The Common Room

The Service Town’s genuine social centre: the room where the base’s off-duty culture is most visible and the place where players who want to understand the Portus Lacus operational picture from the inside should spend at least one evening. The grey market’s operational nodes have used this common room for coordination purposes twice in the past four months — not for sensitive discussions, but for the specific category of coordination that looks like a group of sailors and a supply worker having a drink. Gaius noticed both instances. He noticed them because the supply worker and the sailors were from different operational divisions and had no natural professional reason to be socialising. He has not acted on the observations.