Tales from Neon CityTonight · LUNARA #1
Where you are in tonight’s story. Not your clock.
ContinueTimes marked ~ are the city’s best estimate. Your place is remembered on this device only.
Somebody has been tagging Neon City with crowns. Nobody admits to it. Some are easy to spot. Some only show up later in the night.
On CH 2Runner Weekly #11Lunara on the cover. Lunara has not noticed.
On CH 2Runner Weekly #13Best promo ever. Killer mechs, super stunts.
On CH 2Runner Weekly #14Training exercise. Probably.
Loop · city transitEvery district, every hour. Service changes may apply.
Runner NetHosted by Steler, maintained for you, free of charge. Always.
The Looking GlassUpper deck, every night. The door decides.
Lunara ComicsComics · Imports · Repairs · Arcade · Holograms. Open all night.
I stock Runner Weekly because customers read it. Lunara is on the cover. Lunara has not noticed. Sprite has noticed, has bought eleven copies, and has asked me to stop mentioning it. I am mentioning it once, here, for the record.
LunaraCover A
SpriteCover B
MidnightCover C
BunnyIssue 12
Best Promo EverIssue 13 · on the stands
Training ExerciseIssue 14 · at the printerJust a routine midnight systems check outside the Rift. Probably. Runner Weekly sent its next cover to print before the fires in the industrial belt were out. Runner Weekly is published by Runner Net, which is hosted by Steler, whose logo is on the cover.
Also inside: “Runner style: bigger guns, better armor, cleaner excuses” and “Nothing to see here: absolutely not a secret crisis. Move along.”
Killer mechs, super stunts, and the hype buyers can’t ignore. Runner Weekly says the mechs outside Lunara Comics were a publicity stunt. Runner Weekly is published by Runner Net, which is hosted by Steler, which had no further comment.
Sil-101 has been asked to confirm that it was a promotion. It was a promotion.
Runner Weekly writes headlines. The portal has the articles. Follow a line.
Runner Weekly got an hour with the head of the Wonderlands Syndicate. He answered every question. None of the answers were printable.
“In Wonderlands, people deal in more than money.” — cover quote, Issue 12. Sil-101 has pre-ordered it. Sil-101 has not been asked to.
Every reveal, new part and stray panel, newest first. Get told the minute Part 5 is up.
The whole night on paper: LUNARA #1 — The Wrong Side of Midnight, all 38 pages, in print. It’s still free to read here, start to finish, and still on Kindle. But if you want Neon City on your shelf, this is the one. Sil-101 recommends it. Sil-101 recommends everything we sell.
Get the paperback →The whole night, all 38 pages, is now a Kindle book: LUNARA #1 — The Wrong Side of Midnight. It stays free to read here, start to finish. If you want it on your shelf, or want to help the next one happen, this is how. The paperback is on its way.
Get it on Kindle →The next book has a cover and a title: If the Weaver is a Weaver… who will serve. Lunara and Sprite are back, and so is the crown. Not all that shines is neon. It’s in the works; follow @LunaraSolTales to hear first.
See the cover →Eleven pages, and the night is over. A dog in an alley, a door that tests you, a man who is only ever a hologram, a cube finally explained, two new mechs, and a truth about the black-and-red code. The book opens at 8:00 PM and closes at 12:01 AM. All 38 pages are free to read, start to finish.
Read Part 4 →Ten pages. Ten seconds outside Lunara Comics, and two cubes that stand up. A Blue Chip cashed at a Wonderlands gate, a bounty that appears and disappears, a netrunner duel that ends in a truce, workers who turn on everyone and remember nothing, and Fat Alice coming down from the gantry. It ends on the road to the Rift.
Read Part 3 →Wonderlands gets its own page: the house, the venues, the house rules, the fleet, and the syndicate's night so far. The Archive replaces the Dossier, with filters and fourteen new files from Part 3: the Bertas, Indigo inside and out, the Red Rose Cards, the hovercar, the Lunara BOLO, and the Indigo workers. Toothes joins the Cast. Hardware stocks a helmet and describes a rifle it will not sell you. Nexus has the bounty, and the cancellation.
Inside Wonderlands →2035, two decades before Lunara's night. Rogue AIs, the secret Order of the Broken Sword, and a year nobody in Neon City remembers. A new page on the world of Lunara Sol's novel, Dea ex Machina, and the street name that outlived it.
Look back →A ghost Loop line, a painter nobody has seen, a client who answers before you ask, people who talk to the net instead of hacking it, a name nobody in the Market will say out loud, and a dog seen in three places at once. Nexus believes none of it. Nexus printed it anyway.
Read the Night Desk →The reader grows up. On a phone, the ▣ button walks you through each page one panel at a time. Every page now has a text version — tap Aa, or read it all under the reader. New here? The Story So Far catches you up in two minutes. And if you want to know the minute Part 3 lands, there's an RSS feed now, alongside 𝕏.
The Story So Far →Neon City's channel now has a page: the transport down in Z7, crews on the wreck, the missing K9-Luxe, Loop's suspension, Runner Net's first-ever notice, and a comic shop that closed early with its lights turning red. And the City page opens a places gallery — the 404 inside and out, the alley behind it, the Nether Zones — with a crown on the walls the tagger reached first.
Watch Nexus →Nine pages. A 500K job from a client called Diva, a battlefield in the Nether Zones, a courier in silver who finishes his delivery sitting down, a golden cube, a voice on a channel that shouldn't exist, and an order Lunara swore she'd never give. It ends on an empty chair.
Read Part 2 →Shelf 05 has a name now. Midnight: anti-grav, midnight blue, red where it counts, four drones in the bays, and a fox on the flank that only lights when Lunara is on it. Sil-101 is now permitted to describe it. Within limits.
Shelf 05 →Runner Weekly, Issue 11, in three covers — Lunara, Sprite, Midnight — with the Bunny issue coming next month. And the Dossier opens: the design sheets and field files the story has caught up to, from Midnight's spec page to the force in black and red. The Bertas stay sealed.
The Rack →Eight pages. One errand. A club called the 404, a man in a white suit, 2.48 seconds, and a debt that costs more than it should. Read it here, flip it like a book, and stay for the last page — the one nobody in the room is watching.
Read Part 1 →A delivery arrived at Lunara Place after closing, under a tarp, on a freight car that wasn't on the schedule. Sil-101 signed for it. She is not permitted to describe it. She says it is blue.
Ask Sil →Oli, Pixy and Dexio step out of the redacted files — the sniper with a philosophy, the infiltrator with the gloves, the netrunner with the plush fox he won't explain. And the 404 opens its doors under Wonderlands, for the lost.
Open the dossiers →Lunara Place has a manager. Her name is Sil-101, Sprite built most of what's interesting about her, and she has opinions about everything on the shelf — zero space, rods, the rail pistol, digital ink. She will not discuss anything that glows gold.
Browse the hardware →Rabbit and Fat Alice step out of the redacted files. Lunara and Sprite get their proper portraits. And somewhere off the Loop, a shop called Lunara Place has its lights on.
Open the dossiers →Tales from Neon City goes live with the Issue #1 cover, the first dossiers on Lunara and Sprite, and the marks of Loop, Xee, Steler, Wonderlands, the Red Rose Cards, and the Droplet Runners. More faces soon.