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Plaguedoctors ran rampant in the streets like some town in the midst of a siege by criminals. The Leaches and the Birds and the Cockroaches and the Jugglers and the Warlocks and the Herblores and the Buzzers and the Adzentils and the Day-Nights and the Catholic Priests. The Criminals also ran rampant, snatching and taking and fleeing and besieging the city. The Rebels ran rampant, and they both consorted.

The Madmen did what they do best. The Flagellants marched beating themselves while the Madmen danced around them singing mad hymns against the Plague, and the Doctors went after them in the parade. And after them grotesque floats of Plague and the Dead and the End of the World.

The Soldiers ran rampant trying to chase them all down. Told to beat them into submission they instead verily thought they had locked them up in hastily constructed prisons that were called Plaguedoctors and Middle Walls. But they also resorted to locking Plaguedoctors up in their Congresses and Criminals up in their Taverns and Rebels up in their Parties and Madmen up in their Bedlams and Congregations up in their Churches and Wall-Crossers up in the Catacombs and Mobs up in the street. And none could hold them.

Spies ran rampant. People rampantly crossed the Middle Wall and they rampantly ran about in the fields picking flowers and going mad with Ergot. And Ergot were beginning to get rampant.

The Barons angrily screamed at their Officials, and like a Plaguedoctor demanded ever harsher measures. They told the people that it were not as it appeared in every street and every home. And they even said they had the matter well in hand.

The Rulers of the City were Confusion, Madness and the Plague.
—The Strange Account of Molst-Karnburg, Anonymous, 1355

Every Malkavian I've met is totally around the bend. That wouldn't be so bad, except that their insanity is apparently contagious. After an encounter with one, I recovered in a dumpster, chanting nursery rhymes in Enochian. Treat Malkavians with extreme caution.
Mage: The Ascension - Masters Of The Art

Feel how the germ turns in your stomach? I am a tiny seed of madness and I grow in your belly, like that watermelon seed you swallowed when you were four, and your Uncle Alvin told you it would grow into a huge watermelon tree, and come summer, they would pluck melons from your mouth! I infect the world with madness, and I will not stop until we are all rooting in the dirt like pigs seeking the truffles of our broken minds.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian

"Yes, it's insane. To think that I could actually fight her... it's completely insane. But you'd better watch out when you go up against someone from Nerima... because we're all insane here."

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