Daily reminder that vampires always turn to ash/mist when they die unless your setting sucks, so they should all have the trait "relentless endurance" and should all fall over and play possum because everyone knows vampires are dick backs. when playing possum, they can

>regenerate health for a few rounds
>run away to live to fight another day
>stand back up and back stab an unspecting NPC or player who thought the coast was clear.
>allow them a second round of monologuing after someone with a high medicine skill figures out they aren't dead, or someone else realzies that they should be dust and not a corpse.