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====== Noir ====== | ====== Noir ====== | ||
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Noir is a landlocked city with an underground network of caverns and reservoir. It is located on a moon colony of the planet [[planet: | Noir is a landlocked city with an underground network of caverns and reservoir. It is located on a moon colony of the planet [[planet: | ||
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For a city with a people as divided as Noir' | For a city with a people as divided as Noir' | ||
- | * | + | The most common crimes in Noir are just about anything you can think of, and possibly infractions there aren't even laws for yet. |
=== Notable People/ | === Notable People/ | ||
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* **Kandin Ta Jalokia** - The elected governor/ | * **Kandin Ta Jalokia** - The elected governor/ | ||
* **Yedije Jals** - This glyph mage comes from a long line of talented Hagblood casters, and is Kandin' | * **Yedije Jals** - This glyph mage comes from a long line of talented Hagblood casters, and is Kandin' | ||
- | * **tbd** - tbd | + | * **Wyaan Drexler** - This politician is trying desperately, |
- | * **tbd** - tbd | + | * **Walter Gearshift** - The Greaseheart man in charge of the city's police. He's a mage with a penchant for heavy-handed actions and even greasier palms. But, his magical talents make him formidable in his own right, and Kingsbury is all the " |
* **Businesspeople** | * **Businesspeople** | ||
- | * **Hyun Il-hwa, "Mr. Turtle" | + | * **Hyun Il-hwa, "Mr. Turtle" |
+ | * ** Erik Van Krupp** - Owner and inheritor of [[company/ | ||
+ | * ** Yewon Gamble** - The flamboyant Mindeye in charge of Gamble' | ||
* **Celebrities** | * **Celebrities** | ||
* **Jirou Harridan** - This dark-haired man is a Noir native, born and raised on the streets. He came back to the city after a successful career in the EAD((Codename: | * **Jirou Harridan** - This dark-haired man is a Noir native, born and raised on the streets. He came back to the city after a successful career in the EAD((Codename: | ||
+ | * **Lass Bunnington/ | ||
+ | * **Jillian MacNamara** - A supermodel who poses for a lot of racy magazines and lends her likeliness to pin up artists. She is most often chosen to be an image of the Greaseheart Goddess Velocian, Lady of Acceleration. Before her supermodelling career, she was a street racer turned professional and still practices her driving skills, regularly finding or making races across the tracks and roads of Traveller' | ||
* **Groups** - In Noir, as it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, a lot of social groups have formed and taken root in the city. | * **Groups** - In Noir, as it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, a lot of social groups have formed and taken root in the city. | ||
- | * ** The Ordinant Hand ** - Possibly the largest gang in the city, the Ordinant Hand maintains control over Gala Walk. It is primarily comprised of blood and honorary Maidenhands, | + | * **The Ordinant Hand** - Possibly the largest gang in the city, the Ordinant Hand maintains control over Gala Walk. It is primarily comprised of blood and honorary Maidenhands, |
- | * ** The Codebreaker Clan ** - A group of cyber-warriors taking up residence in and around the Switchboard. They run most of the black market technology trade in the city. They prefer letting their devices do the work for them, and more often than not businesses owned or " | + | * **The Codebreaker Clan ** - A group of cyber-warriors taking up residence in and around the Switchboard. They run most of the black market technology trade in the city. They prefer letting their devices do the work for them, and more often than not businesses owned or " |
- | * ** The Suits ** - Not technically a singular group, the Suits is the catchall name given to corporate sting squads operating in Noir by the locals. They' | + | * **The Suits** - Not technically a singular group, the Suits is the catchall name given to corporate sting squads operating in Noir by the locals. They' |
- | * ** Gamble' | + | * **Gamble' |
- | * ** Sweepers ** - The Noir equivalent of Sargasso' | + | * **Sweepers** - The Noir equivalent of Sargasso' |
- | * ** Die Gotthammers ** - A splinter of defectors from Tanhauss, putting their advanced technology towards noble goals, and fucking up anyone with the same tech who gets in their way. They park in the Hothouse. | + | * **Die Gotthammers** - A splinter of defectors from Tanhauss, putting their advanced technology towards noble goals, and fucking up anyone with the same tech who gets in their way. They park in the Hothouse. |
* **Les Hospitalliers** - Led by an ex-EAD member, the Hospitallier, | * **Les Hospitalliers** - Led by an ex-EAD member, the Hospitallier, | ||
+ | * **Talon Striders** - A formerly up-and-coming gang, the Striders were a Solemn based gang that through some lucky breaks had managed to secure a large area in Solemn and had a huge power base and were in the process of brokering a 3 way truce between themselves, the Ordinant Hand, and the Codebreaker Clan. But, since being blamed for the PA 269 bombings of Noir, the gang is largely broken and only a few holdouts remain. | ||
* **Other** | * **Other** | ||
* **The Hand** - A hitman who works for no particular organisation, | * **The Hand** - A hitman who works for no particular organisation, | ||
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+ | ==== Phenomena ==== | ||
+ | Given Noir's propensity to use and abuse every inch of real-estate with industrial or technological development, | ||
+ | * ** Shutterspectres ** - Weird Things that live beyond mortal perception quite literally - all documented cases of a Shutterspectre involve cameras or recording devices of some kind. While manifestations are merely uncommon, very little evidence exists beyond testimony from those being haunted. Shutterspectres tend to stalk individuals through various devices (Though it is believed that the devices simply show where the spectre actually is) and generally make a non-interactive nuisance of themselves. There have been some documented cases of people being stalked into madness or even death, but investigation leads to the cause being stress, not any magical or psionic effect in play. Shutterspectres tend to take the form of skeletal entities with a shadowed covering mimicking flesh or fur or scale or what-have-you | ||
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==== Transportation and Mass Transit ==== | ==== Transportation and Mass Transit ==== | ||
- | Noir lacks a bus system, instead relying on a pneumatic subway system for their preferred method of mass transit. | + | Noir lacks a bus system, instead relying on two separate rail systems - a hanging rail magrail for the wealthy types in the upper floors and a pneumatic subway system for their preferred method of mass transit. |
=== Subway === | === Subway === | ||
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* **Early Bird Corporate Park** - This collection of skyscrapers compose most of downtown((a term used loosely as the entire city is nothing but 3 stories, and above)) Noir, and is where many corporate interests make their home. Glass, sealed bridges connect the various buildings together for easy access and most have a variety of amenities (food courts, housing, etc) to keep the employees within the confines rather than letting them risk the streets. | * **Early Bird Corporate Park** - This collection of skyscrapers compose most of downtown((a term used loosely as the entire city is nothing but 3 stories, and above)) Noir, and is where many corporate interests make their home. Glass, sealed bridges connect the various buildings together for easy access and most have a variety of amenities (food courts, housing, etc) to keep the employees within the confines rather than letting them risk the streets. | ||
* **Tanhauss ' | * **Tanhauss ' | ||
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==== Gala Walk ==== | ==== Gala Walk ==== | ||
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* **Sleep-Tite Complexes** - The Sleep-Tites were a housing initiative several mayors back to provide safe haven housing to the residents of Solemn. These massive concrete buildings are all-in-one schooling, housing, dining, and recreational blocks. Unfortunately, | * **Sleep-Tite Complexes** - The Sleep-Tites were a housing initiative several mayors back to provide safe haven housing to the residents of Solemn. These massive concrete buildings are all-in-one schooling, housing, dining, and recreational blocks. Unfortunately, | ||
* ** Bliss Bulwark ** - A kluge of construction, | * ** Bliss Bulwark ** - A kluge of construction, | ||
- | * ** The Bouquet Club ** - A brothel operating next to a key access between the two districts, the Bouquet Club has a distinctly floral theme and caters to the two classes of clientele they get, admirably. The higher class portion of the club has literal beds of roses, cultivated through some genius research | + | * ** The Bouquet Club ** - A brothel operating next to a key access between the two districts, the Bouquet Club has a distinctly floral theme and caters to the two classes of clientele they get, admirably. The higher class portion of the club has literal beds of roses, cultivated through some genius research. |
==== Chelton ==== | ==== Chelton ==== |