Fenway
Controlled by - The Spring Court: Sovereign Faction
Other Players - The Spring Court: Patriot Factions, The Autumn Court
The Fenway neighborhood is best known outside of Boston for Fenway Park, the city’s enormous old baseball stadium. Within the city itself, it’s known for other reasons, not the least of which is the area’s heavy concentration of bars and nightclubs. Several of these clubs are changeling owned and operated, most often by Spring Courtiers who use them as glamour factories or by Autumn Courtiers who offer them as fronts for their courts various illegal activities.
Most of the Fenway neighborhood is glaringly illuminated at night by a lurid, multi-story neon Citgo sign, lending everything and everyone in the area a surreal glow. The college students who make up a large portion of the residents don’t seem to mind, as the nightlife here, centered on the infamous Lansdowne Street, is quite distracting. The somewhat funky character of the Fenway neighborhood has its own charm, and the kind of nightlife found here is of the more garish and glitzy Hooters and beer bong variety. Higher class Spring Courtiers find the neighborhood somewhat tacky, but desire flow freely here - making it strategically important for the various factions of the court. Unrest and violent skirmishes are not uncommon here, but thanks to the presence of the Autumn Court the mainstream branch of the Antler Crown holds dominion. For the moment anyway.
Resident NPCs -
The Fens
Controlled by - The Scarecrow Ministry (The Autumn Court)
Other Factions - Miscellaneous Slashers and Unknowns
Along the banks of the slow moving and aptly named Muddy River, just south of Fenway Park, there’s an expanse of low, boggy parkland that gives the Fenway its name. It's used primarily as green space by the city, but the character of the fens changes dramatically when the sun goes down. The more elevated sections of the fens, just off Boylston Street, are devoted to dozens of large community garden plots, and summer weekends find a swarm of eager gardeners descending on the area to nurture prune and tend to their small garden plots. Once the first frost hits, usually by late October, the community gardens become lonely places until spring.
Farther down the bank, between the community gardens and the banks of the Muddy River, is a wide swath of land that is neither solid land nor river but rather a muddy bog. Several acres of thick rushes, twice the height of a tall man, rise up from the marshy ground, and, at night, lonely men come to the fens and navigate the maze of rushes to find others for companionship. From late evening until dawn, particularly during the summer, dozens of men can be seen prowling the manicured paths between the community gardens and the maze of rushes. Several times that number can be found deep in the labyrinth getting what they came here for.
Cruising the fens, whatever else it may be, is a dangerous pastime. Not only are muggings and bashings commonplace here, but there have been wholesale disappearances. This makes the changelings of Samhain Town very nervous - exactly what predators are lurking in the marshes? Mad changelings? Mortal serial killers? Horrors that should not be? Worst of all, is it possible the Others have invaded the freehold through the marshes, snatching any mortal or changeling the fancy who's foolish enough to wander in? No one really knows, except perhaps the members of the Scarecrow Ministry who operate out of the fens.
Resident NPCs - Resident NPCs - Cancer John (Skitterskulk thug for Carroll), Grandmother Toad (Venombite Gatekeeper and Wayfarer)
