Gate

[Lima]

Welcome to Gateway, Iowa, population 11, 653. The year is 2003, and the town is floating along as best it can. The lifeblood of the local economy is in the food-packing factories just outside the town limits.
Welcome to Insdown, population 12,178. In a world without electricity, horses provide transportation, and the occupants resemble the elves of human mythology, Insdown is a walled city crammed with refugees fleeing from civil war. Hunger and misery are facts of life when trying to find shelter on its crowded streets.

Just outside the walls of Insdown, and on the railroad tracks running through Gateway, a hole exploded into existence. The citizens of both worlds found themselves scrambling for cover, and when the dust cleared, dozens of elves were crawling out of the hole and into Gateway, Iowa.

Welcome to Gate. The year is 2007, and the town that was once Gateway is empty of its original inhabitants. Instead of factory workers and schoolchildren, the town is filled with elves and the scientists, anthropologists, linguists, artists, and others who have come to live among them. Just outside the town limits, a fence has been set up. On the other side of the fence wait government troops, ready to send any elf trying to work its way out back to Gate. Political debate rages over what to do with these otherworldly refugees. In the meantime, Gate is populated with elves, fed by aid workers and filled with the conflicts and confusion from both sides of the border.

One gang, the Ragmen has sworn to help the elves when the government is too slow. Led by a disillusioned young elf who calls himself Robin Hood in memory of his dead wife, Marion, they seek to do whatever they can…legally or not.

Join the ragmen. Become an artist. Perfom experiments on elves. Survive the city. Go to z4.invisionfree.com/The_Gate to learn how