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The Wash (Reclaim Sub 3)

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

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Coordinates34.021, -118.283
WithinBarricadia District
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Alsothe Wash, Reclaim Sub 3, the garage
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Reclaim Sub 3, Barricadia. Plate by the vehicle door: Western Corridor Water Allocation Network. Decommissioned; presents as an unlicensed vehicle shop. What the allocation record shows is a substation running one filtration line past service interval on parts that do not exist, maintained by somebody very good, and an alley standpipe that has never once been metered. Five cots, per the last census guess. Two exits from bay one and a car pointed at both. I am recording this as infrastructure. The district records it as dinner.

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Field record

Plate by the vehicle door: WESTERN CORRIDOR WATER ALLOCATION NETWORK / RECLAIM SUB 3. The Barricadia Reclaim Co-op ran Sub 3 for nineteen years; a failed filter batch collapsed the co-op and the building went dark six years before Grigor found it looking for a room with a stove. The lease from Vega is legal, cheap, boring. The unwritten half of the deal: the crew keeps the last working line running and the tap open. House rules: the tap runs; anyone who comes in gets fed; no contracts in the kitchen; Theo films anywhere and asks before filming Grigor; no red inside; the chair facing the door; tours are not a thing. The north wall sweats year-round. The settling tanks are the best acoustic space in eleven blocks. It smells like a swimming pool and dinner at the same time.

History 1 dated records

Who is here

People

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.
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.
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.
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

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.

Archive

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

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: 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.

Connections 4

Sources

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