Drained/Tables
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Site[edit]
Hinterland City - Chosen Site | First Paragraph |
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Ealing | They begin arriving within days, and then in greater numbers [...] Some turn up with only a bag of clothes, others with entire wagons. One Rubbery magnate arrives with sufficient inventory for a vast amber shop, enough to deck out the whole city. |
Evenlode | Newcomers from the Evenlode arrive by night, sometimes dripping wet and accompanied by a lamp-cat. They don't speak of what they've endured. [...] But they're quiet neighbours, even if they do prefer the side of the city that faces away from the Magistracy. |
Balmoral | The newcomers from Balmoral arrive with odd clothes and odder manners – not to mention suitcases full of luxuries that can only have come from Upstairs. |
Station VIII | |
Burrow | The newcomers from Burrow-infra-Mump are very keen on organisation at a local level: on neighbourhood nicknames and block parties [...] There are more statues in the gardens after they arrive; more candles set in niches; more bells hung beside the doors. |
Moulin | |
Marigold | The newcomers are mostly devils. They know how to ingratiate themselves; and they are experts on exile. They know just what to say to make a person glad he left his old home behind. Soon each Tracklayer believes themself the hero of a grand revolt. |
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Hinterland City - Founding Body | Second Paragraph |
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Furnace Ancona | They arrive with work clothes and boxes of possessions. No: boxes of contraband. No one leaves those taskmasters without wanting to filch a little something for oneself. |
Furnace Ancona, Starved | |
Cornelius | It is the architecture that draws them, and a musty quality in the air. The city is not old, but it is understanding about scars, and about not wanting to put all of oneself on show. |
Your Own Double | The reputation of the place has reached Upward. That will be your Double's doing: you are well-known, and your memories of the Surface clear. [...] almost all have come because there was something above they needed to leave behind. |
The Double of the Manager | Polythreme has heard of this city. How could it be otherwise? Some arrive in curiosity; some because they wish to choose this city over their own King; some simply because there are other Clay men here. |