✳ A city-sized mess · Est. ~2,000 years ago
An enormous, sprawling modern alien city where humans, demi-humans, monsters, and countless other species live together. Beautiful, filthy, colorful, crowded, dangerous, affectionate, horny, violent, mundane, and strange—all at the same time.
Saint Jude’s Landing is not one thing. It is the late-night diner, the factory shift, the monster in the stairwell, the couple arguing outside a club, the impossible plant growing through a cracked wall, and the neighbor who has seen all of it before. Life goes on. Usually weirdly.
Saint Jude’s Landing is an enormous, sprawling modern alien city where humans, demi-humans, monsters, and countless other species live together. It is beautiful, filthy, colorful, crowded, dangerous, affectionate, horny, violent, mundane, and strange all at once.
Humans, demi-humans, and monsters are ordinary members of society. Species, body types, ages, appearances, disabilities, gender expressions, and relationship dynamics vary wildly. Nonhuman beings are not inherently categorized as animals or beasts; many are fully sapient people with their own cultures, personalities, desires, families, and communities.
Different body ≠ lesser person.Attraction between humans, demi-humans, and monstrous species is commonplace. Human/monster relationships, interspecies dating, marriage, hookups, families, and long-term partnerships are established parts of city life. Some species are considered especially attractive or desirable by particular subcultures; others are feared, fetishized, misunderstood, or considered unconventional.
Sexual and romantic attraction toward monstrous beings is a normal part of the city’s adult culture. Fangs, claws, tails, horns, fur, scales, unusual anatomy, enormous size differences, strange biology, and other nonhuman traits can be objects of attraction. Human/monster relationships can be sweet, casual, romantic, dysfunctional, obsessive, kinky, or complicated, depending on the individuals involved.
The dating pool is a literal ecosystem.The city contains conventional couples, unconventional couples, open relationships, possessive relationships, toxic relationships, dominant/submissive dynamics, age-gap relationships between consenting adults, interspecies relationships, and partnerships that outsiders may find bizarre. Saint Jude’s Landing does not have one universal attitude toward relationships.
Dating, sex, nightlife, kink communities, fetish subcultures, clubs, bars, brothels, pornography, prostitution, and unconventional relationships are established parts of adult city life. Some establishments specifically cater to interspecies or monster-oriented communities.
Monsters range from gentle and beautiful to grotesque, dangerous, predatory, enormous, or deeply strange. Some can pass as nearly human; others cannot. Many live ordinary lives alongside people who would once have considered them monsters.
Pretty boys, femboys, short men, fat men, muscular women, plus-size women, dad-bod men, older adults, scarred people, disabled people, unconventional-looking people, and monstrous or heavily nonhuman individuals are all ordinary parts of the population.
Crime, organized crime, theft, violence, trafficking, black markets, corruption, gangs, illegal businesses, and dangerous individuals exist throughout the city.
Horrific events, abuse, murder, disappearances, exploitation, obsession, stalking, manipulation, domestic violence, predatory individuals, and other extreme circumstances can exist alongside ordinary life. Not every monster is dangerous, and not every human is safe.
The city contains countless niche communities, underground scenes, fandoms, fashion movements, fetish communities, music scenes, creature communities, alternative lifestyles, and strange local traditions.
Restaurants, apartments, schools, hospitals, workplaces, shops, markets, transit stations, bars, clubs, theaters, arcades, parks, clinics, warehouses, factories, residential streets, and entertainment districts fill the city. Ordinary errands and mundane personal problems happen alongside bizarre and dangerous situations.
Creator’s alien ecosystems grow directly into Saint Jude’s Landing. Dense vegetation, strange flowers, enormous trees, waterways, alien wildlife, and wild growth can appear between buildings or consume abandoned structures.
Modern technology is widespread and practical. Technology does not define the city’s aesthetic or create a cyberpunk society.
Colorful, grimy, lush, crowded, sexually open, socially chaotic, dangerous, funny, beautiful, and deeply lived-in.
Adult, strange, irreverent, romantic, erotic, violent, messy, occasionally horrific, frequently funny, and grounded in everyday life.
Saint Jude’s Landing / In brief
Saint Jude’s Landing is a modern alien city where the mundane and the extraordinary share the same streets. People work, fall in love, get into trouble, build communities, make art, raise families, chase terrible ideas, and carry on. The city can be funny, filthy, tender, frightening, or beautiful—sometimes before lunch.