Your voice can carry the siren call of insanity and the whispered pandemonium of sheer madness. By speaking aloud in a resonant tone, you can summon forth the regrets, fears, pain, horror, and suffering of your target’s entire life and unlife, unleashing her id and giving her inner demons free rein.

To use Voice of Madness, you must gain your target’s attention and spend at least five turns (15 seconds) describing the derangement you wish to inflict. When you finish this description, spend 1 Blood and make an opposed challenge against your target. If you succeed, you inflict the derangement of your choice on your target for the rest of the evening and 1 Derangement trait. If the individual has pre-existing Derangement traits, this trait may cause an immediate psychotic break. For more information, see Chapter Five: Merits and Flaws, Derangement Traits.

For example, you might approach the Ventrue Primogen and say, “I saw two Brujah hovering around your car last night. What were they doing? Are you sure you can trust the Brujah?” If you succeed in the challenge thereafter, you could give your target the Phobia derangement, citing “Brujah” as the trigger.

An individual can only be affected by this power once per Dementation user. If the same character attempts to inflict a second derangement before the first expires, the older derangement is replaced by the newer one. If a second Dementation user successfully targets someone already under the effects of this power, both derangements apply.