#dementation

Complete the Malkavian Aspiration and embrace the beautiful, terrifying clarity of madness!

🥇 REWARDS:

✔️ You'll be randomly assigned one of the following traits:

Shameless (Base Game)

Carefree (Base Game)

Mentally Gifted (Base Game)

Melt Master (Base Game)

Mediator (Parenthood)

Clear Perspective (Spa Day)

Calming Aura (Spa Day)

Dauntless (High School Years)

Mental Magister (Discover University)

✔️ +5 Vampire Power Points

✔️👁️Prophet of the Cobweb (Exclusive to this mod – a direct line to the Malkavian Madness Network)

👁️ What does the Prophet of the Cobweb trait do?

EFFECTS:

Unstable Genesis: Upon gaining this trait, your Malkavian has a chance to instantly develop other traits reflective of their fractured psyche:

Uncontrolled Emotions (Parenthood): 10% Chance

Fake Alien (Get to Work): 20% Chance

Authentic Prankster (High School Years): 100% Chance

Fated Luck: Your Luck statistic (from Enchanted by Nature) is permanently set to Maximum. Fortune favors the insane.

Madness Contagion: Whenever a vampire power is used near your Malkavian, the target of that power receives the "Echo of the Web" Buff (+1 Playful).

💫 THE "ECHO OF THE WEB" BUFF

This playful buff is a conduit for chaotic, unpredictable side effects from the Malkavian Madness Network. In addition to the vampire power's normal effect, the target has a high chance of receiving one or more of the following:

Possessed (from StrangerVille)

Transformed into Bonehilda

A random Ailment (from Enchanted by Nature)

The Erratic trait

Turned into a Plantsim

A random Sickness (from Get to Work)

They have finally added what, imo, was the best power in Dementation to V5! Eyes of Chaos!

For those unfamiliar, Eyes of Chaos is basically the ability for Malks to glean information by staring at things - scribbled incoherent graffiti on a wall, a crime scene, a quilt, the swirl of ash around the remains of a vampire, or anything, really. Typically, it can be random, revealing hidden patterns that, through the network or Malkav's blood, can provide information. Not necessarily information that's useful, of course. And while sometimes it can be used with a mere glance, other times it can take nights seemingly obsessing over something before a pattern is understood.

I've had so much fun with this power in past. It's like... pure Malk energy, and it can be really fun to rp or just add to a character's behavior in downtime. Depending on how an ST runs it, Eyes of Chaos can be really...well, chaotic. Like, a Malk stares at a bootprint in the mud, trying to determine if it was left by the SI or is important. An hour later, the now enlightened Malk informs his coterie or pack that if chickens could ever master flight over long distances, we'd all be doomed. Or that Saulot is awake and has taken over Tremere's body. Or that mud is an illusion.

For some reason, Eyes of Chaos for V5 only exists in the Sabbat antagonist book (for now), but nothing about it is tied solely to Sabbat. I took a screenshot of its entry.