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  • Fight Clubs of Nexus: The rough streets of Nexus boast more than a few impromptu organizations meant to do one thing: hone the street fighting skills of its members. Sometimes the fights are for money, but only one thing is important - developing skill. These clubs are an excellent place to contact martial artists of a variety of different styles, among them Even Blade Style, Five Dragon Style, Jade Mountain Style and Seafaring Hero Style. But the style most commonly found - even more than all the others put together - is First Pulse Style, which was developed in Nexus.
  • The Blood-Lotus Society: Something half-way between a private arena and an orgy club, the Blood-Lotus Society of Great Forks specializes in finding the most attractive and skilled fighters to duke it out in the club's private facilities. Before the fight, all competitors are feted like gods by those who have bet on them, with the rich and powerful of the city abasing themselves for the chance to dally with them before the fights. Those who win the fights become the darlings of the Society, while the losers are unceremoniously dumped out the servants' entrance. Most of those who come through these doors fight in either the First Pulse or Orgiastic Fugitive styles, and the upper echelons of the Society - the Masters of the Blood-Lotus - are themselves masters of the Orgiastic Fugitive techniques.
  • The Twenty Five Fists of Helz: By order of the Eight Coin Clan of Helz, only twenty five martial arts societies may exist in the city of Helz at any given time. Those that are not part of the societies may defeat another society to take their place, leading to an ever-expanding history of vendettas, clan-wars, cycles of retribution and apprentices avenging their masters year after year. Only the the Eight Silver Coins Clan and four other societies - collectively called the Five Iron Fists of Helz - seem to be exempt from this infighting, as they have a large number of impressive martial artists and are quite well defended. Very nearly any Terrestrial martial arts style can be found among the Twenty Five Fists of Helz.