The Masquerade

The Masquerade is a drama series produced by TotalAccess Television in the United States in 2004. The series is loosely based on the live-action roleplaying (LARP) game of the same name, and lasted for only one series.

Stefanie Mason started her first weekend in Dallas, Texas clubbing and partying, and even met a cute boy named Ken who escorted her through the city. But after an unfortunate meeting with a band of thugs, Ken was shot and Stefanie was mortally stabbed...

...but she woke up to find Ken, who by all intents and purposes should have died, watching over her. She quickly learned that Ken was the leader of an underground-dwelling group of modern-day vampires, and that in an act of unexpected passion, gave Stefanie a bite on the neck, replacing it with some of his own, in an attempt to prevent her death. Unfortunately this also jump-started a process of vampirical conversion. By the end of the month, Ken would have to bite her twice more and complete the conversion, or she would die once and for all.

Suddenly, Stefanie finds herself thrown in the midst of a new society, having to learn customs and get to know people as if she's moved all over again. She struggles to give up her old existence, even as she has to watch her family desperately search for the missing girl. There are also many threats in being a 'changeling,' namely The Hunters, a group set out to kill every known vampire in the area--the same group who attacked her and Ken that night.

There are also other bands of vampires, who aren't as friendly or as humane in their feeding rituals as Ken's. The politics and power struggles of an entire city of immortals is going on underneath the biggest city in Texas... and is threatening to make its way to the streets.

Episodes
1. The End of the Beginning: Stefanie meets Ken, a seemingly perfect man, during a night out in Dallas. However, after a seemingly random attack, Stefanie is near death's door, and Ken must reveal his true identity as a vampire.

2. The Blood Pact: Ken bites Stefanie in order to provide her some of his blood and save her life. However, this now starts a race against time: Stefanie has one month to decide to join ranks with the vampires, or die a mortal death.

3. The Search Party: As Stefanie learns more about the three main factions of vampire clans, she learns what all she may be giving up as national attention is given to her supposed disappearance. A group of Hunters see the coverage and know exactly where to look for Stefanie.

4. Second Place: An attack from the Hunters puts Ken and Stefanie into hiding, and one step closer to her conversion into a full vampire.

5. Mementos: With less than a fortnight left to make her decision, Stefanie breaks into her grieving parents' house and bathes herself in memories of her troubled past, and in particular, an abusive relative.

6. Doomed to Repeat: Another night watching her family leads Stefanie to learn her beloved cousin may be headed to the same trap her uncle put her through five years ago. What she does brings her and her family right in the path of the Hunters.

7. Firewalker

8. Now or Never: Stefanie makes her decision and submits to an eternity as Camarilla vampire, despite warning and objections from the Council.

9. The Tribunal: Having broken the Council's order to not convert Stefanie, Ken faces brutal punishment by his peers.

10. The Funeral: Stefanie sneaks back to the Upper World when she learns her family has given up her search and declared her legally dead.

11. The Scourge

12. The Betrayal

13. The Unholy War

14. Exodus

15. Sins of the Father

16. Neverland