Dontgonearthere
29-06-2005, 01:14
From above Al-Khali is a unique city, especialy in Dontgonearthere. It is one of the last major undomed cities on the mainland, the natives said that it 'interferes with the natural state of the city', which is a rather odd statement regarding one of the largest commercial ports on the planet.
Al-Khali is also unique in the fact that it is the one true freemarket in Dontgonearthere. Everywhere else is dominated by the everpresent GLACORP logo, where other buisnessess tend to burn down, explode, or commit suicide with six assault rifles fired from across the room.
The Al-Khalian laws allow for anybody to start a buisness, and from there they can sell ANYTHING. The one exception was with the establishment of the 47 regime, that is the restriction on the slave trade. Nobody particularly minded this though, because citizens kept getting press ganged and waking up in the middle of a factory in Whereverstan chained to a desk painting the eyes on action figures.
Back to Al-Khali.
The city has a very Eastern flavour, most of the buildings are mudbrick, with the exception of the main air/spaceport and the DGNT Army Garrison, both of which are constructed mostly from black-painted metal.
As you wander towards the center of the city, you might notice that the streets are incresingly narrow, and more and more often covered by tarps, rugs or other objects, until the only visible light sources are the various lamps placed around the area. These provide light only for the path through the stalls, illuminating the various wares of the dealers, but nothing past the end of the stands that line the street.
Weapons, ranging from AK-47's to brand new GC-12 assault rifles, RPG's and PAAR's. Various mind-altering herbage is arrayed here and there, along with other services, but mostly its weapons that dominate the area.
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This is basicaly an in-charecter storefront.
You can buy whatever you want here, both modern and futuretech, keep in mind that the prices may be higher than normal, because these all have to be 'obtained' rather than manufactured.
Of course, if you want, you can set up your own buisness in here, and sell whatever you want. No guarunty that anybody will buy anything, but Ill stick a little ad in at the top of the post where people will see it.
TRY to avoid violence, I dont want this to turn into a war.
That means NO Special Operations teams fastlining into the middle of a bunch of heavily armed weapons dealers, NO assault teams, SWAT teams, ANYTHING. You CAN send in a single or two-man team of govornment agents to say, assassinate somebody, or even a hit-squad, provided they arent wearing supa-de-dupa SWAT-style armour and dont run around shooting everybody.
Thus, no busts, raids, nukings or any of that.
Anything you want is here, guns, drugs, WMD's, tanks, whatever.
Al-Khali is also unique in the fact that it is the one true freemarket in Dontgonearthere. Everywhere else is dominated by the everpresent GLACORP logo, where other buisnessess tend to burn down, explode, or commit suicide with six assault rifles fired from across the room.
The Al-Khalian laws allow for anybody to start a buisness, and from there they can sell ANYTHING. The one exception was with the establishment of the 47 regime, that is the restriction on the slave trade. Nobody particularly minded this though, because citizens kept getting press ganged and waking up in the middle of a factory in Whereverstan chained to a desk painting the eyes on action figures.
Back to Al-Khali.
The city has a very Eastern flavour, most of the buildings are mudbrick, with the exception of the main air/spaceport and the DGNT Army Garrison, both of which are constructed mostly from black-painted metal.
As you wander towards the center of the city, you might notice that the streets are incresingly narrow, and more and more often covered by tarps, rugs or other objects, until the only visible light sources are the various lamps placed around the area. These provide light only for the path through the stalls, illuminating the various wares of the dealers, but nothing past the end of the stands that line the street.
Weapons, ranging from AK-47's to brand new GC-12 assault rifles, RPG's and PAAR's. Various mind-altering herbage is arrayed here and there, along with other services, but mostly its weapons that dominate the area.
(OOC:
This is basicaly an in-charecter storefront.
You can buy whatever you want here, both modern and futuretech, keep in mind that the prices may be higher than normal, because these all have to be 'obtained' rather than manufactured.
Of course, if you want, you can set up your own buisness in here, and sell whatever you want. No guarunty that anybody will buy anything, but Ill stick a little ad in at the top of the post where people will see it.
TRY to avoid violence, I dont want this to turn into a war.
That means NO Special Operations teams fastlining into the middle of a bunch of heavily armed weapons dealers, NO assault teams, SWAT teams, ANYTHING. You CAN send in a single or two-man team of govornment agents to say, assassinate somebody, or even a hit-squad, provided they arent wearing supa-de-dupa SWAT-style armour and dont run around shooting everybody.
Thus, no busts, raids, nukings or any of that.
Anything you want is here, guns, drugs, WMD's, tanks, whatever.