SPOILERS: So when does Limbus take place?

[The Infomaniac]

Me and my friends are going to attempt a limbus company dnd campaign and we are having a hard time figuring out when in the timeline does leviathan and limbus take place. Is it a year? 10? Serious question. we need to know as soon as possible.

[Masimo]

What system are you using? Me and my friends are too.

I think maybe 2 years?

[prv.rat]

Script writer doesnt give a damn about time, so should you.
In the grim darkness of Project Moon there is only cringe.

[The Infomaniac]

Originally posted by TheMadProxy:

What system are you using? Me and my friends are too.

I think maybe 2 years?

Homebrew for practically everything. But as a base we used pathfinder 2e, heavily mutated.
2 years is a good enough base.

[The Infomaniac]

Originally posted by prv.rat:

Script writer doesnt give a damn about time, so should you.
In the grim darkness of Project Moon there is only cringe.

There is a timeline, its just cryptic to figure out, and hidden in supplementary works like distortion detective and leviathan.

[prv.rat]

Originally posted by The Infomaniac:

There is a timeline, its just cryptic to figure out, and hidden in supplementary works like distortion detective and leviathan.

The action in limbus starting about a month- a month and a half, after ending Lobotomy, becuase 1st dungeon we enter have a living Lobotomy Corp worker who were on site at time of burial (and who were recognize our fixer girl guide). And the people can live about a month without food. But its controversal to story before where this girl were a low grade fixer in a long time.

[The Infomaniac]

Originally posted by prv.rat:

Originally posted by The Infomaniac:

There is a timeline, its just cryptic to figure out, and hidden in supplementary works like distortion detective and leviathan.

The action in limbus starting about a month- a month and a half, after ending Lobotomy, becuase 1st dungeon we enter have a living Lobotomy Corp worker who were on site at time of burial (and who were recognize our fixer girl guide). And the people can live about a month without food. But its controversal to story before where this girl were a low grade fixer in a long time.

But leviathan clearly takes place after ruina with what happens at the start of it. Tommerry crashes through the orphanage and kills most of the kids.
EDIT: And who's to say what they did to survive down there? Plenty of bodies and ♥♥♥♥ they could have eaten, not to mention that they were affected by abno ♥♥♥♥, so who knows what effect that would have on them.

[hodpleasehelpme]

Leviathan outright states it to be after 6 months of library of ruina

add however long library was morbing out and another time skip as dante/probable garnet was doing fixer work of another 6 months

and I put about 2 years

chapter 1 branch logistics having a bioweapon division IE the funny gas grenade and the egg abno stuff is some retcons so in general I just kinda assume the writers legitimately didn't think a lot of the implications of the timeline and I expect further retcons to hopefully merge the plot into a better position over time(best case)

or just not take note of it(worst case)

[A Wispy Willy]

Originally posted by prv.rat:

Originally posted by The Infomaniac:

There is a timeline, its just cryptic to figure out, and hidden in supplementary works like distortion detective and leviathan.

The action in limbus starting about a month- a month and a half, after ending Lobotomy, becuase 1st dungeon we enter have a living Lobotomy Corp worker who were on site at time of burial (and who were recognize our fixer girl guide). And the people can live about a month without food. But its controversal to story before where this girl were a low grade fixer in a long time.

Library of Ruina takes place at least 9 months after Lobotomy.

[prv.rat]

Originally posted by The Infomaniac:

But leviathan clearly takes place after ruina with what happens at the start of it.

ye ye the "abno magic" thats why i sad there is no timeline in first place - no one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about it, if something is misplaced - "its abnormality magic, dude, all is fine, dude"
If you have any traces of such - you have no timeline in your book, its simple.

[Admod, the Equivocal]

Lobotomy went boom. Library of Ruina formed. Stuff happens. After the true ending of Library of Ruina, 10 years passed by before Leviathan happens. There's a time gap after Leviathan and then Limbus Company starts.

Lobotomy corp had district, but it also had several branches elsewhere. The events of lobotomy corp happened in that district. All the employees there died and got revived with the library. The people going to and from the branches in the other districts survived.

edit
The only time gap I'm 100% positive on is the gap between the end of the library and where leviathan happens. That 10 year gap.

[Novoke]

Limbus takes place in 984, if you wanted a concrete date.

[prv.rat]

Originally posted by Novoke:

Limbus takes place in 984, if you wanted a concrete date.

Before or after the Steve was born?

[Inquisitor Chaos]

I'll throw my hat in the ring this is from looking it at what people have said and comparing it to what is known.

For Starters using the info of Gregor's age to help because he is 35 currently but "joined" the smoke war at 15 meaning between the points of the smoke war and limbus 20 years must past. But we do have a point of time that we know that has gone on for 10 years and that is Lobotomy Corp, it ran in 10 years of real time so where is the other ten? The Smoke War I say this, because the 10 year gap can't be after Lobotomy Corp because that masked survivor we meet in the first branch would be 100% dead, also I doubt they would make someone at the age range of 15-19 a Manager/Commander.

Next I believe the month that Lobotomy Corp falls is January(it will make sense in a moment) then 3 months pass as Angela makes the library landing in April, then another 6 months past before the first guest(Roland) arrives landing us in October. We can't use the warp train or the library to help tell the passage of time as they aren't effected by it so with that in mind the safest guess is that around 2 months past if the library is working at full efficiency aka each floor is handling guests which makes sense seeming Roland keeps checking on everyone's progress.

Which lands us in December and when does the first chapter of Leviathan takes place? Christmas Eve and we know Library of Ruina just ended/nearing the end as everyone who got turned into a book is freed including Tomerry and Iroi the violet color fixer.

Then lastly between chapter 1 and 2 of Leviathan 6 months must past landing us in June, it is possible Orphanages in this world hold kids until they turn 20 (probably believing they will die before then), so it is possible Garnet who turned 20 then immediately became a fixer had their birthday somewhere in this timespan January to May.

That's the best time line I could give with the information given while we have no concrete dates for events I can at least put the years here:

Smoke War: starts on the year 963-973
Lobotomy Corp: rises and runs for ten years 973-983
Leviathan(after the 6 month timeskip) and Limbus takes place in the year 984.

[NetMoverSitan]

It's the distant future, if you want a simple answer, one that's the very definition of grimdark, as in morality is blurry and genuinely altruistic people are almost as rare as an honest politician in our world on election day.

[Fedex780]

Originally posted by Inquisitor Chaos:

Smoke War: starts on the year 963-973
Lobotomy Corp: rises and runs for ten years 973-983
Leviathan(after the 6 month timeskip) and Limbus takes place in the year 984.

I find it incredible how you have the time between The Smoke War and Limbus Company being twenty years.

In the book 'The Odyssey', it took Odysseus 20 years to return home after going off to war against Troy in the Illiad. Food for thought.