Ebbwick

Week One · Ebb Tide

When the tide bell rings, the town starts sleepwalking toward the sea.

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The story

A quiet beach town with a night that won't let go

Ren Morris is nineteen and new to St. Hild's College in Ebbwick, a sea-fog town on Florida's coast with a museum warship at the pier and rocket launches on the horizon.

His first week, students start walking into the surf in their sleep. Something under the town is pulling them into the Dream-Tide, a drowned mirror of Ebbwick. The way in is the old lighthouse across the inlet.

By day, go to class, skip class, wander the whole town on foot and spend your evenings with the people you like. By night, cross over and bring the sleepers home.

The Ebbwick lighthouse at night, its beam sweeping over palms on the point.
The lighthouse on the point. Seren keeps the light.

The nights

Turn-based fights with a blade, a gun and everything you've learned

A turn-based battle in the drowned streets: Mina faces two Drowned Hounds while the party's health bars and a command menu frame the scene.
  • Melee, guns and skills. Every turn is a choice between steel, a shot or something stranger.
  • Hit what they fear. Weaknesses are found in the fight, then written down so you never forget them.
  • Night Raid. Knock them all down and the whole party piles in.
  • Your days matter. The friends you spend time with fight harder beside you.

The cast

The people you'll spend your nights with

Ren Morris 19

The transfer student. Katana and a sawn-off.

Mina Murray 20

Your orientation buddy. Writes everything down.

Lucy Westwood 22

Rapier, rifle and a crooked grin. The first to sleepwalk.

Cass Pell 21

Loud nails, louder laugh, knows every bar in town.

Seren Seward 24

The lighthouse keeper. Short, blunt, smokes on the gallery rail.

Dusk over the inlet: a red sky, the lighthouse and the keeper's cottage across the water.
Evening over the inlet.

The town

One seamless town, walked end to end

Ebbwick is a fictional beach town drawn from the real Florida coast: brick main street, canal houses, a college on the water and a destroyer you can walk aboard. Weather changes with the season, and every day has four parts to spend however you want.

Status

In development

Ebbwick is being built now for Windows PC. No date yet. When there's something to play, it'll be announced here first.