Re: [NEX] A Tour of the City [M]
Dan Davenport
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Beth Long wrote:
> In the entertainment district, stands a building which looks
> lonely and deserted by day. But at night, the facade lights up
> showing the hidden name of one of the hottest nightclubs in Angel
> City: _The Card Deck_. Inside, beings of all shapes, sizes, species,
> gender, and weapon relax to the sound of a live swing band.
> Postersized cards decorate the walls, mixings of decks ranging from
> the mundane to the archaic. These tarot decorations are
> harmless...probably.
> A nearby dance floor is usually packed, the murmuring during the
> slow dances almost drowning out the music as various seduction ploys
> take another step closer. Saturday nights are the special nights when
> sultry singers from around Nexus try to out seduce by sound, earning
> the name of the Queen of Hearts. In a place where every bartender's a
> king and every waiter a knight, one has to wonder where the jokers
> are....
Safely beyond the blazing lights of The Card Deck crouches the
corrugated cardboard palace of Crazy Zane. Nobody's sure if Zane's the
true name of this bearded, potbellied vagrant. Some maintain that the
name's a pun of sorts, like "crazy sane". If so, Zane goes out of his
way to make the latter part of the name as ironic as humanly possible.
When he isn't sleeping or scavenging, he sits cross-legged on the
remnants of the box flap serving as his front porch, ranting at
passersby about the wonders he's seen deep within the dark recesses of
his 3' square home, and about the great intelligences with which he's
communed therein.
The thing is, while he may be crazy, he's also right. The back of his
ratty box really -is- an interface to a dimension of bleak wonders and
enigmatic entities with unknowable agendas.
The other thing is, this being Nexus, nobody really cares.
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Nexan