The Neighborhood
From IMiA
1309 DeSilegue
Bakerman’s
the local bakery
run by Meg, who bakes,
and her sister Cymbri, who works the counter.
On DeSilegue
Clancy’s
a signmaker shop
run by Clancy.
1309 B DeSiglegue at corner of DeVore
Whyte’s Fabric & Garment Shop
owned and run by Roger & Maggie Whyte.
upscale
1309 A DeSilegue
Bill’s, a seedy little pub, occasionally confused with Bloody Bill’s
run by BB Waldropp.
On DeSilegue
The Seven Brothers’ Theater,
run by Kenneth, Lex and Brian.
Other brothers: Jamie, Joel, Olivier, and Daffad.
SW corner of DeSilegue and DeJohannes, 1410 DeSilegue A
Promo’s Fresh Produce
run by Promo (retired), his son Danial, and Danial's son Jacque.
1410 DeSilegue B
Hoadley’s, a maker of fine leather goods
run by Hoadley.
1410 C DeSilegue
The Nauta Millinery shop
run by the bespectacled Nauta sisters, Viola, Cynthia, & Camille.
1410 DeSilegue
Wesson’s Pub
run by Wesson.
Andrea, Rachel and Emily
Prostitutes who work out of Wesson's.
Alexandria and Anastasia, Emily's little girls.
DeSilegue E
Phoenix Books, a rare bookshop on the street level
run by Sidney Morley
and Paul Orzy, a scribe for hire, who has rooms over Sidney Morley’s shop.
DeSilegue D
Van Alikki Fencing Studio
in the loft above the millinery shop and bookstore
Leto, the Desilegue neighborhood drunk.
1521 B DeSilegue, the corner of DeSilegue and DeBromska
Daffad’s Collectibles, a pawn shop, run by brothers Harrison, Lillard & Hucksley.
1521 A DeSilegue
The Amber Evening Star
published by OrmPress
the local one sheet for the southern West Side of the town.
Publisher & editor Aelric Guthinson, staffer Ben Haroldson and reporter Susanna Miro.
1521 C DeSilegue
Gregory Thiefson, private detective.
1521 D DeSilegue
Rose’s Fragrances and Beauty Aids
run by Rose
on the ground level,
a teashop
run by Madam Lisha DeSouza Sakar, a fortuneteller
on the second floor
and the studio of Teresa Augustus
specializes in portraits and miniatures
on the top floor.
1521 E DeSilegue, South corner of DeMarcinis and DeSilegue
Moon Metalworks
run by Martainn, Pol & Daffad.
1632 DeMarcinis
Goushaw Hospital for the Poor
run by Doctor Simons and his head nurse Elizabeth Jacques.
1632 A DeMarcinis
Alphonso’s Musical Instruments
run by Alphonso and his sons Pannes and Jewis.
Next door to Alphonso’s
Jamie Quarterman, an Architectural Historian & Interior Decorator.
The rest of southern block of DeMarcinis is filled by the FFCG Warehouse
run by Orville, Malcolm and Desmond, brothers.
At the end of that block of DeMarcinis
Cabinetmaker's shop.
Journeymen Edvard and Howard, and four apprentices Byron, Douglas, Aaron and Giles assist master cabinetmaker Robbie Tyler.
The block north of DeSilegue is DeBradford. 1309 DeBradford A, the corner of DeSilegue and DeBradford
Narga Dance Studio
run by Rebecca and Dawn
1309 DeBradford E
Animalia
co-owned and operated by Ivan VanSuluc and Renee Helmsberg. Jol Gettv acquires the more exotic animals.
1309 F DeBradford
A Barbershop run by Tisor with journeymen Sioma, Mitchell, Jeffrey, Scott and the apprentice Bizar
on street level.
The Hoth Bookbindery
run by Hoth
on the second floor.
Eyeglass seller
run by Todd Tyrrell
in the garret.
Botchy ball tournaments
held in the alleyway between Animalia & and Tisor's Barbershop.
On the south side of DeBradford with theirs backs against Hoadley’s, Nauta Millinery,
1410 DeSilegue D, and Phoenix Books is a row of one story store fronts.
Facing them from left to right, they are Chavin’s, Loebs Genealogy, BigMac’s and Coney’s Brickyard.
Chavin’s is run by Cyrus Chavin, chimney swept. Cyrus is a tall slender man with black hair and a thin black
mustache. He is conceivably the least offensive person anyone could ever expect to meet.
He sleeps in the backroom of his office and usually eats at Wesson’s.
Loebs Genealogy is just that, operated and researched by old lady Loebs a heavyset woman with thick lips, bespectacled
baggy eyes and shaggy white hair. She is as sweet as she is annoying. She also knows her stuff and everyone else’s.
BigMac is an element wizard specializing in “Lighting and Fire’ magic’s”.
The name BigMac is something of a personal joke as BigMac is Macdonald, a short pudgy fellow with
thin and thinning long brown hair and a short beard. Since he has opened his shop the number of
accident fires and lighting strikes have decreased by 70%. And the fires at Bakerman’s have never gone out.
Beyond these three small storefronts the remainder of the block is occupied by Conway’s Brickyard, literally a
brickyard as the brick making facility is on the north side of the street. Coney’s sells brick for chimney, wall
and street fabrication; and in an effort to cover all his bases also sells and stocks cobblestones and logs for
street building and repair. On the north side of the street is the location of the actual factory.
North of Daffad’s, Greg Thiefson’s office and 1521 D is Aubrey Carriage Service, cabs for hire, on DeBradford at
1521 A. It occupies the entire block and houses horses, cabs and drivers; providing sleeping quarters for
drivers who are single and chose to sleep above their place of employment. Bradford is slightly below average
in height black man, clean shaven with a broad smile and open hand for most everyone. He has built this business
from the ground up by himself and having once been a driver himself chooses his drivers with great care.
A believer in employing local talent he uses Hoadley for most of his harness and such.
The block south of Desilegue is DePreiss Behind Bill’s on DePreiss at 1309 B is Lord Byron & Lady Caroline’s Fine
Imported Fabrics. It carries only the highest end imported fabrics, button, ribbons and other garment making needs.
Neither Byron nor Caroline are gentry, landed or titled; Byron bestowed the titles upon them as an indication of the
quality of their merchandise. Byron is a man of average height clean-shaven with thick rich dark curly hair and a
quiet smile. Caroline is taller slender with long light brown hair and a warm but slightly crooked smile. Lord Byron &
Lady Caroline’s Fine Imported Fabrics employe four women and 2 men to handle stock and sales, today Byron & Caroline
only involve themselves in the selecting and purchasing and tend to spend a far bit of time abroad. The store’s
manager, Tracy is a very short, fat, dark haired woman, whose accent sounds very similar to Clancey’s, and resides at
Hollyfield’s. 1309 B is a four story building with the couple’s residence on the fourth floor.
For those whose want something less strong (or more exotic) than what can to drank at either Wesson’s or Bill’s, there
is the Roses of the New Moon TeaHouse & Flower Garden. It is located at the north east corner of the intersection of
DePreiss & DeJohannes. There a patron can get tea (or sake). Jiro & Shino completely converted 1309 D into a piece of
their home shadow: grass mats, paper screens to separate rooms, etc.
Between these two extremes of culture is the accounting office of Marvin Gilson, a loud horse-faced older
bespectacled gentleman with a large nose and thinning white hair. He too resides at Hollyfield’s.
The first two shops on DePriess at the intersection with DeJohannes are numbers 1410 B and 1410 C. Between them is an
almost unhealthy professional and personal rivalry. They are Dale Joritz ‘s Apothecary Shop and the office of Doctor
Vermette. Joritz is a stocky built man with dark gray hair that hangs over his forehead and an Abe Lincoln style beard
also laced with gray. He is loud, opinionated and has served a tour of duty in Amber army. Like Hoadley, he
speaks of having a wild youth. Vermette is usually very quiet. He is also tall, straight, well muscled, clean-shaven
with a brush cut head of graying to white hair. Vermette too served a tour of duty in Amber’s army. The origin of
their feud is not public knowledge. It could be from their army days, or the differences between their professions, or
a rivalry over the love of a lady… who knows. They’re not telling.
1410 D on DePreiss is the offices of Antonio Falzon, solicitor. Oddly enough the office is never open although
business must be doing very well as messengers on certain days seem to fill the small office to the point of the
messengers spilling out into the street awaiting a response to their delivery. Most locals know that this is a front
for a book making business. Antonio when seen is a tall dark haired cleanshaven gentleman with an olive complexion.
Two large houses face each other or at least sit beside each other separated by DeBromska. After selling the barn to
Wesson, Cecile Hollyfield lived off that sale and the sales which followed for many years until she finally was forced
to take in boarders to prevent herself from further depleting her savings. Cecile is a short solid build woman whose
youth is unfortunately behind her. Her short blond hair has begun fading to gray or in the right light silver. It is
rumor she once had a suitor, an artist that her mother disapproved of and that her mother put an end to her
relationship with; in fact, like something out of a fairy tale, had threaten or actually locked her daughter away in
the root cellar. This has left her to grow old alone.
To the west of the Hollyfield Home is the April House which was built the same year Cecile sold the barn to Wesson.
Edmund, Joan’s husband, was a teacher and used the downstairs as classrooms and the second floor as the family’s
residence. Edmund was unfortunately a patriot, answered Amber’s last call to arms and did not come back. With Edmund’s
departure his wife Joan took on the chores of schoolteacher and continues so to this day. Edmund is also survived by
two very lovely and young blond blue-eyed daughters, Julie and Dawn who on the threshold of womanhood are now
attracting a lot of attention (to Joan’s motherly concerns).
1521 C is a very odd place to find Todd Little’s Small Mountains shop. Odd because DePreiss like DeSilegue is a semi-
circle about the city of Amber but at its greatest distance from the shore to the outermost reaches of the City it
only lays only about a third of the way from the docks. Small Mountains is a shop whose function is to outfit
enthusiasts of rock and mountain climbing. Todd himself is a mountain climber and his shop only stocks the best. Todd
is a young man of slight but very well muscled build with short brown hair and an enthusiasm to share his business and
his hobby with everyone.
Next door at 1521 D is the studio with kiln and salesroom of Jenna Corace’s ClayWorks: plates, lamps, bowls, mugs,
wall tiles, and jugs… anything that can be created from clay. Jenna has raven tresses and is a petite but well endowed
young woman who would be quite pretty save for a rather bad complexion. Unmarried she spends what free time she has
with a neighbor Todd Little.
Content copyright 2003 M. Kucharski.
-- LizTrumitch - 16 May 2004
