I'd like everybody to nominate one place to hold this not including London, New York City, Paris or Rome which are all going to be candidates in this, the first vote.  Each of you please send me a private message nominating your city.

It should include both the name of the city and your reasons for choosing it.  It should look something like the examples below.

LONDON
London is not only home to the world's oldest underground transport system (the Tube) but it also stands on two millennia worth of ruins, some dating back to the Roman Occupation. London was the scene of such underground classics as Quatermass and the Pit, the Doctor Who Episode:  Devil's End, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, China Mieville's Unlundun and Simon Green's Nightside series.

NEW YORK CITY
New York's Subway System is almost as old as London's Tube but that's not all.  There are countless other tunnels some of them forgotten and some the homes of 'Mole People'.  So much has been excavated since Peter Stuyvesant bought Manhattan from the tribe who gave the island its name. There are many urban legends about creatures under New York City from albino alligators, to giant mutant rats, to snakes and squid.  New York City was the home of Calisto's Morlocks in Marvel's X-men comics

PARIS
Paris has the Metro, certainly, and it is a beauty to behold, but it also has the Catacombs where lie the bones of six million people in a small part of the tunnels made to consolidate the spaces left by the stone quarries on which Paris was built.  People have died of starvation after getting lost in the catacombs and some who survived went mad.  The Catacombs were the scene of an epic six month long battle in darkness between French Special forces and the Living Dead in Max Brooks' novel World War Z (on which the film was NOT based).

ROME
Rome has catacombs and hypocausts that have served as refuges for generations of refugees from the cruelties of the city above.  It also has almost three thousand years of history in the spaces between the seven hills on which it was built and which have gradually disappeared beneath the weight of that history.  Rome is the setting for Stephen Baxter's Coalescent (Part One of his Destiny's Children SF series)

I'll be making my own entry as well and when we've all submitted, we can begin the voting

There are seven candidates for the location of our game and they are listed below in alphabetic order:

BOGOTÁ
Colombia, a land of mysteries and magic, come along and finally witness the land in all its Glory. After the war of Ghosts and the Beast of the underground Temple's fall, travelers can finally witness this land's splendor. But it's not as glorious as coming to the capital city of Bogotá herself, exchange a gift to our fellow citizens and they'll give you the best hospitality and our best coffee in the whole wide world. And don't mind the things hiding in the dark, they are merely spirits, just don't let them whisk you away by their charms, hahaha. Remember, the Black Rider is no more, the Beast that lay within has been slain, and the Spirits of the Bog has been laid to rest, now come and join our peaceful and prosperous nation.

CAIRO
An ancient city officially founded in 969 AD, though it is much older and has been known by many names in the past including Memphis, Heliopolis, Babylon-in-Egypt, Al-Fustat, Al-Qatari, Al-Askar and more. Situated on the Nile River and being Egypt's capitol, it is also close to many ancient ruins including sites such as Giza. Ranked as the sixth largest city in the world by population it is also rank as the fifteenth busiest city.

Home to the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University and the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world with 136,000 items on display, with many more hundreds of thousands in its basement storerooms. Among the collections on display are the finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

EDINBURGH
Legend has it that Dun Eidin was built on seven hills eleven days after the ice retreated.  It has survived: the Tsunami that turned the River Manche into the English Channel and the Kingdom of Dogger into the Dogger bank; the coming of the Celts of various forms, whether Brythons, Gaels or Picts; the Romans with their Empire and their indoor plumbing; the Norsemen, the Angles and the English and all that time it has stood proud.

The City that became Edinburgh has been the capital of the Kingdom of Lothian and of Scotland.  Ten thousand years of growth were confined behind a wall and building was built atop buildings with whole streets beneath and unknown passages stretching for thousands of miles into the caverns below and down into the centre of the earth.  Here was the home of the Cannibal chieftain Sawnie Beane, of rabid Selkies and of the worst of demons.  Some believe the depths of the city are infinite.

LONDON
London is not only home to the world's oldest underground transport system (the Tube) but it also stands on two millennia worth of ruins, some dating back to the Roman Occupation. London was the scene of such underground classics as Quatermass and the Pit, the Doctor Who Episode:  Devil's End, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, China Mieville's Unlundun and Simon Green's Nightside series.

NEW YORK CITY
New York's Subway System is almost as old as London's Tube but that's not all.  There are countless other tunnels some of them forgotten and some the homes of 'Mole People'.  So much has been excavated since Peter Stuyvesant bought Manhattan from the tribe who gave the island its name. There are many urban legends about creatures under New York City from albino alligators, to giant mutant rats, to snakes and squid.  New York City was the home of Calisto's Morlocks in Marvel's X-men comics

PARIS
Paris has the Metro, certainly, and it is a beauty to behold, but it also has the Catacombs where lie the bones of six million people in a small part of the tunnels made to consolidate the spaces left by the stone quarries on which Paris was built.  People have died of starvation after getting lost in the catacombs and some who survived went mad.  The Catacombs were the scene of an epic six month long battle in darkness between French Special forces and the Living Dead in Max Brooks' novel World War Z (on which the film was NOT based).

ROME
Rome has catacombs and hypocausts that have served as refuges for generations of refugees from the cruelties of the city above.  It also has almost three thousand years of history in the spaces between the seven hills on which it was built and which have gradually disappeared beneath the weight of that history.  Rome is the setting for Stephen Baxter's Coalescent (Part One of his Destiny's Children SF series)

We will be using the single transferrable vote system.

In a private message to me please list all seven cities and number them all 1 to 7 in order of preference.  1 for your favourite, 2 for your second favourite and so on to 7 for the city you like least.  If you really have no preference after the first one or two or however many, feel free to vote for only one but if there's one you really hate, then you need to vote for all seven or at least for the other six to register that dislike.

Any questions?

All votes are now gathered and positions turned into points to give the following Positions

1st place  -  London
2nd equal  -  Cairo and Paris
4th place  -  Edinburgh
5th place  -  New York City
6th place  -  Roma
7th Place  -  Bogotá

The game will therefore take place below the streets of London.

As far as people's scores are concerned. only three people made suggestions in this round and the point totals so far are:

1  Ciaran  19    points
2  Pavel   17    points
3  Worlds   8.5  points
4  Maevre        yet to score

I don't know what these points are by the way. I've voted and made suggestions...

Sorry Maevre, it's the way this works.  We produce little peieces of text like those for Bogota, Cairo and Edinburgh, others vote on them and the points go by how people vote for those.