<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>THE SLUMS</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Currently in Control:</strong> Mother Freya/Shanira Treyan Alliance (Contesting: Alwyn/Kieri/Niles the Nerdist Alliance)<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/W5Iaagd.jpg)</div><br/>Everyone's gotta live somewhere, and for most of the city that somewhere is the slums. With easy access to the guild and the docks, the working class of Hexville make their way to where the work is, or they find what opportunities they can in the slums. It used to be a place of hope, where there was genuine belief that anyone could get where they deserved through hard work and loyalty. Now it is a place of desperation where the strong squeeze the weak without fear of repercussion. Mostly. The Slums are also the area whose outside city wall is the least well defended and least enforced. Wandering monsters and raiders from the outside tend to see the Slums as the easiest target of opportunity.<br/><br/><em>The goblins of Hexville have begun to congregate here in larger numbers, inspired by the rhetoric of Kieri, the slight green humanoids are starting to band together and show blatant defiance to the authorities! Traps line old guard routes and other misfortunes await those who chase the wrong folks down the wrong alleys!</em><br/><br/><em>With the gods of the land seemingly absent, or deaf to their plight, the people of the Slums have begun to turn to Aros, a new god from distant lands. The symbol of this god is seen scrawled on walls and carved into wood where before the traditional gods of Hexville were praised. What's more than this, the worship of Aros has begun to take over old temples and sacred places where once other gods were worshipped!  </em><br/><br/><em>Rumors of a lycan of great influence have died down, replaced by rumors that same Lycan was chased off by Broken Sky!</em><br/><br/><em>A great aqueduct and local plumbing have been built by the woolly loxodon Big Snuffles, under the supervision of Kieri!</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>Special Rules:</em><br/><br/>There are no special rules currently in place for the Slums.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>Aspirant Status:</em><br/>- Alwyn is ESTABLISHED<br/>- Keiri is EMINENT<br/>- Mother Freya is EMINENT and CONTESTING FOR CONTROL<br/>- Niles the Nerdist is ESTABLISHED<br/><br/>