There is nothing more dangerous than a party of idle adventurers. It's a lesson the town of Palisade has already learned, which is why they start dolling out quests after the sixth bar brawl of the week. This is the way we're introduced to the Rat Queens, an all-women adventuring group consisting of Hannah, the elven mage whose mother won't stop calling her on her channeling stone, Dee, the atheist human cleric who still swears to her former deity out of habit, Violet, the dwarven fighter who can't come up with a cool saying for the life of her, and Betty, the smidgen (think hobbit or halfling) thief who really likes sex, drugs, and candy.

Well, we f---ed up the Earth. Yeah, it was bound to happen sooner or later, so no surprise there, but it's a good thing we prepared some contingencies. Enter the Gen and the cyborgs. The first group was genetically engineered to withstand the harsh new climate of the Earth, with its ever decreasing oxygen. The second started adding mechanical bits to themselves until they had not only managed to survive the environment, but extend their own lives by hundreds of years. There's just one problem: only a single strip of land near the Equator is inhabitable even with all of these advancements, and there simply isn't enough room for the both of them.