VAMPIRE Phase 8
Uses Eliminated Tokens
You have the power to enslave. When you win a challenge as a main
player, do not send opposing tokens to the warp. Rather, take the
tokens and invert them, keeping them as your own and distributing them
among your bases. These tokens act as yours until they are freed by a
Mobius Tubes or Warp break, when they go back to their rightful
owners. As a winning ally, you enslave one token of each opposing
player.
HISTORY: The Vampires sowed terror on their home planet for centuries
before wiping out all other life forms, turning them into vampires one
by one. Then they turned their attention, their blood lust, and their
fangs to the blackness of the Cosmos.
FLARE
Infinity
Wild: As a main player, you may take one other player's tokens on any
planet where you have a base, switching his tokens with yours from the
warp.
Phase 8
Super: You may enslave all tokens in a challenge, regardless of who
wins. If you lose the challenge, your tokens go to the warp as
normal.
PULSAR
Interphase
Con: This card frees all your tokens enslaved by Vampire.
Interphase
Pro: Tokens are not freed by Mobius Tubes or Warp Break.
Eon/Avalon:
Power
No Changes
Flare
Wild: "Use once and discard".
Pulsar
No Changes
Experience Rating: Novice
Cosmic Monopoly
Long version only. Power as is.
Commentary: This is a resource power. For those who don't know,
Vampire is the same thing as Eon Super Zombie Flare. It's a terrific
power. You gain more tokens at the expense of other players. Since
there are few Mobius Tubes and Warp Breaks, Vampire holds onto his new
tokens for a long time.
When Vampire and Fungus are in the same game, there's a great battle
between them for getting other players' tokens. The game becomes
extremely Cosmic when Vampire enslaves a Fungoid stack. The stack
counts as one token. When freed by a Mobius Tubes or Warp Break, the
stack returns to Fungus. Tokens in that stack are not freed. Neither
are tokens freed when the stack as a Vampire token goes to the warp.
If a Fungus stack is enslaved by Vampire, but then Fungus adheres to
it again, what happens to the stack? According to Fungus, adhered to
tokens do not have any special characteristics. The stack was one
Vampire token. It remains one token adhered to under a Fungus token.
The tokens in the original stack do not count for anything.
Therefore, as I see it, Fungus loses out to Vampire in the long run.
Gerald Katz
Don't forget to tip the Butler!
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