Well, it seems like a lot of things have happened since I was brain storming. I have to agree with the odd "You can't do that." I once met some white wolfer guy who was all "You can't do X," I brought up Samual Haight, or however they spelled his name. Werewolf/kinfolk/mage/vampire? Hells, I'm surprised he didn't live on as a wraith too.
Anyway, I have the basic idea for a plot if it intrigues people. Let me set it up and warn you it breaks canon like a bitch:
You were all embraced on the eve of Gehenna, 1998. However, Gehenna was not what had been thought previously. The unknown sect of elder Vampires known as the Inconnu had set up the entire Gehenna mythos, the Vampire ideas, even the Antediluvians, as an elaborate plot in control. The fact they pulled it off was a great surprise to them, but they had grown tired of their immortal games of chess and decided a new game was to be made. For that they needed to wipe the board clean and make some new pieces.
The sect that was most prepared for this was the Sabbat. As sleeper agents all over the Western world awoke, their obsessive drive to beat the Antediluvians had kept them from relying upon the weak minded mortals, leaving them with much less of a surprise to worry about. Their Black Hand was ready, and thus they struck back hard and brutal, even allying themselves with the paltry Camarilla and the Anarchs. You were some of the shock troops made for that night and somehow managed to survive the carnage when elders clashed and Vozhd roamed the streets. You watched with a blood thirst unmentionable as unimaginable amounts of sanguine humors flowed down the streets. It was a night where you were not only a Vampire, you were a warrior.
The skirmishes died down after about a year as the elders of the Camarilla and Sabbat and even minor independents rose and fought back the ancient Inconnu. What really turned the tides was when the oriental clans, most often shielded off in another cloak and dagger game by the Inconnu, rallied against their own puppeteers. While not destroying the Inconnu, they were driven back. the hydra had lost most of its heads and needed to recuperate. They lashed back, of course, having decimated massive amounts of Ravnos for their audacity of breaking the news to the other Eastern clans and the Tremere for their ritual sacrificing all the Sabbat Tremere to launch a massive attack at the Inconnu.
When the dust settled and sleeper agents were cleansed or killed, the brazen truth of being lied to came to be. What was the truth behind Vampirism? How could these ancient Vampires have gotten away with these lies so successfully after basing the majority of them on Christianity? What was the reality of the supernatural? Are Vampires the next step in human evolution? If there were no Antediluvians, what made the clans what they are? These and much more are still unanswered.
Thus we begin in the year 2009 where much speculation has gone on and the presence of the Inconnu can still be felt. Many things have changed in the world of darkness as a whole: The "True" Black Hand disbanded because they realized they were a tool of the Inconnu to gather information on the lands of the dead and be a shock troop force. The Ravnos have dwindled quite a bit, still. The Daughters of Cacophony are once again Embracing men (and started the eve of Gehenna). The Cappadocians are back thanks to the Harbingers of Skulls Embracing some new talent, much to the woe of the Giovanni. The Camrilla has lessened and is now still more about living in peace with humans and staying as hidden as possible. The Sabbat's number has grown as Vampires saw how they were prepared and they were the closest in piercing the deception fabricated by the Inconnu. The Sabbat lost a lot of purpose with the being warriors against the Antediluvians, but the majority have focused on transcending their remaining humanity and becoming its lord and masters. It hasn't lost all it's violent swings though. The Eastern and Western clans have begun to meet more than the sparing contact of before, leading to different understandings of the Vampiric condition. The Nictuku, servants of the Inconnu to keep the intelligence grubbing Nosferatu on their toes, have been vanquished. Baba Yaga still "lives" because she is awesome. The ghost world was not rocketed by massive explosions and re-death. The Antediluvians do exist (well, some), but their powers were highly exaggerated, like a piece of wood vaunted to be from the true cross. The "living" Antediluvians were just Vampires who quickly lowered their generation and came into the power of those ancient Vampires. Who created them is still a mystery.
I see this as a sort of "New" World of Darkness, as it will be taken from V:tM and changed around a lot. Thus the idea behind the reality of the Vampires will be brought in and can be explored, the idea of Humanity (the score not the people) will be played up, citing it's importance and lack of importance in both ways and hopefully leading to the exploration of paths. The entire idea of your world has been flipped upside down, and the ensuing ideas of paranoid elder Vampires becoming REALLY paranoid, will be a main idea. Not only were you thrown from your life as a mortal into the world of a Vampire, you were done so when their entire paradigm was shifting, leaving you with even less of an identity to cling to. At least that is how I hope to run it. Of course, with the Sabbat, some mindless human football is in there as well.
This is in it's infancy, and I'll need to think on it more, but this is the basic framework without the details and restricted clans/paths and stuff in it. If enough people seem interested I am sure I can flesh this out and start something up. I'd like at least five people for a good pack. And it would be best not to pick out a clan/bloodline immediately, as I have not decided on what to allow and disallow.
Anyway, there is the brainchild of many a night of insomnia. I hope it tickles some fancy.
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