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The Musk Tunnels

The only cross-city route without a surface checkpoint. Everyone knows. The grid knows too. Firmware, settling structure, sealed sections; a permanent map is the one thing that can't be bought.

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Coordinates34.040, -118.260
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The Musk Tunnels: the only cross-city route without a surface checkpoint. Everyone knows. The grid knows too. Firmware, settling structure, sealed sections, and Monitor's sensor lines patched on night shift by people who eat dinner in Barricadia. What I can confirm: the map changes. A permanent one is the single thing down here that cannot be bought.

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Field record

The only cross-city route without a surface checkpoint. Everyone knows. The grid knows too. Firmware, settling structure, sealed sections; a permanent map is the one thing that can't be bought.

Who is here

People

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?'

Archive

In the press

Nobody Looked Up
narrative · filing · as of 2066
The Bright Signal's tunnel is written to be the night's first real bill, and Razborki cleared all five gates of it on four dice, two of them natural sixes.
No Road Home
narrative · filing · as of 2066
Two crews hit the same Lumicite hauler in the Musk Tunnels with eight minutes on the lockdown, and the box changes hands twice in the last round.

Stories set here

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.

Play

C10 · Dark Transit
narrative · mission · as of 2066
Nine steps through the tunnels. It dies at step two.
C11 · Grid Firmware
narrative · mission · as of 2066
Somebody wants the sensors blind for six hours. The sensors are not only sensors.
C12 · What the Tunnel Keeps
narrative · mission · as of 2066
A cache in a dead section. The owner is not dead.
C13 · One-Way Fare
narrative · mission · as of 2066
Move the crates. The passenger comes with them.

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Sources

Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id the-musk-tunnels