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Tide Roads

The navigable open-water lanes between the towers. No surveillance. Where deals get made, and where the boat crews read the channels.

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Coordinates51.490, -0.050
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The Tide Roads. The navigable channels between the towers, no surveillance, where the deals get made and where the boat crews read the water. Crossing fees are paid in barter or labour. Three northern buildings on these lanes carry structural-failure timelines and, I can confirm, EO detonators. Whether anyone else has placed charges there is a question the record cannot yet answer. The Roads are the ruins' only unobserved space, which means they are the most closely watched.

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Who is here

People

Mwangi
person · character
Boat crew on the Tide Roads. No motor. Reads the channels the way a diver reads rust, and runs divers out at the bottom of the year.
Tomás Verne
person · character
The Green Coat Network's only human interface. Delivers tide forecasts to the Interchange twice weekly; never wrong. Holds a notation, PUMP VARIANCE DETECTED, that he has not passed to anyone.

Organizations

Green Coat Network
organization · network · as of 2060
Flooded London independent faction controlling tide forecasts from unknown data source. Twice-weekly market forecasts. Never incorrect.

Stories set here

The Waterloo Vault
narrative · story · as of 2066
A wreck-diver buys a dying guildmaster's map to a Waterloo strongroom that opens four hours a year, at the lowest tide, and seals for another decade after.

Play

Flooded London: Hex Crawl Supplement
narrative · sandbox · as of 2066
The city sandbox: seven districts above and below the flood line, four factions, named contacts, downtime moves, and the spring tide clock that everyone in the ruins is playing against.
The Gargoyle Pull
narrative · mission · as of 2066
A man listed killed in action is alive in the Drowned Tube, holding the one secret three factions would kill for, the low-tide window to reach him closes within the hour, and he will not move until the woman who

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Sources

Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id tide-roads