Baltimore

Story so far

Baltimore is an Earth city where Clarissa Mao completes her transformation into Melba Koh. In a squalid gambling house, crude games and threatening patrons shield Travin's identity business behind a red metal door. Outside, traffic fills dim streets where poverty and criminal power create a practiced refusal to witness anything.

Earth's full gravity weighs on Clarissa after life away from the planet, but the neighborhood's anonymity protects her after she kills Travin and his enforcers. Bloodied, shaking, and sick from her combat-gland crash, she walks twelve blocks through the city toward her hotel carrying the credentials that will put her aboard the Cerisier.

Appearance

This part of Baltimore is a dim, full-gravity streetscape of heavy traffic, dirty air, cheap gambling rooms, formed-plastic furniture, and frosted windows. Criminal businesses rely on neighbors deliberately seeing nothing.

Role

Baltimore is the grim threshold of Clarissa's new identity, exposing both how far she has fallen socially and how dangerous she has become.

Relationships