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2[[caption-width-right:245:What a lovely little town.]] Located [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/thedeadland/profile here]]. Characters are pulled into a dying universe by a mysterious child who promises to grant them [[MakeAWish one wish]] in exchange for their help in revitalizing the world. Of course, it's never quite that easy.
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4!! This game setting provides examples of:
5* AfterTheEnd: The city of Asper experienced ''some'' kind of apocalypse, but no one is sure quite what happened.
6* ContinuityReboot: Deadland is a retooling of Wasteland, a game run on Inksome several years back. None of Wasteland's canon has carried over, though.
7** OR SO YOU THINK.
8* CreepyBasement: On the fourth day, an entire network of pitch black, bone-filled catacombs appears underneath the city.
9* CreepyChild: "The Guide", the mysterious child who speaks to all characters when they first arrive.
10* [[YearInsideHourOutside Day Inside, Week Outside]]: On a meta level. One day in-game is played out over the course of one week in real life.
11* DeathIsNotPermanent: Characters who are killed awaken half a day later in the creepy abandoned hospital. However, ContinuingIsPainful as revived characters are in need of liquid energy once they come back.
12* HeroismIncentive: In this case, the single unlimited wish.
13* HybridMonster: The most common monsters in Asper are the "puppycats". Yeah.
14* LifeEnergy: The world itself [[LifeDrain drains its inhabitants of this]], ostensibly to repair itself.
15* LostInTransmission: The only method of ranged communication is an unmonitored radio network. The radios are easily damaged, and invariably lead to this.
16* MeaningfulName: "Asper" means "rough". Hilariously, it's also the name of a ManaDrain spell in ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', although this was completely unintended by the [[WordOfGod mods]]. Unfortunately, none of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters in-game will ever notice the connection, because they come from English-language versions [[DubNameChange where the spell is called Osmose]].
17* {{Nerf}}: Due to the city draining the characters' life energy, supernatural abilities are weakened to at least some degree. Some characters have it worse than others.
18* NothingIsScarier: Whilst the upper city is crawling with hybrid monsters, the catacombs are dark, silent, and totally empty.
19--> Lelouch: "Nothing. There's nothing there."
20* TrappedInAnotherWorld: A given.
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24!! Characters in the game provide examples of:
25* AlchemyIsMagic: [[VideoGame/GrimGrimoire Lillet Blan]] is stuck using Alchemy due to as-yet-unclear soul-related [[OurSoulsAreDifferent reasons]]. This confuses several more typical mages.
26* CoolBigSis: The Mercy Street faction is led by two of them: [[Anime/CodeGeass Cornelia li Britannia]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning Farron]].
27* CuteWitch: [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Jade Harley]], [[VideoGame/GrimGrimoire Lillet]], the growing Puella Magi cast... And they're some of the more obvious powerhouses, too.
28* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyuubey]], being a NighInvulnerable critter with no emotions, doesn't find its [[TheyKilledKenny constant murders]] and subsequent awakenings in a horrortastic abandoned hospital particularly troubling.
29* DespairEventHorizon: Mami's life was bad enough before she arrived in Asper. Then Kyuubey turned [[Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}} Sora]] into a Puella Magi. Things [[FromBadToWorse got worse from there]].
30* DistressedDude: [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch]] celebrates the introduction of the manhole catacombs by dumping himself into them. He had to be rescued by Suzaku due to his injuries.
31* ExactWords: Just like it does in canon, Kyuubey likes to leave out certain details whenever it talks to people.
32--> Mami: "But he didn't tell you what witches are. Because if he did, you never would have agreed to this."
33--> Sora: "He said they're monsters that cause despair."
34** Actually, Kyuubey said "Witches are beings ''of despair''."
35* FriendToAllChildren: It's practically a running gag by now that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] keeps rescuing children from monsters. And since they're all [[RecklessSidekick Reckless Sidekicks]], he has to do it over and over again.
36* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: After [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Oichi]] tried to [[EyeScream rip Sora's eyes out of her skull]], Sora [[EasilyForgiven forgave her]] and offered to be friends because Oichi started crying.
37* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[Anime/CodeGeass Suzaku]]'s Geass command 'live on' backfires spectacularly when he and Lelouch are mortally injured and trapped in the catacombs, since it forces Suzaku to make a contract with Kyuubey to survive [[spoiler: at the cost of his soul]].
38* IWorkAlone: [[Manga/DGrayMan Tyki Mikk]] and [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Sollux Captor]] have started the game as this. Time will tell how this goes for them.
39* IdenticalStranger: [[Manga/DGrayMan Allen Walker]] and [[Literature/No6 Shion]] look somewhat similar, something often pointed out in fanworks. And now they're friends.
40* LivingShadow: Oichi's creepy shadow hand... things.
41* MagicVersusScience: [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Sollux]] continues to insist that magic isn't real.
42--> Lillet: "The denial of magic thing is getting kind of old, Sollux. I'm a witch, and I'm right here."
43* ManipulativeBastard: After Suzaku becomes a [[SpearCounterpart Puer Magi]], Lelouch [[MoralEventHorizon Geasses]] Mami into using up her magic and becoming a witch so that he will be able to obtain her Grief Seed.
44* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Several characters are only as agreeable as they are for the sake of their promised wish.

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