2nd Place for Urban Fantasy in Virtual FantasyCon Awards 2017.Darkness closed in on him like a pack of hounds. Buildings passed, warehouses, factories, shadows of silent windows disturbed every so often by dim light, taunting him.A city of the bizarre and the unfamiliar, inhabited by monstrous beasts and people with unnatural gifts. A city of tall glass spires mingling with old gothic architecture, where wild animals roam alongside the populace. This is where Ripley Mason awakens after the car accident.University dropout, casual drinker, and newly fledged hitchhiker, Ripley is tired of the daily grind of study, drink, repeat. Only halfway done with a degree he never chose, Ripley heads north to see if life won't throw him something less monotonous.Early into his journey, Ripley suffers a brutal car accident and awakens in a rundown hospital. Nervous, he ventures into dark, unfamiliar streets and comes face to face with horrific beasts. Thrown into a world of supernatural fantasy, Ripley fights to discover where he is, how he came to be here and, most importantly, if he can even get home.Ripley was still staring at the wallet in his hands. The clinic - as he had found out the place was - had graciously returned it to him. The problem was, it wasn't his. There was no identification, no cards, nothing. Just some strange currency he didn't recognise…All he knows of this place is a single word: C A L I G A T I O N