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There's a further layer of fridge brilliance there: what could be the greatest possible madness to afflict a Malkavian, who have incurable insanity as their hat? Being absolutely convinced that he is the Only Sane Man, of course.

A less charitable description would be a sociopath who grows increasingly more cold and clinical in his thinking while distancing himself from emotions. Later mentions of hearing voices are separate to his true insanity, which is his 'infatuation with reason' as he puts it.

Why does Grout take so long to develop the madness of his clan? Answer, he doesn't.

Or maybe it's because she's a stripper, not a poet.

Why are VV's poems so terrible? Because, even though she's a Toreador who appreciates beauty more than other vampires, she's still undead, and most of them have lost the creative spark in the Embrace.

The Malkavian even reveals to Rosa the end of the game, but it's possible to side with LaCroix and get blown up by Jack's trap - yes, the Malkavian is too insane to live.

Even the chess-motif is similar to the mail you get. Also, the weird 'tuna-joke' the newscaster tells a Malkavian player? It's exactly what is happening, and might yet happen. but now you're having the exact same problem that the other vampires have with Malkavians Malkavians can have insights into the future, but are too insane to convey that information in a useful way, if they're even aware that what they're seeing in their heads is anything but yet another hallucination. In theory, you could know the outcome very early just by paying careful attention to the dialogue.

The entire Malkavian route is full of Fridge Brilliance, because a good part of the story is hidden away in the twisted conversations before anything happens.

Yes, that, turns out to have been an actual hint. The endings in which you discover what is in the sarcophagus seem to come out of nowhere unless you remember that Jack used to be a pirate.

The Elisabeth Dane, a ship where the Ankharan Sarcophagus was discovered had all its crew slaughtered before the rest of the plot happened.

Vampire the masquerade bloodlines downtown