History VideoGame / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines2

->''"Welcome to the first day of the rest of your death. Having fun yet?"''
-->-- '''Dale Telley'''

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The game is due to be released on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5.

Originally announced for release in March 2020, the game was delayed early that year, with a new release window sometime in 2021. In February 2021 it was announced that the game was being delayed again, with the only confirmed information being that it ''wouldn't'' release in 2021. In the same announcement, it was revealed that Hardsuit Labs are no longer heading up the project, and that the remaining work will be headed by another (as yet unnamed) developer. As late as July 2022, Paradox Interactive CEO, Fredrik Wester, publicly confirmed that the game is still in development, though those are all the details Paradox are willing to share for now.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvWfDxhm_s&feature=youtu.be Announcement Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELjqNZjmaM Thinblood Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6LwptKvYg Brujah Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKGdJiF_2s Tremere Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/aAoFUt-RW-c Toreador Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/ceYjCOOVyUk Ventrue Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7O0OWohvE Malkavian Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwiMU2l9j8 Extended Gameplay Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MzIbWbMFi0 Xbox Series X Trailer]].

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''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', originally in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison as writer.

Originally announced for release in March 2020, the game was delayed early that year, with a new release window sometime in 2021. In February 2021 it was announced that the game was being delayed again, with the only confirmed information being that it now ''won't'' release in 2021. In the same announcement, it was revealed that Hardsuit Labs are no longer heading up the project, and that the remaining work will be headed by another (as yet unnamed) developer. As late as July 2022, Paradox Interactive CEO, Fredrik Wester, publicly confirmed that the game is still in development, though those are all the details Paradox are willing to share for now.

Originally announced for release in March 2020, the game was delayed early that year, with a new release window sometime in 2021. In February 2021 it was announced that the game was being delayed again, with the only confirmed information being that it now ''won't'' release in 2021. In the same announcement, it was revealed that Hardsuit Labs are no longer heading up the project, and that the remaining work will be headed by another (as yet unnamed) developer. As late as July 2022, Paradox Interactive CEO, Fredrik Wester, confirmed that the game is still in development, though those are all the details Paradox are willing to share for now.

Originally announced for release in March 2020, the game was delayed early that year, with a new release window sometime in 2021. In February 2021 it was announced that the game was being delayed again, with the only confirmed information being that it now ''won't'' release in 2021. In the same announcement, it was revealed that Hardsuit Labs are no longer heading up the project, and that the remaining work will be headed by another (as yet unnamed) developer.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: During the "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer, a 45 of Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen" can be seen playing on a turntable, even though it's ''not'' Newton singing.

* BlandNameProduct: Tender is a {{Parody}} of Tinder, albeit with a curious obsession with blood.

* FlippingTheBird: [[https://assets.vg247.com/current/2020/05/vampire_the_masquerade_bloodlines_2_xsx_trailer_grab_3.jpg The blonde woman from the Camarilla does this to the PC]] in the game trailer. Presumably, because the PC is a weak vampire who shouldn't exist and nobody wants to give you [[StealthPun the time of day.]]

* SmugSnake: Tender CEO Malcolm Chandler of the AlternateRealityGame just oozes tech company smarm. [[BreakTheHaughty It doesn't last long.]]

* FlippingTheBird: [[https://assets.vg247.com/current/2020/05/vampire_the_masquerade_bloodlines_2_xsx_trailer_grab_3.jpg Some blonde chick does this to the PC]] in the game trailer. The PC is a weak vampire who shouldn't exist and nobody wants to give you [[StealthPun the time of day.]]

* MirroringFactions: Each one of the clan introductory videos so far other than thin-blood and Malkavian has featured a vampire brutally murdering someone, to drive home the point that there really is no 'good guy' clan and that none of them are necessarily any more benign than the others.

* ShoutOut: One preorder item is [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} Blade's]] outfit from the Creator/WesleySnipes [[Film/BladeTrilogy movies]].

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: During the "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer, a 45 of Wayne Newton's "Danke Scheon" can be seen playing on a turntable, even though it's ''not'' Newton singing.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvWfDxhm_s&feature=youtu.be Announcement Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELjqNZjmaM Thinblood Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6LwptKvYg Brujah Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKGdJiF_2s Tremere Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/aAoFUt-RW-c Toreador Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/ceYjCOOVyUk Ventrue Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7O0OWohvE Malkavian Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwiMU2l9j8 Extended Gameplay Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLsFFRTADaA Xbox Series X Trailer]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to "Danke Schoen", while or after they've been mauling their victims.[[note]]Mr. Damp dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. Prince Cross dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. Elif lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party.[[/note]]

* NotSoDifferent: Each one of the clan introductory videos so far other than thin-blood and Malkavian has featured a vampire brutally murdering someone, to drive home the point that there really is no 'good guy' clan and that none of them are necessarily any more benign than the others.

The game is being released on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in 2021.

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison as writer.

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive, scheduled to release [[ScheduleSlip in 2021]]. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison as writer.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: During the "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer, a 45 of Wayne Newton's "Danke Scheon" can be seen playing on a turntable.

%%* AdaptationAmalgamation: Adapts elements from across the tabletop game's editions - e.g., Malkavians have Dementation (something which's varied over editions), and follow the more serious take of Revised onwards, Tremere have Thaumaturgy (which became Blood Sorcery in V5), [[spoiler:but the Pyramid has fallen, a V5 development]], etc.
%%* AdaptationalAttractiveness: At least from the first game. Some Nosferatu look like badly injured humans and [[LooksLikeOrlok look less like Orlok]], which is true to the mythos.[[note]]In the pen-and-paper RPG, some Nosferatu may look human but scare people with their eyes or just have a general aura of fright.[[/note]]
%%* AintTooProudToBeg: If the PC defeats Slugg and his ambush to try and shanghai the PC for their money, then he begs for his life. The player can murder him or spare him. (And Slugg promises to owe them one if they should choose the latter)%%no citation

%%* AscendedExtra: The Thin-Bloods in the original game merely were a small group of minor [=NPCs=] in the starting zone providing minor questlines, and had little impact on the story. Here, their kind is at the core of the event that starts the game, and your character starts out as one before being upgraded to a Clan. This follows along with V5, which was developed alongside Bloodlines 2 and upgraded Thin-Bloods to a viable player option.[[note]]The growing population of Thin-Bloods are canonically a sign of Gehenna, the Kindred version of the Apocalypse.[[/note]]
%%* AstralProjection: Malkavians and Tremere can do this through their "Psychic Projection" feat, one of two feats associated with the Auspex discipline.
%%* AuraVision: The first power granted by the Auspex Discipline, "Aura Sense" (accessible to Malkavian and Tremere), grants the ability to see people's aura, coupled with VeinOVision for good measure.
%%* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse. Two of Seattle's former Princes were Toreador, and the city's music, gardens, parks, and iconic architecture are attributed to their taste and influence. Nowadays, though, industry and progress have led to the decay of some of this beauty.
%%* BadassBookworm: The Tremere in general. They have taken a quasi-scientific look at Vampiric blood over the centuries and discovered some of the principles by which it works. This in turn allowed them to create new supernatural powers using their own and others' blood.
%%* TheBeastmaster: Courtesy of Bat Swarm, the three-dot Chiroptean power, which allows a vampire to summon a swarm of bats to attack an enemy.
%%* BioArmor: The Ventrue feat Personal Armor makes their skin harden to the strength of rock.

%%* BloodMagic: The Tremere are back and have access to Thaumaturgy, sorcery that uses vampire blood to destroy. It includes abilities like Skewer, which launches a small portion of the vampire’s blood at the feet of their enemy where it erupts in a patch of razor-sharp spikes, and Blood Boil, which causes the target's blood to explode in a massive area of effect attack.

%%* BulletTime: The most powerful skill of the Celerity discipline for Toreadors is Accelerate, in which the vampire is so fast everything else slows down.
%%* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Damsel from the original game is confirmed to feature in-game in this one.]]
%%* CallBack: The game's introduction hearkens back to the premise of the original: The player is Embraced in an unorthodox way, dragged before the city's rulers, and about a hair's breadth away from Final Death before third-party intervention saves them. The difference here is that while ''Bloodlines'' leaves your embrace as just a means to an end, ''Bloodlines 2'' has it as ''the main mystery''.
%%* CityOfAdventure: Like the previous game, all the game's various quests and storylines mostly take place in one city, which this time around is Seattle.
%%* ContinuityNod:
%%** Several pre-order items include Jeanette and Smiling Jack's outfits, a portrait of the Voerman family, Damsel's beret, a table made to resemble the Ankaran Sarcophagus, and a severed arm as a weapon skin. ''There’s even a stop sign item!''
%%** The developers note that the effects of [[spoiler:the nigh-total destruction of the Los Angeles Camarilla]] in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' are still being felt in the vampire world a decade and a half later and inform many characters' actions.
%%** Once again, the player character is a hapless, confused mortal embraced illegally and saved from certain execution only by third-party intervention.
%%** The name of the Ventrue Prince in the first game was LaCroix -- a French name meaning "the cross." Who's in charge of Seattle? A Ventrue Prince named Alec Cross.
%%* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Smilin' Jack was boisterous and jovial in the first game and a [=10th=] generation vamp. Dale Telley is a soft-spoken DeadpanSnarker Thin-Blood in the sequel.
* ContrastingSequelProtagonist: The [[PlayerCharacter Fledgling]] from the original game was a full-fledged vampire that was implied to be 8th generation[[note]]The player gets 15 blood points at the beginning of the game, which only 8th generation vampires have according to the Tabletop[[/note]]. The protagonist of the sequel is a high generation thin-blood (according to this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ssLizHtFK4&t=10s video]]) that doesn't even belong to a clan at the start of the game.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier: The Malkavians in this game compared to the last one. [[https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/29/malkavians-confirmed-for-bloodlines-2-we-talked-to-brian-mitsoda-on-the-new-clan-reveal/ Word Of God]] states that instead of being the goofy and funny kind of crazy like people remember, they're going to be the more serious, deadly, paranoid-filled psychotic that an insane person can be.
%%* DialogueTree: As with the first game, players get a choice of dialogue, with some special branches unlocked such as "Negotiation" and "Coercion" if the player has the stats for them.
%%* DistractedByTheSexy: Leave it to the Toreador clan to ''weaponize'' this trope -- the "Awe" skill makes all [=NPCs=] stop and freeze at the vampire's sheer ''beauty''.
%%* DrivingQuestion: Who decided to perform a Mass Embrace in Pioneer Square that fateful, foggy night? And why?
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** Slugg, the Nosferatu Thin-Blood who appears in the E3 demo, is actually in the original launch trailer for the game, being pursued by the player character.
*** In ''Vein Pursuit,'' an official prequel campaign to the game, five vampires are sent to track down a courier on the way to Seattle from Los Angeles before they can be intercepted. The person who sends the coterie is Nines Rodriguez, and the courier is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler: Damsel.]]%%zce
%%* EnhancedPunch: One of the Brujah feats is "Fist of Caine", which allows them to punch through walls, among other things.
%%* {{Flight}}: Glide, the one-dot Chiroptean power, lowers the weight of a vampire's skeleton and muscle mass, allowing them to float on updrafts.
%%* FragileSpeedster: Toreador get the Celerity discipline, but don't have the Brujah clan's raw might to augment it.

%%* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: For a Camarillan Fledgeling. Strauss's ending in the first game implies that the protagonist will become a respected high-ranking member in L.A's Kindred society. The total destruction of the L.A Camarilla will definitely put a stop to that.]]
* HearingVoices: The introduction trailer mentions the Malkavian hear voices because of being part of a HiveMind, but those familiar with the setting know it's also the sleeping Malkav speaking to all of his clan, too.
%%* KarmaMeter: The humanity rating from the original game, a general measure of how much empathy you still have for other people vs. how much you've descended into being a sociopathic, inhuman monster, returns.
%%* KillItWithFire: Aside from fire being a mortal weakness for all vampires, the Ventrue introduction features a victim being doused with gasoline and set afire.
%%* LaResistance: The main theme of the Brujah trailer, presumably from the archetypal Anarch aligned class.
%%-->Injustice is gunpowder, we will set it all ablaze!

%%* LightningBruiser: One of the Brujah feats is Celerity, giving them superspeed to augment their heavy melee combat.
%%* TheMafia: How the Ventrue are depicted in their introduction trailer.
%%* {{Masquerade}}: Unsurprisingly, being part of the TropeNamer franchise. The eponymous "Masquerade" is a set of laws created by vampire society to keep their existence a secret from humans. And your character becoming a vampire during the opening mass embrace on the streets of Seattle is a major violation of it. Your mere ''existence'' is also considered one, given how weakly the curse affects you at first (making it easier for you to exist among humans, initially, and thus giving you far more room to screw up).
%%* MindOverMatter: One of the starting powers available to the PC is Mentalism, the ability to move objects or enemies in the environment with your thoughts.
%%* MoreThanMindControl:
%%** Presence is one of the Toreador disciplines, highlighted by Entrance, in which the Toreador will entrance [=NPCs=] and have them seduce other [=NPCs=] as a distraction, akin to the prostitutes in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games.
%%** Domination is a Ventrue discipline, including the Command feat, which allows Ventrue to completely control their victim's actions.
%%** Dementation is a Malkavian discipline, with all of the usual feats including "Haunt", which causes victims to flee, and "Berserk", which fills the victim with UnstoppableRage and causes them to attack everyone in sight.
%%* MythologyGag:
%%** The Prince of Seattle is named Cross, and is a Ventrue.
%%** Once again, the protagonist is running through a burning building.
%%** The first thing Elif, the Tremere the protagonist meets at the night club after leaving their haven in the demo, says to them is that she's happy to see they have accepted her invitation, a potential nod to how the Fledgling and Max Strauss first met in the original game.
%%* NormalFishInATinyPond: The player character in this game is a thin-blood. A vampire with vitae so weak and removed from Caine that they are often hardly even considered vampires at all.

%%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Like in the original game and the tabletop version, [[VampireVarietyPack vampires in this setting come in multiple varieties known as Clans, each with their different traits]], such as Nosferatu, who are monstrous, with bat-like inhuman features. Your own character starts out as a "Thin-Blood", a weaker variety of Clan-less vampire with very few of the powers other vampires can manifest, such as VoluntaryShapeshifting and MindOverMatter. Notably, the PC will retain his/her initial Thin-Blood discipline, and upon choosing a clan will only receive ''two'' of that clan's traditional disciplines, making them all the more unique compared to the average vampire.
%%* PetTheDog: A minor example, but Slugg tries to screw over the PC if they give him the money before finding out where he's stashed the data. But if the PC tells him they are leaving Seattle, (like he apparently plans to) and just needs to run this errand first before getting out, then he tells them that this is a wise decision and admits he was planning to have you killed, but won't go through with it now. Instead he simply sells you the data and allows you to leave in peace.
* ProperlyParanoid: The Malkavian in his intro trailer mentions hearing the "murmurs of those plotting against me." Considering the insight of Malkavian madness, he's probably right.%%no citation
%%* RapidFireFisticuffs: The Toreador "Unseen Storm" ability.
%%* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The crux of the Brujah clan trailer, essentially. They'll improve upon the system one body at a time.
%%* RuleNumberOne: Invoked by Dale.
%%-->'''Dale:''' We have one rule: you don't break TheMasquerade.
%%* ShockwaveStomp: The Brujah ability "Earthshock" can stagger enemies in a large radius.

%%* TakeMyHand: The vampire in the Malkavian introduction trailer, but with no context. Also the guy on the Ferris wheel in the promotional image seen above.

%%* ThereAreNoCoincidences: After being illegally sired, the PC is dragged before a group of vampires who demand answers from them, before planning to have him/her summarily executed. Just then, a mysterious fire breaks out in the structure they’re in, allowing the PC to make their escape, almost as if another hand were behind all of this...
* VampireVarietyPack: Various vampire Clans are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELjqNZjmaM introduced]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6LwptKvYg each]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKGdJiF_2s in]], [[https://youtu.be/aAoFUt-RW-c an]], [[https://youtu.be/ceYjCOOVyUk individual]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7O0OWohvE trailer]]).%%weblinks are not context
%%* VeinOVision: [[https://images.gamewatcherstatic.com/image/file/0/e4/100320/bloodlines2_1.jpg One of the confirmed Auspex abilities]].
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One available starting power includes the ability to transform into a cloud of fog.
%%* WildCard: Much like the original, the PC will be a completely unknown element entering the Kindred society of Seattle, to ally themselves with whomever they should so choose.
%%* YouAllMeetInACell: The story opens with your character as a recently turned Thin-Blood captured by the local vampire authorities and about to be executed before a convenient incident allows you to escape.
%%* YourHeadAsplode: The Tremere introduction trailer depicts this as one of the uses of BloodMagic.

* AintTooProudToBeg: If the PC defeats Slugg and his ambush to try and shanghai the PC for their money, then he begs for his life. The player can murder him or spare him. (And Slugg promises to owe them one if they should choose the latter)
* AlternateRealityGame: The game's existence was revealed at the climax of a particularly elaborate one, based around ''Tender'', a surprisingly interactive fictional dating app with a suspicious interest in its participants' blood. Fans following it were greatly divided on what the trickle of information and suggestive ''VTMB''-themed imagery meant, theories ranging from [[AntiClimax absolutely nothing]], to a ''Bloodlines'' remake or remaster, a brand new IP, a mobile game, an MMO... The few who steadfastly believed it spelled a proper sequel to ''Bloodlines'' were definitely in the minority, so unlikely it was after ''[[SequelGap fourteen years]]''. [[invoked]]

* CityNoir: The game is set primarily in contemporary Seattle around Christmas time, including the ruins of old Seattle the current city is built on top of. Nights are very long, there’s lots of rain and wetness, the streets are shadowy and filled with jaded denizens, with plenty of neon lights, and there’s a lot of jolly Christmas decorations and annoying holiday music to juxtapose all the horrible things that are occurring.

** It has been confirmed that the five vampires who narrate the clan introduction videos are in fact actual NPC's who can be encountered in game.

** In ''Vein Pursuit,'' an official prequel campaign to the game, five vampires are sent to track down a courier on the way to Seattle from Los Angeles before they can be intercepted. The person who sends the coterie is Nines Rodriguez, and the courier is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler: Damsel.]]

* PetTheDog: A minor example, but Slugg tries to screw over the PC if they give him the money before finding out where he's stashed the data. But if the PC tells him they are leaving Seattle, (like he apparently plans to) and just needs to run this errand first before getting out, then he tells them that this is a wise decision and admits he was planning to have you killed, but won't go through with it now. Instead he simply sells you the data and allows you to leave in peace.
* ProperlyParanoid: The Malkavian in his intro trailer mentions hearing the "murmurs of those plotting against me." Considering the insight of Malkavian madness, he's probably right.

* SmugSnake: Tender CEO Malcolm Chandler of the AlternateRealityGame just oozed tech company smarm. [[BreakTheHaughty It didn't last long.]]

* VampireVarietyPack: Like in both the tabletop game and the previous video game, vampires will be divided into various Clans, and the player, though starting out as a Thin-Blood, will eventually get to pick one (with the Clans being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELjqNZjmaM introduced]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6LwptKvYg each]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKGdJiF_2s in]], [[https://youtu.be/aAoFUt-RW-c an]], [[https://youtu.be/ceYjCOOVyUk individual]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7O0OWohvE trailer]]).

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: During the "Come Dance With Me" trailer, a 45 of Wayne Newton's "Danke Scheon" can be seen playing on a turntable.

The game is being released on PC, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in 2021.

* ScheduleSlip: Originally slated for release in Late 2019, delayed to Spring 2020, further delayed to Late 2020 and recently to 2021

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive, scheduled to release in late 2020. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison as writer.

The game is being released on PC, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in late 2020.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to "Danke Schoen", while or after they've been mauling their victims.[[note]]Mr. Damp dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second one dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. Elif lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party.[[/note]]

Fifteen years after the events in Los Angeles, on a foggy night in Seattle, vampires swoop down from the rooftops in Pioneer Square and conduct a mass embrace, converting a group of humans into so-called "Thin-Bloods." It's a dangerous and illegal act. Abandoned to the world, these bewildered and naïve Thin-Bloods threaten the Masquerade, the elaborate social pact that prevents humans from finding out about vampires.