Re: 17.4.1 The Last Vampire Roundup
[[Aw, but "insane and suicidal" is what Jake does best! I mean, he got here by deciding to bail out of an upstairs window into a stampeding herd of cattle...you can roll Notice -2 for me if you like, though.]]
The cowboy checks his burden is on there properly and mounts up. As the dead man turns his overly-compliant steed's head to the northeast Jake racks his brains for all he's learned about them so far.
The dullard ones at the church had had the flesh burned off their bones but hadn't died until stabbed with wooden splinters...yet that smart, clawed one that attacked the priest didn't crumble when stabbed in the very heart, just froze up, still unnaturally alive when that thing from outside space (Jake finds his memory of the crawler in darkness is already hazy, as though his mind is trying to erase the sight in self-defense) burnt-froze and tore the meat off him...he'd succumbed to the flamethrower, though.
Shooting didn't seem to work on any of them, even boosted by Jake's 'friends' on the Other Side, though one of William's shots had seemed to do damage - damage the female at the top of the stairs didn't seem to be expecting, either. As far as he remembered, though, Evans' holy hand grenades seemed to work on a combination of quasi-sunlight and the inclusion of priest-blessed ingredients: perhaps Pierce had had his gun blessed. Maybe praying at them would help? The older Dust Adder in the house was almost certainly alive due to singing hymns, he'd seen that in the vision.
The folk in the house had been putting garlic around, apparently to keep the vampires away, and the clank had been wittering about onions...plus the alpha female had been clearly uncomfortable when she stole the bucket of pee; perhaps their heightened predatory senses couldn't cope with extreme scents? The jiang shi had stayed well away from that stuff, but it seemed to be a different sort of vampire altogether, so the cowboy out here probably wouldn't react much to cooked rice.
Jake did recall something else about vampires and rice, though. Dimly-recalled memories stir, of a European neighbour's stories...yes, they'd scatter rice or seeds in front yards when the night drew in, because the vampires would be compelled to count such things. If he had a number of similar small objects, the creature might be distracted with a need to pick them up...
[[In summary, Jake has seen different things affect different vampires, and can surmise there are different types, but he knows wood, blessed things, and strong scent/light are likely to affect all of them to some degree.]]