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Are you a law-abiding citizen? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (19 children)

wait

is property lines the same as a house?

can you sublet a room on your house and hide there?

can you surround a vampire with houses and he cannot escape?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Hey, I'm an amateur vampirologist. Feel free to tell me to go F myself if you disagree, but here are my thoughts.

    In most media I've seen it's not the property line, it's specifically the house.

    Subletting leads to an interesting conundrum that I'll have to explore more but on its face I think it checks out. I also think it's very silly and would love to see a work that explored this.

    As I understand it, you'd have to build them pretty close together so it couldn't escape, especially if it can turn into mist or fly, but theoretically I think that would work too if you could build fast enough.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    i won't tell you to fuck yourselves, I'll do it myself ..

    next questions

    a cave can be a house, can a vampire enter a uninhabited cave, but if next day someone moves in, will the vampire be unable to enter?

    if a vampire inherits a house, no one formally invited him in, could he enter, as he is the legal owner and therefore only need his invitation?

    do tents count as housing? what about this:

    could you wear a tent like that and vampires would be unable to bite you?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Imagine a vampire getting frustrated with a realtor because this is the fourth time they've arrived at a house they're interested in to do a walkthrough but the owners aren't home and the realtor, as someone who doesn't have ties to the memories created in that home, can't invite him in.

    This also has fascinating implications for house flippers. If you only live there while working on it, have you not amassed enough "home power" to keep vampires out? Does the power of your previous home follow you to a new address if it's mostly the same decor?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We could then use vampires to determine who owns a house, if a house is abandoned for a while and there are squatters.

    the squaters and legal owner invite vampires in, if the legal owner vampire cant, he looses the right to the house, if the squatter's vamp cant get in, they get evicted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So the legal owner loses the deed and the squatters evacuate.
    Now the state gets an extra house.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    if thats the case, that means no one was the trully living there, so it's better to open it for someone else rather than leave it vacant.

    (if the squatters really lived there instead of just crashing there for a couple nights then they would have gotten there house)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    could you wear a tent like that and vampires would be unable to bite you?

    I feel like they can't enter your house, as in get their entire body over the threshold. But there's no magical forcefield over the doorway, so if you were standing within arms reach they could grab you. The tent thing is kind of a moot point though, as there's nothing preventing them from attacking a domicile, so they could just tear it or even just poke you with a pointed stick.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    does that mean that a vampire doesn't need permission to enter a house if he rents a bulldozer?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But wouldn't someone have to be living in the houses? I feel like empty buildings wouldn't work.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    At it's core a house is an inhabited building. I think an occupied outhouse might work even, if you stuck a much of them together with the vampire in the middle. I'm envisioning like a 3x3 porta potty cube with a vampire in the center one.

    But yeah I think there would have to at least be a person in each one

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the spell is based around trust, the vampire has to convince you to trust them enough (either through charm or trickery) to invite them into your private living space. I think an outhouse would work since there's a major expectation of privacy there.

    I think a warrant would help the vampire convince people to trust them (a judge trusted them to execute their court order) but probably wouldn't be enough on it's own. Because it's not about convincing someone else to say it's ok to enter your home, they have to convince you to give them permission. But the vampire could say "I have been ordered by the court to search your house, may I come in?" They'd have to wait until you've read the warrant, maybe call your lawyer, and your lawyer would tell you that you have to let them in. Then you'd likely give permission to the vampire to enter your house because your lawyer told you to. Because lawyers are just another kind of blood sucker, aren't they?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wonder how this would interact with, say, Manhattan's Eruv—a wire used by some Jews to demark a private space.

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