Marl is the world.that reminds us of our own back when gansters with Tommy guns ruled the streets and private eyes solved mysteries that police wouldn't or couldn't handle. Marl is a world of magic and technology. It is populated by humans and unnaturals who range from gothic reflections to monstrous breeds. Order and Chaos have waged battles on Marl
leaving a world that is presently at peace, but on the verge of the next battle for dominion. Each city on Marl has its own rules and monetary system. Magic powers technology. An example is that glowstones light the city. These stones must be periodically recharged.. A guild controls each industry, so you end up paying for water lights and other needs on a regular basis.
2. The Godwarl
3. The Cities of Marl
4. The Unnaturals
5 The Magic
6. The Maximillion Private Investigators.
Maximillion Private Investigators
Lt. Robertson is in charge of the 3rd Precinct Investigation Burearu.
His sister, Melany, was also a Sentinel, until some mug cut her to shreds with hot lead from an Annie gun. The healer mage on duty didn't quite get her left leg rejuvenated. Melany had a little limp to remind her. Her big brother decided she should retire to less dangerours work. Well she joined MPI and danger has been her middle name. She moved on to Galatia to open an MPI office there and is doing well. Her last case here involved an ugly Gris and a shotgun spewing really nasty razor shot.
You probably heard about Kato Shadowstar. Yes, he does tend to shoot first and ask questions later. No, he didn't cause the big fire in the Wharehouse District last spring. No he didn't destroy the NoTell motel with excessive Rain of Razor fire from an Anniegun. I am sure that is all just nasty rumor from the various mobs. Yes he has more contracts on his head than I care to count. He is very good at martial arts and does spend a lot of time with Syn at the Kitt Katt Klub. She is runs the club and securtity for one of the major businessmen in Selastos. We made bundles of money from that case and follow ups.
Tass Hoff is another story. He tends to think more than level forests.
Not a lock that boy can't pick. His personality is rather annoying. It is no wonder when friends often want to strangle him that he is often the target of Demono's Pizza Delivery. Mind you the delivery is packed with nitro. Tass had to buy a house after having four hotels destroyed by alledged Pizza delivery. He is banned from living in hotels in Selastos even though his apartment on the 23rd floor was never destroyed due to regeneration wards and spells. Tass has romantic interests with a very talented young lady named Melody Drake. Melody and her father have developed state of the art port-a-gate technology, and levitation powered vehicles. They skim over the ground or water.
We all know flying is a bad thing. Giant claws tend to rip planes to pieces so Marl has no flying vehicles, even though Syn's employer developed such a craft. It came to a bad end. Any travel is done by land or through magic gates. Some are permanent but some are not. Some unnatural create gates and dine on fools who enter them.
Lotus Viterus, has been touring the world with her new romantic interest, Miihaael, or Mik as I call him. Mik is a d'va from the western continent. First one anyones seen in centuries. He looks pretty normal, but when he gets his dander up he glows, morphs wings of white feathers, and his eye turn the strangest color of gold. Lotus saved our keysters many times. Being halfbreed vampyr gives her someadvantages. Like the time Kato recieved a teleport bomb that sent the four of us into an iron box in Padaar. Boom we find ourselves teleported into an iron box with no weapons, actually with no clothes at all. Lotus managed to phase through the iron wall and get us out. Tass picked the locks as usually and I was getting rather cold and very angry. Padaar is a three week trip home by boat. Not a very nice place to get dumped. The Yellow Coat mobsters are still after us every now and then. Kato made an impression on them very quickly. Ahem.
Business is good. I get ten percent of all the work for my charm and my wonderul office. Sure the employees complain, but lately, we been bringing in a lot of silver and gold. Enough that they even get vacations now. My wife Eunice ruins every vacation we go on... Only good vacation was the time the Padaar Yellow Mob nabbed us. Well I tell you about that later.
Right now I must get a Power & Light mage to recharge my Seer's in a box machine and some glowstones so I don't have to work by candles. What a racket. The guilds make all the big money. Water mages get the most. Being in the middle of a dessert is probably why.
'Till next entry just remember: If you are in Selastos and need the best sleuths in town, don't call Akmee they'll steal your soul for a fee. Come down to 666b Vine in downtown Selastos. MPI will take care of you.
Maxi
