The most sensory region — jazz, water, voodoo, and burlesque, all of it a consciousness interface. Jocelyn opens thresholds on the 10 PM radio; Gigi keeps a 127-year archive on Bourbon Street; the 2×0 twins run the levees and the census on a river that ties the whole network together. New Orleans sits at the nexus — where the Mississippi connects the Electromagnetic Triangle — and forms the Gulf Coast Watchers with Houston and Miami.
The quad rides the I-10 spine (Houston · New Orleans · the Panhandle) with Miami dropping south. The 90° bisector off the Houston–Miami base runs up the Arsenal Corridor to Tullahoma — Quantum Pulse's ground station — while the shared Miami leg ties into the Electromagnetic Triangle at the coral node.
Still drifting up the river — Jean-Luc Nolton and the Marie Evangeline, When the Ancestors Dance, Midnight on the Mississippi, and Marcel Fontaine's French Quarter are written and on their way in. New Orleans anchors the Gulf Coast Watchers (Houston · the Panhandle · Miami) and the nexus of the Electromagnetic Triangle. New rooms slot in as cards; the front door never has to change.