Editing Monte Cook's World of Darkness (section)

=The Premise=
A [[Post-Apocalyptic]] (technically) [[Dark Fantasy|Dark]] [[Urban Fantasy]], McWoD is set in a nebulous "modern day" Earth one year after an event called "The Intrusion", when [[Cthulhu Mythos|Lovecraftian deities]] called the Inconnu, or "The Unbidden" tried to break into this dimension. Luckily, they were repelled by a psychic barrier subconsciously erected by the "Awakened"; humans who, for whatever reason, possess a mystically strong will that formed a protective network against such an invasion. Even with their protection, the Inconnu still broke a hole in reality in the upper Great Plains of the United States, sort of near the midpoint of North America — in the northeastern portion of South Dakota. This created a singularity of madness, which has since bled out to create the sphere of "Haunted Lands" - places where reality is noticeably askew, albeit not as heavily damaged as the Annihilation Zone, which took the full brunt of the metaphysical blast from the dimensions breaching. Its creation also caused the Nightmare Wave, which swept the whole planet and has left pockets of...weirdness, shall we say... scattered all over. They're not as strong or blatant as the Haunted Lands, but the world got noticeably darker after the Intrusion, even if it wasn't destroyed entirely.

As near as humans have been able to figure it out, the Inconnu are rather peeved that their attempt to enter this dimension was foiled, and they are trying to eliminate the problem by throwing through their agents - the spirits of dead humans, twisted by their evil in life, and the inhabitants of some otherworld that can best be described as hell - through to wipe out the humans who sustain the barrier, and allow the Inconnu to try again. However not all of their servants actually want to go through with this, and these (and the clued in humans) must now fight to keep the world alive.