Locations

SAS

A continent with many untamed sections, and diverse climates and locations. The most notable place on the continent is Metro City.

Spread throughout the continent there are still withdrawn villages of purely dryads, elves, or humans, as well as a very rare one of one or two others.

(So what do SAS stand for?)

Metro City

A city of many names, artificially created by Tad trying to create a home after losing the peninsula. The nature citizens are weak (Tier 0) beings whose energies are recycles by the cycle after they die, same with destroyed buildings. They lack desire, going about meaningless business until they are killed. As BLUE has started to set up base here, the senseless violence has decreased, but most often only replaced by sensible violence.

The city became a target for those who sought to exploit it, and a slums developed around it. This area is very violent and all resources are pretty much constantly contested. Further out, there are more permanent and developed buildings, which has started becoming a community of its own.

Recently, a young outsider entrepreneur has somehow gained a rule over the city, and has allowed many businesses to build within the city limits. These buildings are NOT part of the city have to be rebuilt by hand if destroyed.

The Presidential Building

A large sleek spire in the middle of the city, it is somehow intimidating as well as inviting. Blake rules the city from here, handing out deeds to business owners, working to try to solve internal and external social problems, and dicking around in his free time. Currently it is undergoing renovations to become the official BLUE headquarters as well.

Freyu's Diner

A diner within the limits run by Freyu (gasp!), the main source of food for outsides in both the city limits and those in the areas around it. The place is opened all hours, and is generally ran by Freyu alone unless she has a waitstaff on duty. She is very intolerant of people acting out in the diner, and even moreso of damage to it, recruiting any that slight her to work for her until they pay off their debt. The diner is open to any faction.

DMs are encouraged to throw random supporting characters in the area into the waitstaff every now and then for kicks. You know you want to.

Laidena's Tailor

A clothing shop ran by Laidena and assisted by Dommi, provider mostly for those in the Slums and the forming city. Accepts commissions at any hour and usually produces results within a day unless particularly esoteric. Recently it has been revealed Laidena opened the shop in Metro City to keep an eye on the city for HAZE, but it still functions normally and for any faction.

Rapa's Store

Weapons, armor, and general goods are provided here. If a character needs something special delivered, Rapa is usually able to get it, though it might take some time. In certain cases, providers refuse or the request to too obscure, but it's rare for her to give up her pursuit easily. Rapa is open to commission at any hour to anybody, but she shows huge bias to BLUE employees, giving them discounts and prioritizing them over others.

NEO

The most technologically focused continent, as where as HAZE's headquarters are. In most drafts it's about 1.5 times larger than SAS, but due to the focus that ratio might flip, especially seeing how NEO is more heavily watched by HAZE and as such more tame.

Humans, nekos, and goblins make up the majority of the native population, although obviously they are joined by all walks of life employed by HAZE.

(Again, the abbreviation)

The Heart

Papercut's company's headquarters, a large monopoly that makes many of the goods of Sote and distributes even more. The staff is fairly small for the size but very dedicated, with all hours and organizations covered under its plans.

The Floating Continent

A once fertile peninsula of SAS, destroyed from within shortly after the attack by the Planet Eaters after the chain of volcanoes lining it were activated and amplified. Barren and bereft of life, the area was struck by a mana satellite, creating a fine dust cloud over the area for a while. When it finally settled, the area was gone, assumed to have finally sank at the stress. A few people speculated that the area became adrift, developing a new environment from the mana and becoming an attraction to those seeking power. These remarks were shrugged off as 'poorly-written.'

LUU

A continent that was a group of civilized and diplomatic kingdoms working together, refusing the rule of HAZE instead governing themselves. When a felon usagi of HAZE carrying a strange item entered their domain, they forbade HAZE from entering and removing him, welcoming him as a visitor. The rest of the details are unclear to most, just knowing the areas is off-limits nowadays. If they think about it at all, they usually assume the item was misused and covered the area in unstable magics or something.

The reality is far worse. The item was part of a dead planet's core, and he was able to use it to subtly manipulate the citizens. He altered the structure to benefit him, as those free of his control became more anxious. HAZE decided to send in a group to destroy him, and they failed. Specifically, one of them betrayed the others, not seeing the problem herself. As she sent more time with the usagi, though, it became clear just how much his actions were hurting the continent, and he was slain by the one he love, but not before leaving an heir.

His heir proved even more dangerous, absorbing part of the core (which shattered as a result), ignoring the subtleties of control at all. She could make people do whatever she wanted, and she was going to. The continent quickly fell into civil war as she spread her control, and many of those who rose up against her only wanted power themselves, now armed with a shard of the core themselves. The continent was falling from its diplomacy and becoming unthinking armies, and HAZE decided to quarantine it and seal it off. The act was mostly pointless, though: The heir and her kind had no desire to leave, their armies had no thoughts of escape, and those who were still free of mind were the only ones who suffered its effects.

Nowadays, those with the power tend to play games of control amongst each other, with the occasional shifts of powers as one rises and another one falls. It's considered poor sport to lure or force others from another continent, but these acts are usually appreciated, as they tend to backfire on the cheater and introduce new pieces that are unable to leave. And so the game goes on.

Due to her vast fortune being worthless, the heir also set up several different ways to invest in external companies and even provide for them. As such, she actually has a more concrete grasp on the world than HAZE, and could drive it into chaos financially if she ever wanted to. But as the games begin to bore her, she has instead become fascinated with the businesses she has a hand in.

Originally the largest continent, about twice the size of SAS. It'll probably get shrunk unless the size does discourage people from going there. (Also abbreviation)