Pursuit and Chases
____Sometimes, characters will want to chase other characters. Chases are resolved as is initiative, based on the following chart:

____Advanced Celerity (activated)
____Basic Celerity (activated)
____Advanced Potence
____Basic Potence
____Physical
____Mental
____Tie: Die roll, per initiative

____Example: Maxine the Brujah is chasing a Sabbat vampire. She has Basic Celerity - but so does her quarry. She has Basic Potence - but so does the Sabbat. Moving down the chart, the Storyteller sees that Maxine's Physical Trait is 4. The Sabbat vampire's is 3. Maxine catches the Sabbat vampire.

Social Interaction
____Vampires are creatures of passion and power; it is inevitable that they will become embroiled in social intrigues. Vampires may resolve social challenges in several ways; a few are listed below.
____-Intimidation: The vampire may try to intimidate her target through physical threats (use the Physical Trait), social condescension (use the Social Trait) or verbal bullying (use the Mental Trait). The victim may resist with her Psychic Trait. The highest roll wins.
____-Leadership: The vampire may issue commands, but must make a Social roll to convince a hesitant target. If the target is inclined to disobey, he may make a Mental roll to resist. The highest roll wins.
____-Seduction: The vampire rolls Social; the party being seduced uses Psychic to resist. The highest roll wins.

Stealth
____The vampire stalking prey rolls Physical (difficulty 4); the prey, guard, etc., rolls Mental (difficulty 4). If the vampire wins, he successfully remains undetected; if the prey wins, she detects the vampire; if the vampire and prey tie, the prey "thinks she hears something" or "sees something out of the corner of her eye" (future rolls to detect the vampire are difficulty 3).

Story Ideas

____-The Embrace: The characters are newly created vampires, and may even begin the game as mortals. In this story, the characters and Storyteller play out the (sometimes ecstatic, often horrific) Embrace, and establish the relationship between the characters and their sires (the vampires who transform them into undead). Were the characters transformed knowingly or against their wills? Do they get along with their sires or hate them for what they have done? How do the characters react to their newfound state (the need to drink blood, the pain and fear inspired by sunlight, etc.)? How do they deal with the fact that they are forever severed from their mortal lives?
____-Power Struggle: The characters are new in town and must wrest their nightly livelihood from established undead. In this story, the characters and Storyteller play out the gritty realities of establishing one's niche in a hostile town. Must the characters fight for hunting grounds? Make deals with established vampires who are also seeking to raise their status? Use mortals to undermine their rivals power bases from within?
____-Love Story: A character falls in love with a mortal or another vampire. If the object of affection is mortal, is the love requited - and if so, does the character inform his love that he is a vampire? (Doing so, remember, is a violation of the Masquerade and punishable by both parties' deaths.) If the beloved is another vampire, does she return the love - or merely use the character as a convenient pawn? And what if a hideous Nosferatu falls in love with a beautiful Toreador or Ventrue?
____-Fight for Survival: Something wicked this way comes. Perhaps the Sabbat stages a raid on the city; perhaps a rogue, bloodthirsty Methuselah appears and being wreaking havoc like the pagan god he effectively is. In any event, the characters must outwit or outfight this threat to their domains.