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The Nightside - a dark, secret, magical city hidden in the underbellies of London. It's always 3 in the morning, and the moon seems improbably close. It was built to be the one place free of the influence of Heaven and Hell, and runs by its own little rules. The impossible is a daily affair, and legends walk the earth. How you make your way there varies - Many enter, but few ever truly leave.

Welcome to the city, enjoy your stay - however brief it may be.

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(1) The Station	This is the end of the line. You get off the train only to realize you're not where you're meant to be. The map shows four stops, none of them familiar... is that an alien begging for food? You look around hoping to find some sort of way out, or at least familiar face in the crowd.
(2) The Bazaar and Mall	You can find anything your heart desires in the shops of the Nightside. Lost memories? A stairway to heaven? If you can name it, it'll be there. Goods, services. Everything. Just remember, have your wallet ready, and that the slogan is Caveat Emptor.
(3) Londinium Club	The oldest gentlemen's club in the Nightside, or so it claims. It prides itself on being elitist, accepting only the rich and powerful among it's members. Now that you've gotten in, what would you like to do? Take tea? Or perhaps you'll like to walk through the gallery of Picassos on display.
(4) Saint Jude	The one and only church where you know your prayers can be answered. Sanctuary, or absolution, the Patron Saint of lost causes is listening, and sometimes talks back.
(5) Strangefellows	A hole-in-the-wall bar run by the most pessimistic barkeep you’ll ever meet. This is a drinking establishment. Fighting will be met with excessive force, and don't you dare suggest alternatives to the heavy metal playing. The drinks are great, but try the food at your own peril. Specialties include ‘Angel’s Tears’ and pigs balls.
(6) The Styx Theater	A night at the opera? To watch Pierrot waltzing across the stage with his ragdoll Columbine. Or a stage magician who truly says someone in half... that person's not getting their money back. Not that it matters, so many of the audience are part of the undead anyway.
(7) The Necropolis	Bring in your dead! If your body winds up here, you're damn well staying dead, whatever burial method you chose. (Cryogenics? Embalming? It's all there.) If you're visiting a grave site, ask one of the workers and they'll direct you on your way.
(8) The Fortress	A stronghold of steel and concrete for the people who need a place to hide, basically an armory with beds and 24/7 surveillance. It was built by alien abductees, don't you know? However, laywers are not allowed.

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An ex-ANBU takes sanctuary at St. Jude.

His clan is dead. His beloved brother is broken. He is not far behind...

[Duo marched around the mall, not certain if he really believed what this place really was. Even so he had already figured out what he wanted. A way to restore Heero to his former self before those bastards got their hands on him. It was really all he could do unless someone could make him a better offer.

But then he wasn't really that petty.]

[The bar is noisy, smelly, and decayed. Lyrl doesn't drink, it being a waste of brain cells, but it's raining outside so he's grumpy inside. It's just one of terrible sacrifices one must make when on the run from justice of both the non-profit and for-profit type.

Lyrl sits down in the cleanest chair he can find out of eye of the barkeep lest he expect Lyrl to actually buy something.]

[Open to anyone and everyone!~]

*The Master likes odd food. He likes any food at all, really. So he's drinking Atlantean wine and eating something that it's best not to ask him about.*

{people come to the Nightside for a lot of reasons. To find themselves, to lose themselves, to risk it all whether they mean to or not. And sometimes, people end up at the Nightside because they simply have nowhere to go. It's how a certain bartender with eyes like the wine she serves ended up working at a place like Strangefellows on the odd nights when Alex Morrisey decided he needed an extra hand - or just another set of eyes to witness his misery when it came to what he put up with for clients. Come down and visit the oldest bar in the world. There are as many reasons to as there are to visit the Nightside itself and perhaps the simplest reason is -

having nowhere else to go.}

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[...sure is one of the locals here.]

[Sure, he might have no idea how he got to Nightside, but at least there's no curfew here. And a place that shows Faust can't be all bad, right? Now, how to get into said operahouse...

Hey, that window looks open.]

Edited 2012-06-17 20:00 (UTC)

[No one ever asked her to act as any kind of security leader, and truth be told that's not how Trinity thinks of herself; the simple fact is that this is a stronghold, a place for people to retreat and feel even a little safe while they're here. Having spent so much of her life living in and defending one like it, she can't help but find it worth looking after now and again.

That includes pulling resources to do so, and Trinity's good with information -- like getting word on potential assistance. What she's heard of this guy might sound like a stretch, but she's willing to believe a lot of things these days. Besides, if her info's good, it can't hurt to at least get to know him.]

Harry Dresden? [Businesslike, as always.]

[These days known by another name but once he could have been a king. But he chose to go the other way. One thing's for certain, where ever you find him, John Taylor is a man who has seen things. Done things.

And it's up to you to decide if you believe all of the rumors...]

[Harry approaches, not looking too impressive in a pair of jeans, western button-up, and ragged black duster.] That's me.

[He takes a bit of a glance around before turning his entire attention back to her. He knows this place but honestly hasn't ever stepped foot into it in his life. Or, well, what of his life he's spent here in what looks like a rip off of the Nevernever. Like the dime-store version. Maybe dime-store was overselling it.]

What kind of protective wards do you already have up? [Right to business.]

[Ah, good. That saves her time and a full-length intro.]

Most of the defenses are physical -- armed sentries, all with guns and a few with some hand-to-hand knowledge. I don't have much experience with your... area of expertise, but I know that some light barriers have been put into place. I've been told that they're for alarm purposes only, though.

[Harry reaches into his duster pocket, fingering the stub of chalk inside. He could put up a few wards but it would take a while. This place was huge and drawing up enough energy to get the place really secure would take time. From what it looked like from the past however many months of being stuck here, though, they would have time in the shovelfuls.

Or wheebarrelfuls. He's not picky.]

Might do some good in a place like this. We've got enough things wandering around.

[He's not going to skirt around knowledge, not here, not now.]

Anything helps, at this rate.

[She reaches up to remove her sunglasses -- partly because she's usually not one to Wear Them At Night, but mostly because any kind of transaction depends on trust, and coming off as too distant can hurt that effort.]

I'm sure you're also aware that the people in this city are all but on their own. I might not understand the exact mechanisms behind the things you do, Mr. Dresden, but I know you're good at them -- and right now my priority is keeping this stronghold as stable and secure as possible.

Even if it's only your professional opinion, I could use some help with that.

[Harry nods, glancing up but keeping from staring right into her eyes. Neither of them need to deal with a soulgaze right now on top of everything else going down.

At least she'd heard about him. That helped things along a whole lot. Taking a couple pacing steps, he pulled the chalk out of his pocket. ]

They'll only last until dawn, but since that happens at never o'clock, we'll be good in that department until the world starts revolving again. [He takes a long, sweeping glance of the structure. Making huge rings would do a lot of good if he could get the chalk to last that long.] You're likely to get anything from vampires to the really undead knocking at your door without the wards.

[He considers how much magic he could do before draining himself. The wards by themselves might be enough, but if he could manage some kind of distraction spell to turn anything that didn't belong inside away from the building, that would do almost just as good as the wards.]

[Trinity's not big on expressive gestures, but she nods once to let him know that she's listening.]

And generally speaking, what kind of firepower would it take to defend against those threats?

Firepower won't do you much if they're from the same place as back home. Each creature likes its own special weakness.

[Harry turns back toward Trinity, having enough grace to at least tell her the truth in this situation. She had to know what she was going up against.]

Even werewolves. Different kinds of werewolves go down different ways. Some need inherited silver, some don't.

So you're saying there's no fit-all solution. [She can't just shoot and kick everything until they're dead, then.]

I'll keep that in mind -- so I'm assuming that would make avoidance entirely priority.

Not with things from the Nevernever, no. [Harry really wishes there were a better panacea to the whole things-in-the-dark problem. Running will only last so long as it is, so even that's not the most viable option.]

Wards will help. Those I can do.

...For a fee, correct?

[Might as well get it out of the way if he's the entirely business-minded type.]

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