I might end up doing something like that, considering I'm very interested in joining The Pioneers ! Nothing like Toreador underdogs to show it to those pesky Ventrue basterds !
You could choose Strauss, who was kind of decent, if you don't want to go down the Anarchs road.But yeah, they do shove the Anarchs as the only solution in your face with Jack teaching you, Nines saving you...
The thing about BL1 though was that no matter what you chose, you were somebody's pawn. If you chose Strauss' Camarilla would you be twice as pawn ? To Cain and to Strauss ? To the Tremere as well ?
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