Are we looking at a Wild, Wild West, with some steam punk style machines (giant mechanical spiders), and Indians w/Shamanistic powers...or are we looking at an Authentic western experience? What about hidden valleys with dinosaurs or secret underground citys of futuristic people who kill everyone older than 30 to prevent over crowding?

Will there be traveling Kung-Fu Monks?

This might be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any information on seeing this game. I can see where servers are up, there are people playing...but I don't see any way to get started.

MMORPG.com and NCSoft opened up the 3-day trials to North America. To register for a 3-day trial, sign up for a free account on MMORPG.com and then visit this link: http://www.mmorpg.com/freetrials/tabularasa_trial.cfm?BHCP=1%2C1&bhcp=1

A few of us MG'ers are over on the Pegasus server under the clan name, Memento Mori. There's a clan web site at http://mm.mgamers.com/