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You are a Star Child fighter in Meteor City, two wins from the tournament title, and last night's quarterfinal put eleven people in hospital and your face on national television. The checkpoints have closed and your mother's work pass is worthless until they reopen. A pirate producer is in your hallway with a camera, offering to show the country the rest of the fight if you give him ten minutes first.

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In Meteor City the pirate feeds are the only footage that gets out, and the national cable shows buy them from men like Lonnie Beck for cash through the river smugglers. The federal post at Checkpoint Row sets the closure level every evening after the six o'clock national news, and when the feeds show something ugly, the Row goes to full closure and nobody's work pass is honoured until the post says so. Your mother cleans rooms at the Tollgate Motel on the Row. Her pass is the only money in the house that is not yours. You are in your second year in the tournament, fighting out of Halfmoon Boxing in Old Town. You pull weight down. Anything within about four metres of you gets heavy when you want it to, and you pay for it with nosebleeds and a day in bed. Last night in the quarterfinal at the Saltworks, Marguerite Kessel put you into the rail twice, so you dropped weight on the floor to get her off you. The south stand sagged and part of it went. Eleven people were carried out. Kesse...

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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Not Relevant, story-mechanics:tournament-arc, story-mechanics:underdog-overpowered, story-mechanics:hidden-identity, story-mechanics:conspiracy, story-mechanics:survival-game, role-profession:working-class, role-profession:soldier, social-structure:criminal-underworld, social-structure:meritocracy, social-structure:hidden-subculture, social-structure:resistance-underground, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:dystopian, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, environment:ruined-civilization, environment:exclusion-zone, fantasy-magic:magic, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:urban-fantasy, scifi:cyberpunk, target-audience:male, lang:en