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Icari Landing
Mothership
Bits & Pieces
Required Minimum Level for Resources Haven: 4 (Hotel Suite Purchases Only)
Allies Available: Fiscal
Fiefs:
- Icari Landing
- Fiscal
- The steel and glass casinos, botiques and curious light patterns of the island give those who move through the darkness both inside and outside the edge. Characters with this Fief become intimately familiar with the shadows and purposeful blind spots of Icari Landing, and may skim slight profits from casino drops once per week (+1 Expense Dot). Additionally, characters with this Fief can add +2 dice to any Stealth-based pools they utilize on Icari Landing.
The Area
Spanning only the size of a few city blocks, the small island that was once home to an island-spanning food cannery has been ruthlessly reconstructed into an entertainment district from end to end. It's the small island directly next to Pleasure Point. Most notable about the island is that it's streets, the main streets are the only real part that's lit. Everything else is eerily dark and quiet.
Along the brick main streets (with their quite literally marble sidewalks), which circle in towards the center of the island, the lighting comes from intricate Victorian electric lamps and street posts. It's almost like the island has mish-mashed the eclectic modernism of Ecclesia with the under-the-feet sheer beauty of the victorian era.
Buildings, Casinos and theatres, restaurants and botiques, all are crammed into spaces almost eerily placed so that the largest and tallest buildings form some sort of shield and shadow over the progressively smaller and shorter buildings the further towards the center of the island one goes. All of the smaller buildings are made of brick, as if the building codes of the island are stringent to a certain type. Still yet, the buildings are set in not exactly straight lines, and the between-building alleyways are almost always pitch dark, strangely so, except when illuminated by neon signage from the nearby buildings. Never is there a street light in the alleyways.
There are two stone and slate walls, about fourty feet in height, that span from one side of the island to the other on the outside of the buildings and entertainment circles, which seem to have gates which can be slid over at the security points on each wall. Questions about these walls seem to lend to the answer that it's a safety issue to "guard against any swells from the ocean" for the businesses and those seeking entertainment on the island. The security running the gates are not city police but are polite and cheerful to those coming onto Icari Landing's shores. There are no cars on the island allowed, as the walking distance from island tip to island tip is only about five or six minutes, but there are convenience stops with wheelchairs for those in need.
The main ferries which go to and fro from Ecclesia run every fifteen minutes, while smaller ferries make the short path between Boomerang Way and the island. The smaller ferry area has a small rental place for paddle boats and bikes, though the Icari Landing security will not allow bikes past the stone and slate high rise walls. Paddle boats are kept in a politely buoyed and netted area, which doesn't extend past the stone and slate walls, so it's difficult to get a good view of the shoreline on the other side of those walls. There is a small security and medical clinic next to the bike and paddleboat area, and one of the island's two helicopter pads next to it. The facility isn't rated to handle major injuries, so those so injured are helicoptered across the short distance to the mainland's hotels. There is a small walkway bridge that has been built from the Mainland Boomerang Way to Icari Landing proper, and it's called the Davenport-Icari Pedestrian Walkway Bridge; it only allows foot traffic and bicycles with the aforementioned rules.
The center of the island is lush and almost utopianistic. There are fountains, most small, lush plantlife year-round and is the most well-lit place in the entire island. A large two to three inch deep marble fountain rests as the complete centerpiece to the island, which spans about thirty feet across at it's largest points. In the very center of the fountain is a large, beautiful statue of a spear that towers up about twenty feet in the air. It's clearly the centerpiece of the island by the illumination of the exceedingly well kept fountain, and the craftsmanship of both pieces' making. When one sits there, the noise of the surrounding area seems to blend away into a distant being, like one were simply safer and protected in the warm, soft light.
The Map
Davenport-Icari Pedestrian Walkway Bridge
