Exsanguis. A vampire plot with a bit more bite.

Hai everyone, VitaminHeart here with an idea. I'm also, despite the vampire subject promising to mention Twilight at all in this interest check. :D

Now I know there are a lot of vampire RPs on Gateway, I see a lot of them, but they all seem kinda similar, kinda in the 'dark romance' catagory, and kinda focus on that.

I wanted to try and make a vampire RP with a kinda winder scale and mythos that allows for more variation and a darker and more conflicting storyline.

The set-up is inside a city, a large city, and like all large cities of that world, it's a base for a clan of 'First Gen' vampires. These vampires are living beings rather than undead, though like the legends they scorch in sunlight, and have a digestive system adapted for surviving on human blood. They can't manage on any blood but but human.

The clan holds a great deal of power, its members have infiltrated the system, they're in the police force and the hospital, they have the city's head coroner pinned into signing and bodies discovered dead for vampire attack to be classified as dead from natural causes, with possibilities of an animal chewing on the body to leave bite marks.

As a result ofn this careful blackmailing, most people have no idea vampires exist, and the tightly ordered clans intend to keep it that way, seeing thier operations as above and beyond the concerns of humans, who they regard as lowly farm animals to be slaughtered and drunk from as needed.

The problem arises with second generation vampires. A second generation is created when a vampire bites and drinks from a human, but doesn't kill them. This is usually due to a deliberate action, or a sloppy attack. First generation vampires are taught to deliver a deadly bite, but mistakes are made. The human goes through a period of transformation over several days as their body ungoes rapid cellular change and thier digestive system and jaw alter a great deal. During this transformation thier body temperature drops, muscles stiffen and lock, and breathing and pulse slow to a near halt, making them easily mistaken as a corpse, however after a week or so, a second generation vampire awakens. They're not as powerful as the first generation, though are still quite fast and strong....though far less controlled. A second generation vampire has naturally poor impulse control, and may attack humans for blood.

If a second generation bites a person and turns them, the vampire mutation is further diluted and corrupted, with the results becoming more wild and uncontrollable, usually ending up with a snarling, feral creature relying purely on instinct and hunger.

First generation vampires see second generations, or Pseudovampires, as not only dangerous to thier way of life, but also a disgusting corruption of thier species, and exterminate most, hanging onto a few due to the properties thier blood has.

Ther jumping-off point I was tihnking was that a certain rogue first gen has been biting and turning people in order to try and create his own little army of pseudovampires, and the local clan are not pleased at all.


Nothing is set in stone ye,t suggestions are welcome, and I'd just like to see if anyone is vaguely interest in the idea.