Located here. Characters are pulled into a dying universe by a mysterious child who promises to grant them one wish in exchange for their help in revitalizing the world. Of course, it's never quite that easy.

What a lovely little town.
Tropes used in The Deadland include:
  • After the End: The city of Asper experienced some kind of apocalypse, but no one is sure quite what happened.
  • Continuity Reboot: Deadland is a retooling of Wasteland, a game run on Inksome several years back. None of Wasteland's canon has carried over, though.
    • OR SO YOU THINK.
  • Creepy Basement: On the fourth day, an entire network of pitch black, bone-filled catacombs appears underneath the city.
  • Creepy Child: "The Guide", the mysterious child who speaks to all characters when they first arrive.
  • Day Inside, Week Outside: On a meta level. One day in-game is played out over the course of one week in real life.
  • Death Is Not Permanent: Characters who are killed awaken half a day later in the creepy abandoned hospital. However, Continuing Is Painful as revived characters are in need of liquid energy once they come back.
  • Heroism Incentive: In this case, the single unlimited wish.
  • Hybrid Monster: The most common monsters in Asper are the "puppycats". Yeah.
  • Life Energy: The world itself drains its inhabitants of this, ostensibly to repair itself.
  • Lost in Transmission: The only method of ranged communication is an unmonitored radio network. The radios are easily damaged, and invariably lead to this.
  • Meaningful Name: "Asper" means "rough". Hilariously, it's also the name of a Mana Drain spell in Final Fantasy, although this was completely unintended by the mods. Unfortunately, none of the Final Fantasy characters in-game will ever notice the connection, because they come from English-language versions where the spell is called Osmose.
  • Nerf: Due to the city draining the characters' life energy, supernatural abilities are weakened to at least some degree. Some characters have it worse than others.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: Whilst the upper city is crawling with hybrid monsters, the catacombs are dark, silent, and totally empty.

Lelouch: "Nothing. There's nothing there."

Characters in the game provide examples of:

 

Mami: "But he didn't tell you what witches are. Because if he did, you never would have agreed to this."
Sora: "He said they're monsters that cause despair."

 
 

Lillet: "The denial of magic thing is getting kind of old, Sollux. I'm a witch, and I'm right here."