• Cut off the head and removed the heart, burn the body and scatter the ashes in separate areas.
• Pierce or otherwise destroy the heart, the stake must be left in place - this is difficult and messy
• Fire - best method for Rotting Vampire form
• An injection of silver nitrate into the blood stream
• If you kill a master vampire, none of the younger, non-master vampires bound to them will rise at the next sunset.

• Masters and long lived vampires can survive a massive wound to the heart.
• Older vamps can also survive a bullet to the head - they can still be alive even if most of the brain is gone.
• They must be able to feed or pull power from their followers to heal.
• The greater the size of their Kiss the more damage they can withstand.
• Rotting vampires, those that can cause their bodies to rot, must be burned to ensure that they are truly dead. They can withstand multiple bullets, and being fully dismembered.
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Vampire Punishments

• Denied permission to feed (GP, BB)
  
• Locked in a cross wrapped coffin (GP, LuC, NiC, CS)
  
• Chopped into tiny pieces but the head and heart left intact
• Given as gifts to others (NiC)
• Forced servitude
• Torture of many types
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