LOCATIONS
Every place has a price. Most have a faction. All of them are watching.
PHARMA-VATICAN
The Holy See as pharmaceutical empire. St. Peter's Basilica is a colossal chemical refinery. Pope Fyzer II oversees production of Rome's most consumed substances under religious licensing.
The Eucharist is a highly addictive neuro-stabilizer. Sacrament Seven is proprietary. Unauthorized distribution is heresy. The Swiss Guard know your medical records before you reach the checkpoint.
Confession booths are algorithmic data-harvesting terminals. What you say goes to behavioral analytics. You leave feeling better. They know things now.
Pope Fyzer II's seat of power. A chemical refinery the size of a city block runs beneath the nave. The theology is real. The product is also real. Both are mandatory.
Repurposed as pharmaceutical storage and administrative hub. The lower floors are not on the public tour.
Northern Tiber crossing. Toll bridge. Vatican checkpoint on western approach.
Mid-northern Tiber crossing. The toll sensors on the east side are broken. Someone is paid to not fix them.
TRASTEVERE PROFONDO
Where most characters start. Chemical runoff from upper tiers pools in the gutters. The air is metered but the meters are old.
Mort lives here. Basement. Door locks from inside. The building is about to be demolished. The owner is SecCorp.
Chemical rain pools here longer than anywhere. The runoff from Parioli takes hours to reach street level. By then it's concentrated.
Has a drain and a door that locks from the inside. The building is about to be demolished. The owner is SecCorp.
Where Mort and Marla-J met. A system cascade during a door shift. Eleven seconds. The door patch has a different vulnerability.
Pirate broadcast station. Signal untrackable so far. Free clinic from a cart in nearby alleys. JOB 06 client. Favors required.
Local rail stop. Less monitored than main Termini. The south platform camera has not worked in eight months.
Sub-level access point. The Sumpers know every tunnel. The upper entrance is considered Friends territory.
Vatican outpost. Acolyte distributes Grey from a converted pharmacy near the Tiber. She is beginning to ask questions her superiors have noticed.
Key Tiber crossing. Connects Trastevere to Via Sacra Nera. The western approach is watched.
Southern Tiber crossing. Connects Trastevere to Ostiense Bruciata.
VIA SACRA NERA
The ancient center. Vatican-adjacent — Swiss Guard patrols, confession quotas, Sacrament Seven at every kiosk.
The Pharma-Vatican Compound is here. Below the Forum ruins: the Archive — thirty years of records. Three factions fighting for access.
Missed confession flags your pharmaceutical subscription. The Vatican considers this pastoral care.
JOB 07: retrieve a person from Vatican custody here. The Vatican knows Marla-J will come. They are waiting.
Corporate rally ground. AR advertisement saturation. Standing for more than 10 minutes triggers a credit check.
Metered pedestrian zone. Micro-credit deduction per step, automatically calculated. The sensors are in the stone.
Former government seat. Now SecCorp administrative hub.
Wishing costs 50 lire. Coin sensors installed 2029. The coins fund something nobody wants to know about.
Vatican-licensed confessional hub. Algorithmic data-harvesting booths in every alcove.
Ancient forum, now a tourist corridor adjacent to Dyzny Rom. AR overlay covers everything historically significant.
PARIOLI SUPERIORE
Floor 12 and up. The air is not just unmetered — it's actively good, filtered and faintly scented with something that costs more per liter than Blue on the street market.
The people who live here haven't touched street level in years. Some were born up here.
Entering without sufficient credit triggers immediate SecCorp notification. The service elevator is 40% less likely to flag you.
JOB 05: retrieve a physical document from the safe. Zanardi has the combination. Service elevator only.
Corporate cultural venue. Floor 12+ access required. Concerts serve as cover for shareholder meetings.
Upper-tier cultural institution. Entry requires credit score 600+.
Corporate university. Memory Recorders mandatory in lecture halls.
Zero Exclusion District. No faction claims it. The Cartographer shows something here that doesn't match what you see when you arrive.
TERMINI MORTA
The dead transit hub. Everyone passes through, nobody stays. Highest surveillance density in Rome. The platforms are a black market — six unlicensed clinics within three blocks.
SecCorp patrols run every forty minutes. The forty-minute gap is well known.
Every transaction in Termini is logged. Every face scanned. That knowledge is available for purchase.
Black market on dead station platforms. Components, cybermods, unlicensed pharmaceuticals. SecCorp sweep every 40 minutes.
Dead station platform. Eleven years. Will share information about what is directly below your location — for an exchange.
The station still runs. The platforms are a black market. Six unlicensed clinics within three blocks. SecCorp patrols every forty minutes.
Major black market hub. Components 150–400 lire. No questions. One seller has something that should not be available at any price.
Vatican outpost. Sacrament distribution point. Grey available at the collar. The confession booths have sensors.
DYZNY ROM™
The Colosseum is gone. Dyzny Rom android gladiator arena occupies the site. Tickets 4,000 lire+. Full sensory feed — you feel everything the android feels. The androids feel everything too. This is not advertised.
The Friends operate within a 3-block atmosphere zone with impunity nobody at Dyzny has officially explained.
The Mouse has more verified Influence than any individual in the city. Has never posted. ARM cannot touch him without Vatican counter-signature.
Maintained throughout the sub-levels. Marked with a small painted wing. Taking without the Fairy knowing means she finds out. She always finds out.
The Colosseum is gone. Dyzny Rom android gladiator arena occupies the site. Tickets 4,000 lire+. The Friends operate within a 3-block atmosphere zone.
OSTIENSE BRUCIATA
ALF stronghold. Full urban combat in the industrial quarter — SecCorp and ALF at open war. Humans entering without android escort: immediate hostility from both sides.
The music venues are still running. Nobody can explain this.
Vatican sacrament deliveries route through Ostiense Port. Disrupting a shipment: Vatican Heat +2. The ALF knows the delivery schedule.
ALF stronghold. Full urban combat. Humans entering without android escort face immediate hostility from both sides.
Industrial shipping hub. Vatican sacrament deliveries route through here. Disrupting a shipment: Vatican Heat +2.
EUR FANTASMA
Rationalist monuments draped in fading American flags. ARM Facility 7 is here. Ministry Building floor 41 contains something unknown to anyone outside it.
The Americans cluster here. They are waiting for the manager of Rome. The manager of Rome does not exist.
The one American who understood this and stayed anyway is on floor 19 of the Ministry Building. She knows things.
Floor 19: Marla-J's contact — American woman, sub-let from squatter community, eight months. Floor 41: unknown.
JOB 03: get Unit 441-C out before termination at dawn. Four hours. Full security.
Corporate administrative complex. ARM Facility 7 is three blocks south. Ministry Building floor 41 contains something unknown.
Corporate conference hub. The deals that matter happen in the parking structure, B3 level, after official sessions end.
One of the few remaining food markets outside Vatican supply chains. No sensors. No credit checks. Cash only.
Southernmost Tiber crossing. The Periphery begins beyond it.
All entries logged. Credit score checked on tap-in. SecCorp presence varies by district.
All entries logged. Credit score checked on tap-in.
Corpo district. Enhanced ID verification.
High foot traffic. High camera density.
Adjacent to black market. SecCorp presence elevated.
Western stop. Platform 2 camera broken eight months.
Contested. ALF disrupted service three times.
ARM vehicles use adjacent service road.