[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[GM Marvel]

"There is nothing to be concerned about, miss," Agloval says to Betimi.  "This part of New Crobuzon is safer than most.  We're in the Brock Marsh District.  It's a triangular slice of the Old City's low ground that's wedged between the Canker and the Tar; it's location near Strack Island makes it important enough to rat a militia tower that anchors a short Skyrail over to the Island.  The Brock Marsh is also called the Scientist's Quarter.  Some of it's denizens are physicists, chimerists, biophilsophers and teratologists, chymists, necrochymists, mathematicians, karcists and metallurgist, and Vodyanoi Shamans.  If it's an obscure branch of an even more obscure form of knowledge, Brock Marsh is the place to find its practitioners.  There are all kinds of establishments that do business here too that include libraries, book binders, herbalist, renting libraries, makers of glassware and copper tubing, scale and balance makers and other artisans who cater to the scientific trade.  There are also Inns and Pubs like the Dying Child that happens to be a favorite of the scientific class.  It's located on the Umber Promenade.  I don't think the Dying Child will be very busy this time of the day."