The wooden signs creak lazily in the autumn breeze, setting up strangely melodic echoes across the mostly empty cobbled streets. The scrawny, young man with the faintest hint of moustache scampers nervously between shopfronts, scanning anxiously around as he does so. Each window is crammed with widely varying collections of bric-a-brac and artistic works: from vintage fireirons made from real Fire to a model shop that contains a model of itself (including the model!). With a sudden muffled exclamation, the boy scrabbles across the narrow lane to scan the sandwich-board outside an open doorw…

Demographics
Chequers is a low-to-middle class neighbourhood of Fartown, lived in by the owners of small businesses catering to the very niche, usually vislae, market. They keep mostly to themselves and tend to be retirees, reclusive artists, and single-parent families. Certainly, more than a handful of them like to think that, because they are working, they are a step up the ladder from those stuck living in the Hollows. However, it seems that a few of the shadier stores have even shadier suppliers in that very district; opening at odd hours to sell esoteric items and trinkets, sometimes b…