Water where, here?

What happens if you build a bridge and no water comes? This is the question being asked by a number of upstanding (and otherwise) Off Worlders watching the construction of the new bridge at the eastern end of Icon Highway. “That’s a right nice bridge but there ain’t a drop of water underneath of it!” commented former Earthling, Royce Pervy. Royce came here looking for work as a full-time cad in Paradise City but finds himself still unemployed due to the large number of undesirables that call the old mine pit home. So he stands, watching each day as the work on the bridge goes on, hoping the foreman will call for a professional bum from the crowd of would-be laborers. “It’s kind of depressing on top of everything else.” Royce continues. It seems his ex-wife soaked him for most everything he owned, including his 1965 Ford F-100 short bed pickup truck that was his home. “She took my truck, my radio and my dadburn dog! That old hound was my best friend and my blanket too!” Asked if he had any other talents besides making a general nuisance of himself, Pervy replied “I can pull my teeth out and suck my lips in, like this!” Impressive. He and many of the Paradise City irregulars can be found along the future banks of… whatever they decide to call the lake, once filled with as-yet unseen water… that the unnamed bridge will eventually go over… in the direction of the assumed mountain chain in the East.


Bridge approach.


From the towers.