BLOOD IN THE GUTTER
a victorian horror campaign using blades in the dark.
barrowcleft
farmers trudging to and from work. tradespeople crafting simple goods. merchants selling their wares. heavy-laden cargo wagons transporting food into the city. vigilant deputies surveying the fields from their watchtowers.
brightstone
elite bluecoat patrols arrayed in fine armor and gleaming gun-pikes. wealthy citizens strolling through manicured parks, attended by servants. horse-drawn coaches and the occasional electroplasmic carriage rumbling along the avenues.
charhollow
laborers returning from work shout greetings to family and friends. groups of people cook and eat together at communal cook-fires. children run wild, playing at hunt-and-peek and catch-the-ghost.
charterhall
clerks and government workers rush to and fro, official papers bulging from their valises. wealthy bankers trundle past in heavy carriages with private bodyguards arrayed in clanking armor. students gather at street-corner cafes to discuss iruvian politics, the tribal lineages of the dagger isles, and other esoteric matters.
coalridge
soot-covered workers hacking up black bile as they trudge home from the factories. heavy rail cargo being unloaded by crane. street-tough waifs running wild. a factory boss lashing a worker for an infraction. squatters cooking a meal in the coal engine of an abandoned train car.
crow's foot
dockers filing to and from work. minks plying their trade on the corners. a squad of bluecoats shaking down a shopkeep for a bribe. rival gangs calling challenges to each other across the rooftops. a fine coach carrying a noble seeking illicit wares.
BARROWCLEFT
home to the laborers who attend the radiant energy farms and overseers of the ministry of preservation.
barrow bridge
a residential bridge lined with homes, shops, and merchant stalls. families of river-fishers work from ramshackle wooden huts along the banks on either side.
barrowcleft market
an open-air marketplace selling fresh products and farm goods. prices are fair and crime is nonexistent.
radiant energy farms
the delicate radiant plants and irrigation systems here provide the sole source of crops to feed the darkened city.
vale plantation
one of the largest radiant energy farms, overseen by the city's oldest farming family.
ministry of preservation
the government organization which oversees the production and distribution of food through doskvol.
hilltop manors
the residences of ministry officials, looming above the less fortunate of barrowcleft.
cherry pickers' den
a rare spot of crime in an otherwise honest district, where wanted men might lie low.
BRIGHTSTONE
a serene, spacious district, home to many of the wealthiest and most influential citizens of doskvol.
unity park
a grand park at the center of the district, commemorating imperial victory in the unity war.
the sanctorium
the city's chief cathedral dedicated to the church of the ecstasy of the flesh.
city watch headquarters
a refitted manor serving as the base of operations for the city's police force.
silver market
a waterfront open-air emporium of luxury goods.
the skinteller's
the place of business of a respected physic, offering scientific fortunes and therapies.
strangford estate
the lavish home and grounds of lord strangford, one of the most powerful members of the city council.
wott's manor
the lively mansion of wealthy magistrate and renowned socialite rolan wott.
UNITY PARK
the park is a new installation, and thereby represents the cutting edge of what sorts of comforts and amenities radiant energy can create. constructed over the course of a year and a half after the end of the unity war (809 IE - 845 IE), unity park was opened to the public only a few months ago. it consists of several lush, grand sections of park surrounding a roundabout, at the center of which is built a magnificent fountain featuring an enormous monument to imperial victory.
the upper third or so of the area encompassed by unity park was previously brightstone pavilion, a well-loved outdoor locale bordering the silver market and the sanctorium. it was one of the earliest radiant energy parks built in doskvol. few people are bothered by the conversion of the historic pavilion into the far larger, far grander unity park; however, construction of the park necessitated the demolishing of several blocks of shops, manors, and upscale apartments in order to make space at the heart of the district, forcing many disgruntled upper-class citizens out of their family homes and pushing them southward into charterhall with a writ of compensation and a pat on the head.
THE SANCTORIUM
the chief cathedral of the church of ecstasy is a towering edifice of buttresses and spires, looming grand over the edge of unity park. originally commissioned by the immortal empire during his last visit to doskvol nearly 500 years ago, the building of the sanctorium took several decades to complete, with each step of its construction carefully overseen by imperial arcane practitioners to ward every stone against any kind of spiritual entry.
devotees of the church of the ecstasy of the flesh gather weekly in the grand chamber of the sanctorium to purify themselves in baptismal rites. through the doors beyond, there lies a chamber suited to the ritualistic destruction of rogue spirits in electroplasm - the only imperially permitted room of its type in doskvol outside of the bellweather crematorium. several spirit wardens are usually in attendance, and captured spirits are provided by the wardens to the sanctorium regularly for use in cleansing rituals conducted by clergy and elite devotees. the catacombs beneath the cathedral contain the cremated ash of many of the city's famous and influential citizens.
CITY WATCH HEADQUARTERS
a bulky, imposing, three-story marble manor, once the enormous home of a noble family since fallen from political and economic favor, now serves as the headquarters for the city watch of doskvol - the violent, corrupt police organization known better to the people of the city as the bluecoats. originally, the watch operated out of a more humble precinct in charterhall, among the many governmental and administrative buildings along clark street. however, as their power and influence expanded, and as their presence became indispensable to maintaining the fragile order of doskvol, they uprooted and relocated to brightstone. the retrofitted manor boasts a large police bullpen, administrative offices, small conference rooms, interrogation rooms, and a dining hall on the first floor; larger meeting rooms suited for political dinners, a medical wing, and a forensic lab on the second; and the offices of high-ranking officers alongside a restricted access records room on the third. the basement hosts the official records and evidence rooms, the kitchens, the kennels, and the temporary holding cells. besides the more comfortable amenities, the location in brightstone also grants the bluecoats considerably more access to the political dealings of the city's elite, legal or otherwise, and considerably less bureaucratic oversight.
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