Synopsis: Season One

In an America where England won the Revolutionary War, the king of the independent nation of Cascadia has just died and his nineteen-year-old daughter, the heir, has disappeared while en route back home to claim her throne. In these uncertain times, a software engineer, a failed arcanologist, a brewer priest, a traveling guitarist, and a gorgeous IT specialist must work together to protect the missing princess when she arrives at their door, pursued by mysterious assailants.

Premise

Strowlers is an alternate history/adventure show—reminiscent of Watchmen, The Goonies, Dark Angel, and the Indiana Jones films—serialized for the internet in 5- to 7-minute episodes.

The show chronicles the ongoing trials of a ragtag group of adventurers as they encounter missing princesses, corporate assassins, magical mysteries, and the challenges of keeping their heads above water in 21st-century Cascadia.

Cascadia is an independent monarchy located along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.  It is one of many kingdoms in North America, including the belligerent Empire of Texas, the Mormon Theocracy of Deseret, the shareholder-owned city-state of New York, and independence-craving Appalachia.  Some historians speculate that if Great Britain had not quelled their colonies’ revolution of 1776, history might have seen the rise of one unified nation in North America, but they are generally derided by those who know better.

In this version of history, MAGIC is real and studied in the great universities, SCIENCE is pervasive and advanced, and MYTHICAL CREATURES are more an annoyance than a wonder.  Meanwhile, everyday people struggle to pay their rent and find good jobs, fall in and out of love, and try to live meaningful lives.  But ADVENTURE is always just around the corner…

Setting

A modern metropolis, Seattle is a hub for international trade and diplomacy, a brisk software export industry, biogenics and arcanic research, and a vibrant arts, music, and burlesque revival. Although the authorities would never admit it, much of that cultural vibrancy is trickling into mainstream culture from the illegal Strowlers movement, a loosely affiliated group of traveling musicians, performers, political agitators, and steam criminals.