Meikyoku Slums [P][Q]
Jan 14, 2013 8:06:27 GMT -7
Post by Solus on Jan 14, 2013 8:06:27 GMT -7
Although Meikyoku is mostly a happy place each coin has two sides. For this city that other side is its slums, once a quarter where uniform grey concrete apartment buildings stood it has suffered from the influx of people, turning the district from a poor one into slums. Fifty years ago the buildings stood in orderly blocks, but after more people moved in than could live there they added more constructions on top of the existing ones and connected them with all kinds of walkways. Some are only a set of long beams, dragged up along the build and placed to connect two buildings, whereas between some other places real bridges have been constructed, all depending on the skills of those who just happened to live there at the moment of construction.[/blockquote]
Some streets have been completely disappeared as the inhabitants broke the windows out their buildings and created a whole new structure between two apartment buildings, fusing the buildings into one giant contraption. As time passed more and more people added more to the existing structures, making the slums into what they are now, one gigantic building of all kinds of materials with no clear order behind it, making it a three dimensional labyrinth. In the middle of the entire district runs a small river, clogged with all kinds of waste and covered with so much trash that it is indistinguishable from what is left of the streets. Makeshift gondolas traverse the sluggish stream, used as a base for pickers who fish the most valuable objects, mostly plastic, from the murky fluid that mostly smells like faeces.
Understandably this unnavigable mass of stairs and little alleys is a most dangerous place, even for the locals. And despite the extraordinary high numbers of murders, muggings, rapes and assaults it still attracts more people. However lately the reports from the few representatives of the ruling authorities have shown a disturbing trend, large numbers of people have been disappearing, vanishing into thin air without a trace. Although matters like these attract little attention from the authorities considering the low value of the area it is of course in the best interest of Shinobi villages to know what is going on in their country. And that goes especially for mass mysterious disappearances. And thus you find yourself on the edge of the district with practically no clues, but with a mission. What happens from here on is up to you.