Locations (Smoke)
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London
Bishopsgate
Royal Bank of Westminster
The largest private bank in the city, the Royal Bank of Westminster handles the savings and mortgages of much of London. Established in 1778, it has extensive holdings both within the country and abroad.
Cheapside
The Crown & Castle
A public house often frequented by the upper classes of the criminal underworld; gentlemen thieves, embezzlers and so on. Serves a very nice pint.
Exhibition Road
The Natural History Museum
Housing examples of life prehistoric and contemporary, the Natural History Museum has millions of specimens within its collections. From the fossilised skeletons of dinosaurs to preserved butterflies, there is little that this place does not have on record.
Fleet Street
Ravenswood House
Headquarters of the Ravenswood Club of Gentlemen, a society of fellows founded in 1802 to provide means and finance to expeditions overlooked by the Royal Society and other such establishments.
Great Russell Street
The British Museum
A repository of acquired knowledge and antiques from across the globe, celebrating the long and diverse history of mankind. Within these walls is the British Library, and in the grand Reading Room many books from many cultures can be browsed at one's leisure.
Leadenhall Street
Bannister Shipping
A small shipping company that mostly deals in transport to the Americas, operated by Henry. H. Bannister, Esq.
Ludgate Hill
St Paul's Cathedral
Piccadilly
Burlington House
Home of The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, or simply the Royal Society, since 1857. The oldest established learned society, it shuns the Ravenswood Club for what it perceives as their dalliance in the realm of fantasy.
Fortnum & Mason
A grand department store that sells all one could possibly need. It provides the finest foods and teas in all London, as well as household goods and devices.
Hatchards
A well-established bookshop that can provide books of both fact and fiction for the well-read of society.
Portobello Road
J. R. Langley Antiques
A recently opened shop for antiques run by elderly veteran J. R. Langley. Specialises in military memorabilia.
Blacklace Books
A little-known occult bookshop that has some ties to Ravenswood, and connections to the black market.
Threadneedle Street
The Bank of England
The centre of all British finance, loan-lender for the wealthy, and grand institution. Holds a king's ransom in gold bullion and issues banknotes.
The UnderCity
So far a mystery, the black lion Nnasarih gathers power from what strange things occur below the feet of Londoners
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