Shelton-on-Sea, or "Chelsea"

Chelsea is little more than an extension of Gwynab onto the back of a giant turtle. Just like the Halfling community on the other side of the waves, government here is intensely complicated -- especially since it is not distinct from the land government -- and business is good but heavily regulated.
Without soil to dig into, the custom of Hobbits to demand single detached homes and a garden of their own has resulted in extensive sprawl, packed areas of disproportionate density, transit difficulties and high real estate pressures on the neighbouring communities. The Tenth municipal government in Cloakacre has simply issued an injunction against any resident selling a home to anyone directly or indirectly for the benefit of a Hobbit. The Portavian Quarter was neither so organized nor so racist, and as a result has been very nearly swallowed whole by the Chelsea expansion. They're good at collective action, those Gwynabians, and no one on the Shell can beat the bids put in by the Chelsea Housing Relief Fund.

Notable Locations

• Don't tell anyone, but forget the Moons and the Anchor. The Snake and Whistle has a legitimate claim to being the best restaurant in the world outside of Exeter Long. Its chef, Peanut Copperdew, is the most exciting young chef going in culinary circles and Cherry Merrybottom might puke if she hears another word about her. The rooms are not comfortable for plus-sized travellers but are cozy and well-appointed for normal folk.
• Carla's Contemporary Fashions: An otherwise unremarkable clothing shop on Chelsea's forwardmost commercial district, Cherry Merrybottom managed to find a look so revolutionary here that Beulah Garland was completely unable to identify her for almost an hour afterwards.
• Ice Cream Shop: Petunia Pasturepounder's Peach and Praline Pleasures has a local reputation for maintaining the consistency of ice cream for more than a few minutes: no small feat on the Shell.
• Customs House: It wouldn't be a Halfling settlement without a bizarrely organized Customs House tracking every kernel of corn going in and pound of sewage going out.
• Town Hall: Notably not called the Shelton-on-Sea City Hall, the Halfling compulsion to have a strong and effective municipal government seems to have overwhelmed them. Unbidden, they have taken on the majority of the day-to-day tasks around the Wandering City in terms of tax audits, civil maintenance and water rationing. Adhering to the general principle that if they didn't do it, some other nerd would have, the other settlers on the Shell seem to have acquiesced to the bizarrely anal Hobbits voluntarily taking on this extraordinary expense. (Is it an expense? Has anyone checked? What do train tickets cost these days? Geez, that's starting to hurt.)

Type

Neighbourhood

Population

Officially 75,000, unofficially at least double that

Location under

Wandering City