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that radio waves can be bounced off them, recording a sub-dermal Caudate Nucleus, medical research believes it has discovered a
image. Sometimes, dyes, most commonly gadolinium, are used to near-perfect method for detecting mistruths (seeing the lie even
provide extra contrast. Recently, strides have been made to adapt as it “forms”). The Caudate is the brain’s fi lter, and studies have
MRI technology in the study of the human brain to achieve a far revealed that even the least stressful and whitest of lies has to pass
more accurate system of lie detection. Not the most cost-effective through this node in the brain and registers on the screen. Of the
method, but by monitoring impulse migration, specifically in the available methods of lie detection, fMRIs promise to be the most

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Many of the interrogation methods listed above, like drug-assisted coercion
or lie detection, often rely on very biological reactions. The undead are
not especially prone to such reactions, but a little human ingenuity goes a
long way in circumventing this problem.
Behavioral “tells” (not to be confused with a hunter’s Tell) are still giveaways
in younger vamps not so “long in the tooth,” and a haunting spirit is as bad a
liar in death as he would have been in life.
Some hunters have found dosing a person and getting a vamp to feed from
that person’s blood can transfer the effects of most narcotics. Often called
“Poisoning the Well,” this secondhand effect is often diluted by the step
removed, and older vamps are going to require signifi cantly larger doses. This
can be considerably harmful and sometimes fatal for the unwitting intermediary
in question. If at all possible, the hunters would be wise to dose a known
collaborator, sycophant, or cultist, thus killing two birds with one stone.
A possessed body — whether “claimed” by the restless dead, a demon, or something
stranger — should be just as susceptible to drugging, given that it is bound
to a physical body. Caveat: more than one unit has fallen prey to deceitful
spirits who play at being disoriented until they can take advantage and make
their escape — or make slaves of their would-be captors.

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