ER:Isabel

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A city in the Errant Road free-form on-line role playing game. Unlike most locales and other things that show up in Errant Road, this one does have a counterpart in the Poe-verse. However, any geography, population, etc., of the Errant Road version is not canon and does not necessarily exist in the Poe-verse version, and the curious characters encountered there certainly don't exist in the other one. (This is probably just as well.)

Isabel is the largest city in Farrel, or at least the largest city (1) that we know of, (2) on a seacoast, and (3) that any of the Errant Roadies ever visit. Just "largest city" seems to work well for it. It is on the east coast of the continent, facing Veracia across the reaches of the Farrel Sea. Total population is unknown, but it's large enough to support a good-sized seaport, a warp gate, and an airship terminal. There aren't many cities in the Errant World so equipped with ways for people to get into (or, more frequently at least in the game, out of) them, so presumably it's a big city by local standards.

One thing it is certainly equipped with is sleazy bars, and it is in one of these, called the "Happy Hookah," that the long-running Airship Pirates, Chapter 1: Isabel thread gets its start. Player character Rip (accompanied as usual by his cigar-smoking parrot familiar Thurston) posts a help-wanted ad there, looking for crew for a new pirate airship called the Bonny Read. This eventually recruits enough curious characters that the ship lifts off and heads for high adventure and low comedy, and it hasn't made it back to Isabel by the time the thread ends.

Be alert for variant spellings: "Ysabel" has occasionally been used in Errant Story and Errant Road, but refers to this place.

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