RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS
Where most people live. Outer raw, mid compliant, inner wrong.
“The compliance tone chimes. The loiterers don't react. They stopped reacting years ago.”
OVERVIEW
Three districts stacked by proximity to corporate favor. The outer blocks are raw — street lamps flickering between sodium orange and off, graffiti reading NO SIGNAL, produce carts selling synth-protein wraps to people who have stopped expecting anything better. The mid blocks are compliant: swept pavement, surveillance LEDs steady and red, compliance tones on the hour. The inner blocks are wrong in a way that takes time to articulate — too clean, too quiet, the kind of neighborhood where people smile at you and mean it and you don't know why that's frightening. Block 17 is different. Block 17 has a basement.
ATMOSPHERE
SOUND
Compliance tones, muffled TV, quiet footsteps
SMELL
Processed food, cleaning agents
LIGHT
Warm apartment glow, surveillance LEDs
KEY LOCATIONS
- —Outer Main Street
- —Block 4
- —Block 7
- —Block 12
- —Block 17
- —Inner Boulevard
- —Transit Station
- —Community Center
NOTABLE NPCS
- —Jonas
- —Tomas Wren
- —Pee Okoro
- —Sixer
- —Asha Osei
- —Mae
- —Devi
- —Karl
- —Shen
- —Corva
FACTIONS
- —Helixion
- —Parish