The gang member भाई
Keep the corner.
Run with a crew of around thirty. Take corners, keep them, and pay the muscle that holds them while you sleep. The gang is your safehouse and your army. It is also your debt.
The Council परिषद
The Council does not negotiate.
It has no face, no flag and no turf. It has a ledger, and every name in Kaalbandar is written in it. Five rules hold the underworld together. They exist so the strong cannot feed on the new.
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Neutral ground
Some ground belongs to no one. No business is done there. Draw blood on it and you are excommunicado before the body is cold.
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Coins and contracts
Anyone may put a contract on anyone. It is paid in coin, through the Council, and the Council takes its cut. The Council always takes its cut.
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Excommunicado
Break a rule and the city closes its doors. No safehouse. No services. An open contract on your head, and anyone may collect.
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The unmarked
New faces walk under the Council’s protection. Punch down and you will pay. The wider the gap between you, the higher the price.
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Markers
A marker is a favour sworn in blood. The Council keeps the ledger. When your marker is called, you answer.
That is all. Go about your business.
Three ways to live
Nobody hands you a life here. You choose one each time you walk out the door, and the city treats you accordingly.
The hitman सुपारी
Work the contract.
Belong to nobody. Take contracts through the Council and get paid in coin. Get in, finish it, get out. Your reputation is the only thing you own, so keep it clean.
The boogeyman भूत
Go on a stun.
stun noun. One player through an entire gang, until one side is left standing.
Every stun grows your legend, and every gang in the city wants you dead for it. Whoever finally drops a boogeyman takes a cut of that legend for themselves.
Kaalbandar कालबंदर
Black Harbour. Eight by six kilometres of docks, mills, markets and hills on the monsoon coast. The city starts under smoke and fire, and opens one district at a time.
The first to open is a single corner: Kessler & Ninth, under the rusted Saanp Line El in Ginti Nagar.
The districts
- Kessler & Ninth A corner under the El in Ginti Nagar. Open first.
- Ginti Nagar The Numbers. Home of Kessler & Ninth.
- Loha Basti Docks. Ironside turf.
- Dakshin Darwaza The south gate. Royals turf.
- Dhadak Junction Yard Rail yard.
- Bhatti Mill Lines Furnace mills.
- Namakwadi Docks Salt docks.
- Dhuan Bazaar The smoke market.
- Malai Tekdi Cream Hill.
- Paltan Lines Old barracks.
- Kaanch Central Glass towers.
- Jugnupur Firefly Town. Stilt houses on water.
- Talkies Mohalla Cinema quarter.
- Andhera Ghat The dark steps.
- Udaan Khatola Airstrip The flying cart.
- Bijlighar Works Power house.
- Sunehri Ret Golden sand.
- Jhingapada Stilt hamlet.
- Kaala Pathar Quarry Black rock.
You will learn to steer by the Ghanta Ghar clock tower, the walls of Toota Qila, the Akela Batti Lighthouse, the stepwell at Andhi Baoli, the marquee of Jhankaar Talkies, Dhamaka Stadium, the Dhundhli River, Chudail Ridge, the Chakkar Ring Road and the Saanp Line El.
Be here when the smoke clears.
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