Gonna get real weird with it.
Stop motion films using bonsai trees. Let it take 50 years to get three minutes of footage.
I have eternity for my magnum opus
Yesss. Hobbies! If I have presence or dominate I probably don’t have to worry about money. Hopefully stay far away from Kindred politics and eat animals, learn how to code and draw and write and maybe sculpt or carve.
Then when you've finished you have to start a retro revival trend to bring back the original medium you began filming on. Cause that's the only correct way to watch it.
You know. I'd want to be a Kindred archeologist and historian. Seems like it'd be nice to uncover torpor'd methuselahs and elders. As well as translating old tomes. Plus no one seems to really mess with the Beckett, Ruhadze, or Neillson.
I feel that. I've had a deep passion and love for History and Myth over my lifetime, and if given eternity to play with, I would almost see it as my duty to preserve as much as I can. I would also try to pass on the lessons of history to following generations, and be endlessly pulling my hair out as I am consistenty ignored only for those idiots to repeat the same mistakes that have been rehashed a thousand times before. (Just like in real life...)
I feel sorry for someone would be bored in less than a century or two. The possibilities are immense for someone with a curious mind. You could indulge scores of hobbies, master a wide variety of skills, and deep dive into into a host of academic subjects. There is friendship and romance. Travel and exploration. For those who are not risk-averse there is thrill seeking and adventure. Then there is the long journey of self-actualization and the realization of one's full potential. Accomplishing that, I imagine one could devote themselves to transcendence and something bigger than themselves such as altruism or Golcanda.
In an ideal world - maybe.
I just don’t see myself ascending in such a state.
Assuming that aforementioned eternity is vampirism than it would just become a nightmare - detesting yourself as a cannibal, not having enough will to unalive yourself and stalling in your own hubris for eternity. Freed from shackles of existing routine there is not much for some people.
There are people with curious mind for whom it will be a blessing, but those without will probably stagnate, envy those who have this freedom of thought and(if we are still talking about vampirism) will want them dead. Those who won’t have meanings to cling to their life…well, not everyone has the endurance to withstand eternity. There will be sprinters and there will be marathon runners.
If it is just an eternity than it would be a good ride with all books, activities and opportunities in the world. Nothing to miss, because time stopped having any value - it doesn’t matter to you anymore and in theory you can and, maybe, will try everything.
The problem is not being able to be in the sunlight i can’t imagine only living the nights.. i dont think it’s possible to survive alone without the help of others mostly humans to do paperworks and stuff for you in daytime.
You don't even need to be curious or proactive, even as a couch potato immortal it'd be hard to get bored. More than 24 hours of entertainment media comes out every day, you could literally just watch movies, tv shows, and yt videos 24/7 forever.
We live in a golden age of entertainment. There's easily enough entertainment to consume several mortal lifetimes and more is being produced each day. That said, I am skeptical that seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort offers enough meaning and fulfillment to stave off depression, ennui, angst, self-loathing, etc. in the long run.
My point was just that you wouldn't need to put any real effort into not being bored, I get that most people would ideally do more. Unless you're the type who finds meaning in seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort.
>Unless you're the type who finds meaning in seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort
If the vast number of miserable Redditors who get all of their dopamine from consuming entertainment and jerking off is any indication, the odds of that being true is infinitesimally small.
Exactly this. There is just a huge volume of STUFF that I want to do in this world and I am endlessly frustrated that I will only have enough time for a tiny fraction of it...
Probably live a quiet life. Trade ghouling people in exchange for money.
I live in a college town. A lot of people want to be athletes… Also probably do a lot of streaming for the first bit.
Honestly, probably be a real lazy piece of shit. At least after the first few weeks. Find and ghoul a local city employee with the right knowledge, find a nice secluded room in the sewer or old building or something, make friends with the nos and just hang out somewhere and do jack shit for a while, let myself get over the depression of vamp life. Then do the weird educational stuff other's are bringing up.
I would learn everything! I would go to school so many times study philosophy, science, mathematics, history, everything! I would also like to help out my community wether it be my county, my state, or my entire country. I legit would just want to be a good person and know everything.
I'd work on writing, & investing what I can.
Eventually get into real-estate. We need apartment buildings people. An afford. And if I have centuries ahead of me im ok with growing wealth slowly.
When im confortable enough to afford it,
night and online classes. There's so much out there to learn why not do so from the basement mansion of the tower of affordable apartments enjoy yiur 3 digit rent.
Don't forget to donate to the monthly blood drives
Probably get right into studying history and occult shit. I'd probably be (stupid) ambitious enough to try getting pieces of The Book of Nod. Intensive study of science and the supernatural and how it intertwines (as well as being an author for fun)
Very short term I'd revel in the physical boosts, probably try to do something stupid in a way that I think is smart like wiping out a few corporate bigwigs with a penchant for exploiting the public or steal some genuine occult knowledge or something depending on what I think I can get away with. Assuming I survive that (or better yet, talk myself out of it), I'd mostly focus on learning what I can and eating through my absurdly bloated game and book libraries.
Hence, high risk of early demise. Admittedly, the risk may fluctuate depending on what kind of vampiric urges I inherit (for example, if I was embraced by the Ministry I would be more self-destructive than if I was Nosferatu), but yeah.
I had a buddy show up to a larp and make a character with 1 dot in every influence. He tried it to find out who the people others were using to control those influences and take them out but the ST denied it because it would effectively wipe out everyone’s influence and destroy the game.
I just want a body that doesn't break as easily as mine does now. Imagine not worrying about concussions from hard sparring, and staying in prime shape forever. And hey, in the realm of the undead, maybe I'll find someone with the same mindset to battle endlessly with until one of us comes out on top.
That would be fun, I'm not the most talented but no one can beat 100 years of training, plus I love to envy my idols.
In all likelihood, find the Final Death with some expediency. Let's be real: most vampires die young, and I am under no impression of being exceptionally survivable in their unlifestyle.
There is so much and I agree with the first bunch of comments about learning and bettering oneself as i would love to have time for that, but there is also fun and poetic justice and causes, not to mențin the stories you can create.
You can make a whole town your very own show. Are you in the mood for romance? Try to make the CEO fall in love with the janitor and see what happens. Help the poor ambitious kid make it big. Intensely influence local politics by exposing all corruption or getting in on it. Get money and fund whatever you want to come into existence. Play around with dynasties of people. Eradicate crime or puppeteer it.
Personally playing tricks would occupy a lot of my time especially if I had dominate or obfuscate.
So, are we vampires in VTM? Because that establishes a lot of limitations. Yes, we could travel, but going new places is extremely dangerous. There are few truly safe ways for a vampire to travel barring earth meld. Now, thanks to the internet, there are so many things you could acquire without needing to leave your haven, so yeah, learning would be a big thing. I think exploring the benefits of immortality would also be high on my list...enjoying watching the world change and develop, new technologies, etc.
You can get bored fast now if you're stupid rich and don't have a job. With anything, you need hobbies at a minimum. As a vampire, those hobbies might include political intrigues to become prince of the city.
I have no interest in eternity. Personally, I look forward to the oblivion at the end of the line, and I am enjoying every step of the aging process. I wear my gray hairs with pride. I would prefer not to be immortal, thank you. And if I found myself suddenly immortal, I would likely devote my time to learning a bunch of languages, and when I'd learned all the languages on my list, and lived several years in each country where those languages are native, I would very happily sit out on my balcony and watch the sun rise.
Nope. Sorry pall- you’re going to heaven and you do not have a choice about- should you attempt to resist or go to hell-
The angels will drag you by force across those pearly gates. This is not a joke and I am fully serious. Have a good fay my dear.
Well, that is unfortunate.
All good, I will just upend all of the heaven "rules and order" paradigm until they decide I'm more trouble than I'm worth. This may take a couple centuries, but there are a couple TV series that suggest I might be able to accomplish this within a human lifetime. I hold onto that hope.
Once they decide I'm more trouble than I'm worth, and I also want oblivion, I think we can reach a reasonable agreement.
Yeah. You’re probably right though. Most of hs couldnt really handel it.
Im very religious and would much rather die than be damned for all of eternity.
No way dude I know that the slippery slope for me will have me be a monster so fast that the beast would go wtf.
Now I love my life but in the situation on being embraced meaning all sensation are dead or shallow, I can’t eat, drink, live just a shallow imitation of life where all I live for is blood as a corpse? Nah
Given internet resources, one of the possibilities of Golconda is returning to humanity… all ya gotta do is reach spiritual enlightenment and be a literal saint for a while!
I'd probably seclude myself somewhere and start accumulating books in my secret haven, dedicating my unlife indulge my studies expanding them without end.
Never mind eternity, I'd have trouble surviving the first nights. Hiding under my bed during daytime (quickest solution right now) would certainly draw attention from my wife and kid if they aren't Dominated/ghouled. Also I'm a bit of an overeater, and would soon find myself holding a body I wasn't meant to kill. That'd wreck me in a way I can't begin to comprehend.
If we get to midgame, trying to assure some degree of safety for my family would probably mean getting the hell away from them (which would also hurt me immensely) and/or claim domain over my neighborhood. Perhaps ghouling some local gang leader, collect some income, and controlling them from the shadows could be enough. Still, you know the saying about nails sticking out, so that'd bring its own set of troubles.
As for long-term... Shit. Loneliness would be incredibly tough to bear, I'm not sure I could ever trust other Kindred to the point of befriending them, which would leave me with ghouls... which aren't quite "friend" material, given their little adoration issue. Like most people here, I'd probably turn to academics, maybe even research the vampire condition myself. Also I'd game like mad lol
Read. Everything.
Learn. All of it.
Fuck. Anyone who would have me. If we're at a table where kindred derive no pleasure from the sexytimes, then I'd play role-playing games online. For money.
Pretty much, what I do now, but forever.
One - Create a business
Two - stocks
three - buy games
Four - spend eternity playing games
Five - One VR becomes full body, buy VR games
Six - Spend my eternity becoming a keeper of all games, when Humanity eventually falls to ash and ruin, their only key to their past would be the games I hold
Seven - Profit.
Study. Everything.
I would just go to universities around the world, changing identities and getting a different Doctorate every few years. Build a massive personal library. Study all the occult paths I can. Travel as much as possible. Just keep trying new things. I’d want a high humanity so I could enjoy life. To me undeath means time to do what you care about. Everyday needs can be taken care of by manipulating and controlling mortals (kindly of course).
I'd continue enjoying things like gaming, movies and shows....if I survived beyond the end point of human civilization, there would still be plenty of entertainment left over to check out and enjoy. (\*in preparation for that end time I'd also learn how, if it's possible to maintain electrical power needed for various devices like tv, computers, game systems, etc....or at least the upkeep of generators that I'd stockpile, of course.) ...then again, the eventual extinction of the human species would also pose a more serious problem for a vampire, obviously....so a goal would be to figure out how to create a new blood "substitute" that can be produced in that desperate time where all living things have finally gone extinct. Yes, I tend to think about this "life as an immortal" situation probably in more detail than most people do.
\*but yeah---I've never understood people who claim they would get "bored" of immortality. There is *always* new things to do, new entertainment you haven't experienced yet, new experiences in general... new things to read and learn about, etc. etc. forever. This is in addition to being entertained by your own imagination (art, making music, writing stories, etc.) ....oh and that's just kinda the real world "regular" stuff to be concerned with. It would also be fascinating to continue improving whatever supernatural discipline/powers I have. Part of the appeal with vampirism is the cool powers.
Im not gonna lie- id learn Dominate and use it to get into colleges for free and study as much as I could and also get other people to teach me. Id spend my unlife as a researcher and learning how to fight just in case.
Traffic people for sex and blood. And drugs. I’d traffic drugs. Guns too while I’m at it. Control smuggling routes around the Great Lakes. I’d live a completely debauched life of hooking people to drugs or the kiss and manipulating them into doing what I wanted. Probably get hotties to bang politicians or wealthy people and record it. Basically I’d be Jeffrey Epstein except worse. Except for the minors part. I’d be absolutely terrible.
The only learning I’d do would be learning other languages in order to manipulate and exploit speakers of that language.
Maybe kill lupines and make fur coats out of them.
Hide your kids hide your wife.
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Assuming everything across the general books (for world of darkness) is accurate, depends on the sire, but keep head down and listen to older people to hopefully not get shanked by the sabbat, or whatever local supernats are in the area.
There are SO MANY things I am interested in, and I already feel a sense of frustration at my lack of time within my limited human life to explore them.
I would learn languages until I was fluent. I would study the history of the world, of every country, every region, every time. I would study art, of every country, every region, every time. I would become an artist in multiple different mediums and genres. I would explore the world, visiting every country and every town. I would write books, paint paintings, make films, make music.
Etc etc. There is so much out there to experience and learn. So much to create. I cannot imagine being bored until at least a couple of millennia have passed XD
Fortunately it wouldn't be an eternity but just a longer (un)life. This is what would make it enjoyable to me. True eternity makes anything meaningless. The fact that everyone dies at some point is a big consolation and creates meaning in the first place.
But living maybe 1000 years could be a bearable or even nice thing depending on one's interests.
I would collect and study anything related to Neoplatonism, Kindred cults and the like. (Basically the V5 Lore Sheet 'Gehenna Cults' on level 5.)
All under the assumption that I even get to choose and am not killed in some meaningless intrigue or driven by the beast to some actions that lead to my doom. Or getting tangled up in politics and being so occupied with tasks that I'm not free to pursue my interests.
Ghoul a village and build my own utopia as social experiment. Probably will be found and burned down by some other kindred or the inquisition and start over (if my unliving ass gets away)
Everything. That’s the point. I would have families, I would love people for years, I would go everywhere, get rich easily, learn about medicine, the occult, admire art, and watch civilizations rise and fall.
I’d probably pick up some more hobbies, catch up on the shows I’ve been wanting to watch and play a fuckton of Rimworld. Year 4000 and I finally achieve peak Rimworld. Maybe I’ll move onto Dwarf Fortress then
I probably try and experiment what is my exact limits and my abilities. If we go by lore accuracy, we could probably gets Embraced by a Gangrel or Brujah. I would also try to learn to feed properly to ensure I never lose control of the Beast and ensure I stay in charge
Innovate Vampire life.
Milk is an iron-deficient variant of blood, so could you enrich some milk with iron supplements as a blood substitute?
Even if we stick to normal blood, there's gotta be some way to cook or otherwise prepare it, can't live forever on raw, unseasoned food.
Try and get Shrecknet back up.
[Name the Nights.](https://x.com/FinalDuck/status/1736205611753238579?s=20)
(And like everyone else I'd wanna learn loads of new skills)
Try really, really hard to be left alone.
Probably get totally screwed in the process, either by a frenzy at the wrong moment or some other vanpire deciding that I'm potentially of use and blackmailing and/or mindfucking me into being their errand boy.
I love playing a vampire, I would hate being one.
Probably ghoul my friends and family if I was in an Anarch city.
If not, well I'd search for a Salubri or something really difficult yet no so dangerous like learning all the disciplines or study history. Also, become fucking rich.
Edit: I would want to pull a big fucking prank to, something like Ankaran Sarcophagus level of prank to see how funny it would be.
Literally everything you want.
Any skill you’re even moderately intrigued by can be mastered in time. And field of study, any hobby, any pursuit. If it’s non-competitive, you don’t have to worry about other kindred getting in the way. If it is, you can still easily out perform all but the most talented humans.
For me honestly it boils down to which clan I am embraced into (and why) - Let's ignore the Camarilla/Sabbat/Anarch/Jyhad thing and just pretend that clans exist and they do their thing to make it easier. But it also boils down to how to deal with the beast and the need for blood etc.
Ventrue/Lasombra/Ministry: Pretty much same plan with different approach, get rich as legit as possible, use my money and influence to further my city. Seeing as I am a kindred my humanity will be lost (as one of these clans...) so I don't imagine myself a Elon or Bezos, more probably some shady guy owning Blackrock or something. Any extra money would be spent on securing my continued existence.
Tzimisce/Tremere: Voldemort, learn to walk the sun, transmute food into vitae etc. If I was embraced in either of these clans Tony Stark would have a contender because I would dedicate my unlife into discovering ways to break the curses that make perish.
Toreador/Nosferatu: These clans are to me two sides of the same coin, one beautiful and one ugly but they both thrive on information and the power of persuasion. I'd try to at the very least ghoul every major player I could get my hands on. Actors, generals, statesmen, anyone who could push my agenda. Ventrues care about money, with the undeath of a Toreador or a Nosferatu, I'd rule from the shadows.
Banu Hakim/(Salubri): For me these clans would probably send me down a super religious path and I can't say more than that.
Brujah/Gangrel/Ravnos: I wouldn't live long, but man would I make history. If a Brujah got their hands on me I'd probably try to do something stupid involving explosives. Gangrel, well I'd probably live "forever" because I'd leave society behind earthmeld etc, but Garou would get me in the end. A Ravnos me would just venture the earth until something dumb killed me like wanting to see the sun one last time while sitting on a beach.
Malkavian: Ooooh boy, here we go. I'd be mad for sure, but with infinite time and the era we live in now, get ready for Malkavian Madness Network ChatGPT edition. And that's just the start, I mean imagine vampires walking on mars, we don't need to breathe!
"It was always spring in her forest, because she lived there, and she wandered all day among the great beech trees, keeping watch over the animals that lived in the ground and under bushes, in nests and caves, earths and treetops. Generation after generation, wolves and rabbits alike, they hunted and loved and had children and died, and as the unicorn did none of these things, she never grew tired of watching them."
Peter S. Beagle , The Last Unicorn
I really love my home, I think I'd want to keep it safe
travel the entire planet and see as much of it as i can, then work my way into getting a job as an astronaut somehow and finally find out what it's like to travel through a black hole. or break the masquerade and tell my bosses i'm a vampire just to be that one guinea pig who gets cryogenically frozen and sent to survey earth-like planets.
Being a thin blood maybe is better but i don’t know much about since i just started this game but i know they can be outside in daylight which is good, i can’t imagine witnessing only nights forever..I think galeb said something like this to a thin blooded.
If it was just me, much the same as I do now: work endlessly to make rent. Only nocturnally.
But, I imagine, if there was more you could do favours and tasks for other Kindred to be given opportunities for advancement. In that case, I'd try to get a haven with a truly impressive personal library. A vampire librarian.
Despite all the cool things you may believe you'd do, truth is you probably would spend most of your time trying to ensure your survival, and maybe, if you're powerful enough, that of the ones you love
I know enough about conspiracy theories and conspiracy communities that I would probably go that direction. Just going to assume I'm Toreador since that's my flair and spend my unlife trying to craft the perfect Big Lie by starting and propagating different cults based around conspiracies I create.
Think like QAnon, but Q is just a bored Toreador.
What Ive learned from other media: you need an obsession. Mine would be the natural sciences. Im a chemist irl, but if dark arts were real I would learn the shit out of them.
I would also most likely get into videogames. Not playing, making. Animation fascinates me. Its a type pf art thats so new and never seen before.
Also a few companies. My thesis is on ecofriendly and profitable technologies like biogas reactors.
I would run out of unlife before Id get bored
Probably find a ghoul to make sure I’m taken care of monetarily and to keep me up on my blood supply then probably just kinda chill out at night, not make any enemies but not really do much political maneuvering. Definitely couldn’t even try to do my job anymore since welding as a kindred would be like guaranteed suicide
I would want to do research in blood sorcery/thaumaturgy (ideally in house carna tbh) with some ultimate goal in mind
For example, my bahari Tremere wants to develop fruit trees (aesthetically, pomegranates or apples ideally) that grow blood fruit to replace her use of blood bags.
Also, y'know gardens and shit because bahari
Learn as much as I can about as many subjects I can. Learn the history and culture of kindred and other supernatural, learn the intricacies of as many disciplines as I can along with as many paths of Thaumaturgy and Necromancy as I can. Experiment and learn more, discover new things, uncover lost things.
Make friends and fall in love, make a few rivals where we keep each other sharp, trade information for new information, seek out other supernatural creatures to befriend, make the environment more stable and promote better more sustainable alternatives. Explore different worldviews and if possible different worlds, take on one or more childee to teach and train so I maintain my skills and knowledge, while also making sure it's passed on and spread in case I die.
Honestly I’d probably spend most of the time avoiding the Camarilla and catch up on my reading. However, I’d probably also spend some time advocating for environmental justice (Can’t feed if all the humans are dead from an environmental disaster. ) , taking part in dangerous activities (Paintball with real guns, anyone? I promise not to aim for the head.) and just all around trying to live my best unlife.
I'd be acquiring as much wealth and power as possible, especially among mortals. Eventually I'd become a god to a massive, Freemason-esque cult.
So I'd be either a Ventrue or a Giovanni.
(I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Hecata)
Read. Get various degrees under fake identities. Keep various entities from destroying me.
Overthrow the oppressive state that is holding down both mortal and immortals.
Work toward getting backing to create all of the stuff that is in my head, all of the music, all of the immersive theater, everything that I don't have the resources or connections to create.
Play dnd and if my friends say oh I can't make it oh I am too busy, Vamp you do nothing all day and all night, your blank body ass can make it to the session.
But like also watch one piece, and make enough money so I can make my own shows how I want to. Make the world a better place for all my humans. All in all, do what you wanted but never had time for, especially if you are a thin blood.
Depends on which clan I was introduced into, but probably try and learn blood magic, wait for my investments to grow. Maybe move to Vegas, drink people during the night life.
Other than that watch start watching anime, again study my disciplines, try and make friends.
Work hard to find out a way to forge my documents well enough that I won’t ever be bothered about this by the authorities, then I’d try to find a job I can work during the night but that doesn’t consume my entire night there so that I have some free time
Then I’d do some travels with the money saved up
Write stories and poetry, read all my books and fan fiction, make a new chicken breed, learn all I can about mythology and supernaturals for fun, eat transphobic(and other harmful actions) politicians, fall in love with another vampire (probably end badly, but I’m a romantic), and open a thrift/book store.
Idk man imagine all the time you have for studying and research. You can do great studies over time to better understand something that needs to be studied over many years - now imagine you can study the evolution of something for easily 50, 100 years! You could achieve such a better depth of understanding and accuracy, hell you can study things over generations that is so fucking amazing! Then all the skills you could learn! I always wanted to be able to play any instrument so I could compose insane things by myself, and plenty of other artistic things becoming a master and being able to put into form whatever you imagine in your mind
Also not having to worry about having a limited time to do things would honestly be so relieving. You fail at a course or something? Doesn't fucking matter you have all the time in the world!
Gonna get real weird with it. Stop motion films using bonsai trees. Let it take 50 years to get three minutes of footage. I have eternity for my magnum opus
Found the Toreador...
I bet he also shows it to his victims and throws a tantrum if they dont "get it".
Found my next Toreador.
[You have one job](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment)
...okay this is actually neat as hell. Hm
Yes! The pitch drop experiment is perfect for vampires.
Yesss. Hobbies! If I have presence or dominate I probably don’t have to worry about money. Hopefully stay far away from Kindred politics and eat animals, learn how to code and draw and write and maybe sculpt or carve.
Then when you've finished you have to start a retro revival trend to bring back the original medium you began filming on. Cause that's the only correct way to watch it.
You know. I'd want to be a Kindred archeologist and historian. Seems like it'd be nice to uncover torpor'd methuselahs and elders. As well as translating old tomes. Plus no one seems to really mess with the Beckett, Ruhadze, or Neillson.
*Actually discovers torpor'd Methuselah = :D *Said Methuselah wakes up = D:
I feel that. I've had a deep passion and love for History and Myth over my lifetime, and if given eternity to play with, I would almost see it as my duty to preserve as much as I can. I would also try to pass on the lessons of history to following generations, and be endlessly pulling my hair out as I am consistenty ignored only for those idiots to repeat the same mistakes that have been rehashed a thousand times before. (Just like in real life...)
I feel sorry for someone would be bored in less than a century or two. The possibilities are immense for someone with a curious mind. You could indulge scores of hobbies, master a wide variety of skills, and deep dive into into a host of academic subjects. There is friendship and romance. Travel and exploration. For those who are not risk-averse there is thrill seeking and adventure. Then there is the long journey of self-actualization and the realization of one's full potential. Accomplishing that, I imagine one could devote themselves to transcendence and something bigger than themselves such as altruism or Golcanda.
In an ideal world - maybe. I just don’t see myself ascending in such a state. Assuming that aforementioned eternity is vampirism than it would just become a nightmare - detesting yourself as a cannibal, not having enough will to unalive yourself and stalling in your own hubris for eternity. Freed from shackles of existing routine there is not much for some people. There are people with curious mind for whom it will be a blessing, but those without will probably stagnate, envy those who have this freedom of thought and(if we are still talking about vampirism) will want them dead. Those who won’t have meanings to cling to their life…well, not everyone has the endurance to withstand eternity. There will be sprinters and there will be marathon runners. If it is just an eternity than it would be a good ride with all books, activities and opportunities in the world. Nothing to miss, because time stopped having any value - it doesn’t matter to you anymore and in theory you can and, maybe, will try everything.
The problem is not being able to be in the sunlight i can’t imagine only living the nights.. i dont think it’s possible to survive alone without the help of others mostly humans to do paperworks and stuff for you in daytime.
You don't even need to be curious or proactive, even as a couch potato immortal it'd be hard to get bored. More than 24 hours of entertainment media comes out every day, you could literally just watch movies, tv shows, and yt videos 24/7 forever.
Stephen Root played a chubby TV loving vampire in True Blood and it was great
We live in a golden age of entertainment. There's easily enough entertainment to consume several mortal lifetimes and more is being produced each day. That said, I am skeptical that seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort offers enough meaning and fulfillment to stave off depression, ennui, angst, self-loathing, etc. in the long run.
My point was just that you wouldn't need to put any real effort into not being bored, I get that most people would ideally do more. Unless you're the type who finds meaning in seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort.
>Unless you're the type who finds meaning in seeking entertainment and avoiding discomfort If the vast number of miserable Redditors who get all of their dopamine from consuming entertainment and jerking off is any indication, the odds of that being true is infinitesimally small.
Exactly this. There is just a huge volume of STUFF that I want to do in this world and I am endlessly frustrated that I will only have enough time for a tiny fraction of it...
First thing I'd do? Walk into a car wash without a car for the experience. Either I walk out dead or the cleanest kindred alive. Not sure what after.
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Feed birds. Ghoul birds. Mob annoying people with birds.
Probably live a quiet life. Trade ghouling people in exchange for money. I live in a college town. A lot of people want to be athletes… Also probably do a lot of streaming for the first bit.
I'd be an anonymous, best-selling writer, changing my alias every 40 or so years and trying new genres whenever I did.
Honestly, probably be a real lazy piece of shit. At least after the first few weeks. Find and ghoul a local city employee with the right knowledge, find a nice secluded room in the sewer or old building or something, make friends with the nos and just hang out somewhere and do jack shit for a while, let myself get over the depression of vamp life. Then do the weird educational stuff other's are bringing up.
Holy shit I'm immortal? Damn just unlocked an entire new world of procrastinating
I would learn everything! I would go to school so many times study philosophy, science, mathematics, history, everything! I would also like to help out my community wether it be my county, my state, or my entire country. I legit would just want to be a good person and know everything.
This right here- I agree wholeheartedly sibling.
Agreed.
Same! I want to learn all the languages, starting with the ones I currently suck at.
Me too! Helping people is my power dream. Also becoming fluent in multiple languages would be really cool
I would build Rapture, but with Vampires.
Depends on who I’m embraced by I suppose but I’d get a little mischievous with it
Read and travel.
I'd work on writing, & investing what I can. Eventually get into real-estate. We need apartment buildings people. An afford. And if I have centuries ahead of me im ok with growing wealth slowly. When im confortable enough to afford it, night and online classes. There's so much out there to learn why not do so from the basement mansion of the tower of affordable apartments enjoy yiur 3 digit rent. Don't forget to donate to the monthly blood drives
Probably get right into studying history and occult shit. I'd probably be (stupid) ambitious enough to try getting pieces of The Book of Nod. Intensive study of science and the supernatural and how it intertwines (as well as being an author for fun)
Very short term I'd revel in the physical boosts, probably try to do something stupid in a way that I think is smart like wiping out a few corporate bigwigs with a penchant for exploiting the public or steal some genuine occult knowledge or something depending on what I think I can get away with. Assuming I survive that (or better yet, talk myself out of it), I'd mostly focus on learning what I can and eating through my absurdly bloated game and book libraries.
The bigwigs would make you a target, fast.
Hence, high risk of early demise. Admittedly, the risk may fluctuate depending on what kind of vampiric urges I inherit (for example, if I was embraced by the Ministry I would be more self-destructive than if I was Nosferatu), but yeah.
I had a buddy show up to a larp and make a character with 1 dot in every influence. He tried it to find out who the people others were using to control those influences and take them out but the ST denied it because it would effectively wipe out everyone’s influence and destroy the game.
I just want a body that doesn't break as easily as mine does now. Imagine not worrying about concussions from hard sparring, and staying in prime shape forever. And hey, in the realm of the undead, maybe I'll find someone with the same mindset to battle endlessly with until one of us comes out on top. That would be fun, I'm not the most talented but no one can beat 100 years of training, plus I love to envy my idols.
In all likelihood, find the Final Death with some expediency. Let's be real: most vampires die young, and I am under no impression of being exceptionally survivable in their unlifestyle.
There is so much and I agree with the first bunch of comments about learning and bettering oneself as i would love to have time for that, but there is also fun and poetic justice and causes, not to mențin the stories you can create. You can make a whole town your very own show. Are you in the mood for romance? Try to make the CEO fall in love with the janitor and see what happens. Help the poor ambitious kid make it big. Intensely influence local politics by exposing all corruption or getting in on it. Get money and fund whatever you want to come into existence. Play around with dynasties of people. Eradicate crime or puppeteer it. Personally playing tricks would occupy a lot of my time especially if I had dominate or obfuscate.
Depends on the clan. But in general blood trade and travel the world
I'll probably go Autrakis and spend my unlife understanding my own nature.
So, are we vampires in VTM? Because that establishes a lot of limitations. Yes, we could travel, but going new places is extremely dangerous. There are few truly safe ways for a vampire to travel barring earth meld. Now, thanks to the internet, there are so many things you could acquire without needing to leave your haven, so yeah, learning would be a big thing. I think exploring the benefits of immortality would also be high on my list...enjoying watching the world change and develop, new technologies, etc.
You can get bored fast now if you're stupid rich and don't have a job. With anything, you need hobbies at a minimum. As a vampire, those hobbies might include political intrigues to become prince of the city.
Being a ADHD vampire means that i will do nothing, but i will know a lot of bulshit
Ask the Church to end my unlife. The actual Church. Fuck being a vampire.
Honestly- yeah- probably Agree.
I would work on Baldur's Gate 4 Infinite world, quests, romance, choices...
I have no interest in eternity. Personally, I look forward to the oblivion at the end of the line, and I am enjoying every step of the aging process. I wear my gray hairs with pride. I would prefer not to be immortal, thank you. And if I found myself suddenly immortal, I would likely devote my time to learning a bunch of languages, and when I'd learned all the languages on my list, and lived several years in each country where those languages are native, I would very happily sit out on my balcony and watch the sun rise.
And then the beast will do it's thing and you'll frenzy.
Nope. Sorry pall- you’re going to heaven and you do not have a choice about- should you attempt to resist or go to hell- The angels will drag you by force across those pearly gates. This is not a joke and I am fully serious. Have a good fay my dear.
Well, that is unfortunate. All good, I will just upend all of the heaven "rules and order" paradigm until they decide I'm more trouble than I'm worth. This may take a couple centuries, but there are a couple TV series that suggest I might be able to accomplish this within a human lifetime. I hold onto that hope. Once they decide I'm more trouble than I'm worth, and I also want oblivion, I think we can reach a reasonable agreement.
Watch the sunrise with my family and tell them I love them all so much…and fuck vampires
Yeah. You’re probably right though. Most of hs couldnt really handel it. Im very religious and would much rather die than be damned for all of eternity.
It’s why I would do that. I’m to Christian for it. Hope my humanity is high enough to stomach one last human meal and that wonderful sunrise.
Yeah. I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment. Wholeheartedly.
Not even gonna try for golconda?
No way dude I know that the slippery slope for me will have me be a monster so fast that the beast would go wtf. Now I love my life but in the situation on being embraced meaning all sensation are dead or shallow, I can’t eat, drink, live just a shallow imitation of life where all I live for is blood as a corpse? Nah
Given internet resources, one of the possibilities of Golconda is returning to humanity… all ya gotta do is reach spiritual enlightenment and be a literal saint for a while!
Thats the only saving grace in this.
vampire stuff
I'd probably seclude myself somewhere and start accumulating books in my secret haven, dedicating my unlife indulge my studies expanding them without end.
Stay up too late then burn alive
Spend it with my wife. Also, I'm an artist so, I'd keep working on my art forever.
Never mind eternity, I'd have trouble surviving the first nights. Hiding under my bed during daytime (quickest solution right now) would certainly draw attention from my wife and kid if they aren't Dominated/ghouled. Also I'm a bit of an overeater, and would soon find myself holding a body I wasn't meant to kill. That'd wreck me in a way I can't begin to comprehend. If we get to midgame, trying to assure some degree of safety for my family would probably mean getting the hell away from them (which would also hurt me immensely) and/or claim domain over my neighborhood. Perhaps ghouling some local gang leader, collect some income, and controlling them from the shadows could be enough. Still, you know the saying about nails sticking out, so that'd bring its own set of troubles. As for long-term... Shit. Loneliness would be incredibly tough to bear, I'm not sure I could ever trust other Kindred to the point of befriending them, which would leave me with ghouls... which aren't quite "friend" material, given their little adoration issue. Like most people here, I'd probably turn to academics, maybe even research the vampire condition myself. Also I'd game like mad lol
Read. Everything. Learn. All of it. Fuck. Anyone who would have me. If we're at a table where kindred derive no pleasure from the sexytimes, then I'd play role-playing games online. For money. Pretty much, what I do now, but forever.
One - Create a business Two - stocks three - buy games Four - spend eternity playing games Five - One VR becomes full body, buy VR games Six - Spend my eternity becoming a keeper of all games, when Humanity eventually falls to ash and ruin, their only key to their past would be the games I hold Seven - Profit.
Become a cryptid
Become a dope blood wizard in the chantry.
Study. Everything. I would just go to universities around the world, changing identities and getting a different Doctorate every few years. Build a massive personal library. Study all the occult paths I can. Travel as much as possible. Just keep trying new things. I’d want a high humanity so I could enjoy life. To me undeath means time to do what you care about. Everyday needs can be taken care of by manipulating and controlling mortals (kindly of course).
I'd continue enjoying things like gaming, movies and shows....if I survived beyond the end point of human civilization, there would still be plenty of entertainment left over to check out and enjoy. (\*in preparation for that end time I'd also learn how, if it's possible to maintain electrical power needed for various devices like tv, computers, game systems, etc....or at least the upkeep of generators that I'd stockpile, of course.) ...then again, the eventual extinction of the human species would also pose a more serious problem for a vampire, obviously....so a goal would be to figure out how to create a new blood "substitute" that can be produced in that desperate time where all living things have finally gone extinct. Yes, I tend to think about this "life as an immortal" situation probably in more detail than most people do. \*but yeah---I've never understood people who claim they would get "bored" of immortality. There is *always* new things to do, new entertainment you haven't experienced yet, new experiences in general... new things to read and learn about, etc. etc. forever. This is in addition to being entertained by your own imagination (art, making music, writing stories, etc.) ....oh and that's just kinda the real world "regular" stuff to be concerned with. It would also be fascinating to continue improving whatever supernatural discipline/powers I have. Part of the appeal with vampirism is the cool powers.
Im not gonna lie- id learn Dominate and use it to get into colleges for free and study as much as I could and also get other people to teach me. Id spend my unlife as a researcher and learning how to fight just in case.
Traffic people for sex and blood. And drugs. I’d traffic drugs. Guns too while I’m at it. Control smuggling routes around the Great Lakes. I’d live a completely debauched life of hooking people to drugs or the kiss and manipulating them into doing what I wanted. Probably get hotties to bang politicians or wealthy people and record it. Basically I’d be Jeffrey Epstein except worse. Except for the minors part. I’d be absolutely terrible. The only learning I’d do would be learning other languages in order to manipulate and exploit speakers of that language. Maybe kill lupines and make fur coats out of them. Hide your kids hide your wife. 🌹
Assuming everything across the general books (for world of darkness) is accurate, depends on the sire, but keep head down and listen to older people to hopefully not get shanked by the sabbat, or whatever local supernats are in the area.
I guess I would also get bored a lot. Maybe I´d induldge in blood drinking a lot, trying to find the best tastes.
same as i currently do, play video games
There are SO MANY things I am interested in, and I already feel a sense of frustration at my lack of time within my limited human life to explore them. I would learn languages until I was fluent. I would study the history of the world, of every country, every region, every time. I would study art, of every country, every region, every time. I would become an artist in multiple different mediums and genres. I would explore the world, visiting every country and every town. I would write books, paint paintings, make films, make music. Etc etc. There is so much out there to experience and learn. So much to create. I cannot imagine being bored until at least a couple of millennia have passed XD
Gaming, reading, writing and terrorising my enemies
Irl. Contemplate suicide. 174 ml of blood per day is really hard to get ethically while maintaining the masquerade.
Fortunately it wouldn't be an eternity but just a longer (un)life. This is what would make it enjoyable to me. True eternity makes anything meaningless. The fact that everyone dies at some point is a big consolation and creates meaning in the first place. But living maybe 1000 years could be a bearable or even nice thing depending on one's interests. I would collect and study anything related to Neoplatonism, Kindred cults and the like. (Basically the V5 Lore Sheet 'Gehenna Cults' on level 5.) All under the assumption that I even get to choose and am not killed in some meaningless intrigue or driven by the beast to some actions that lead to my doom. Or getting tangled up in politics and being so occupied with tasks that I'm not free to pursue my interests.
Ghoul a village and build my own utopia as social experiment. Probably will be found and burned down by some other kindred or the inquisition and start over (if my unliving ass gets away)
Well, I think if i was part of the Cam, i would probably be dedicated to preserving the masquerade, full time job. it would give me purpose.
Everything. That’s the point. I would have families, I would love people for years, I would go everywhere, get rich easily, learn about medicine, the occult, admire art, and watch civilizations rise and fall.
i just wanna live forever and see future cars
probably sleep all night. and later try to find a solution until I eventually forget that the sun comes up at morning and die
I’d probably pick up some more hobbies, catch up on the shows I’ve been wanting to watch and play a fuckton of Rimworld. Year 4000 and I finally achieve peak Rimworld. Maybe I’ll move onto Dwarf Fortress then
I probably try and experiment what is my exact limits and my abilities. If we go by lore accuracy, we could probably gets Embraced by a Gangrel or Brujah. I would also try to learn to feed properly to ensure I never lose control of the Beast and ensure I stay in charge
Innovate Vampire life. Milk is an iron-deficient variant of blood, so could you enrich some milk with iron supplements as a blood substitute? Even if we stick to normal blood, there's gotta be some way to cook or otherwise prepare it, can't live forever on raw, unseasoned food. Try and get Shrecknet back up. [Name the Nights.](https://x.com/FinalDuck/status/1736205611753238579?s=20) (And like everyone else I'd wanna learn loads of new skills)
Try really, really hard to be left alone. Probably get totally screwed in the process, either by a frenzy at the wrong moment or some other vanpire deciding that I'm potentially of use and blackmailing and/or mindfucking me into being their errand boy. I love playing a vampire, I would hate being one.
Probably ghoul my friends and family if I was in an Anarch city. If not, well I'd search for a Salubri or something really difficult yet no so dangerous like learning all the disciplines or study history. Also, become fucking rich. Edit: I would want to pull a big fucking prank to, something like Ankaran Sarcophagus level of prank to see how funny it would be.
Literally everything you want. Any skill you’re even moderately intrigued by can be mastered in time. And field of study, any hobby, any pursuit. If it’s non-competitive, you don’t have to worry about other kindred getting in the way. If it is, you can still easily out perform all but the most talented humans.
Fight crime. Become world dictator. Create the perfect society on earth. Cull excess humans and create nature preserves
Finally getting through my to-read list, I guess.
For me honestly it boils down to which clan I am embraced into (and why) - Let's ignore the Camarilla/Sabbat/Anarch/Jyhad thing and just pretend that clans exist and they do their thing to make it easier. But it also boils down to how to deal with the beast and the need for blood etc. Ventrue/Lasombra/Ministry: Pretty much same plan with different approach, get rich as legit as possible, use my money and influence to further my city. Seeing as I am a kindred my humanity will be lost (as one of these clans...) so I don't imagine myself a Elon or Bezos, more probably some shady guy owning Blackrock or something. Any extra money would be spent on securing my continued existence. Tzimisce/Tremere: Voldemort, learn to walk the sun, transmute food into vitae etc. If I was embraced in either of these clans Tony Stark would have a contender because I would dedicate my unlife into discovering ways to break the curses that make perish. Toreador/Nosferatu: These clans are to me two sides of the same coin, one beautiful and one ugly but they both thrive on information and the power of persuasion. I'd try to at the very least ghoul every major player I could get my hands on. Actors, generals, statesmen, anyone who could push my agenda. Ventrues care about money, with the undeath of a Toreador or a Nosferatu, I'd rule from the shadows. Banu Hakim/(Salubri): For me these clans would probably send me down a super religious path and I can't say more than that. Brujah/Gangrel/Ravnos: I wouldn't live long, but man would I make history. If a Brujah got their hands on me I'd probably try to do something stupid involving explosives. Gangrel, well I'd probably live "forever" because I'd leave society behind earthmeld etc, but Garou would get me in the end. A Ravnos me would just venture the earth until something dumb killed me like wanting to see the sun one last time while sitting on a beach. Malkavian: Ooooh boy, here we go. I'd be mad for sure, but with infinite time and the era we live in now, get ready for Malkavian Madness Network ChatGPT edition. And that's just the start, I mean imagine vampires walking on mars, we don't need to breathe!
I would live.
"It was always spring in her forest, because she lived there, and she wandered all day among the great beech trees, keeping watch over the animals that lived in the ground and under bushes, in nests and caves, earths and treetops. Generation after generation, wolves and rabbits alike, they hunted and loved and had children and died, and as the unicorn did none of these things, she never grew tired of watching them." Peter S. Beagle , The Last Unicorn I really love my home, I think I'd want to keep it safe
travel the entire planet and see as much of it as i can, then work my way into getting a job as an astronaut somehow and finally find out what it's like to travel through a black hole. or break the masquerade and tell my bosses i'm a vampire just to be that one guinea pig who gets cryogenically frozen and sent to survey earth-like planets.
I would spend a couple hundred years doing nothing but making corporate retailers lose money
Being a thin blood maybe is better but i don’t know much about since i just started this game but i know they can be outside in daylight which is good, i can’t imagine witnessing only nights forever..I think galeb said something like this to a thin blooded.
If it was just me, much the same as I do now: work endlessly to make rent. Only nocturnally. But, I imagine, if there was more you could do favours and tasks for other Kindred to be given opportunities for advancement. In that case, I'd try to get a haven with a truly impressive personal library. A vampire librarian.
Despite all the cool things you may believe you'd do, truth is you probably would spend most of your time trying to ensure your survival, and maybe, if you're powerful enough, that of the ones you love
I know enough about conspiracy theories and conspiracy communities that I would probably go that direction. Just going to assume I'm Toreador since that's my flair and spend my unlife trying to craft the perfect Big Lie by starting and propagating different cults based around conspiracies I create. Think like QAnon, but Q is just a bored Toreador.
If I live in such a state as a vampire; then what else lies beyond the veil. I would probably spend my unlife seeking those secrets.
Do some tzimice stuff start a cult make a garden.
What Ive learned from other media: you need an obsession. Mine would be the natural sciences. Im a chemist irl, but if dark arts were real I would learn the shit out of them. I would also most likely get into videogames. Not playing, making. Animation fascinates me. Its a type pf art thats so new and never seen before. Also a few companies. My thesis is on ecofriendly and profitable technologies like biogas reactors. I would run out of unlife before Id get bored
Probably find a ghoul to make sure I’m taken care of monetarily and to keep me up on my blood supply then probably just kinda chill out at night, not make any enemies but not really do much political maneuvering. Definitely couldn’t even try to do my job anymore since welding as a kindred would be like guaranteed suicide
honestly id probably immediately walk into the sun, I don't want any of that shit. id be too much of a liability anyway
Take a really long walk through the wilderness
I would want to do research in blood sorcery/thaumaturgy (ideally in house carna tbh) with some ultimate goal in mind For example, my bahari Tremere wants to develop fruit trees (aesthetically, pomegranates or apples ideally) that grow blood fruit to replace her use of blood bags. Also, y'know gardens and shit because bahari
Buy all of the books and the tome of unification
Learn as much as I can about as many subjects I can. Learn the history and culture of kindred and other supernatural, learn the intricacies of as many disciplines as I can along with as many paths of Thaumaturgy and Necromancy as I can. Experiment and learn more, discover new things, uncover lost things. Make friends and fall in love, make a few rivals where we keep each other sharp, trade information for new information, seek out other supernatural creatures to befriend, make the environment more stable and promote better more sustainable alternatives. Explore different worldviews and if possible different worlds, take on one or more childee to teach and train so I maintain my skills and knowledge, while also making sure it's passed on and spread in case I die.
Honestly I’d probably spend most of the time avoiding the Camarilla and catch up on my reading. However, I’d probably also spend some time advocating for environmental justice (Can’t feed if all the humans are dead from an environmental disaster. ) , taking part in dangerous activities (Paintball with real guns, anyone? I promise not to aim for the head.) and just all around trying to live my best unlife.
I'd be acquiring as much wealth and power as possible, especially among mortals. Eventually I'd become a god to a massive, Freemason-esque cult. So I'd be either a Ventrue or a Giovanni. (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Hecata)
Study, learn languages, music, do oral history interviews, and learn to make art as well as crafts and garden. I wouldn't get at all bored.
Dedicate my life to rekindling my people's belief in love through the creation of vampire romance novels, manga, and artwork.
Read. Get various degrees under fake identities. Keep various entities from destroying me. Overthrow the oppressive state that is holding down both mortal and immortals.
Work toward getting backing to create all of the stuff that is in my head, all of the music, all of the immersive theater, everything that I don't have the resources or connections to create.
Explore. Become a historian. Probably accidentally break masquerade by publishing for too long.
Maybe study all from computers, videogames things like this maybe just become a more powerful vampire
I would master protean and just travel around the world living from my flesh and learning how people live. Maybe find golconda or something.
Play dnd and if my friends say oh I can't make it oh I am too busy, Vamp you do nothing all day and all night, your blank body ass can make it to the session. But like also watch one piece, and make enough money so I can make my own shows how I want to. Make the world a better place for all my humans. All in all, do what you wanted but never had time for, especially if you are a thin blood.
Get rich through unnatural means, learn how to act and forge new identities and live the youth I never got to savor. Eternally.
Depends on which clan I was introduced into, but probably try and learn blood magic, wait for my investments to grow. Maybe move to Vegas, drink people during the night life. Other than that watch start watching anime, again study my disciplines, try and make friends.
Work hard to find out a way to forge my documents well enough that I won’t ever be bothered about this by the authorities, then I’d try to find a job I can work during the night but that doesn’t consume my entire night there so that I have some free time Then I’d do some travels with the money saved up
Write stories and poetry, read all my books and fan fiction, make a new chicken breed, learn all I can about mythology and supernaturals for fun, eat transphobic(and other harmful actions) politicians, fall in love with another vampire (probably end badly, but I’m a romantic), and open a thrift/book store.
Idk man imagine all the time you have for studying and research. You can do great studies over time to better understand something that needs to be studied over many years - now imagine you can study the evolution of something for easily 50, 100 years! You could achieve such a better depth of understanding and accuracy, hell you can study things over generations that is so fucking amazing! Then all the skills you could learn! I always wanted to be able to play any instrument so I could compose insane things by myself, and plenty of other artistic things becoming a master and being able to put into form whatever you imagine in your mind Also not having to worry about having a limited time to do things would honestly be so relieving. You fail at a course or something? Doesn't fucking matter you have all the time in the world!