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Developer:Publisher:Designers:Engine:Platform:Released:(USA)(Europe)Genre:RPGVersion:1.2 (Wesp5's Unofficial patch 10.0)Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is the second role-playing computer game based on. It was developed by using the, and is played from either the or perspective. It is noted as being the first Source game to.In the game, the player creates their own, choosing from the seven in a story set in and around in 2004. The plot is considered, and forms a prequel to the.is a direct chronological sequel to the game, set in sixteen years after the events of the game. Contents Publisher's summary Seduced in a dark alley.' As a recently sired vampire, you must traverse the dark world of modern-day Los Angeles—from raver clubs and the secret underground caverns of Downtown to seedy hotels and exclusive mansions on Hollywood's infamous Sunset Strip. Embark in a variety of story-driven quests as you explore an open world filled with side missions, multiple pathways and characters to interact with.
Yours is a living world, even though you cease to be.' PlotThe player's character has been newly by a who did not seek the local 's permission; both Sire and are sentenced to be executed, but following a protest by 'leader', spares the player's life as a calculated move to preserve a state of non-aggression between the two groups.
In return, the player is expected to serve the Prince faithfully, and is set a task to prove their usefulness and loyalty. A supposed attack interrupts the introduction to lore being given to the player by, and they must continue on alone.As the game progresses, it becomes apparent that an ancient artifact known as the is at the center of recent tensions between the Camarilla, Sabbat, Anarchs and of the West Coast. The player must decide which faction – if any – they can trust, and determine the secrets of the Sarcophagus before it causes all out war amongst the Kindred.The storyline is non-linear; though most events will be encountered regardless of the character's choices, there are numerous optional quests and five distinct endings. However, while the game does give players great freedom, the overall plot line does not change no matter what you do, and all the core missions still need to be completed. For example, if you decide to side with the Anarchs, you will still need to obey Prince LaCroix, as you are told to act like you are still loyal.
Similarly, if you try to refuse a mission given to you by the prince, he uses the to ensure your obedience.SettingMap of LA.and its surroundings are faithfully reproduced as they exist in the, including major elements of the like the invasion and the collapse of the. Characters from the pen and paper game appear, most notably, and all the vampire are depicted as self-serving, with the player free to choose an allegiance. LA itself is divided into four main regions (, and ) that you progress through – once you reach a new region, the previous regions and quests are still available.The nature of the Kindred is also true to the pen and paper game, as are the problems of living in a Camarilla controlled city; the player must not only worry about losing, but also about breaking the, at least in public areas. Wisely, the game only introduces those details which influence the game.Most of the clans are mentioned, though the player is restricted to choosing from the seven clans of the Camarilla.Organizations. The – Returned to Los Angeles after 60 years, having been forced out by the Anarchs. Ruled by Prince Lacroix.
The – Still not recovered from the invasion of the Kuei-jin in the early 2000s, the Anarch Free State lies in disarray. The – Staging a major invasion as part of larger plan to occupy America's West Coast, connecting up with their strongholds in Mexico. The local forces are led by a named. The – The vampires of the have decided they cannot ignore the threat of the West any longer, and a few years ago ousted the Anarch Free State in a surprise attack.CharactersThe Protagonist (also known as Fledgling, Cammy, Neonate or Kid) is the main character of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and is directly controlled by the player – their personality, deeds, clan, etc. Are entirely up to the player. After creating a character the game begins in late October of 2004.The protagonist and an unknown Kindred sleep together in a Santa Monica hotel room. Afterward, the Kindred, whose clan depends on which clan the player chose to be via character creation, Embraces the protagonist.
Later, members of the Camarilla burst into the room and immobilize both Sire and Childe with wooden stakes, and take the two of them to the Nocturne Theatre Downtown.There, Prince Sebastian LaCroix presents their case, saying that the sire of the protagonist violated the rules of vampire society to embrace someone without the Prince's consent.Eventually, the sire is executed by the Sheriff. Before the protagonist could too be killed, a member of the audience audibly objects to the sentencing. This causes the Prince to pause, and change his mind in an attempt to keep relations civil. LaCroix decides to allow the protagonist to live, explaining to them the laws of their society, and granting them shelter in Santa Monica. From then on, the protagonist is set to work for the Camarilla, and is first tasked with meeting their first contact, Mercurio.After exiting the theater, the protagonist meets Smiling Jack, who introduces them to the basics of survival and vampiric society. After surviving a Sabbat raid, the protagonist takes a cab to their first haven.Kindred and Kuei-Jin characters A French of at least 180 years of age, LaCroix is the of Los Angeles.
He once served under and runs the LaCroix Foundation.LaCroix's physically imposing, seven feet tall and dark skinned is given no name, and never speaks. His clan is never stated, though as LaCroix recruited him out of a century ago, and given the he wields, he may be of the Legacy of.A and default leader of L.A.'
S, though hates being referred to as leader or 'prince'. He harbors great hatred for the and the.A brawler, possible ex-pirate and notable from the nights of the; considered a legend among young vampires and his clan. He optionally acts as a mentor at the beginning of the game.A clairvoyant living under the Santa Monica pier. For $20, she will cryptically reveal all of the major plot points of the game.An Australian thin-blood also living under the Santa Monica pier.
He optionally sends the player on a quest to find his love and sire, Lily.Another thin-blood living under the Santa Monica pier. He is very nervous and desperate about his condition; the player has the option sell him 'unicorn blood' for a blood transfusion that will make him human again, a 'holy stake' to kill the 'head vampire', and some 'special chewing gum' to 'erode your fangs'.Another thin-blood living under the Santa Monica pier, he is a nervous stutterer that is involved in one of quests later.Throughout a large portion of the game there a serial killer raging across the west coast. He has already committed several murders when the game starts and commits more as the game progresses. The player has the option to track him down and decide how to deal with him.A 14th-generation thin-blood, Lily is E.' S sire and love. The player is optionally send on a quest to investigate her whereabouts.A, 'sister' of.A (although she dresses and acts like a ) who owns the nightclub, and is also the of Santa Monica.A living in Santa Monica. The player has to find him to gain access to the Sabbat warehouse and finish the Santa Monica hub.The famed intellectual adventurer, Beckett appears in L.A.
On the genuine pretext of investigating the, hoping to examine it firsthand and debunk any 'superstitious nonsense' surrounding it. He is referred to by Rosa as 'The Lone Wolf'.Alistair Grout is the Malkavian. The player is sent on a quest by LaCroix to find out why he did not show up recently and has not been answering his phone.A fierce staying at the downtown. Though she distrusts the player on their first encounter, she optionally tells him about the Anarchs and can send the player on a side quest.An Anarch also staying at the Last Round.
He is very taunting towards the player, but can tell him about the. He can also send him on a side quest.A vampire of the bloodline staying at an abandoned hospital, where she had recently slain a TV crew. The player is given the option to kill her, leave her alone or to exchange artifacts with her.Maximillian Strauss is the regent of the downtown. He is very skeptical of Prince LaCroix, but hesitant to talk about it. He is also easily offended, but nonetheless a rather wise Kindred. He sent the player a note at the beginning of the game, can give him an optional side quest and can also later become involved in another side quest. He is also one of the Primogen.Speculated to be a Toreador or Venture, she is involved in the plague bearer quest given by Damsel and Strauss and a member of the Ninth Circle.
She is a particularly deranged individual, and a very sexual person, who believed that sex and spreading disease went hand in hand. She hires prostitutes to infect them with the disease.Brother Kanker is another plague bearer. He lives in the sewers and inflicts the disease upon the homeless.
Contrary to Jezebel he seems to believe in the ideology of the Ninth Circle, the plague bearer cult that is spreading the disease.Speculated to be a or, Bishop Vick is the head of the Ninth Circle. He has very hard feelings toward his being a vampire.Isaac is the Toreador of Hollywood. He is very taunting towards LaCroix and the 'wooden soldiers of the ', but nonetheless will be quite polite towards the player. He sends him on two main quests involving a snuff film and can also send him to deal with a.Owner of the Hollywood club. She asks the player to take care of a problem in the city, as well as a writer threatening the Masquerade.
Doing so can result in her falling for your character.Isaac's childe Ash is the very hopeless and depressed owner of the in Hollywood and a former movie star. He is under surveillance by hunters. If the player chooses to help him deal with his hunter problem he will be encountered again later in the game.Andrei is the polite, eloquent and well-mannered leader of the Sabbat in Los Angeles.
He is responsible for the creation of the snuff tape and has mastered the disciplines of and.Mitnick is a Nosferatu hacker who was embraced by Gary after he broke into a. He is very happy about his being a kindred, stating that even his appearance does not bother him since he was not too good-looking to begin with.A bitter former super model, Imalia lives in the Nosferatu warrens with Mitnick, Gary and several others. She was embraced by Gary and is very jealous of model Tawni Sessions who has taken her place.Leader of the who lurk in a shared haven under the. He refers to the player as 'Boss', and prefers speaking to his visitors while using, saying 'I like the sound of my own voice'.Ming Xiao is the high priestess to the people of Chinatown and the leader of the Kuei-Jin.
She is very elegant and well-mannered, but makes no effort to hide her disrespect for the Kindred who, according to her, are inferior.Barabus is a Nosferatu who has gone missing in Chinatown. The player is sent on a quest by Gary to find out what happened to him.TheThe cab driver is a very mysterious kindred that helps the player to find a decision regarding his allegiance at the end of the game.
He is speculated to be, although this is never confirmed.Ghouls and other supernatural characters LaCroix' nearing his 60s (though he appears to be in his mid 30s) who works for LaCroix, based in Santa Monica. He specializes in acquiring contraband goods such as high-grade explosives or weaponry.
If you do not alert LaCroix to Mercurio's mix-up at the beginning of the game he will become another source for very powerful weapons such as combat shotguns, sniper rifles, and grenades.A college student found dying in the Santa Monica hospital (reading one of the doctor's computers reveals that she has lacerated organs and internal bleeding). The player can choose to save her by making her a. Doing so is the only way to get the best in-game armor without paying, but unless freed early enough in the game, she will be killed.Knox is Bertram Tung's ghoul. He approaches the player at the beginning of the game, saying 'You're a vampire, aren't you!' And is very excited to meet him. He also tells him about ghouls and thus enables the option to ghoul Heather.Vandal operates the blood bank at the.
He is also Therese Voerman's ghoul.Patty is the stuck-up ghoul of a Toreador who is missing. She is looking for him and endangers the Masquerade. Skelter can send the player on a quest to deal with her.Romero is the groundskeeper of the Hollywood cemetery and Isaac's ghoul. He makes sure none of the zombies that rise in the night leave the cemetery.Zygaena is a.Human characters Arthur operates Arthur's bail bonds.
He can send the player on two side quests. It is also known that he has an advanced case of herpes simplex, and hires local escorts to play 'Lockdown in the Women's Prison' with him.Carson is Arthur's bounty hunter. The player can be send on a quest to investigate his whereabouts.Stanley Gimble operates Gimble's Prosthetics. He cut off his own arm to replace it with a prothesis to get a feeling of what it is like.OfficerChunk is a security guard who watches the.
If the player character is female he can fall for her, depending how she deals with him. Later he works at the LaCroix Foundation.Venus is the owner of the downtown.
To start it, she had to take a loan from a Russian named Boris and has to pay with intercourse every time she can not pay with money. She was originally intended to be a ghoul.David Hatter is a hotel manager and aspiring screenwriter. He is involved in an optional side quest given by Velvet.Samantha is a former friend of the player character from his mortal years. The player can deal with her in a variety of ways.Ji Wen Ja is a fortune teller in Chinatown.
He is an ex-hitman a needs the second key kept by a former friend to a box with a lot of money from a contract.Ji Wen-Ja's former friend.Wong Ho owns the Red Dragon restaurant in Chinatown. He helps the player in many ways, but before he does, he sends him on a quest to rescue his kidnapped daughter Kiki. The player can become friends with him and warn him of a danger he can find out about later.TheThe Mandarin is a person assigned the task to find out about the most effective way to kill Kindred.Yukie is hunter from Japan who seeks revenge at a hengeyokai that killed her master. In the unofficial patch she will also help the player in the final battle.BrotherCatholic warrior monk and leader of a cell; a third-generation vampire hunter who seeks revenge for the murder of his father and grandfather.
He seems to have.Dr.Johansen is a professor from Norway. He is responsible for the discovery of the Ankaran Sarcophagus.GameplayBloodlines is a real-time game with the choice between first and third person perspectives. The player character's ability to overcome obstacles is in many cases a mixture of player and character abilities, with character stats determining the effectiveness of actions, and player abilities determining whether or not the actions succeed. For example, the ability to move silently and avoid being detected is heavily influenced by the character's Dexterity and Stealth ratings; however, if the player does not stay in the shadows while sneaking past enemies, the character can still be detected.The player character increases in power dramatically during the course of the game through the expenditure of earned points on,. A multitude of items, weapons, and books can be found or purchased that also make the player character more powerful.Unlike most computer role-playing games, the experience needed to increase stats and skills is not awarded for killing enemies.
Experience points are awarded solely for completing quests, no matter how many creatures the player eliminates in the process; sometimes there a bonus exp being awarded for non-combat approaches. This encourages the player to complete quests in creative ways and significantly increases the game's replay value.QuestsQuests marked with a + are Plus patch only. Quests marked in italics are side quests and are not part of the critical path to complete the game. Santa Monica. +. +. +.Patches and modsWhile criticized on release for the number of bugs present in the game, it garnered enough praise from critics and fans alike to spawn a concerted community patching effort.
Indeed in its retail release it was actually impossible to finish the game for some people. One patch was rush-released which allowed players to finish the game but left many other bugs and even things such as typos untouched. However, a succession of fan-made mods and patches have since been released even though Troika have since disbanded; few noticeable bugs are left and many features disabled by the developers have been finished and re-enabled. The 'unofficial patch' mods have now reached version 10.2 and allow a choice between restoring cut content or solely bug fixes.SystemBloodlines uses a simplified version of the which is nonetheless very similar to the original. Characters possess all nine standard, and a reduced set of twelve, broken into the usual groups of Skills, Talents and Knowledges. These are rated from zero to five dots as normal, though the player starts off with far fewer dots than in the pen and paper game. Attribute and Ability scores are added together to form 'feats', which represent the dice pools for various attempted actions; for example, the Melee Combat feat is derived by adding the ratings of the Strength Attribute and Melee Ability.
Feats are therefore rated between 1 and 10.Other traits (like and ) are largely eliminated, though the character does have a rating. Blood and Health are measured in similar ways to the traditional Storyteller system, though player characters may have a maximum of 15 blood points rather than 10 (the player's is not explicitly stated, but is assumed to be thirteenth).are simplified as well; characters may only access common vampire powers (like healing and physical augmentation) and their three clan Disciplines; out-of-clan Disciplines are not allowed.
Most are modified to make all powers useful during play; 's powers are based on the, for example, though they are all offensive powers rather than analytical.Much of the interaction is with mortal; as a result, many vampiric disciplines have been toned down to prevent the game from being too easy to complete.SoundtrackA number of songs were licensed for the game. The song 'Bloodlines' performed by, was created specifically for the game. The soundtrack was released through stores for customers who pre-ordered the game. The tracks are as follows:. 'Swamped'Written by Marco Coti Zelati, Cristina Scabbia and Andrea FerroPerformed byCourtesy ofPlays at the end of the game as well as in the Asp Hole. 'Cain'Written by Johan EdlundPerformed byCourtesy ofPlays in the Asp Hole. 'Bloodlines'Written by Al JourgensenPerformed by /Courtesy ofPlays in the club 'Confession', Downtown L.A.
'Needles Eye'Written by F.G. ReichePerformed byCan be heard on the radio at the end of the game. 'Come Alive'Written byPerformed by Daniel AshPlays in the Glaze Club in Chinatown. 'Pound'Written by J.
Blackwell, H. McCall and M. WolfePerformed byPlays in Glaze. 'isolated'Written byPerformed by ChiasmLicensed from COP InternationalPlays in the club The Asylum, Santa Monica.
'Lecher Bitch'Written by Jennifer Vincent, David Vincent and Vincent SalettoPerformed byPlays in the anarch bar The Last Round, Downtown. 'Smaller God'Written by C. Thomas, and S. McManusPerformed bySang by a human singer in the 'Empire Hotel', Downtown L.A.
Can also be heard on the radio in the Thin Bloods' camp on the Santa Monica Beach.Credits. – Creative Director. – Project Lead. – Lead Programmer. – Lead Scripter. – Lead Animator. – Lead Character ModellerSound FX Design.
– Original Score.Programmers –,Additional Programming –,Scripters –,Additional Scripting –,Animators –,Additional Art –,Level Building –,Additional Level Building –,Design, Dialog and Story –,Additional Design and Dialog –,Audio Scripting –Voice. as Prince Sebastian LaCroix. as Smiling Jack. as Ming-Xiao.
Contents BackgroundPisha's birth name is unknown, and she refuses to tell anyone, living or dead, so she uses the name Pisha, the name of a lover and companion from her time while alive. She was Embraced in the year 1773, and is most likely of Egyptian or Indian descent.
Pisha has traveled extensively all over the world, even Leipzig in Germany just before World War II, where she studied the works of a Crusade-era Necromancer. It was there where she had her first sense of.Pisha never actually makes a permanent haven in any city, nor does she usually interact with any other. The Nagaraja must consume human flesh in addition to vitae in order to survive - as such, they are reviled by other vampires.Events of BloodlinesShould the choose to explore the abandoned hospital, they will come across a frightened, who will tell them that something is chasing him and may have killed his colleagues.
As they venture deeper into Pisha's lair, which becomes more gruesome and bloody as they go on, they will meet Pisha. Pisha isn't easy to confront, as she quickly defends herself and reminds the fledgling that the mortal they left alive is a much greater threat to vampires than she is to humans. She tells the fledgling to retrieve him.
She assigns the player several in exchange for powerful magical items.PersonalityPisha, by human standards, is a monster, and rather unapologetic about it. But, in truth, Pisha is a survivor, when she eats humans she is only doing what any other animal would do in her position. Pisha is a scholar: all her ambitions and goals focus around learning, particularly in the field of Necromancy. She is a very calm and collected individual who only cares about her intellectual pursuits. By choosing to keep the name of her lover as her own, it can be deduced that she loved that companion of hers very much.Related Quests Pisha is one of many ways to kill the.
If the fledgling knows of Pisha's existence they can tell Patty that her sire is throwing a party in the abandoned hospital and deliver her into Pisha's waiting jaws.Pisha asks the fledgling to find the reporter who eluded her, and return him to the hospital so that Pisha might feed upon him. If the fledgling questions the dubiousness of this task, Pisha will use the pretense of protecting the to convince them.There are multiple outcomes to this quest: the player can kill the reporter themselves; convince him that it was a joke played on him by his crew; Intimidate him (Intimidate 6); or use the power of their blood to either drive the man insane or erase his memory of the incident ( and only). Upon completion, Pisha then offers two more tasks.In this two-part quest, Pisha tasks the fledgling with recovering two occult artifacts for her. In return, she will trade her own artifacts with the ones they recover. Both quests can be missed, as the items the fledgling must recover are only in areas that are visited once: the, and the.Part 1 – The fledgling must retrieve a from the museum basement.
For this, Pisha awards the player, a fleshcrafted relic, capable of storing spare blood points for the player.Part 2 – The second part of this quest finds the fledgling looking for the, a tome the Giovanni use in their blasphemous rites. The fledgling is awarded with the, which increases all of the player's ratings by one.Trivia. Pisha and share the same voice actress –. Pisha is one of the only two vampires in the game which are seen feeding; beside the fledgling, the only other is.External links. onNavigation.Major.Supporting.Minor. Pisha.