After much procrastinating, I have decided to run a game using Vampire: the Requiem. This is the New World of Darkness Vampire. If anyone is interested, please let me know dystopan dot reality at gmail dot com
The setting:
In the year 2021, the Silent War started. No one knows who started it and all records have been erased. There were no warheads, missiles, rockets or anything of the sort fired in the Silent War. It started with a computer virus that disabled the military, utilities, all financial and scientific systems. It struck on 1 January, exactly 50 years after the beginning of the Unix Epoch. It is suspected that it was 50 years, to the millisecond.
The superpowers all suspected one another, and launched what attacks they could. This mostly meant sending in troops, which included an incasion of US soil. But, the soldiers were the least of the problems. It seemed that along with the computer virus (which was never named), there was a biological virus. This virus aroused the worst aspects of humanity, in about a quarter of the population. These people started riots, looted and destroyed everything they came across. All major cities were devastated. Fortunately the virus also aroused the noble aspects in another quarter of the population. These people resisted those who would destroy society, and they inspired those that were unaffected to subdue the violence.
Depite the efforts of these protectors, a lot of lives were lost and much was destroyed. Then, 256 days after the virus struck, the half of the population that was affected died suddenly.
Now, years after the war has ended, people are trying to rebuild. In London, the government is organising the people. Everyone is fed and housed. Those that are able to work are given luxury credits, when they work. Each day, tasks are divided up amongst the people that present themselves. There is no private enterprise, because everything is run by the government. It isn’t that it is illegal, just that no one has the motivation and there are no facilities that aren’t controlled by the government. Farms are run in a similar fashion, except those that work them are looked after better than those that work in the city. There are no other cities in what was formerly known as the United Kingdom, the entire population of the British Isles lives in London. During the war, everyone was evacuated from all other cities. There may be some survivors outside of London, but they are not in communication with anyone in the city.