Manifold Mischief

Sugar Shack 60: Before You Die It’s so easy to get jaded. You have your Flaming Eye Trench, your Awakening Jacket, your Beta loot, and you...

Sugar Shack 59: Rickshaw: The Inner Void If you’re like me, and have gotten used to the control-freak high-maintenance Exiles like the Weav...

In a certain not-very accessible byway of Shirakaba, stands Yuusuke Akayama (222, -4, 136). He looks like one of us: the open-necked shirt,...

The Seamstress, one of the more sedate, less abrasive Exiles, may be found in Saikung, at 408. -10. -242. She is near the T-intersection, ...

Sugar Shack 56: Grace in Furihata: Intriguing Loose Ends Unlike the run-of-the-mill exiles who lurk in seedy bars or tony nightclubs, Grace...

Sugar Shack 55: Operetta: Discordant Diva Operetta hangs out in Akasaka (227, 1, 67), in the basement of Pandora. Like so many Exiles, she...

Sugar Shack 54: Serving the Blues Normally, I love winter. I love the subtle susurration of falling snow against my windowpanes. I love h...

Some Exiles stand on dumpy street corners, like pirated DVD pimps. Others preside over even dumpier nightclubs. Some find their own venues, ...

After too many months in the Desert of the Real, I return to surveying the Exile contacts and their missions. They’re a great way to get lo...

And now I turn my weary brown pumps to the Far East, the Asian glories of rice and seaweed, the last district to yield its exotic, exilic se...

Well! Another district come and gone! I seldom had the deep resonance with Westview that I felt with the downtown and Chinatown regions. ...

Amber’s hangout, Club Kaos (-552. -4. -611) is a grim place. It lacks the light and lively feel you get from some nightclubs; perhaps it is...

Sugar Shack 48: Greene: Piddling Sibling Rivalry Greene is tough enough that he doesn’t need a lair or a datacenter to hang out in. He st...

Orientally-named, but Occidentally-themed, the Mandarin hangs out in his club, the Lynch Pin (-256. 1. -306), in the rancid dumpiness of Luc...

Some Exiles have their own newspapers. Some Exiles have their own nightclubs. Some Exiles have their own businesses. Others don’t. Like ...