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The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.09 Preparation

Cars in Undercit generally don’t stick to a single owner for long. Being a community of thieves and murderers, vehicles are less a person’s private property and are more like a commodity to be forcibly shared. A vehicle in Undercit can sometimes see up to eight different ‘owners’ in a…

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November 3, 2013 at 6:31 pm | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment

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The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.07 The Fixer

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

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The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.06 The Irish

Murphy and 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

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The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.05 The Hole

The Mercenaries

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

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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

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