Vampire: The Masquerade ??? Bloodlines takes place in four areas of 21st-century Los Angeles: Santa Monica, downtown, Hollywood and Chinatown.[2][15] Set in the World of Darkness, the game depicts a world in which vampires, werewolves, demons and other creatures shape human history.[10][16] The vampires are bound by a code to maintain their secrecy (forbidding the use of vampiric abilities in fron