Kennet Undercity

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Geography/Description

The Kennet Undercity is an inverted version of Kennet filled with violent gangs, drug use and casual sex.

It's residents aren't protected by innocence in the way people normally are.<ref>“What’s a practitioner?” Sloane asked.

Verona shrugged a bit. “A witch. And don’t punch people that call themselves practitioners. They might curse you or sic an Other on you.”

Mallory looked Verona up and down. “Yeah? Okay. Sure.”

That easy, huh?- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref>

Some of the people living their come in from other knotted places whilst some have filtered in from the outside world because they fit in, there are also innocences that get trapped their by accident.<ref>“Ohhh. Me? I guess. I’ve been places, you know? Surviving. I was too young to remember, then I was here. But there are definitely new people. Mostly they go with the flow. And then there’s people who… you know they’re from outside. They’re pulled here, maybe they filter through society at a downward angle instead of filtering straight. That doesn’t make sense. It’s dumb.”

“Nah. Not that dumb. So there’s people… kinda appeared. Haven’t really carved out a niche?”

“Okay, but then there’s ones like you… maybe you half-existed somewhere, filtered out, filtered back in?”

“Who the fuck knows?” Mal asked. “Time and place get fuzzy when you’re trying to get through the days.”

“Hm. And then, third group, there’s people who- I guess they might be the outsiders in reality, and they become non-outsiders here? We call them innocents, but that might be generous.”

“Sure. Like there’s guys who just sorta wandered in, saw people fighting in the street, or there was a shady bar and people doing mystery drugs in the alley and they were like, ‘I’m home!’. Or they didn’t care.”

“Or life kicked their asses enough they can’t tell the difference between this and reality.”- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref>

As Kennet looses people and businesses the Undercity gains population.<ref>“Worse. The other option is what we’ve got right now… it keeps going. People leave, homes empty, businesses close. Which means that more people leave, more people lose faith in Kennet, more businesses close because the lower population can’t sustain them. The inverse side of Kennet gains what we lose…”- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref> Matthew speculated that either the two will balance out with each having half the population or that the Undercity will consume all of Kennet's residents, destroying the town in the process.<ref>But I have experience living with dark reflections and dark influences. There are two ways this can go, I’m thinking.”

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“Way one? We find our way to a fifty-fifty equilibrium. Balance between the two sides. Things balance out, new reality we gotta live with.”

“What’s the other option?” she asked.

“Worse. The other option is what we’ve got right now… it keeps going. People leave, homes empty, businesses close.- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref> He suggests that Charles is doing it deliberately to make it harder for his enemies to get to him.<ref>“The more I think about it, the more I think it might be what Lis, Edith, Maricica and Charles want.”

“How?”

“You were there for at least three hours rescuing one person, right?”

“About. Had to deal with the warlord in charge of the school.”

“Now imagine that for Charles’ enemies to get to him and Lis, they have to go through that. Past three, five, six, ten different warlords, people with rules, people with demands. And it still takes a day to get there, complicated by interruptions that could risk resetting that progress.”- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref>

Residents

Stuck-Arounds
Vice Principle
Mallory
Sloane
Bren
Narcissa
Freak and Squeak
Mouse in a Trenchcoat

Points of Interest

Their is a mirror version of Louis Riel Public School run by a seven year old Vice Principle.

In the Undercity Kennet arena is broken and burnt out. It's possible to travel between the two versions of Kennet using city magic on the puddle of water in front of the arena.<ref>The ground of the parking lot was wet, but it was an inexplicable sort of wet because it hadn’t rained recently and there was no source for the water.

Verona walked slowly across the parking lot until the scene came into view. Past the reflection, she could see the Arena as the Sable had rebuilt it. Partially.

Broken on this side, shattered, burned, and stained with blood.

Past the reflection, it was intact enough to use for activities.

She used chalk, drawing across the water, to capture that reflection. Drawing a square. She added a touch of city magic, the signature-like scrawl of the cityscape of Kennet in abstract.

To get in, it was the same thing, but in reverse.- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.3</ref>

History

It was created after Charles became the Carmine Exile.

References