Hmm, this is new to me. And here I was planning another playthrough of the game. Good to know!

Sending Gimble to Vandal was introduced in some older UP patch. It is possible with the same persuasion level with which you could persuade Vandal to not bring another blood doll at all after Lily flees. I am on 9.2 and the persuasion choice is already here.
I remember that circa version 7-8 they started pumping out a lot of content.

Yeah I did a playthrough with CQM. Incredible mod though I was annoyed by a small glitch. Sending Gimble to Vandal?! Holy cow!

Also sending Gimble to Vandal instead of fighting him. Bonus.

Hmm, maybe it was added in the Unofficial Patch. The game gained many more short-cuts and peaceful ways to go around different situations.

The Clan Quest Mod lets you skip the Warrens in 2 or 3 ways, lets you skip the Fu Syndicate and the Hallowbrook Hotel as well as the Ming Xiao temple.
Now if only there was a way to skip the Warehouse and the Venture tower through persuasion.

I for example just recently discovered that I can avoid the shooting in the dinner. Just use dominate of those thugs and they will leave me alone. And I've been playing this game for years. Indeed we learn something every day.

Eh, I prefer the quiz. Love how it's almost like a psychological test or something.

Beyond that, only after 200 hours of playing I realized that in order to finish quests faster and run quick I needed to max out dexterity on each character. So tedious to run around time to pick up and deliver each quest. And that Celerity does not make you faster! It just slows time. Silly me. We learn something every day...

Literally me when I'm contemplating a character creation options.