A gentle breeze wafts across Platform Five of Twyford Station. You wait for the ten o’clock train for Henley-on-Thames, for soon the 1893 Henley Experimental Regatta begins. Attending the Royal regatta is in high fashion, and this special regatta is no exception. Not only tremendously entertaining, the regattas are an important meeting place of contacts, both business and causal.
The train arrives bearing a single first-class car, as usual for runs during a regatta. Everyone files aboard, taking their seats, and the journey begins. But where that journey takes you no-one could have possibly expected, or ever dreamed of in their wildest nightmares…
Dark Designs is the beginnings of series of murky occult adventures set in the south of England during the end of the Victorian era.