people who make orphan posts on sites and recall not where they are.

I have had to modify my speech. I gave into pressure in this forum and stopped conversing the way that I adore... "thee", "thy", "thou". This I did for ridicule and harassment. I have also faced censure for stating that I am a vampire. Cudos to Sanctuary for her handling of this thread! If you are new to it, you do not know to what I refer.

Hence, I can imagine that if this poster came in s/he would have seen the tone of derision and desire to not face more.

Now I concur that if one is to make such allegations, one must expect some of this and be willing to speak on it, however, I most certainly understand his/her reticence to do so.

I agree with Fluid of Life. This person simply might not recall what has transpired. I do not remember him/her stating a full memory. There has been speculation upon this in this thread. However, I would surmise that the boundaries of the years have blurred and become unstable. Unless this person has a brain that is not akin to a normal humans, the weight of the years would crush it.

I am not defending this person for none can speak for another. I am but stating possiblities.

Can't tell you how many times I've run across things like this. One reason I don't venture here too often. But I think you've been bombarded with enough questions, so I'll just sit back and wait to see if you reply. Besides, don't really have anything I want to ask.

SweetNightmares

Ya know, the funniest part of this story is that in the year 328, Istanbul was called Byzantum, not Constantinople. And a local to the area would have called it Constantinopolis, not Constantinople. Constantinople is the English translation, not what a local would have called the city.

But yeah, his history is off a bit. It was Byzantum for 90 years after the date he gave. Also Byzantum at that time was a small trading village with no rich peoples there; consider it the equivalent of a small fur trading post in the American West.

And at one point Iran was Persia. There was a whole article I was reading the other day about how the youth in Iran don't even know that anymore.

The City I live in had another name eons ago... most of the locals don't even know that. So me giving you that name would mean nothing to you.

The reason I'm saying this:

Perhaps they used that name as a method of making it easier for us to identify the area.

In that case I'd still like to know what the name of the Roman Governor was who lived at the time of his turning. Any citizen of that city at that time would know that.

I'm afraid we may have run this person off. I really wanted to talk to him/her too.

The last time he was on was three hours after he made the post, which is before anyone started anything dramatic with him. Nobody ran him off.

I removed the offensive posts, but I'm quite sure they saw them and I have to agree with Innanna. I think that did run them off which is really disappointing.

I hope they come back though. I wanted to talk to them too or even just listen to what they wanted to say. :(

We use more than 10% of our brain. We just don't use more than 10% at a time.



I may be able to answer that one. This was posted by a friend of mine on another message board I'm a member of:

"You are right when you say vampires dwell upon the past. But this is because we are incapable of change for the most part. We are stagnant, unchanging things. Now of course I speak only of the ageless vampires, not the mortal ones. But when we stop aging, something else occurs as well. We stop developing. We cease evolving. Our minds, like our bodies, cease to continue developing.

Whereas the human mind creates new connections within the brain at amazing speeds, and continues to do so throughout life, the mind of a vampire creates new connections at a painfully slow rate. This is why many elders still do not understand creations as simple as cell phones or computers. In all honesty, I can name three PRINCES of cities, some of the most powerful of our kind, who cannot even operate an automobile with an automatic drive. I am, in fact, quite the exception to my kind, that I have been able to learn the basics of such things (though it took me a year to figure out how to drive an automobile without potentially wrecking the damnable thing)."

If I may ask. What Message board was this?

Cite a link that proves this.

10% brain usage theories:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neur...eb1/Briley.html

http://enchantedmind.com/html/science/brain_capacity.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99840.htm

http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040901.html

I could post thousands of links both for and against that theory but really who cares???? This isn't a thread about % of brian usage. All people are doing is picking on one VERY SMALL portion of a larger statement because they want to pick every word to pieces to find some "flaw". They think this thread is some kind of debate or want to turn it into one... it's not. This thread is not a debate nor will I allow it to be turned into one.

The next time we get a vampire that tries to introduce him/herslef, can we please not crucify the poor creature? I was really looking forward to talking to this one and now I do not think he/she will return. Let's give them a chance ok?

hey i would like to know if you follow a religion and which religion if you do.

http://www.oecd.org/documentprint/0,2744,e...1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/9903/ten-percent-myth.html



Otherkin.com.

Those two links don't say that we only use 10% of our brains at one time. Those two links state that the "we only use ten percent of our brains" is a myth.

You just invalidated yourself.

*smiles*
Now, I like this...
Is this a quote, Sanura? Or you speaking for yourself?
I also enjoyed your avatar. Do you ever get pains, in just that particular area of your back? (Just a thought.)

The mind making new connections, even in my humiliated and apparently uneducated disposition as 'just a girl'... Even the dreams and lucid whispers connect me to things that sometimes are so intricate, so impossible to grasp ultimately.
So I'm left with art, and the goal of writing a novel, ( once I can get it all connected.) And it has to do with me, I bring it upon myself and I do not feel victimized; just, interested probably more than my own right to be.
It's this and all my life, even when I didn't care to; I literally have to pray and meditate.
Is this something of what you mean??
What is your faith?

-Vampiress_Fate-

Mythologically speaking; I guess. I've felt my brain.
The majority is left and right, of course.
And who knows how much mind those who just do what they're told use. But I've painfully experienced the balance.

Your mind expands, and has to travel here and there within in order to sustain.

I disagree with the 10 percent statement as well, though, I do think it is a fine example of the 'settling'.

If you want to start a thread debating the 10% brain usage theory start a new thread in controversy.

This thread is not about that and that discussion has taken it as far off topic as I'm willing to let it go.

Thankyou Sanctuary. I am annoyed and shall, henceforth, leave this thread alone in your capable hands. However, I must say my piece before I do so.

I have begone from Darkness for a few days and am deeply dismayed to see this argument proceeding.

This is displeasing. Why would a vampiire desire to converse in a fourm where such as this happens? How does this portray us to the newcomer desiring conversation?

I have been here for a while and am not phased by such. Please picture this person as if s/he is indeed what s/he says for we have no proof one way or another and now this shall never have. This person states nature, and feeding frenzy ensues, akin to a pirrahna pool.

I blame this peson not for declining to dip toes.

I quietly depart from this thread.

"Ok, who did the Romans appoint Governor of Constantinople at the time of your turning then? If you were living there and in that day you would know."

(Sorry, quoting baffles both myself and my computer)

Would that be Flavius Theodosius in 373?

Byzantium was named the new capital of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople in 326 AD, two years before this one claims to have been born.

I am not of this era therefore my facts may be wrong.

I think the question was directed towards Casca Gibbis.

To prove/disprove that she really lived in that time.

Yes, and I am merely stating that just because one knows the facts (i may have been wrong) they do not necessarily come from that era. Just as equally, if one does not know the facts, it does not mean they do NOT come from that era. Therefore, questions are irrelevant.

The question is akin to asking an American "who was president when you were born?". Anyone truly born then and living there would know it just as any American of a certain age knows who was president when they were born.

It'd take a special kind of idiot to not know this.

Has everyone forgotten how memory works?

I couldn't tell you who was PM when I was born... does that mean I wasn't born when I say was? Or perhaps the information is completely irrelevant to me. Why would I need to know? I think there were be far greater things I would concern myself with.

That brings me to an interesting thought, then. Reading over some stuff, I strolled across the idea that vampires cannot remember the full extent of their lives. After a couple hundred years, or maybe a few hundred years, it's all foggy and indistinct, or even completely gone. If the vampire's mind is identical in composition to the human's, then it stands to reason that it will capacity at some point, it was not engineered to store and recall that much. So, perhaps an ancient vampire would not after all be the repository of lost knowledge that we might hope? But conversely, that would mean that an ancient vampire would not be any more powerful than one of more recent vintage. ^_^
Just playing the part of the Devil's Advocate, always throwing out possibilities to counter the absolutes.

I myself cannot remember the full extent of my souls life, so yes, in that aspect you are correct. It is much like the human phenomenon of memory loss, but I do not think that any memory is lost forever. Even in humans. I simply think they are suppressed...compressed to allow more room for memory. This would also explain human senility when they reach an old age - the memory reaches full capacity and simply begins to leak out what it sees as non-essential (quite often things that ARE essential are lost too). Perhaps it also explains a little into strokes - The pressure on the brain?

I do not know. I was simply stating that one who is not of that era can find out facts and lie to make you believe them, creature_feature. As also stated above, just because they cannot remember does not mean they are not. Therefore, if it is "proof" you seek, that question does seem highly dubious in being "foolproof". No offence intended *bows head briefly*, but I know people like yourself - if you had received your answer, you would have noticed these points yourself and would have asked another, and another. *smiles* Curiousity is fine, as long as it does not become offensive. Let this one be as he will - you can never deny or accept his claims.

I have been accosted upon pm by people saying "prove it".

In the past, I listed off descriptions, what data I recall.

Well, my hackles raised and I decided upon one thing:

They may disbelieve if they so desire about any part of me. There is naught I can do, nor should I care. That is not true for I will answer any polite query. I love hearing my own words.

I know that anyone, as has been stated, may research any historical figure they desire.

What is the factor here is what a person senses. What is factor here is how the person being observed behaves. There is naught anything I, or anyone else, can do.

YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! I'm a special kind of idiot! I have no idea who was President when I was born! Half of the time, I dont even remember WHEN I was born!

wow all you guys say your vampires. i just wish i was one. that would be so incredibly cool.

also i just kinda saw that casca has not answered any ones question that strikes me kinda suspicious

I'm not a vampire, I'm human. I deeply love a vampire named Rikkar, and I really would not want to be a vampire. Ask any vampire what life is like being a vampire.

Who? What??

What are you talking about??

Looks contused.


Agreed. Strongly agreed.

Smiles happily at Lady I, as I thee. Change not.

I am blessed.

No, strokes are caused by blood clots blocking off blood vessels in the brain, or they're caused by weak spots in the blood vessel walls breaking open and spilling blood into the brain.

Actually, Creature is a very reasonable person in most ways, and as long as you play by his rules, he is very polite and well-mannered. But his rules include things like "Don't make any extraordinary claims unless you have extraordinary evidence", and "If you are going to present yourself as an authority on a subject, be prepared to present credentials". If you are reasonable and polite with him, he is polite and reasonable with you. Don't underestimate him, and don't sell him short. Please, don't post that you know his kind, and lump him in with every other steel-plated skeptic who ever claimed that nothing is possible except SCIENCE.
Because that's not who he is. Hell, I've gotten him to admit, several times, that classical supernatural vampires could be possible. I think I even got him once to admit that they might exist in our world. But I never claimed to be one, so he doesn't pressure me for proof.
I think, deep down, he really really wants to believe.