GM: Cat Cole and Michael Cole
Setting: Gurps 4th edition campaign in the “Landing” setting.
Years: 2004-2005

Landing is a small, western coastline city in the King’s Reaches. It is large enough to support a fair bit of diversity, but not so large as to house a large criminal section.

Geographically, Landing is the largest seaport on the western coast of the Reaches. About 20 miles north of town is a Kings Border Guard garrison (made up primarily of King’s Guard officers and a combination of conscripts and volunteers from Landing). This garrison guards the border wall that marks the beginning of the land held by the barbarian Cos’n (pronounced co-zin) to the north. There is another Kings Border Guard garrison on the eastern end of the wall just north of the city North Point, the northern most point of the Free Coast strip of the eastern coastline. These garrisons are separated by about 40 miles. The border spans a narrow strip of land between two major inlets. This region is called The Girdle of Mamnon. Travel across the Girdle is done nearly within sight of the border the entire way due to the prominent bog that makes up most of the land to the south. The bog effectively divides the regions that claim the two cities, leaving Landing nearly isolated on a peninsula that extends south and south-west of the city. There is a single overland trade route to the rest of the reaches. Most of the region’s trade is managed through shipping.