From the introduction: In the Company of Strangers is a role-playing game that puts the players in the roles of English and German soldiers who are trapped in an ancient, underground temple, the Sealed Palace, constructed in the heyday of Zoroastrianism. Their memories in pieces due to the destructive influence of the demonic daeva, they must rediscover who they are and come to terms with the tribulations of their own pasts to escape. But who is an agent of the King and who serves the Kaiser?