Editing Rivers in the Barrens:Ashbarrow (section)

==Notable Places==
Ashbarrow’s most important source of electricity is the '''Landsblood Artery''', a refurbished geothermal station in Hell’s Kitchen run by the Rútsson family – rumored to have connections to the Stonecutter’s Guild. This station is augmented by solar panels lining the lava flows and adorning buildings, but ashfalls, the rainy season, and theft are a constant source of entropy for this aspect of the local grid. The Rútssons trade power for money, food, and favors, and also log contributions made by individuals supplying power into the system via solar panels, wind turbines, and generators. Efforts have been made to extend power lines out to settlements in Carbonado, but natural and man-made disasters have derailed every attempt thus far.

'''The Wall''' is a rough and tumble dive bar located in northeastern Ashbarrow along the East Prairie River, very close to the Cinders. Owned by local anarcho-syndicalist fixture "Crazy Ivan," purportedly an ex-Black Star agent, The Wall attracts hard talkers, hard drinkers, and hard leftists. The dive's signature drinks are unfancy cocktails made with various moonshines distilled from different barrens neighborhoods - most locals favor the varieties coming down from Carbonado. The bar is named for its singular brick wall, which extends to the first floor of the tenement above and is a stalwart remnant of the original pre-2017 building that once stood here. Those in the shadows know that Crazy Ivan keeps some of the rooms in the tenement unoccupied, using them as places to store contraband, set up meetings between interested parties, and hide refugees. Ushitara works as a bouncer here.

The '''Working Class''' is a restaurant and bar located in the Weeds just north of McMillin Bridge, where Ashbarrow grades indistinctly into Puyallup City. The joint is owned by a democratic socialist named Tylr Mikell (they/them), and purposefully courts both neo-anarchists and blue-collar wage slaves in an attempt to radicalize the latter. Interior decoration and staff dress evoke a proletarian parody of Downtown’s “classy” clubs – e.g., bartenders wear denim vests over blue-collar shirts and you can get your drink served in a plastic martini glass. Sometimes it even serves real food to boot. Iced tea of various flavors, hard or otherwise, is the signature drink at The Working Class – supposedly in remembrance of a runner the owner knew in the ‘50s. The Working Class began as a dive in the basement of an ailing carpenter's shop, but Tylr bought out and expanded into the ground floor - while also maintaining, supporting, and unionizing the carpenter's shop. Tylr is politically well-connected, with figures such as mayors Campa and Scholl being known to have patronized the restaurant.

Tylr's and "Crazy Ivan"'s strained and complicated relationship is low-key infamous within the Ashbarrow leftist community. Ivan has spit venom about "that class traitor" on numerous nights, while Tylr openly regards Ivan's approach as "all theory and no results." Despite the open ad hominem between the two individuals, their establishments have overlapping clientele and shipments between the two are regularly spotted moving along East Prairie Creek. The common scuttlebutt is that the pair were in an intimate relationship that went sour, but those in the shadows credulous of Ivan's Black Star claims have a different hypothesis.

'''Dr. Hajera Sultana’s House''' is the closest thing the Ashbarrow has to a proper doctor’s office or urgent care center (unless rumors about Icarus’ headquarters are to be believed). Most of the interior has been converted to medical facilities, with only half of the upper floor reserved for Dr. Sultana’s personal residence – necessary to even support eight beds in the small house.  Dr. Hajera and most of her volunteer staff are members of the Black Crescent, with much of their work actually done via house calls. Non-member street docs around Puyallup sometimes refer patients who cannot pay to the Black Crescent. In turn, the Black Crescent often have to run patients they cannot provide care for across the barrens to Good Samaritan Hospital in Loveland or Deireadh an Tuartheil in Tarislar – the latter doesn’t ask as many questions as the UCAS military run Good Samaritan.

'''Three Block Park''' is a relic of and memorial to the town called Orting that died here when Mt. Rainier erupted. A narrow strip 1500 ft long and 150 ft wide, split into thirds lengthwise by roads, this city park is adorned with the melted and fused remnants of its pre-2017 incarnation. Since the metroplex government doesn’t send parks and recreation employees out here anymore, it falls to local residents to keep the park clean of trash and clear of ash. Far from being joyless and somber, Three Block Park features a playground, basketball court, and several small parkways between rows of hardy trees that have grown from the ashes.

'''The Cinders''' are a combination small shantytown and refugee camp on the edge of Hell’s Kitchen. The settlement is primarily home to those displaced SINless who don’t feel welcome in Carbonado or Tarislar, and don’t feel safe in Loveland. The inadequate infrastructure combined with local seismic and volcanic activity leads to regular building collapses and fires. Hydrogen sulfide gas seeps pose a more subtle threat to the residents, prompting many to loft up beds and carry around small pieces of metal as crude detectors.

'''Market Square''' is 4 blocks of solid brownstone townhouse/apartments with a central courtyard, another result of the attempts at post-volcanic revitalization. The courtyard between the rows of houses is locally known as 'The Goblin Market,' with an ever-shifting assortment of peddlers, dingy stalls, and carts hawking things from handcrafts to handguns. The ashfalls regularly force the merchants to scatter, and it's never quite the same assortment after they return. There are a few long-time regulars, such as Sam Liberty the ironmonger (a norm who is trying, with middling success, to look like Sam Adams as he appears in portraits) and Melinda Beasley, an elf who sells kitschy antiques and has a knack for knowing everyone at the market no matter how new they are.

'''Sideras Repair and Body''', which started as an auto garage about a century ago and has since expanded into all kinds of repair work.

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