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===The City Beneath===
'''(2 Destiny)'''

Far beneath the grand parties and subtle machinations of the Cloud Happiness District, beneath the graceful beauties of Archer's Lament, beneath the watchful eye of the Last Bastion, the everyday labor of Bird's Progress goes unceasingly on. Goods are moved in and out of Endless Prosperity Gates; merchants haggle over the smallest advantage in Great Open Yamen; and mean and deprived lives get lived out in Plain-Girl's Nest. If you're not well-connected or paid up with the right parties, walking the narrow streets is an exercise in constant watchfulness: pickpockets, short-con artists, and worse can be found almost anywhere—if they're any good, they're right where you're not looking.
*'''2+ Status''': You have a reputation in the City Beneath; maybe it stems from your life in the workaday world, or maybe in the underworld, but it will make your life in these environs easier (in proportion to the amount of Status).

:'''''Bixi Gardens'''''<br>
:Long before Bird's Progress was a city; before Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress was built upon the cliffs; before there was even a minor fishing village to take advantage of the bay's bounty, there stood a garden of steles standing atop dragon-headed, tortoise-bodied [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi_(mythology) Bixi statues]. None know who built these steles, what they commemorate or who they propitiate or what they ward off; they are marked, but with a strange and ancient script that frustrate the attempts at translation of even the best scholars in all of Shen Zhou. Common folk treat these stele with something approaching reverence, but even the educated tread lightly around them. The district that has grown around this garden is home to many temples and shrines; it's thought that the mystical energies that collect around these monuments.

:'''''Endless Prosperity Gates'''''<br>
:If the Great Open Yamen is the city's soul, Cloud Happiness District is its face, and the Grand Docks its mouth (though the aristocrats of Virtuous Poesy might suggest a different orifice ...), Endless Prosperity Gates is its stomach. Warehouses stretch as far as the eye can see, packed to overflowing with goods of all sizes and descriptions. In daylight hours, laborers haul them hither and thither, making the district a veritable beehive; at night, there's also a great deal of activity, albeit of a more surreptitious kind. The Gate doubles as another Willow District, one that serves a meaner class of clientele and features a coarser class of companions than the beauties of Archer's Lament, but that is no less profitable for it (indeed, the opposite is likely true). 

:'''''Great Open Yamen'''''<br>
:Like almost all cities in Shen Zhou, at the very center of Bird's Progress is its walled Yamen, the administrative compound from which the Imperial magistrates exert the influence of the Jin Empire. But whereas every other city's Yamen is fortress of Imperial authority, held fast by power military and civil, the Bird's Progress Yamen is a glorified open air bazaar. Instead of enforcing Imperial law, its magistrates are glorified night watchmen, making sure the merchants' concerns remain secure. It is a perversion of Confucian ideals, and it is the very soul of Bird's Progress.
:*'''2+ Involvement''': You have crossed paths with one of the corrupt and venal magistrates of Bird's Progress. Whether they are an enemy, an ally, or an asset, the association will surely continue. Or, who knows? Perhaps you've found the one honest magistrate in Bird's Progress!

:'''''Plain-Girl's Nest'''''<br>
:Less of a defined district than the absence of defintion, this is the place that houses the city's laborers, its indigent, its underclass. Because of the sheer numbers of such residents, the Nest is a sprawling place; but because space is at a premium in the lower city, that sprawl must go vertical rather than horizontal. Rickety buildings spread upward like kudzu on invisible supports, and the compounds that result are both incredibly dangerous and all but impossible for outsiders to navigate. The magistrates and their constabulary pay little attention to this area if they can avoid it, and as a result it is very popular indeed with organizations that run afoul of the Imperial law.
:*'''1+ Involvement''': You either currently or once did make your home in the Nest, and its current residents treat you as one of their own. 
:**'''0 Bonus''': You always Laugh At and Never Fear the confusing and dangerous surroundings of Plain-Girl's Nest.
:**'''2 Fortune''': Not only do the residents treat you as one of their own, but they really ''like'' you. Within reason, you can count on them to provide you shelter, hide you from the constables, and other small story benefits.

:'''''Spear Maiden's Purchase'''''<br>
:When the Xiongnu destroyed Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress, the better part of it collapsed onto the marshy ground beneath. When the small fishing village at the base of the cliffs began to grow into a city, it wasn't long before residents took advantage of the now-stable ground to expand. It wasn't long after ''that'' that entrances into the ruined-but-not-destroyed fortress were discovered; while the above-ground district provides a place to live and set up shop (mostly to those who can't abide living in Plain-Girl's Nest but can't afford to live in Virtuous Poesy or Bixi Gardens), the submerged halls beneath have become a kind of distorted mirror image of the great bazaar of Great Open Yamen, where goods and services that cannot be traded in the light of day are up for sale.
:*'''2 Fortune''': Finding the Looking-Glass Bazaar is all but impossible for those who have not already been led there; you are one of the 'lucky' few who have. 
:*'''2+ Treasure/Fortune''': You have come into possession of one of the strange treasures (or contracts for service) that are traded in the Looking-Glass Bazaar. Work with your Sage to determine the details.

:'''''Virtuous Poesy District'''''<br>
:A haven of calm amid the roiling sea; a shelter from an unending storm; a bastion of virtue, of filial piety, of righteousness amid a world that has lost its moral bearings—this is how the residents of Virtuous Poesy view themselves. These are some of the oldest families of the East, many of whom have deep and abiding ties to the Yang Clan of Thrashing Minister. Their compounds are tasteful and, in comparison to the grand mansions of Cloud Happiness District, modest. It is also home to the White Jade Academy, a traditional Confucian school for the training of future magistrates (and hopefully better ones than the current crop who govern the city) and the headquarters of the small, but influential Fallen Leaves Society of Bird's Progress.