We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Collect any compact food that you can find at home base and sort through your worldly possessions. More mass means traveling consumes more of Alice's juice. Better lay out everything you've got and prioritize what you're actually going to bring with you.

As the Councilman makes indications with his dismissal about you not leaving the way you came in, Alice decides to expend the juice to take you home. It only adds a day, and the next jump isn't nearly as far as the jump between THAT MINE NEAR DAYTON and MANHATTAN was.

In the meantime, you go ahead and sort out what to take, when she nods. "For the stopover we're making, everything will be fine."

"We're making a stopover?"

"I did tell you I would be handling the repairs- And I meant it when I said I needed a new DUSTER. And the best place to do that isn't anywhere near here."

"Where is it?"

"Jersey."

"... Pffft you're a Jersey girl?"

"Delaware. DELAWARE!" She says it like it's a major point of contention.

> Make mental note to, once this job is finished and if you manage to actually complete it, find the seer and try to recruit him/her.

Seems like a plan, and when you float it to Alice, she agrees. "I want to at least make sure whoever that Seer fellow is, they're all right."

>I guess rest up and then shadow walk over there.

OUTSIDE THE ENCLAVE OF THE DUNAHAN

You are now in New Jersey, or at least, that's what Alice said. It is nightfall, and the shadows are long here. The air is different, and you realize it's because you're now far from the coast- the strange invigorating scent of the ocean no longer exists here.

Nevertheless, you can see in the east a CITY THAT SHINES LIKE IT IS MADE OF BURNISHED BRONZE. Lights come from windows. The sound of carts exist in the distance, vaguely, but more than that is the sound of WORK. Lots of it. Like everyone in the city is part of a single WAR MACHINE.

You're reminded a little of Chicago.

"Okay. We'll need to be quick if we want to get in before the Night Guard."

"Night Guard?"

"The Morrigans of the Home Guard that take over for the Day Guard." She hauls up everything and starts walking.

You follow with an "Oh."

"It's only a mile. Good stretch of the legs."

"So why this place?"

"Because it's the only place I know where you can get a ward-suit."

>_