AGON transports you to England as it existed at the turn of the 20th century. A horse and carriage clip-clopping down a cobblestone street on a misty evening set the mood for the introduction of Professor Samuel Hunt, a mild-mannered scientist working late into the night.

The chance perusal of The Illustrated London News front page reveals that a large number of so far uncategorized and often unidentifiable artefacts have arrived this month to the warehouse of the British Museum. The professor already knows this, of course, since he works at the museum.

But then Professor Hunt finds a letter from someone known only as W.K. This mysterious writer tells the professor, I know you enough to put my trust in you to keep my most precious secret. This person says that only the professor can solve the mystery of the unknown artefacts.

Attached to the letter is a page written in illuminated script. Its unknown author talks of a Black King and a mission to find all those places where the last masters of the lost board games live. The ancient parchment ends with this declaration: I am in search of the Agon!