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'''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. | '''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. | ||
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==Notable Groups== | ==Notable Groups== | ||
===Icarus=== | ===Icarus=== | ||
− | Icarus are a faction of green | + | Icarus are a faction of green syndicalists who are largely endemic to Ashbarrow, though city travelers report they also have bases in the Everett barrens and have been seen moving goods through Tarislar and the Underground. Going hypothesis for these sightings is that Icarus smuggles plants, seeds, and farming supplies in from Salish-Sidhe. Following the ideological theory and praxis of their founder, Alarota, Icarus seeks to encourage sustainable living in the Seattle barrens. This mission is centered around developing farming techniques and communes both in the urbanized zones and, without much success, in Hell’s Kitchen. The organization most focuses on hydroponic farming, to preserve water, but has also been experimenting with the volcanic ash enriched soil. |
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In addition to organizing farming communes, Icarus also: runs food drives; teaches water conservation, green magical praxes, and ideological seminars; assists unions while lobbying them to promote sustainable manufacturing; and attempts to co-organize with other local leftist groups. The latter efforts are hindered by the suspicion among many residents that Icarus is a cult, owing to the reverence members express towards Alarota. There are also concerns about where Icarus gets its resources from, or the funds to obtain them. | In addition to organizing farming communes, Icarus also: runs food drives; teaches water conservation, green magical praxes, and ideological seminars; assists unions while lobbying them to promote sustainable manufacturing; and attempts to co-organize with other local leftist groups. The latter efforts are hindered by the suspicion among many residents that Icarus is a cult, owing to the reverence members express towards Alarota. There are also concerns about where Icarus gets its resources from, or the funds to obtain them. | ||
− | When they want to be, Icarus can be identified by their armbands depicting a horizontal red band over a horizontal green one, with a black wing in the foreground. The group is spread out over the ashbarrow, where members have turned their homes into farms, greenhouses, and meeting centers. However, Icarus also has a large enclave situated in the ruins of Orting Middle School, which has been converted to communal apartments, greenhouses, and hydroponic farms | + | When they want to be, Icarus can be identified by their armbands depicting a horizontal red band over a horizontal green one, with a black wing in the foreground. The group is spread out over the ashbarrow, where members have turned their homes into farms, greenhouses, and meeting centers. However, Icarus also has a large enclave situated in the ruins of Orting Middle School, which has been converted to communal apartments, greenhouses, and hydroponic farms. |
Icarus occasionally stirs up trouble with Petrowski Farms, on the basis that the Petrowski family is hoarding and commodifying their crops. Petrowski Farms largely ignores Icarus in return, given that the anarchists just make noise (or hire precise shadowrunners) instead of assaulting their fences like the more violent barrens gangs. Despite this strained relationship, there are rumors the two factions have secretly assisted each other in the past. | Icarus occasionally stirs up trouble with Petrowski Farms, on the basis that the Petrowski family is hoarding and commodifying their crops. Petrowski Farms largely ignores Icarus in return, given that the anarchists just make noise (or hire precise shadowrunners) instead of assaulting their fences like the more violent barrens gangs. Despite this strained relationship, there are rumors the two factions have secretly assisted each other in the past. | ||
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