Danni Fitzpatrick was a police officer. Not a great one, not a bad one, just a cop and nothing more. She didn't do much, or talk much, and aside from a case that seemed tied into her coming out of the closet she didn't really contribute much to the cases. Then during an intense stand-off she wound up shot and killed.......well sort of.
The reason Danni didn't have much of a personality is that she was the 5th lead on a popular network cop show, was added during the 4th season, and was kept around to tackle "controversial" stories and make-out with some model for sweeps week. She also wasn't really dead though her "life in fiction" was over. Which is why she found herself on a steamship surrounded by characters both mundane and bizzare, and heading for the port of a city that looked as if Rio, Tokyo, 1800's Paris, and had Vincent Van Gogh's art all got smushed together.
The city was called Edge-Town and if you happened to be any fictional character, this is where you wound up either after getting killed, or at the end of the story you happened to be in. Everybody from the superhero who headlined the latest blockbuster movie, to the deli counter guy who appeared for one second in the film turned up in the city, which as a result dwarfed any real city on the face of the planet.
And Danni with only 500 "gils"(the money system of the city) in her pocket and not a single place to stay decided to take the first job she could find. That job being "bar-tender" which paid well enough for Danni to get herself an apartment(albeit in a run-down neighborhood), but which oddly enough oftentimes entails getting shot at by every single psychopath, mercenary, and mafioso And in a city where the largest ganglord happens to be an 8000 year old Sumerian death-goddess, you know there's some really dangerous chappies at there.
That's quite alright though because Danni's got some new friends, and life for once seemingly has meaning. The bar's janitor is an anicent Celtic hero, one of the customers is a junior enchantress, the owner is a hot Texas cowgirl, and Danni's new girlfriend is a mexican telenovela heroine who now moonlights as an assassin.
Hey at least it's interesting.
(Expect this new series not long after my first Skatara tale wraps up. And look for some bios on the blog for various characters who'll be popping up.)
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Someone was kicking back eggnog laced with something interesting to bring in the new year. Fantastically wild idea! I want to read how you're going to handle it.
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