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this draw succeeds, your character must still leave the room or area.) If any of your Resolve
+ Composure draws suffer a failure on a chance draw or your character is unable to escape,
she faints and loses consciousness for the remainder of the scene. If your character is unaware
of the object’s proximity until it touches her, a Resolve + Composure suffers a -3 penalty. If
it touches her where she can’t see it but she can feel it — a spider dropping on her neck or
in her hair — the penalty is -5.
For a Kindred character, you must roleplay most aspects of hysteria but also suffer a -1 penalty
on all draws to resist frenzy that relate to the object of fear. Any action that relates to the object
and that results in a failure on a chance draw automatically causes your vampire to frenzy.
Manic-Depression (severe; follows Depression): Severe mood swings characterize this derangement.
It occurs in two forms, one psychological and one a defect in brain chemistry.
The psychological form is a modifi ed form of hysteria. The victim can swing from an enthusiastic,
confi dent, even ecstatic state to lethargy and despair. The mood swings can happen
any time, but any success can push the manic-depressive into exaltation, and any failure can
plunge the person into depression.
The second form of manic-depression is an organic disorder. It follows a regular cycle that
can range from hours to weeks. The manic phase begins with an excess of energy and confi -
dence, then proceeds to a sort of ecstatic frenzy as the person’s mind races faster and faster.
Eventually the person calms down and then slides into a depression as lethargic as the manic
phase was energetic. This form of manic-depression can mimic the effects of schizophrenia,
and lead to a near-suicidal state.
Effect: Whichever form of the ailment your character has, whenever he fails a task, the
Storyteller may secretly draw his Resolve. A failure means the character lapses into depression
for the rest of the scene. The character also goes into depression whenever the player makes
a failure on a chance draw, or the character has less than two Vitae.
While depressed, the character loses half his Willpower points (rounding fractions down),
to a minimum of 1. A depressed vampire cannot expend Vitae to gain bonuses for Physical
tasks, either.
Each scene thereafter, the Storyteller draws once. On a draw of 8, 9 or 10, the character
throws off the depression and becomes upbeat, energetic and obsessively active for as many
scenes as he was depressed. He regains the Willpower points he lost before, and all draws to
resist frenzy suffer a -1 penalty.
Megalomania (severe; follows Narcissism): Clinical megalomania can consist of a delusion
that the individual is some famous and powerful person, contemporary or historical, or even
that he is God. A megalomaniac vampire might imagine that he is some famous or infamous
Kindred, or the Devil himself.
A romantic form of megalomania might be called “James Bond Mastermind Syndrome.”
This sort of megalomaniac obsessively seeks ever-greater wealth and power. Such individuals
hide their anxiety (even from themselves) behind a mask of arrogance and supreme self-confi
dence. The character may seek power by means ranging from intricate conspiracies to brutal
murder and terror. To this sort of megalomaniac, everyone is a minion who should do what
he’s told, or a competitor who must be destroyed. This belief extends to even members of
the vampire’s own coterie.
Effect: If your character ever loses a contest to someone he feels is socially inferior, he loses
one point of Willpower due to shame and self-loathing (which is at the heart of his megalomania,
as he secretly fears that he’s a fraud).
Multiple Personality (severe; extreme; follows Irrationality): Multiple-Personality Disorder
(MPD) results from traumas so severe and prolonged that the victim’s mind splits into several
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