Cnr of Denokami Lane & NeoMegami
Stepping two doors down from the warm orange glow of the Burnt Toast and Coffee Café, there's another kind of sanctuary on Denokami Lane. The Fractured Doll - a burlesque cabaret wrapped in crimson light and velvet shadows, where the broken come to dance, to heal, to simply exist.
Building on the foundation laid by Drei's Burnt Toast and Coffee Café bounty, this is an invitation to explore the same eight-building street from a different angle. Where Amy pours coffee and keeps secrets, Curette commands the stage with devastating precision. Where Hawaii fixes chrome and hearts, Vargr bleeds in the shadows to keep corpo hunters at bay. Two sanctuaries, two doors apart, both sacred ground in a city built on cruelty.
This universe still thrives on warmth and edge, comfort and violence, sanctuary and street. The café remains untouchable - and now The Fractured Doll shares that plot armor. Both exist because people chose to make them exist. Both endure because love - romantic, platonic, chosen-family love - refuses to let them fall.
The Fractured Doll stories are canon, woven into the same neon-soaked fabric as every late-night regular nursing their third cup at Amy's, every whispered confession in a corner booth, every soul who stumbles between both spaces looking for different kinds of healing.
The Fractured Doll: A Prologue
Side quests and extensions...
Like with Burnt Toast and Coffee Café bounty, and The Scents of Night City. I would like to encourage further extensions and side quests. Will be posted here.
STORIES
Short fiction, vignettes, overheard moments, quiet scenes, or full micro-narratives set in or around Denokami Lane.
Movement between the café and the club - the two-door journey down Denokami Lane
The other twelve doors: who's behind them? what do they do?
NeoMegami - what happens in the Fractured Doll's threshold?
The second alleyway - open for definition and stories
How Denokami Lane became forgotten (and why that matters)
The laundry lines, the mixed-use architecture, the weathered facades
Characters who exist in both spaces - regulars at Amy's who perform at the Doll
How Hawaii's mechanical skills and Vargr's protection intersect
The unspoken rules and rhythms of a street that chose itself
New characters who orbit both sanctuaries
The economics and politics of forgotten places
Soft cyberpunk, lived-in futures
Comfort, melancholy, humor, warmth - or eroticism and violence
Post them, and link them to my story, DM me... comment at @GVargr. And I'll link them to the The Fractured Doll: A Prologue (if you want) @drei2763878 if you would like to ask them to maybe include it in the original Burnt Toast and Coffee Café - Episode 0.
CHARACTERS
Original characters who belong in or pass through the street. Think:
Fixers, street samurais, ordinary mum's - prostitutes, furries, robots (SFW and NSFW)
Augmented or painfully human
People who order the same thing every time
People who never stay long
People coming in bleeding looking for a coffee and some bandages
Images, text, or mixed formats are fine - just make the character feel real.
Sacred Ground (Extended Edition)
Some things have absolute plot armor in this universe:
The Café (Drei's Original Canon):
Amy and Hawaii remain in love
Amy is still polishing those tables
Burnt Toast and Coffee Café never burns, collapses, or becomes a battleground
It remains sanctuary - warm, functional, defiantly gentle
The Fractured Doll (New Canon):
The club stands, thrives, remains sanctuary
Curette continues to dance, lead, and protect - beautiful, precise, devastating
Vargr remains the guardian - cursed, bleeding, present behind the lattice screen
Their bond endures - platonic, profound, unbreakable
The Fractured Doll is protected space for trans dancers, the marginalized, chosen family
This is where people perform without fear, exist without apology
Denokami Lane Itself:
The eight-building stretch exists because they will it so
Two sanctuaries, two doors apart, mutually reinforcing
Corpo hunters don't come anymore, NCPD looks in from afar, does not mean they do not exist in past stories.
Chosen family means more than blood here
Bounty Rewards (20,000 buzz total)
Each category has its own prize pool:
Stories (up to 10K Buzz)
1st Place - 4,000 Buzz
2nd Place - 2,000 Buzz
3rd Place - 1,000 Buzz
3,000 Buzz for extras
Characters (up to 10K Buzz)
1st Place - 4,000 Buzz
2nd Place - 2,000 Buzz
3rd Place - 1,000 Buzz
3,000 Buzz for extras
General Rules
Follow Civitai TOS
Original work only
Multiple entries allowed, (5 posts in total) but quality > quantity
If images are used, please include metadata
I’ll leave a 🐺💃 on entries I’ve seen and approved.