History Fridge / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines

* While the were-shark quest may seem to come out of nowhere, by the book canon, it is surprisingly through and plausible. The wereshark is a Same-Bito, a hengeyokai variant of the Rokea (weresharks). Same-Bito,unlike regulr rokea, have taken time to try and adapt to the life on the surfance. Hengeyokai also are far more likely to deal with Kuei-Jin on neutral terms, unlike western shifters and kindred.

* Play Sheryl Crow's ''All I wanna do'' while playing this game. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Now imagine Jack or your taxi driver playing this on an iPod throughout the events of the game.]]
** "All I wanna do, is have some fun, until the sun comes up over OH GOD THE PAIN! TURN OFF THE BIG LIGHT!"

*** Why not go with the obvious? Throughout the game, [=LaCroix=] has basically sent your character on multiple suicide-missions and yet has seen them come out on top every time. He's a newly-instated Prince, and a rather disliked one, so his powerbase isn't exactly as strong as it could be had he been in the position longer (It's even implied that the Sherriff is his only truly loyal servant and the big brute's intimidation factor is the main reason [=LaCroix=] is still "on the throne"). The endgame attempt at Dominate fails because [=LaCroix=] has slowly realized you are a ''very'' big threat to him and his role as Prince, and despite not showing it outwardly, he's too damn scared by this revelation to concentrate enough to make it work!

**** Very few people, especially those who have moved around a lot, have perfectly identifiable accents. This goes doubly when it comes to languages not native to the speaker. Figuring out someone who has never left Birmingham is from Birmingham by accent alone is one thing, but try figuring out the accent of a Frenchman who learned English from a German teacher at a school in Belgium.

*** Alternatively: He learned English in England, but enough of his original French accent remained, and enough of the American accent he is currently immersed in snuck in, to make his accent sound "fake". Very few people, especially those who have moved around a lot, have perfectly identifiable accents. Figuring out someone who has never left Birmingham is from Birmingham by accent alone is one thing, but try figuring out the accent of a Frenchman who learned English from a German teacher at a school in Belgium.

*** Alternatively: He learned English in England, but enough of his original French accent remained, and enough of the American accent he is currently immersed in snuck in, to make his accent sound "fake".

* A minor one, but still: Lacroix, a former soldier of Napoleon's armies, speaks with a british accent during the whole game... Except any british native person, or anyone acquainted with one, could tell you that this really is nothing more than an fake accent (basically, the words are pronounced in a "british" manner, without the right diction or rythm). Why would they do such a glaring mistake, in a game with otherwise flawless dubs, instead of just hiring a british voice actor? Well, one way to see it: the defining idiom of Lacroix is that he is a massively pompous Ventrue jerk. And what better way to hint that than making him talk with an imperfect british posh accent?

** You gotta remember, clan members tend to pick people like other members of the clan when embracing. Since most Ventrue are high and mighty and a lot are like that before being embraced, the PC could just be recoiling at the idea. Possibly said Clan as instinct?

* During the tutorial, at the sequence when Jack teach the player character how to feed from rat blood, a Ventrue player character answers that his/her clan is unable to feed that way. The problem is: how could a just embraced neonate already know this? His/her first contact with kindred society happened less than a hour ago (the opening cutscene) and still lack most of basic information about the kindred societies.

** Also, in the first bounty hunter quest, if Gimble had already [[spoiler: captured [=McGee=] and cut his arms and legs off]], why was he still trying to reach him at the tattoo parlor?
*** It's likely [[spoiler:he'd bugged the parlor and wanted to drag in more victims (like people looking for [=McGee=]) by using the phone to contact them.]]

*** It's likely [[spoiler:he'd bugged the parlor and wanted to drag in more victims (like people looking for [=McGee=]) by using the phone to contact them.]]

* The validity of [=LaCroix's=] ability to use Dominate on you aside, there's some clever subtlety to it. Dominate requires eye contact, and is often reinforced with verbal commands like "you will" or "do this," watch the opening cutscenes where [=LaCroix=] is talking to the player character very closely, and pay careful attention to the dialog when you tell him [[spoiler: you saw Nines Rodriguez at Grout's mansion]]. "Look at me..."

* 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; then again, she's a dancer, not a poet...

*** A couple of dialogues suggest [[spoiler:Caine himself]] has been cheating by effectively raising the generation of the player via his godlike powers. This also explains how the player characters goes from weak whelp to destroying creatures that should be able to insta-dust him.
*** Throughout the game, you get a hold of plenty of extremely powerful artifacts, vampire and Elder blood packs, and plenty of other things that could arguably raise your generation or give you some other defense.

*** Why not go with the obvious? Throughout the game, [=LaCroix=] has basically sent your character on multiple suicide-missions and yet has seen them come out on top every time. He's a newly-instated Prince, so his powerbase isn't exactly as strong as it could be had he been in the position longer (It's even implied that the Sherriff is his only truly loyal servant). The endgame attempt at Dominate fails because [=LaCroix=] has slowly realized you are a ''very'' big threat to him and his role as Prince, and despite not showing it outwardly, he's too damn scared by this revelation to concentrate enough to make it work!

* Play Sheryl Crow's ''All I wanna do'' while playing this game. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Now imagine Jack or your taxi driver playing this on an iPod throughout the events of the game.]]