Second world. Ninebridge, a delta city of pontoons and stilt wards, where it rains for forty days a year and everything that matters happens in those forty days.

• Graphic fight violence, broken ribs, damaged hands, permanent deafness
• Progressive disability and cardiac decline; an assisted death
• Exploitation by contract; a pension clause that pays for a corpse
• Gambling and patronage
• Desire between adults; sex cuts away at the door
• Grief; a sibling's ruin
• No slurs written out; the stilt wards' contempt for Coop Ward fighters shows in odds and billing

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.