IF you now straight up kill the dude, you potentially shoo away a cool recruit, or someone radical whom you will get along with pretty well without being in the same organisation. No matter if a gangrel just steps out of the woods, without clothes on, or a malkavian just shows up with a sixpack of beer and a cool GI joe lunchbox, the foreigner is there, and foirst and foremost, the foreigner is "one of us". people who formally don't belong to your faction, but whom you have no beef with. However, it happens that, lets say, you also get independants there, or inconnu. HOPING they only bring cool people along. It's like a birthday party before the internet, only those people you invite know precisely where it is going to be, and are expected to bring people along.
In practice, it looks like this: Every low clan gathering, no matter if it is a gangrel thing, or a malkavian summoning, or a sudden appearance of nosferatu, is generally open to everybody who can find it. Only in vampire society, it is perfectly acceptable to sicc each others childer at each other. And before you know it, both drunk uncles are beating the shit out of each other, with their wifes trying to get them apart, while there are cheers for every hit they land from the rest of the family. So, what does every fun family gathering need? at least 1 drunk uncle, who is mad at what an other drunk uncle said way back when. Sect matters jack shit, because back in the dark ages, they all hunted the low clans.
The question is, how do you handle this? IN my games, the reason for this is that for the low clans, the gatherings are like family functions. The only one who has made the jump from low clan is Tremere, who enforces strict camarilla obedience, and whom the other low clans never forgave that they "sold them out". Followers of set unify pretty well without faction tags, Assamites also are pretty cool and reasonable, and Ravnos never had much use for factions anyway. And at any gangrel party, yep, a coupe of guys work for the big factions. Just try picking out who works for the sabbat by looks alone.
Any nosferatu gathering, a couple of the guys will work for the opposition, and wear those funny "HI, i'm X, I work for Y" stickers. So, at any malkavian gathering, you will find the two malkavians who work for the opposition, actually drinking tea together. They have been told that true loyality lies with the clan, and for many of them they have dark spots in their past where this is true. Meaning, the former high clans have limited meetings only, and not a culture of working with the potential enemy. I put this down to the old "low clan high clan" behavior study.
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