The City itself.
The City is impossibly huge and seems
to go on for an eternity in any direction. New levels have been built
up over old ones leaving them dark and isolated. Roads weave
throughout this mess of architecture going down through tunnels and
constantly splitting off like a mockery the human circulatory system.
Also the tubes shuttling high speed trains are webbed through the
entire thing as well. Everywhere you go there are people, even in the
darkest deepest sections there are those desperate few scraping out
an existence on whatever they can. Some have never been far up enough
to have seen daylight their entire lives.
A few highlights.
The Mass. There are various portions of
the city that have grown up so high that the section stands above the
surroundings like small mountains. Each of these is called a 'mass'
for short, usually named after what has caused the build up. GovMass
is the central location for all government buildings, CorpMass is one
that houses a major corporation, DeadMass is a giant mausoleum
located far in the desolate outskirts, and several others.
The Fields. If you travel far enough
out you eventually come across the fields. Aqueducts, holding tanks,
sectioned off areas of water that are miles long. With housing for
workers built in pillars that go straight down into what were
supposedly oceans at one time. Now it is all used to grow and harvest
biomass like seaweed, rapid growth worms and various other lifeforms
genetically created to be sources of food. The fields feed the city.
The big sink. One area of the city is
constantly slipping away, straight down. A giant sinkhole slowly
pulls more into it at a rate of an inch or two a year. Massive
structures are partially pulled down inside, their tips still
reaching for the sky. There are stories of people climbing down
through the rubble and coming across things they cannot describe,
things that some say are coming from the other side of the big sink
and into the city.
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