Because the process of transporting a ship up or down the Alken Falls can take up to several hours to complete, it wasn ' t completely unexpected when Alkenstarians started setting up shop around the Hellfallen Cliffs to target potential buyers stuck on their rigs. Since the Screw ' s completion in 4645 AR, the district of Hellside has boomed into an entire cliffside shantytown along the walls ofSmokeside. Though the oldest buildings were constructed atop the Hellfallen Cliffs, more creative (and desperate) vagrants gradually began constructing their shacks and huts into and jutting out of the sheer sides of the cliffs, effectively creating a small neighborhood of dangling abodes and overhanging homes from which to solicit the business of ship captains and crews headed up or down the Screw.
