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Bastion: Pirates of the Bastiard Seas

Whatever you did before, you failed at it. Miserably. You now find yourself in someone's debt and out at sea. You may wish to eventually return to shore permanently, perhaps once your bounty is cleared or forgotten, but for now, the life of a privateer has beckoned you forth.... probably into a very different situation that involves even more coin being offered for your head.

Welcome to Bastion: Pirates of the Bastiard Seas. This game is set in a world where Bastion, the only city that matters to those that live there, is actually an incredibly small and almost trivial location. In reality, you could spend your whole game life without ever setting foot in Bastion proper. In the world where Bastion resides there are some very odd quirks that have everything to do with anything that could happen there. Below the city, and the land surrounding it is The Underground. Down here self-developed-built-and-purposed machines have inserted themselves and exist to observe, adapt, observe some more, test, observe and repeat. Incredible creations are made there. Incredible abominations are also made there. And the machines tend to stay there guarding it but are sometimes willing to show off what they have come up with. In addition to the presence of the machines, The Underground is also "temporaly favored" in that time has decided to bend itself in and around the twisted mechanical paths below Bastion. The flow of time on the surface does not match the flow below. Be careful not to venture too deep, as the further down you go, the more reality starts to fade into something else. The Underground is everywhere and nowhere but has a connection to anywhere. You could find a passage leading to The Living Stars themselves and whatever the future might hold. Maybe the uncaring expanse of the universe might even smile in your direction or is it just as likely to smite you? You may also discover yourself headed beyond the city limits into The Deep Country, where remnants of our past, or perhaps even our actual past is still very much present.

The afterlife is its own oddity as where you go when you expire depends mostly on where you spend your living days. Those on land find themselves in "The Vaults", which can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but only one thing is for sure. There is a profit to be made from it if you happen to run a "Vault Mine". They can be incredibly dangerous too depending on what kind it is and who inhabits it. The more deranged and ravenous "occupants" even attempt, and often succeed, in reaching into the dimension of the living and taking what they want. The afterlife to those at sea is almost a polar opposite. Those who spend their days at sea, if they aren't too terrible, may be granted the "Kiss of Salt", be preserved, and then be able to move on to the northern city of the dead known as Vanderburg. The life of a pirate at sea has its own adventures, treasures, and terrors. The dead here are present, but the undead is another thing. The "Three of the Sea", the gods of the waters, Salt, Stone, and Gust, are almost oblivious to the activities of mortals, and nearly never beneficent. But they do have a sense of humor, even if what they do is only funny to them. The waters of the Bastiard Seas are not only ruled by the "Three" but also the monstrosities that lurk below the surface. If that wasn't enough, every sailor who finds themselves on the waters at midnight is looking at their clocks with great dread and anticipation to see if they might find themselves afloat during the "13th hour" and suddenly under a crimson moon.

Become a heroic and legendary swashbuckler or a notorious murderous pirate. Be dead or be alive. Explore the city, cruise the seas, delve into the Underground, ride into the Deep country, die to visit the Vaults, and see the world. Sail the waters in search of whatever you want, while other things search for you.



“Whether it's off to a vault or the 'Kiss of Salt', we all gotta go eventually. Let’s make the most of life and pillage a village or two, and explore to the end of the seas!"

-Salty Pete