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The 30 Best Restaurants in Free City

FREE CITY — In a city built on contradictions — where opulence and ruin share an alley, and a five-star meal might be served beneath flickering lights or behind a steel-reinforced door — dining out is more than just a ritual. It’s survival, it’s rebellion, it’s art. Welcome to Free City, where flavor follows no rules and the best meals come with stories (and sometimes scars). From the smoke-choked haunts of the Saltmines to velvet-lined hideaways in Fresh Air, our correspondents spent weeks dodging rain, bribes, and gunfire to uncover the 30 most unforgettable places to eat in this chaotic, …
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May 7, 2025

A Beacon in the Ash: Inside the Rusted Halo, Saltmines’ Strangest Safe Haven

FREE CITY, SALTMINES — The Saltmines are not a place you stumble into. They are where you end up. A post-industrial no-man’s land stretching across Free City’s northeast edge, the Saltmines are more a myth than a district: crumbling chemical plants, refineries turned squats, and ash-laced air thick enough to leave a taste in your teeth. It's where the city forgets people, and where the forgotten try not to die. And yet, up a crooked, steel staircase lit only by pulsing red hazard lamps, you'll find something almost like hospitality. Welcome to The Rusted Halo, a crooked inn bolted onto …
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May 5, 2025

Beneath the Salt: Inside Free City’s Illegal Rave Cathedral Bunker X-13

FREE CITY, SALTMINES — They say the air tastes like rust and adrenaline. Somewhere beneath the concrete husk of what was once a nuclear command post, over a hundred bodies twist and collide beneath pulsing red light. This is DESCENT // X-13, a rave that defies the laws of the city, gravity, and, perhaps, reality itself. The Descent Begins Bunker X-13 is not on any map. Access requires either a reliable guide — typically paid in drugs, untraceable currency, or whispered secrets — or a willingness to get lost in the Saltmines' vast tunnels. We followed a girl named "Teeth," …
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May 2, 2025

Disappearance of Reformed Bank Robber Turned Blogger Sparks Speculation in Free City

FREE CITY — Hank Malone was once known for slipping through bank vaults. Now, he's vanished into thin air. The 53-year-old former career criminal — who rebranded himself in recent years as a bestselling true crime blogger, speaker, and self-proclaimed redemption story — has been missing since Saturday afternoon. He was last seen at the exclusive Fresh Air Country Club, a waterfront enclave south of the city, known more for its champagne brunches than criminal intrigue. Malone rose to unlikely fame after serving time for a string of high-profile armed robberies in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Upon his …
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April 25, 2025

Violence Erupts at Strip Club Celebration in Free City’s Chapels District 

FREE CITY — What began as a celebration of freedom ended in bloodshed early Sunday morning, when masked gunmen stormed The Saintless, a notorious strip club in Free City’s Chapels district, leaving five dead, eight injured, and one man abducted in a brazen, military-style assault. Shortly after midnight, chaos shattered the thumping bass of the club’s main floor. Witnesses say a matte-black, windowless bus screeched to a halt outside the venue before six armed men in tactical gear stormed inside with brutal efficiency. Their faces were covered. Their necks bore dark, intricate tattoos — symbols some sources believe are linked …
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April 20, 2025

A City Divided: The Return of Isaiah “Zay” Cedrick Reignites Old Wounds

FREE CITY — When Isaiah Cedrick, known to many simply as “Zay,” walked out of Prison Isle’s gates last week, the city barely noticed. But for those who remember the media firestorm a decade ago — the grainy surveillance footage, the headlines screaming “Hate Crime Horror”, the protests both for and against him — his release has reopened a painful chapter in Free City’s turbulent social history. Cedrick, now 26, was convicted at the age of sixteen for the brutal assault of an elderly Jewish man outside a corner store in the Chapels district. At the time, prosecutors labeled it …
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April 18, 2025

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Starting today, The Maze Monitor will be your #1 source for important stories from in and around Free City. We will keep you updated with the latest crime, wanted criminals, and much more on the News channel. May god bless all of our souls, Your Mayor, Malcolm Greaves
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January 1, 2025