Mazedge

Mazedge is the southern-most borough of Lost Angels. The cheaper northern neighborhoods are populated by hard-working but poor factory workers, domestic workers, and other manual workers.

To the south of the residential belt lie the factories themselves, typically built close to the edge of the higher Maze walls.

Further southeast, where the sprawling conurbation begins to grow sparser and the factories give way to wasteland and dereliction, the scattered homesteads are instead occupied by prospectors. These hardy miners still work the deadly rock faces of the Maze channels.

Interesting Places in Mazedge borough

• Brigance Fields: This area on the outskirts of Mazedge, where the city dissolves into the wilderness, is home to the Brigance Fields. Here Nicholas Brigance picked up acres of lands for nickels and almost immediately struck oil. These fields are highly secure and he makes sure he is the only one profiting from these fields.

• The Gunn Factories: Herman Gunn’s Celluloid Works comprise three huge, imposing brick factories that tower near the edge of the Maze cliff wall. Two of the factories produce a massive range of celluloid products, from decorative household items to billiard balls to cellulose nitrate for use as smokeless powder or explosives.
  
  The third factory runs three shifts, working constantly to supply hundreds of miles of celluloid film each day to the studios. The voracious appetite of the motion picture industry for film keeps Gunn’s business in fine shape, allowing his scientists to research new and unusual uses for their volatile product

• Hard Times Café: The Hard Times is a plain, simple café/diner, run by Manfred Ripien. He has one mean Shepards Pie. Many of the miners and factory workers get their grub here.

• Haunted Holes: The area surrounding Lost Angels was built on land that for years had been picked over by prospectors. As a consequence, the earth below Mazedge is a catacomb of tunnels, mines, and holes.
  
  In several locations throughout the Lost Angels area, old air vent holes lead to dark chasms below. While many have been covered, some remain open. Sometimes, at night, it is said sounds can be heard from deep beneath. What they are, no one knows.