An Imp and an Impostor

Raqout is a crowded port city where planes, cultures, and criminal ambitions collide, and its newest high-ranking magical investigator hides a dangerous secret. You play an imp passing as human inside Arkan, the city’s arcane law-enforcement force, after a godlike power called the Mercy strips away most of your natural magic. The immediate goal is a vault robbery that should restore what was taken, but the operation exposes a wider conspiracy involving vanished magic, compromised allies, and enemies who know far too much. The mood is noir-inflected urban fantasy: tense, clever, politically tangled, and full of people whose smiles rarely mean safety.

Play unfolds as a large-scale interactive novel, with choices determining how your undercover life, investigations, alliances, and relationships develop. Conversations are the main arena, whether you are bargaining with supernatural figures, handling officials, deceiving your principled partner, or deciding how much of your real identity to reveal. Heists and chases provide the major action beats, letting you approach magical security through spells, human-accessible talsama, technical tools, preparation, and nerve rather than relying on reflex combat. Decisions also shape your personality, loyalties, romantic possibilities, friendships, and eventual relationship with the power that punished you, giving the narrative substantial room for replaying different versions of the protagonist.

Its strongest feature is the setting’s unusual blend of historical city life, interplanar fantasy, bureaucracy, organized crime, and supernatural politics. Rather than treating magic as a simple spectacle, the story makes it personal: stolen power affects status, identity, justice, and the cost of survival among humans. The enormous text-driven format suits players who enjoy Choice of Games-style branching fiction, investigative role-playing, and character-driven intrigue more than action-heavy RPGs. Fans of Disco Elysium’s morally complicated conversations or Fallen London’s strange urban mysticism should find plenty to like, while newcomers to interactive fiction get a focused central mystery and clear personal stakes to follow.