Situated at the crest of a skyscraper, the Apex Lounge boasted unrivalled views of the city spread out like a great blanket beyond each of its floor-to-ceiling reinforced glass walls. In the arms of evening the buildings far below sparkled like a kingdom of fallen stars. Zhenya, The Height of Read more
It was late by the time she discovered the club. Stairs led down and down and down, funnelling the beat of the music up like a siren call. Industrial pipes ran overhead and the air was thick with human heat and cigarette smoke. Cold concrete walls drifted beneath her fingertips. Read more
Gracie’s Gym. The words looked faded, the sign cracked and dirty. The door was propped open and he could her the slaps of fists on punching bags, the echoing grunts of people, and the background noise of music coming from a crappy speaker, high and tinny. Connor, Gracie’s Gym A Read more
A prestigious casino located on New Arbat Street, a major artery in Moscow City. Its name translates to “Heaven’s Gate” in English. After the birth of the ASU it was one of the first to open its doors after gambling was re-legalised in Russia. Previously, such venues had been banned Read more
The Hole is a dive bar in a poor, mostly residential district of Moscow. The door itself is plastered in shabby old flyers. It’s clean enough inside, with a pool table and a small kitchen serving greasy food and bar snacks. It frequently plays host to criminal organisations like the Read more
Moscow is a strange city. On one hand, it is cyberpunk modern and on another it is the aristocratic kingdom of the tsars. There is no in between. Despite Stalin’s destruction of much of Moscow’s architectural heritage, what remains is enough to convey the impression of a medieval capital that Read more
The Facility is located 22 floors beneath the Kremlin. It is a secret base of operations accessed by only those with highest levels of security clearance granted by the Ascendancy. There are two access points to the Facility, but only one is actually used. It can be entered from within Read more
The Monkey King’s School of the Mystical Arts is owned and operated by the famous actor Li Tan after having been fired behind the scenes of his last movie casting. The school has three martial arts classes for children and two adult classes that focus on various Martial Arts that Li has been Read more
The Tunguska event was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion flattened 770 square miles of forest, including 80 million trees laid radially on their sides, with an equivalency of 10-15 megatons of TNT. “Those Read more