I have no idea where this music came from. I don’t recognise it as the backing track of anywhere else in the game, nor is it the audio from Gary’s room extended over the whole area. I imagine the modder didn’t make it up himself, so it was probably somewhere, but it might not have actually made it to the game.
The crazy noise around the 4:30 mark while talking to Mitnick was my cat crawling into my lap and rubbing against my microphone (I have a headset and I usually keep the microphone beneath my mouth level and turned away, which makes it a very convenient cat-bait.)
The warrens give us a nice example of the major types of Nosferatu: Mitnick is the hacker iconoclast, Imalia is a Cleopatra (as discussed in episode), and Gary is the information broker.
After telling Gary he sounds nothing like the voice in your head, a Malkavian will proceed to refer to Gary as “voice” from that point forward.
In the tabletop, level three Obfuscate is the “Mask of a Thousand Faces”, which is the power that lets you look normal I mentioned. Cleopatras tend to rush towards gaining that power so that they can resume more-or-less normal “life” after that.
And incidentally, before being revealed as a Nosferatu, your Sire uses the Toreador model.
(At this moment, I am completely caught up with what Exetera has posted, so these shall cease to be “reposts” and just be “coposts” from now on.)
(Annoyingly, this post doesn’t show up in my http://wordpress.com/#!/read/following/ feed :< )
More fun for anyone unfamiliar with the game or its background:
* There’s a quest you can do for Arthur Kilpatrick, the bondsman with the Krimeputer, to find his missing bounty hunter. You can find a (quest-relevant) poster of pre-Embrace Imalia in the bounty hunter’s apartment, and you have to confront a creepy guy named Gimble (the name on the crates Krellen and Exetera were commenting on). I think I managed to say that without any real spoilers… I sometimes speculate that it was a (overly) subtle attempt to show the passage of time in this game: That Imalia might not yet have been Embraced, or was at least not yet known to be missing, when you first arrive in Santa Monica.
* Mitnick, the hacker Nosferatu, is named for real-world hacker Kevin Mitnick, a hacker à la “Hackers” or “Sneakers.” Well, “Sneakers,” mostly, given that now he’s out of prison he runs a security consulting firm.
* When Mitnick says, “Sch- ah, the network,” he’s referring to the Nosferatu information network, Schrecknet, named for Max Schreck, the actor who played the titular vampire in the silent film “Nosferatu.” Amusingly, “Schreck” is also German for “fear,” which makes it particularly appropriate for the most fearsome-looking of vampires (outside of some Tzimisce, and maybe the Niktuku, depending on your definition of “fearsome”).