![]() ↑ "Caine felt anger when his children fought / He discovered deceit when he saw them make word-war / He knew sadness when he saw them abuse the Children of Seth / Caine read the signs / In the darkening sky / But he said nothing." - Book of Nod, p.27.↑ When any character uses the Auspex trait, the Cab Driver has a purple aura, which is used for supernatural entities such as vampires.Caine on the Unofficial White Wolf Wiki.Cab Driver on the Unofficial White Wolf Wiki.He is a mysterious Kindred that helps the fledgling by transporting them to various. This could imply they are actually seperate people, even though they use the same character model. The Cab Driver is a character in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. The sound files containing the Cab Driver's dialogue audio during Out for Blood and onwards are all named with the prefix "Caine",but the sound files used for the Cab Driver before this quest are actually stored in a seperate folder called "Cabbie".At the end of the game, a cutscene is shown with Jack watching the Venture Tower from afar and laughing, with the corpse of Messerach next to him in the last moments of the game, the Cab Driver appears unexpectedly behind him, bearing a smoky black aura that no other character in the game displays, and repeating his earlier line: "Remember, wherever we go, it is the blood of Caine which makes our fate." Title: The last taxi driver / Lee Durkee. When speaking with the seer on the Santa Monica Beach, one line of dialogue mentions a smiling man ( Smiling Jack), and the "Father" standing behind him.The Malkavian fledgling can then retort with "But you've made that mistake before", to which he tersely responds "Yes." This is supported by several lines of dialog: demanding to know "WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US?" (with the "us" referring to all Kindred, rather than the personal "me"), results in the driver replying that he is "just a driver", and it is up to "you" (referring to all Kindred, if the analogy is followed) to "figure out where you want to be taken". A Malkavian fledgling shows an immediate instinctual terror towards the cab driver, suggesting that their clan's unique insight has led them to recognize him as Caine. ![]() His line about "driving people to their destination" before the final confrontation with LaCroix/ Ming, as quoted above, contains a strong ironic undertone: as a mere cab driver, he does "drive people to their destination" in the literal sense, but as Caine, father of all vampires, the inherited blood connection with his Kindred also allows him to subconsciously "drive" their actions via manipulation of the Jyhad, a fact he reminds the fledgling of via the "blood of Caine" reference.Evidence to support this theory includes: It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be Caine, the first vampire and ancestral Sire of all Kindred.The Last Taxi Driver is his first novel in twenty years. A former cab driver, he lives in North Mississippi. In 2021 Scribner will publish his memoir Stalking Shakespeare, which chronicles his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Sun, Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, Tin House, New England Review, and Mississippi Noir. LEE DURKEE is the author of the novel Rides of the Midway (WW Norton). Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee's novel is an homage to a dying American industry. Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and backroads of North Mississippi as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Against this backdrop, Lou has to keep driving, and driving-even if that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car. When lonely taxi driver Rex (Michael Caton. With Lou’s way of life fast vanishing, an ex-dispatcher returns to town on the lam, triggering a bedlam shift which will test Lou’s sanity and perhaps cost him his life. How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Last Cab to Darwin in Australia + release dates, reviews and trailers. Lou-a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away-drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged hackie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver is equal parts Bukowski and Portis, and an homage to a dying American industry."A wild, funny, poetic fever-dream that will change the way you think about America." -George Saunders
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