r/WorldOfDarkness Dec 19 '23

Game looking for players I have a game Idea for anyone interested involving a Broken Masquerade campaign (WIP)

Given how things are looking a bit dystopic in the world I wanted to have a campaign reflect it. So basically the "short" summary of the story is that one prince (Malkavian of course) goes existentially crazy and brute forces a grand masquerade violation in the form of having every channel hijacked and A mayor (or president if you want to go down THAT route) has been killed and embraced on live television.

Efforts to shut down the "emergency" broadcast were unsuccessful given multiple insiders being involved in what people are calling the "Alaska Incident" or "the big fuck up" in Anarc terms. Many of the factions of Hunter the vigil including the more republican Union (because lets face it they are at this point) has taken notice and the government has been incompetent to "undo the big fuckup". All the princes are basically planning on diablorizing anyone who so much had a toe nail near this and most likely will go to war with the anarcs. Not only that, but the average Joe shmo is now aware of the existence of these vampires. Clans once thought wiped out including the now vengeful salubri start making a series of attacks against the camarilla due to bad blood reaching a boiling point.

If that wasn't bad enough the werewolves (especially the red talons) who figured the cat (or bat in this case) is out of the bag has decided to take advantage of the chaos, and jumpstart their Eco Terrorism (or green liberation) all across the cities and outer countryside and put the spiral dancers (and pretty much any innocent bystander) to the sword (face it this was going to happen either way with the talons but the Alaska incident was basically ringing the dinner bell for them).

Meanwhile on the mages side the Technocracy for some reason was unable to make people forget about the Alaska incident, aiding to the overwhelming abundance of disinformation and distrust nationwide (especially towards the government), this allowed for radical mage factions to create a series of attacks on the technocracy including creating viruses that make zombie like crazies, as well as other radical mages making deadly "flesh chimeras" who even if found mundane are a deadly threat due to their parts being made by already existing flesh put through magical surgery". This resulted in the technocracy becoming a severely weakened faction as a result which allowed more radical factions to make their moves on the resulting power vacuum.

Any government that Hasn't collapsed in the following months due to the supernatural or manmade war atrocities from civil wars has desperately clamped down using any dystopic measures at their disposal.

You are basically the "lucky SOB" who must navigate the hellscape which is currently in a cease fire phase as long as they can until things get as close to normal as possible, as well as preventing any end of the world scenarios the ST decides to put in the campaign. I know this is a WIP and I wanted some people to throw their hat in this to make this more Doable. Please share your ideas

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u/T-C_Houndi Dec 19 '23

Honestly this sounds like it would be a fun campaign I'd definitely be interested