So, some kind of pseudo-19th century London with a decent helping of Brazil mixed in.
Oh, and there are ghosts and skeletons everywhere, living in the city. Lovecraft’s fear and paranoia, mixed in some existentialism, and certified continued existence after death?” Yeah bitch! Take my fucking money! In practice, this turns out to be a kind of standin city for 19th century Lond, maybe a bit like that Sean Bean Frankenstein series, with the bureaucracy from that Discworld city thrown in. “What if you took Albert Camus’ hope in the face of Franz Kafka’s futility and H.P. Well, the designers have the fucking marketing down pat. The adventure is a fucking mess, as all plot based adventures are when they get too big and try to handle too many deviations from the norm. The setting is mostly a city, and interesting enough to steal bits from your own bizarre big city. In a baroque setting described in the sourcebook section. This 128 page source book uses about 41 pages for a plot based adventure. Can you maintain hope in the face of impossible odds? Will you survive nefarious pirates, dangerous creatures, or the land of the dead itself? And, if your character dies while exploring Anon, your adventure won’t be quite over…
However, you won’t have much time to gawk before you become swept up in a Kafkaesque adventure-and even more danger! You must overcome challenges and puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, come face to face with madness, the fragility of life, and the absurdity of existence to escape this place. … you are newly arrived and find yourself stranded on the mysterious, mist-shrouded island of Anon, in the strange city of Vestige-where ghosts mingle with mortals as if it were commonplace. What do you get when you mix Kakfa, Lovecraft, Camus, pirates, ghosts, graffiti, magpies, swamp monsters, philosophy, the spirit world, and an unimaginably large wall? Well, this book.
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