Quest:Bloody Mess
Bloody Mess is a side quest for VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines .
Acquisition
After Surf's Up is completed, Bloody Mess becomes available. Return to your haven and check your PC for a new email titled "A favor." Prince Sebastian LaCroix wants you to retrieve a sample of Werewolf Blood which has been sent to the Santa Monica Medical Clinic for analysis.
Overview
Go to the Medical Clinic. See the Clinic Administrator's office at the back left, and hack his computer (password: lakers). A series of emails about a strange blood sample will indicate that the sample is in the electronic cabinet in Controlled Substances on the second floor. The password is the name of Malcolm's "dirty little secret" (see Malcolm's Affair).
Go up the stairs to the second floor.
A guard is patrolling. There are three main avenues to proceed:
- Pick the lock to the maintenance door on your right and sneak through the vents without being noticed by the guard
- Kill the guard. May result in a Humanity loss. Best done as a stealth maneuver; if you begin combat with him, you may permanently trigger the guards in the Medical Clinic to be on alert.
- Continue the ruse you started with the Santa Monica Medical Clinic triage nurse, and tell him you're here to fix the computer.
- Some Discipline use may knock him out; in the Plus patch, Dominate's level 2 power of "Sleep" is particularly effective.
Note that most of the time, the guard will only respond to obviously illegal things: primarily attacking him, and if he sees you picking a lock. If a lock has already been picked, you can often walk through the door in full view without triggering the guard, even if the room is a secure area.
If you're continuing the computer technician ruse, he'll open the door to the Computer Information Security (CIS) room for you.
Hack (4) the computer. Use command cs door (password: dosage) to unlock the Controlled Substances door. Use command cs safe (password: Malcom's dirty little secret, "paige") to unlock the CS cabinet. This will activate the room's security camera, if it wasn't already enabled.
To disable the camera, go to the Security office. Hack (3) into the Security computer (password: optometry), and use "Camera 1" to disable the camera in Controlled Substances. If you did this step first before using the CIS computer, you will need to return here to disable the camera again.
Enter the now-unlocked Controlled Substances room, then open the cabinet, and retrieve the Werewolf Blood.
Return to your haven. Place the bag of werewolf blood in your mailbox. Leave the map (you'll get a Masquerade Redemption) and then return.
Completion
Check your PC for a new message from LaCroix. He'll thank you and tell you to check your mailbox for your reward.
Rewards
- 3XP
- Masquerade redemption
- $150 (in the mailbox)