Cerillis

Cerillis

## Story Tie-Ins

### Book 1

"Real Life Action Hero" by T Reynolds, "Rat Queen to Black King" by S L Koch, "Feed the Hand that Bites You" by Tod Foley, "To Summon Mountains" by DeAnna Knippling, "Stockholm Syndrome" by Shariann Lewitt, "Swoosh" by Tod Foley

The impoverished sprawl of Cerillis was roughly half-developed when the economic crisis hit, forcing many corporations to abandon their unfinished projects in the district. While southern Cerillis features the typical cramped and aging development associated with sprawl growth patterns, the northern areas include a lot of unfinished construction on dry, flat, under-developed land, and have become overrun by gangs in recent years.

Just east of the central freeway on the north end of town lies a massive unfinished planned community called Idlehaven; now a maze of collapsed construction and officially condemned (but still inhabited) tower complexes. The maze-like towers of idlehaven are inhabited by a variety of squatters and gangs, most of them quite nasty.

##### Story Tie-ins:

*Cerillis is home to the warehoused Slothrop cache staked out by K8T. The Three Blind Mice is a popular meeting place overall: Ohreno and LeQuinn met Morgan here, The Librarian met The Sibs here, and Kat K contacted the Shadow Souk from one of the TBM hushrooms. Finally, shortly after the events in Book 1, construction efforts begin on the “Little Maldives Cultural Center”: a local recreational destination with shops, food, and entertainment, and a mile-long artificial seashore, complete with raised huts and marine life.*

### **Locations in Calibras**

#### **The Ashvin Complex**

This large industrial park owned and operated by Ashvin includes automated factories, a high-rise office tower and a selfcontained Arcology for employees.

#### **The Little Maldives**

A small slum located in the northern sprawl, where the old freeway leads into the industrial zone. Due to sea level rise the Maldives were completely underwater by 2100, and refugees settled all over the world.

#### **The Three Blind Mice**

A trash-fash bar in Cerilis that features live music on weekends – a throwback in this day and age. The crowd at TBM is a mix of sprawl inhabits and slummers from Calibras. It's a classic bar with a stage, table seating and comfy (if rather ratty) couches, as well as a holosnooker table and several old-fashioned card-operated videogames, but what makes this place special are the three hushrooms in back, where people can talk privately – for a price.

Upon entering through the front, where a bouncer is stationed on weekend nights and during busy hours, an aug-filter momentarily drops your 'face and allows bar staff to see beneath any avatars you may be wearing. The bar counter faces the main entryway, and sits between two doors. The door on the right leads to the kitchen, storage areas and employee work space. The one on the left leads to the unisex bathroom, and a small hallway extending from here to the back of the building allows access to the three hushrooms. This hallway is guarded by a second bouncer on busy nights, or if there's reason to be on the alert. The doors to the hushrooms are not named or numbered, but instead are referred to by the band names featured on the cruddy old posters affixed to their outer surfaces. The hushrooms are kept locked at all times; keys may be obtained from the bartender after making your payment.

These rooms don't come cheap: each will cost you 500 CR for fifteen minutes of use. Inside each hushroom you'll find walls covered with posters from ancient shows, a table and benches made of polywood, and a single network port that will enable a connection to the fog (or the Shadow Souk, if you have the right software). There's enough space for eight or nine people, if you sit close. Nothing elegant.

#### **Nutrex Processing Plant**

An automated factory that produces Nutri for the upper east side. Raw materials are supplied by aerial drone delivery systems and finished product is taken out via automated trucks, which deliver the product to commercial eateries throughout Cerillis and Kaishi.

#### **Unfinished Towers**

Home turf to a constantly-rotating series of local gangs, the unfinished towers of north Cerillis frequently play host to petty criminals, discons, scrumblies, runaways, and organised crime. Just to the east is an abandoned overpass (from a once-promising Cerillis highway project) where dead bodies are found on a semi-regular basis.