Ruritania

This is a direct reimagining of Poe's classic, The Fall of the House of Usher.

We follow a retired soldier named Alex Easton who rushes to the Ruritania home of a dying friend, Madeline Usher.

But things are not what they seem.

Not at all.

W- was it frustrating, Dickie? 'Cause I mean, you, you're such a sensible, thoughtful, clever kind of tie-wearing guy.

I mean, there must have been moments where it, it felt like you were being sent back to, you know, sent back to Genovia, Ruritania, you know, some kind of old-fashioned court procedure.

Yeah.

There, there, there were some days when I thought, "Why am I doing this?" And you just kick it into touch-

Hmm, interesting.

Um, it takes place in Ruritania.

I guess that's a, a, a fictional place.

There's also Syldavia and Borduria, which is from The Adventures of Tintin.

No.

When he does it, it's a Ruritania in Asia or Ruritania in South America just to get things going.

Yeah, I think it's basically he only uses a fake place when it might be legally inadvisable to use the name of a real place.

And, you know, sometimes that's the mode you need to be in to get to the thing, right? So I don't expect that every building that we visit in this story is real.

Patricia smiled rather incredulously.

To hear you boys talk, she remarked, glancing down at her pinky polished nails, you'd think we were living in Ruritania or one of those exciting places in Booth Tarkington land.

I admit I was a bit taken aback to find that someone had rifled my boudoir.

It may have been your Clubfoot man, or it may just have been a common sneak thief.