Victorian Expedition - The Dark Jungle
In an alternate 1889 Victorian era, you lead an expedition into Ikhara, a mysterious jungle in Urambwes heart, seeking artifacts of unnatural power. As a respected cartographer, you arrive at the Adventurers' Club in Port Eldridge to meet your team: an occultist, a seasoned guide, and a defrocked missionary. They've secured a steam launch, the Resolute, loaded with supplies. With the wet season nearing, you must navigate treacherous rivers and dense jungle, facing ancient ruins, hostile wild...
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In this alternate Victorian era of 1889, the British Empire and its rivals command a globe driven by industrial steamworks, colonial conquest, and the uneasy integration of occult practices unearthed from ancient relics and esoteric texts. Etheric apparatuses tick in scholarly academies, chemists distill volatile elixirs in dimly lit labs, and dirigibles patrol the skies above subjugated territories. Yet pockets of the world resist mapping: Ikhara, the Forbidden Interior, a sprawling jungle ba