The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.04 Undercit
The area beneath the plates was now known unofficially as ‘Undercit’, derived from the literal term ‘under city’. The name and the town itself was unsanctioned by the City of Light for the simple yet unusual ruling by the city’s government that anything below 200ft of the City of Light’s…
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October 13, 2013 at 9:14 pm | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment
Tags: The City of Light, Undercit
The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.05 The Hole
One of the more infamous haunts was on the edge of Undercit, on the north side. It was one of the few brick buildings left standing in the area, many of the weathered walls having been repaired with corrugated tin, imbuing it a patchwork quality. Back in the days when…
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October 14, 2013 at 11:00 am | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment
Tags: Blaise, Doug McCracken, Gratin, Old Malone, the Hole, the Mercs, Undercit
The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.06 The Irish
Malone fixed his eye on the stout gentleman before him. The man was overdressed for Undercit, wearing a brown flannel suit, complete with waistcoat and bowler hat. The suit had seen its wearer through thick and thin, with frays and tears all over it. The man himself had seen his…
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October 15, 2013 at 11:00 am | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment
Tags: Big Murphy, Blaise, Doug McCracken, Gratin, Old Malone, the Hole, the Irish, the Mercs, Undercit
The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.07 The Fixer
The makeshift office of Harry “the Fixer” Kilroy took the form of a layer-cake of sheet metal supported by bars that had been welded into what could vaguely be called the building’s infrastructure, insofar that the place could be classed as a building with an infrastructure in the same way…
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October 16, 2013 at 10:28 pm | The Mercenaries' Tale | 1 comment
Tags: Blaise, crime, Doug McCracken, Fazeball, Gratin, Harry "the Fixer" Kilroy, the Mercs, Undercit
The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.08 The Job
The various districts of the City of Light were named according to what plate they resided on rather than what they actually contained. The plates, with the exception of the plate which exclusively allowed airships to land and was referred to purely as the “Skyport”, were numbered according to the…
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October 20, 2013 at 3:51 pm | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment
Tags: Blaise, Doug McCracken, Gratin, Jessie Harper, Lucretia Velarina, Salmanic Incorporated, Salmanic pipeline, The City of Light, the Mercs
