Weapons to kill a Vampire

Are there any types of weapons that are good for killing vampires? I mean besides a wooden stake, which is pretty obvious, Im thinking more like modern weapons, like maybe an improved piano wire type weapon, which could be used to decapitate vampires and so on?

The reason why Im asking this is well, first off, I could be nice to use a but more untraditional ways to kill off vampires in my vampire campaign.
And I have one of my players, whom has a somewhat weird relationship to his sire. His sire, finally seeing it wasn't a mistake to embrace the player, would like to give him a token of this, a symbol of pride.
Since the sire is an assassin, and rather good at it, I want it to be some sort of weapon, which has been passed on to him by his own sire and and he passes it on. So a side from it going to be pretty unique, I want it to be suitable to kill of both mortals and vampires.

Any ideas? Suggestions? Places where I should look?

Shaila:

? I mean besides a wooden stake, which is pretty obvious,

Actually, its hard as hell to stake a vampire.   -3 and requiring 5 successes?   Good luck, mate.    Hunters have it a bit easier- they can risk a point of willpower to reduce the required successes to 3.

You want to kill a vampire?    Get fire.   A lighter and alcohol for an instant moltov.   Flare gun.  


For a vampire assassin, though, I would pass along a relic.   A dagger used by the original Hassassins.   Maybe a gun that can deal lethal against even vampires and spirits (think of the gun from Supernatural).  

Shaila:

Since the sire is an assassin, and rather good at it, I want it to be some sort of weapon, which has been passed on to him by his own sire and and he passes it on. So a side from it going to be pretty unique, I want it to be suitable to kill of both mortals and vampires.

Any ideas? Suggestions? Places where I should look?

A sword is the obvious choice, unless his sire is going to give him his ancestral flamethrower.

how about a telescoping staff that can decapitate vampires while keeping them out of reach

a dagger made from the thigh bone of an elder or a werewolf?

If you can get a hold of an implement (weapon) that deals agg I would say that is the way to go.

Otherwise massive amounts of Lethal (Axe as they have 9-again) is your best choice IMO. And then when the vampires is torpid you can just go to town on it! :)

If your ST allows for a flamethrower that is off course and alternative. I do not see how smaller things are that effective such as spraycans or torches. Maybe bunsenburner. But that is not assassinish...

Cog.

Thanks for the responses :)

I know swords and axes could be useful, but I was thinking if there was anything a bit more modern. Like a flamethrower, but not a weapon that would make the user (a vampire) run in terror half the time he lits it on (he doesn't really have the best history with surviving Rotschock rolls).

Hmm a knife made from an elders bone, that could be really cool, and add some story flavour as well. Are there any places where I might be able to read up on this? Or am I on my own on that part?

Relics? I must admit I dont really know much about relics. Aren't they really powerful? My campaign isn't that old, and they have just been achknowledged of their existance so to speak, so I dont know if it might be too early to introduce relics? Any advice?

Relics vary in power. If you are looking to go modern, there is a relic power called Swollen Might" that allows a weapon that normally inflicts bashing to do lethal. Normally this costs 1 willpower to activate. You also have the option when creating a relic (as a storyteller) of changing the cost to Vitae or whatever supernatural fuel your relic user uses.

Thus you could easily create a gun with a knife-edge on the hammer. The user spends a point of Vitae and the weapon is guaranteed to do lethal damage when it would only do bashing. The Vitae bleeds through a tiny (and superficial) wound cut by the hammer.

Shaila:

Are there any places where I might be able to read up on this?

Reliquary

- fuel-air bomb (preferably detonated remotely)

Bows for staking from range. Again you have the inherent problems of staking but at least this time you're a fair distance away.

Zen_Hydra:

sword-chucks

nice, bonus points on zesting the cocktail.

Sgt Jacobs:

Bows for staking from range. Again you have the inherent problems of staking but at least this time you're a fair distance away.

Also make sure your arrows are wooden. It'd be a bit embarrassing to put a metal arrow through the heart of a vampire.

A high powered laser would do the trick. It would burn a vampire, but worse, it would cause the moisture it his body to convert to a gas state, there by expanding and blowing out any where it could.  Hitting a vampire or a person with a laser would make lots of popping sounds and blood/stream everywhere. Really messy.

A pack a lupines are pretty good at final death.


A white phosperous round to the head from a rifle would be pretty bad.

In a non-Requiem Vampire game, lots and lots of bullets will do the trick.  It won't kill the vampire, but subdue it.  You have to shoot it enough to kill a man three times over.  There's no kill like an over kill.

The best weapon against a vampire is good detective work, recon and surveillance.  You need to find where the vampire rests during the day.  Why would you attack a vampire at night?  You find where he sleeps, stake him and then take his coffin outside for some fresh air and sunlight. 

Unholy Pilgrim:

A pack a lupines are pretty good at final death.

"I want you to have this pack of werewolves. They belonged to my sire and his sire before him." Talk about bizarre heirlooms!

Unholy Pilgrim:

In a non-Requiem Vampire game, lots and lots of bullets will do the trick.  It won't kill the vampire, but subdue it.  You have to shoot it enough to kill a man three times over.  There's no kill like an over kill.

This will still work in requiem. You need to do exactly enough damage to kill an equivalent man three times over to kill the bastard. Fortunately, you only need twice as much to put him into torpor.

Tonllus:

A sword is the obvious choice, unless his sire is going to give him his ancestral flamethrower.

These two are the obvious choices, but nothing beats an acid-etched katana for decapitation (what Blade uses). Im not sure how wieldy or feasible a flamethrower is.

Shaila:

Any ideas? Suggestions? Places where I should look?