The Malkavian Empty Room Theory

By Alex Shearer and Todd Dickerson

(alex@apogee.nosc.mil)

Authors' Note:  This theory came about as a result of somewhat idle  
speculation on the properties of the Discipline of Obfuscation while  
in a series of rather large rooms.

Premise I:  An empty room can contain any number of  Obfuscated  
Malkavians.

Explanation:  Part of the power of Obfuscation is the subconcious  
avoidance of the Obfuscated person...hence, none of  the Malkavians  
would interact, or even know of the existence of the other  
Malkavians.

Premise II:  There's blood in the cocktail punch (or they've all  
reached Golconda and learned to feed on Angst).

Explanation:  They have to be getting their sustenance /somewhere/.

Premise III:  My love is like a flesh tuxedo.

Explanation:  Actually, this is just a really good line from  
_This_is_Spinal_Tap_, a generally great film.

Testing the Theory:

    Assumption:  There is a Mage named Zoe with an entirely  
non-magickal swan.  Zoe must awaken the swan to the unrealness of its  
swaniness (she must unswan its paradigm, so to speak).  This done, it  
awakens (*).
    Zoe then Mindlinks with the Awakened swan, to learn of the  
feathered aspect of the swan's reality, specifically the Sphere of  
Feather (no one will be able to stand before Feather in a Certamen,  
that is sure...)  Once Zoe learns Feather, all the Malkavians in the  
room will unobfuscate and kill her(**).
    Since, of course, each Malkavian thought they were the only one  
in the room, they will think that they're colocating paradox spirits  
and are, in fact, everyone in the room.

*This follows the Frazier Golden-Bough tradition of ignoring how  
things are done.
**Trust me.  I know why.  You don't have to know why.

> 
> The mind boggles...
> 
> Daniel Greenberg
> 
> 

No!
The mind thinks...unless you use it for a bowling ball...then it rolls.
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