Showing posts with label The Precinct. Show all posts
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Sunday, 14 January 2024

Ubersreik 3rd Barracks

This sizeable barracks once billeted Ubersreik 3rd Regiment of Foot, nicknamed: ‘the Fighting Stags’. The regiment retreated as the Army of Muden approached, so the building now lies empty. A large wall rings the muster ground where the soldiers once drilled. Against the wall are towers, workshops, barracks, kitchens, refectories, and chapels, most of which are locked and quiet.

Aware the barracks may become a rallying point for Jungfreud sympathies, General von Dabernick ordered the walls patrolled with Muden soldiers. At any one time, two squads of eight halberdiers, each led by a sergeant, march around the periphery, thoroughly bored, dreaming of a better detail. When off-duty or resting, the soldiers gather in the north tower to eat, drink, play cards or dice, and chew wierdroot.

Saturday, 24 June 2023

Reiniger’s Outfitters

Reiniger’s has been the principal outfitters for Ubersreik’s military forces for decades. A large, two-storey building, it bears an air of genteel charm at odds with its surroundings. The ground floor services rank and file uniforms, with a small office for bursars from the regiments to make their orders, and the bulk of the space used for storage and for a small army of seamstresses.

The first floor is reserved for Officers. Here the gentlemen and ladies of privilege can have their measurements taken, to ensure the perfect fit, uniform regulations playing second fiddle to the latest fashions from Nuln and Altdorf. Florian Reiniger is the chief tailor. His father founded the business. Florian has a relaxed and easy manner. He is as skilled at stitching as he is at talking his customers into buying an extra jacket.

Friday, 2 December 2022

Watch Barracks

The Watch are responsible for keeping the peace and enforcing the law; however, the bulk of the old Watch members were recently dismissed due to suspicion they were loyal to the von Jungfreuds. So, much of the current Watch is made up of Altdorf soldiers who’ve been pressed into service, and who resent every minute of it. They have little interest in justice and swiftly resort to busting heads to keep order.

The Watch barracks include a number of offices, an array of holding cells, and basic quarters. The Watch regularly patrol the town in groups ranging from two to six, along with providing support to Geldfinger’s raids on smugglers. While their patrols should cover the entire town outside Black Rock, in practice they concentrate on wealthier areas, seldom venturing far into the Docks or the Dunkelfeucht.

Captain Andrea Pfeffer commands the Watch. Pfeffer’s a no-nonsense woman in her 20s with a distinctive mane of red hair. While she maintains a calm demeanour, the newly appointed Captain is concerned with the disruptions caused by the Altdorfers with whom she arrived. She is keen for the Burgomeister’s position to be consolidated, or a new noble family installed, the better to calm Ubersreik.