The Mercenaries’ Tale – 1.10 Airship to Galmanoc
An edifice is usually a term reserved for things that have the common decency to stay put and not move much unless suddenly motivated to by a large natural disturbance (earthquakes, hurricanes, etcetera). However, to behold one of the magnificently huge airships docking at port in the City of Light,…
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November 7, 2013 at 12:00 pm | The Mercenaries' Tale | No comment
Tags: airships, Blaise, Doug McCracken, Gratin, Salmanic Incorporated, The City of Light, the Mercs, vehicles and transport, war
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
Tags: Auntie Pippa, Blaise, Doug McCracken, Elementism, Galvison, Gratin, magic and mages, Planetary Special Forces, PSF, Salmanic Incorporated, The City of Light, The House of the Rising Son, the Mercs, Undercit, vehicles and transport
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
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 – 1.06 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
