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Barricadia District

Lost Angeles lower district. Dense residential stacks, contested airspace, informal economy. The district where operators who need to disappear go to disappear.

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As of2060

Coordinates34.020, -118.280

WithinLost Angeles

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Alsothe artist-scavenger district

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I came to Barricadia for the water and stayed for the way people notice. The district catches its own, cleans it badly, and sells the cleaning, and somewhere in every block there is a tap that runs for nothing, which is the most political object in the city. The NAF holds this ground on paper. Jaguario holds the streets. Neither of them holds the queue at the standpipe on a hot afternoon, and the queue knows it. You will be noticed here. Behave well; the district does not forget how you behaved, and it is the one thing you cannot buy back.

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Field record

The oldest surviving residential architecture in the basin. Pre-Upheaval blocks reinforced vertically with whatever materials were available — ceramic panels, salvaged aluminum, polymer sheeting. The result is organic and ungovernable.

Barricadia has its own economy, its own enforcement, and its own understanding of the NAF's jurisdiction — which is to say, none at all at street level. Operators who need to disappear come here. So do people who need them found.

Place

Districts and sites

Dr. Silk's clinic

place · site

Two streets from the garage. Stabilizes orphanware nobody else will touch, at fair rates, with real kindness, and takes payment in samples with a collector's specific joy.

The Okonkwo-Cruz shop, stall and home

place · site

One building in Barricadia: Marco's press on the ground floor, the family home above, the Saturday stall out front. The crew's entire merch operation is printed on Marco's press; the lie runs through the family's own machines.

The Tooth

place · site

The old room in Barricadia that the Tooth and Gear grew out of and never closed. One exit, no booths, no Line, no dead spots, nothing worth surveilling, which is precisely the amenity.

The Wash (Reclaim Sub 3)

place · site

Warranty Void's home: a decommissioned water-reclamation substation in Barricadia, presenting as an unlicensed vehicle shop.

History 1 dated records

2066Warranty Void operates from Reclaim Sub 3
Five people take contracts, post their own evidence, feed a block, embarrass institutions, and keep coming home. This is now.

Who is here

People

Abi Okonkwo-Cruz

person · character

Forensic accountant, 26; the audit menace. 'I'm not accusing anyone. I'm reconciling.'

Blessing Okonkwo

person · character

Runs the stall and the family, 52, in that order on paper and the reverse in fact. Knows what 'security logistics' means; permits the lie and audits it privately. Recognized Grigor in one meal: another person who loves by portion.

Bonzer Kabesh

person · character

Jaguario recruiter.

Cas (Caseline-9)

person · character · as of 2066

Fennec lineage, 26, orphanware, the planner. Her legal name is a batch designation. The market bred foxes to listen, and then sold the recordings. Caseline folded in 2053; she bought herself out at nineteen, in 2059.

Danka Ivel

person · character · as of 2066

Wolf lineage, 24, ex-Kavast, the driver. Kavast holds packs together with love; pack-bond conditioning means deserting means leaving your litter. Danka is the one who did, because she watched command spend that love like ammunition.

Dr. Silk

person · character

Stabilises the orphanware nobody else will touch, at fair rates, with genuine warmth, and takes payment in tissue samples with a collector's specific joy. Both of those things are true at once and neither cancels the other.

Grigor Tam

person · character · as of 2066

Bear lineage, 34, Eastern Compact, the anchor. Callsign earned in Compact service, meaning endurance; the kids think it's a hospital joke. His first splice, Longhaul, died waiting for an extraction that was never coming.

Marco Cruz

person · character

The quiet in the family's loud, 55; the press downstairs; where Ozzy's design talent visibly comes from, never said aloud. Forty words a day.

Marisol Vega (Barricadia)

person · character

Last treasurer of the Barricadia Reclaim Co-op, 61; the crew's landlord; rent never raised, stays for lunch monthly; the reason Jaguario has never leaned on the address, unexplained. Holds the paper on the garage.

Ozzy Okonkwo-Cruz

person · character · as of 2066

Baseline human, 19, Barricadia, the mouth. No augments; in this crew, the loudest statement anyone's making. A mother above a print shop who thinks he does logistics for a security firm.

Rea Okonkwo-Cruz

person · character

Transit tech, 22, Monitor-adjacent, night shifts on the Musk Tunnel sensor lines. 'We patched the east grid this week. Whoever was ghosting through it, they can't anymore. Pass the rice?'

Theo Ashe

person · character · as of 2066

Raven lineage, 22, ex-Protectorate, they/them, the documenter. Protectorate flights are networked sensory arrays; Theo spent their whole life inside Vantage Nine, a nine-operator flight running as one sensorium, and never had a private thought until defecting at twenty.

Organizations

Barricadia Reclaim Co-op

organization · guild

Ran Reclaim Sub 3 for nineteen years; the grease-pencil output wall is still legible and ends mid-line. A failed filter batch collapsed the co-op and the building went dark for six years.

Team Jaguario

organization · crew

The team that holds Barricadia in the streets while the NAF holds it on paper. Mo Money's High Top office is the residue of the club's move uphill; Bonzer Kabesh recruits.

Warranty Void

organization · crew

A five-operator splice in Barricadia: mixed lineages, no flag, visible affection, results. Takes contracts, posts its own evidence on the channel, feeds a block, embarrasses institutions, and keeps coming home to the Wash.

In the press

Void Where Prohibited

narrative · filing · as of 2066

An afternoon in the Wash with the five-operator splice whose whole product is not editing out the landing.

Stories set here

As Described

narrative · story · as of 2066

Ozzy Okonkwo-Cruz goes to a liquidation auction for eleven cartons of sealed period ice-cream merchandise, wins the lot for nine hundred and forty credits, and is extremely pleased with himself for about ninety minutes.

Peacock Holiday

narrative · serial · as of 2066

Theo Ashe films everything for the Warranty Void channel, an instinct installed by a state and repurposed for an audience, and one Saturday the lens finds the biggest story it will ever get: the missing heir to Fairwater Coastal, loose

Warranty Void IP Bible (public edition)

narrative · book · as of 2066

The one-volume definitive guide to the property: the premise, the six, the ensemble system, the other half, the standing sets, the lexicon, the show, Season One.

Warranty Void: The Mission Book, Volume One

narrative · book · as of 2066

Thirty-two contracts across the eight districts of Lost Angeles, four to a district, with the crew as pre-gens, the garage, and the body economy that everyone in the city is standing on.

Warranty Void: Property of Nobody (setting guide)

narrative · book · as of 2066

The world that kept going, Lost Angeles at street level, bodies under contract, the crew, the gray band, the work, and what happens next.

The Wardrobe of Warranty Void

narrative · book · as of 2066

The public wardrobe bible: the world fashion system and the crew's five registers.