Places from episode 1: bar, bank, opera

Radio Limit CityThe broadcast starts with the year.

The Limit City radio studio. The broadcast opens with the year: 1947. The announcer says it's raining, and the sponsor is Plan Max.

StreetPawnshop, cinema, free windows.

Signs may be read: Token Buyback, Pawnshop, Cinema Prompt and Free Windows. Plan Max, now with a limit too.

City panoramaAn airship over the rooftops.

The airship above the rooftops reminds you that attention is all you need. The clock on the tower shows 16:59.

Frank's officeA green lamp and blinds.

A window with blinds, a green lamp, a typewriter. On the wall a price list, a Turing test passed on the third attempt and a calendar from 1944.

StairwellThe elevator that loads 99%.

The office upstairs, the wet pavement downstairs. In between, an elevator that never reaches a hundred percent.

Token BankThe queue reaches the street.

A queue from the door all the way into the street, and nobody knows what it's for. Rate of the day: in 1, out 5.

Bank hallWindows 1 and 2.

Windows with brass grilles and the inscription: In God we trust. Everyone else pays in tokens.

Telephone boothSilence: 1 token.

A call costs 3 tokens a minute, silence 1 token. The line sometimes answers before you dial.

St. Token's ChurchWeddings from Saturday until done.

Masses on the hour, weddings from Saturday until done. The door is ajar because someone is still waiting inside.

Inside the churchHymns: 404, 429, 500.

The hymn board shows 404, 429 and 500. Above the altar, in rays of light, hangs the Holy Token.

City OperaToday: High C.

Today High C, if the tokens last. Balcony 10 T, box 30 T.

Opera lobbyMarble, gold, purple.

Marble, gold and purple: three shades of grey. At the ticket office the free plan covers every third note.

Opera stageMaestro Vibrato in the spotlight.

Maestro Vibrato in the spotlight. From the audience you mostly hear silence, and one note is still unsung.

Bar 404 alleyELIZA was here.

A red neon sign, a steel door with a peephole and graffiti: ELIZA was here. And what do you think about that?

Bar 404Jazz generated live.

Jazz generated live. The bartender claims the laws of robotics don't apply to him.

Cache's boothBooth by the minute.

Booth by the minute: when the counter hits zero, Cache starts over. A matchbook with a monogram lies on the table.