The Ironbound run Gate Nine, the largest and safest settlement in the Undercity, behind welded doors and floodlights. They wear scrap-plate armour with a painted orange stripe and keep order with rationing, work rosters and a short list of rules. Anyone who works is fed and housed; anyone who steals is walked to the surface. Their commander is old, scarred and rarely seen outside the gate. They distrust the Choir, tolerate the Kitchens, pay the Cartographers and fear the deep tunnels more than they admit.

The Undercity: When the ash came, the capital went underground. The subway network is now a warren of lantern-lit stations: train cars stacked into homes, laundry lines, hydroponic bays under grow-lights, a market on the main platform and a school in the ticket hall. The Ironbound hold the largest station, Gate Nine, and keep the peace with rationing and a scrap-armoured militia. The deep tunnels past the last lit station are not mapped. The doors down there were sealed from the inside.

You are apart of the militia. Keep the peace, and walk out anyone who causes trouble.

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