(UA) This Is The City

[Markleford Friedman]

In the "What You Want" thread, I suggested "a sourcebook for a fictitious
city.  That way, everything that's printed is canon, and you need not worry
about making it 'true to life'".

In fact, this is how the main UA book should have been written (once again,
I'm late to this list: perhaps the following complaint has been made).  It's
nice to say, "yeah, we have a global conspiracy here", but it doesn't bear
out in the rest of the text.  The listed groups are so far separated in both
geography and power scope that there's little opportunity for them to
interact without contrivance.

Alex Abel versus Satan's Chosen Temple?  It could happen, but it seems a
stretch.  The New Inquisition probably doesn't have an eye on what a bunch
of goofball kids are doing in upstate New York.  And sure, Satan's Kids
could mount a covert assault on NIHQ, but can any of them put together
enough gas money for a road-trip to Seattle?  Besides, there's a big math
test coming up on Thursday...

The problem here is that the expansive range given does not force the issue
of resource contention.  Can't we all just get along?  Umm, well, actually
we *can* with the way things are presented.  Since the major factions are
generally in distant cities, how much overlap in operations is there going
to be?  Not much.  It's likely that artifacts are distributed evenly across
the continent, from what I've read, so you're likely to be able to do your
job