Vampires SMP season 2 idea
Here's my pitch/fanfic for Vampires SMP season 2.
It's 2006, it has been exactly 200 years since the original Vampires SMP. Shelby, Scott, and Drift have made their annual journey to Oakhurst to visit Avid's grave, and spend a weekend with Pearl and Cleo. M is also there, he shows up at these memorials every few years, so it isn't too surprising. What is surprising is that Apo is there, along with her partner, Cherri, who seems to be spending most of her free time staring daggers at Scott.
Abolish is also there. No one knows how he's still alive, but no one is especially surprised.
It's a perfectly lovely time, they spend most of the time discussing what they've been up to the past year, as old friends do, until a thunderclap bursts, sounding like it may have hit the castle. Everyone goes silent for a moment, until Pearl makes fun of these ancient vampires for being scared of a little weather. The mood is almost lightened, until they hear another. And another. Six thunderclaps in quick succession, with lighting so near and bright that for those six moments, the castle is illuminated in sterile, pure white light.
When it's over, the vampires look at each other, wondering if they are just being paranoid, being silly. They've been alive for centuries, they know, better than most, that strange things can happen.
Then they hear something they haven't heard in centuries. A voice. "You're all still here?" The doctor scans the room. "Our plan must not have worked then."
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So, basically, my pitch is that on the 200th anniversary of everyone's death, they come back, seemingly because of a latent curse that Pearl and Cleo had left unbroken because they thought it was benign.
After some sleuthing, they find books indicating that the revival is temporary, and the dead will return to the grave unless they can meet certain challenges by the time limit. Each revived person's conditions to make their revival permanent are different, so everyone has to decide how to budget their time and effort between the six revived people.
Some plot lines I think could be interesting in this:
Cleo and the Doctor feuding because Doc is spending most of his time trying to save Owen
Everyone being upset at Pearl for spending a lot of time on Pyro (No one wants to help him, and Pearl feels bad)
Apo (and Cherri) being very skeptical of Scott actually being reformed
Figuring out what Abolish's deal is
Mostly though, I just think this works as an excuse to get everyone in the same room again, and this time nominally on the same team. Could be fun.
