[Lvl 4] Steampunk Fantasy Detectives! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈5e 2014 D&D

About the adventure

--------- Enter a Living Campaign with multiple parties adventuring every week. --------- The world is constantly evolving, but the story is about you, your character, and the inexorable mark you leave on the city. Your actions in your campaign will affect the world for everyone! Your party was recruited by a solo private detective who has decided it is time to mentor new blood. You will work cases, make enemies and allies, and uncover the city's many dark secrets. Each party works for a different detective at a different agency somewhere in the city! --------- Explore the mysteries of a city with deep history --------- Built atop the ruins of an underground city that collapsed beneath the weight of its own ambition, Engress found its new identity through salvage and scholars. Breakthroughs in the marriage of science and technology at Engress University revitalized the city. A new era of steam engines, factories, and harnessed lightning. But something went sour with the promise of progress. Industry, science, and magic went unchecked for far too long; A runaway train of exploitation, experimentation, and contamination. Morality and ethics are sidelined for progress and profit, and factories churn out weapons of war. The Great War ended eight years ago. Its scars are still visible on the countryside, and still evident in the distant eyes of beggars and mercenaries. Now is a time of reflection in the wake of atrocity, where many have come to loathe the city they call home, but few, if any, can do anything about it. Nowadays, crime and corruption line the smog-choked streets of Engress. A sprawling city of factories and slums where gangs rule the streets and corporate elites exploit the masses from atop gleaming glass towers. The city hums with activity day and night, a sound which reverberates even through the ancient caverns of the ruined city deep underground. Endless crime, however, creates endless opportunities for a small and growing private detective agency. This is where your story starts. --------- What my players tell me you'll love: --------- 🎭Gripping role-play with tough choices and deep consequences ⚙️Engrossing yourself in original lore with deep history, collaboratively written over a decade of actual play 🔎That "aha!" moment where you finally put the clues together, and everything clicks 🎩Webs of competing factions, where earning one group's favour earns the ire of thrice more 🦑Fanatic cults, secret societies, aberrant monstrosities, and eldritch horrors 🏭Escaped experiments, corporate espionage, and industrial sabotage I've written and refined this setting over years of play, and I'll whisk you away into a city of wonder where evil lurks within the city's very foundations. --------- 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈LGBT friendly, I'm a transfemme GM! Bigotry of any kind has no place at this table.