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Zockau

The city whose surroundings the organized hunter groups left to the unaffiliated stragglers.

Story so far

Zockau appears on the The Hunter Territory Map as the place nobody important wanted. When the hunter groups sat down in a saferoom and carved The Hunting Grounds into segments, the unaffiliated hunters — those with no group backing them — were relegated to the areas around the city of Zockau, while The Dark Hive, The Dream, The Crafters, the The Nebular Sin Patrol, The Filigree and the Skull Empire took the ground they wanted.

It sits in the same drowned-city landscape Carl is walking through on the city side of The River, where the ruins of buildings show through jungle foliage that has completely covered them.

Appearance

Not seen directly here; a city named on a hunter's map, with its surrounding areas parcelled out to unaffiliated hunters.

Role

The ninth floor's city, whose outskirts became the hunters' leftover territory.

Relationships

Hunters — Assigned its surroundings to their unaffiliated members.
The Hunting Grounds — One of the landmarks anchoring the partition map.
The River — Runs through the same region Carl is skirting on the city side.
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
  • The northern city of the sixth floor where all hunters are staged, holding at least one unguarded exit to the seventh floor.
Chapter 3
  • Sixth-floor city containing Desperado Club entrances, cited by Orren as a reason not to leave his office.
Chapter 4
  • Ninth-floor settlement whose stairwell is Carl's secret destination at the end of the night.
Chapter 5
  • The sixth floor's single named metropolis, hunter capital and site of the seventh-floor stairwell, styled like 1950s small-town America.
Chapter 6
  • The hunter city Carl bombed, ringed with decapitation traps and guarded by mushroom guards at the gate.
Chapter 7
  • The ninth floor's main city, a block or two of which Carl has just leveled with barrel bombs.
Chapter 9
  • The ninth-floor city where the hunters are staged, and Carl's intended target for his largest bomb.
Chapter 10
  • Earlier settlement where bear guards handled security without any funeral bell mushrooms on the gates.
Chapter 14
  • City to the north that is disgorging invaders onto the jungle trails during the storm.
Chapter 15
  • The city whose surroundings the organized hunter groups left to the unaffiliated stragglers.
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