| Excellent setting, very Clive Barkerish! Maybe I didn't read fully but it was not immediately obvious to me what direction from the city the outback is - to the west?
Silly question, but - where does all the food come from? I've been considering a setting on and off for some time based on the "Thief" games which would be totally city based and that's all there is to the world, the city, its politics and struggles for power (no play nice here). But I'm having a hard time visualising it as cities require a large resource base. I think I may be able to nick some ideas from you and blend in the "city on the edges of realities" concept ...
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