The Margin
Overview
The edge of sectors — where the Outer Peninsula meets the southern boundary of the old city proper, and the urban fabric begins to fray. The Margin is a transitional zone in every sense: architecturally, the dense row houses of the city give way to lower suburban sprawl; demographically, the population shifts from the cosmopolitan density of the inner sectors to the sparser, more homogeneous communities that Wellness prefers to manage; psychologically, this is where residents begin to feel the fog's influence, the subtle pharmaceutical calm that Wellness has engineered into the atmosphere of its territory. The Necropolis sprawls across the Margin's southern blocks — the old cemetery district where the dead outnumber the living by orders of magnitude, their graves packed so dense the ground itself is more bone than soil. The Watchtower rises from the hilltop above, a surveillance platform with sight lines across the entire Outer Peninsula. The Margin is not the heart of Wellness's operation. It is the threshold. Step across and the dosing begins.