The Insurance Adjuster

Hunt 28: Please Hold, City Burning

PeopleHuman

LensSpectacle

LeadTukkar

RegionThe Gasket

RunMiddle Run

Hunt 28 · Spectacle

Please Hold, City Burning

The Insurance Adjuster · Human

Tukkar's slate is spalling in the Burning City, where no flame may be doused until its claim is stamped and the last pad is running dry, and he has to stop a very polite soft-skinned Insurance Adjuster who lights towers, pays the tenants, and coughs up his own ruined lungs on schedule.

On the boardPays out on disasters he caused. A very polite arsonist with a clipboard and a lanyard.

WhereThe Burning City (street name: Totaled), The Gasket. A city on fire whose insurer arrives with a clipboard.

How it feelsSmoke, a lanyard, a polite cough.

House ruleNo fire may be put out until its policy is verified and the claim is stamped.

Leads the huntTukkar Omdor

PeopleHuman, from Earth

Abigail's notebookTotaled. Eight towers so far.

Monday. Totaled.

This one's Tukkar's. I'm only here to read the man.

The Burning City's been on fire for years, on purpose, and it's quite orderly. Glass towers alight at every height, cool dry streets, a chalk line reading CLAIMANTS ONLY. No fire can be put out till its policy's verified, and no policy's verified till the claim's stamped. Ash comes down on your shoulders and people brush it off without looking. They queue. There's a Mr. Vodven who's queued for a friend for eleven years, and he saved my place while I went to look at something, and he told me about his friend's feet.

The Burning City, development art — The Burning City. Development art. Find it in the galaxy ▸

The people

Human

Humans cry, tire fast, and live short lives. They have no species script.

Called the Brief. Fragile, stubborn, and weirdly good at luck.

ALSO ON THE BOARD: The Patriot (21), Dennis (25)

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