OK, you can now pronounce me officially pumped at the prospect of playing the full version of what is rapidly shaping up to be Troika's first out-and-out masterpiece since several of their founders worked on Fallout. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the first-person RPG powered by Half-Life 2's Source engine, had its first hands-on demonstration at Fang, a gothic "vampire" club in the middle of Los Angeles. I, of course, have been eagerly following the progress of this game since the night Ed Teasdale and I played through a prelude to the game based on White Wolf's paper-and-pencil RPG. Tonight, though, was the night I was finally going to get a chance to get my grimy paws on the game. Nothing, not even a hungry werewolf, could have stopped me from showing up.