Nightmare World Adventure Wagon Duty

Get the crew together for Wagon Duty!

Controls:

WASD to Move

J to Interact

K to continue dialogue

Story Setting:

Ten years after the cataclysmic invasion of the Nightmare Beasts and the devouring of the sun, what's left of humanity goes about its business under the protection and guidance of the ancient, once secret Hunter's Guild. Strange and supernatural powers once only hinted to exist in humans are amplified a thousandfold by Gaia as a last ditch effort to fend off the Nightmare Beasts and restore the sun. Those with exceptional talents are recruited as Hunters by the Guild, in a fight to save what's left of humanity and the Earth Mother.

Free art and audio assets used: 

Pipoya's Charamel (itch.io)

Szadi Art's Fantasy Lands Houses Demo, Post Apocalyptic Lands Demo (itch.io)

Wenrexa's Free UI Kit #3 (itch.io)

Gary Shaw's Castle Dungeon #2  (OpenGameArt)

Hewett Tsoi's Alagard font (dafont.com)

NeverScryWolf's Glistening Fields (Udio.com)

Other assets used: Unity, Ink, LDTK, Hot Reload

Cast of Players:

Jack, 38, is a B Rank Hunter. This low rank is not due to lack of talent--Jack is a skilled Astral Telepath and Telekineticist--but rather, an abundance of caution, born partly out of concern for his partner, Gerry, and partly out of concern for his own sanity. As an Empath, Jack at all times hears the cries of Gaia as she slowly dies. These insistent shrieks combined with prolonged exposure to Nightmare Beasts is considered a slow but inevitable death sentence of the mind for all Empaths. Jack has lasted longer than most, spending his spare time in Astral Meditation to fight back the  madness, for what's left of the world, but especially for the young Gerry. He specializes in the throwing of knives, which he can amplify the speed of and control telekinetically, as well as Astral Scouting, a specialized form of Astral Traveling highly prized by Guild operatives.

Gerry, 19, is Jack's decade-long C Rank junior partner. At this point Gerry has lived through more days without a sun in the sky than with one there. At the age of 9, Gerry was discovered by Jack, crouching in the ruins of his house, half-starved, half-feral, a few weeks after the Nightmare Beast attack of his village of which there were no presumed survivors. Saving Jack from a Nightmare Beast by summoning an Energy Shield moments mere moments after his discovery by him, the two quickly developed a bond, half friendship, half father-son. Unable to grow up living a normal life, he has maintained an innocence and an awkwardness around other people besides Jack. Once thin and half-starved, he is now extremely stout, as well as extremely proficient in fighting back Nightmare Beasts with his powerful shields, both of metal alloy and summoned energy.

Frygga, 36, is an S Rank Hunter hailing from a long line of secret Guild operative royalty. Recently she finds herself sent out by the Guild to whip the lackadaisical duo of Jack and Gerry, often jokingly referred to as "The Dream Team," into proper fighting form. Deeply concerned by Jack's freedom despite his cursed diagnosis as Empath, she continuously prods and pokes at him, testing him for signs of madness while keeping him on his toes. Trained from birth to be a powerful ruling warrior who  champions humanity's restoration, she is imperious, no-nonsense, and somewhat awkward in real life situations. A powerful combat shaman who specializes in therianthropy, she uses her powers mainly to enhance her already impressive combat abilities over simple recovery, able to shapeshift her limbs into different beastly forms at will. "If you don't get hit, you don't need to be healed," and "Try harder," are two of her favorite sayings.

Vern, 22, a C Rank part-timer Hunter, has lived in Auroraton for as long as she wants to remember. What happened before that, she prefers not to remember. To make her living as a child on the streets before the Invasion, she was forced to, among other things, "permanently borrow" high-priced items here and there, to resell to the highest shady buyer. Her life has only improved since the world ended, and now she lives in Auroraton as a part-time guild operative occasionally sent out to recover some lost doodad or person here or there in between extended sessions of "gathering her strength." With sufficient mana, she is able to manipulate her perception of time at will, enabling her to move, strike, and dodge at incredibly high speeds. She's recently been assigned to work with "The Dream Team," as they are mockingly called, as a kind of scout, thief, and assassin. Which, while it isn't quite as nice as sleeping, does have its benefits...

Gary, ????, is a ???? Hunter, known by, and responding to, many different names among different groups of people. Some say Gary was the first Guild recruit. Others say he predates the Guild, and was only recruited after they realized they would never take him down, and reluctantly offered him an alliance instead. A powerful, ancient being, colloquially referred to in Auroraton as a Ghoul, Gary is cursed to eat the rotting flesh of humans and to seemingly make bad jokes at inappropriate times. Insisting his slaughtering and rampaging days are behind him, he calls himself a "vegan demon," dining primarily on rejected clone parts from the Auroraton biolab. As such, he tends to spend much of his time in Auroraton, close to his food supply, where he attempts to stave off boredom by finding humor wherever he can, and reading. He particularly enjoys the works of Raymond Chandler, occasionally dressing up as, and playing the role of, a hard-boiled detective. His unholy strength is all that's required to pull the supply wagon between towns during wagon duty.

Lady Aurora, 43, isn't a Hunter at all, though she works closely with the Hunter's Guild. A writer in another life, she and her powerful shaman husband Nils created Auroraton from the remnants of a deserted biofactory town. Allowed to rule her little piece of paradise, so long as she complies with the Guild's need for bioengineered replacement parts for Hunters, she lives a happy life with her husband, writing fan fiction about the town's residents and at last playing the role of Supreme Ruler Lady Aurora of Auroraton she feels she was born to play.