WILD CARDS Background PLACES Aces High Was a five-star very classy restaurant in NYC where lots of Aces hung out, run by Hiram Worcester till he had his problems. High up on the Empire State Building. Acropolis Famous ancient Greek structure where J.J. Flash and Mistral played tag. Aegean Mediterranean sea. Alaa Takisian province. Alaak Capital of Alaa. Ban Takisian city. Amsterdam Netherlands city, drug-tolerant. Ankara Major city in Turkey. Australia Pretty cool place, site of hotly contested media battles and the Dreamtime. Bangkok Thai capital. Was called Sin City. Bayonne Part of NYC. Beirut Middle Eastern city. Big Apple New York City euphemism. Bowery Wild Card Dime Museum Museum dedicated to victims of the wild card, run by Charles Dutton. Has a Syrian diorama, old Turtle shells, etc. Chaos Club Jokertown nightclub. Cloisters Astronomer's organisation's headquarters. Destroyed by Fortunato and others. Close Encounters Bar Veronica teetotalled at. Clove Lakes Place in New York. The Cosmic Pumpkin A head shop that Mark Meadows and family used to run somewhat unsuccessfully. Cosgrove Mortuary Jokertown undertakers. Crystal Cave Nifty stuff Bloat created under the Rox. Crystal Palace The club Chrysalis ran in Jokertown while she was alive. Had a lot of information gathering tiny men and women around six inches high who gathered info for her. These went to live with Daniel Brennan, many dying in an attack on him. It is now burned down. Custom Publishing Business Veronica had a job at. Damplein Place in Amsterdam. Dancing Ocean Takisian body of water. Dead Nicholas Club in Jokertown where Hannah Davis met Cameo. Dreamtime Aboriginal spirit-realm. The Edge An area of Jokertown. (also guitarist for U2) Eglantier Straat Street in Amsterdam. Empire State Building Big building Jerry liked to climb up as a giant ape, site of Aces High. Endless Ocean Surrouns Takisian landmasses. England Country fulls of poms that Chrysalis liked. Firebase Reynolds Strategic point in Rox invasion. Fort Freak Police name for Jokertown precinct. France Incredibly pro wild-card country. Freakers A jokertown club with joker acts, mostly frequented by nats. Free Vietnam Country with Moonchild as president. Welcomes wild card victims, and is trying to establish a new government despite all the problems in the area. Mark Meadows is Chancellor. Fort Venceremos Base for New Joker Brigade. Funhouse The club in Jokertown that was run by the now deceased Xavier Desmond. Greece Mediterranean country. Guatemala Country with a Jokertown haven. Faneuil attacked this with a disease, like in Africa. They see Jokers as special there, their deformities making them holy. Gulf of Tandeh Gulf near island of Tandeh on Takis. Governor's Island Prison where the Card Sharks were holding wild cards so they could execute them by disease exposure like Faneuil did in Guatemala. Croyd and Black Shadow broke them out. Greenwich Village Part of NYC. Hairy's Kitchen Jokertown food joint. Haiti Dictator controlled country with much strangeness, wild card and otherwise. Hanoi Name of Vietnamese city. Haryana Indian province. Headless Thompson Gunner Bar in Thailand, owned, naturally enough by a guy named Roland. Does have his head and isn't Norwegian though. Ho Chi Min City Capital of one half of Vietnam. Ideal Sea Another Takisian body of water, smaller. Ilkala Capital of Ilkazam. Ilkazam Takisian province on west land mass. India Big country Mark Meadows had idea of being a doctor there. Has nifty spin bowlers. Iran Middle-eastern country full of anti-wild-card fanatics. Iranian Plateau Self-explanatory. Japan Country largely unaffected by wild card spores, Fortunato lives there. Jeban Takisian province. Jersey City Near New York on the harbor. Jetboy's Tomb Burial place of the hero (or fuck-up, it depends how you view it). There is a monument to him there, including a replica of his JB-1. Jerusalem A city with wild card havens. Has a Joker's Quarter. Joker's Wild A Jokertown club. Jokertown Slum in the Bowery are of NYC where jokers live. Think really bad gothic-punk slum, worse than anything there now. Jokertown Clinic Hospital and doctor's clinic in Jokertown specialising in wild card treatment. Many hospitals and doctors will refuse to treat wild card patients, and call the wild card a pre-existing condition. Official name the Blythe van Renssaeler Memorial Clinic. Kashmir Indian province. Latchkey Card Shark stronghold where the Sharks were holding their last jumpers. Croyd and Black Shadow attacked it, killing Hughes, Flynn, and two jumpers. Lebanon Middle-Eastern country. Lirat Takisian province on the western land mass. Mak Takisian city. Manhattan The whole New York shebang. Mekong Delta Vietnamese delta, like it says. New Dawn Wellness Centre The Cosmic Pumpkin, renamed and organised for Mark Meadow's custody trial. New Jersey Near New York. New York City Site of first release of the wild card spores. New Zealand Country where jokers are treated relatively well. Northern Ocean Takisian ocean, to the north, strangely enough. Omni Atlanta basketball stadium and site of Democratic Presidential Convention. Oriental Hotel What it says. Our Lady of Perpetual Misery A Jokertown church, Father Squid is the priest there. Card Shark arsonists started a fire there. Parthenon Famous Ancient Greek Structure. Polar continent The Realm of Ice, Takisian polar land mass. Prospect Park Place in New York. P.S. 101 "Freak U," a school in Jokertown. Punjab Indian province. Punji trap Nasty Viet-Cong trap of bamboo splinters covered in shit. Designed to kill you slow from the infection. Reeves Diagnostic and Development Centre Juvenile care facility where Sprout was held and broken out from. Rick's Bar that was New Joker Brigade hangout in Vietnam. River Tiber Nifty bunch of flowing water in Europe. Rodaleh Takisian province on eastern continent. The Rox Construct of Bloat. Became a wild card haven before being attacked, overrun and destroyed by the government and some aces, including the Turtle. Has become a pro-wild card rallying cry. The Rox Lives! Built around Ellis Island. Russia Country where wild card information is kept hidden. Saigon Capital of Free Vietnam. Another Jokertown haven. Saigon River River in Saigon. Sea of Heroes Smaller Takisian body of water. Ss'ang A Takisian eastern province. Staten Island Part of NYC. Storm Gulf Takisian Gulf, north of Ilkazam. South Africa Country where apartheid is practised against coloreds and jokers. Spot's Laundry A Jokertown shop. Stacked Deck The 747 Jumbo used on the WHO fact-finding tour. Sydney Capital of New South Wales. Syria Fanatically anti-wild card country. Tandeh A Takisian island province. Temple of the Living Gods Jokers who look like the Egyptian pantheon hold services here, a target for fundamentalists, they seem to have precognition powers. Twisted Dragon Famous Chinese restaurant on border of Chinatown and Jokertown, people from all over will come to eat there. Uttar Pradesh Indian province. Vale of Kasmir Hotel Middle-Eastern hotel where lots of dodgy deals happen. Vayawand Province of Tachyon's arch enemy house. White Sands Site of Tachyon's first landing, and where the Network ship picked him up to return to Takis. Zaghldul Eastern Takisian province.