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Down's structure essentially is a monolithic abandoned skyscraper, so huge that it has room for more buildings on its bare, exposed floors. The skyscraper lacks a name; it's simply synonymous with Downwarp. Most of its inhabitants live up there, though not necessarily in the same place from night to night. Surrounding the tower are a number of nightclubs and drug dens. What lies underneath, Functions only know, except that it includes a vast and unmappable (possibly even non-Euclidean) network of tunnels; it is taken for granted that they're full of lost urban tribes even weirder than the people who live on the surface. |
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Down essentially is a monolithic abandoned skyscraper, with irregular stories each so huge that it has room for more buildings on its bare, exposed floors. A first glimpse of Downwarp shows just one of these stories, with any walls and ceiling lost on the sodium sky. The 'floor' is peppered with regular-sized skyscrapers, a number of nightclubs and drug dens, and even what may have once been freeway-scale roads. What lies underneath all this development, Functions only know, except that it includes a vast and unmappable (possibly even non-Euclidean) network of tunnels; it is taken for granted that they're full of lost urban tribes even weirder than the people who live on the surface. |
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* Necropolis |
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* Necropolis: City of the dead, and those who live with them. |
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* The Giant Robot's Graveyard: Resting place for the other unsung heroes of post-modern, scarce-times wars. |
Down essentially is a monolithic abandoned skyscraper, with irregular stories each so huge that it has room for more buildings on its bare, exposed floors. A first glimpse of Downwarp shows just one of these stories, with any walls and ceiling lost on the sodium sky. The 'floor' is peppered with regular-sized skyscrapers, a number of nightclubs and drug dens, and even what may have once been freeway-scale roads. What lies underneath all this development, Functions only know, except that it includes a vast and unmappable (possibly even non-Euclidean) network of tunnels; it is taken for granted that they're full of lost urban tribes even weirder than the people who live on the surface.
Things fall apart fast in Downwarp. So do systems, even social and interpersonal ones. Entropy just seems to get a boost from the local laws of physics there. This makes it very difficult to build anything lasting in Down. It also teaches the locals to be very broad-minded and self-sufficient, since they know nothing will last forever. Downwarpians are ingenious recyclers, capable of turning just about anything broken into just about anything -- and then, once that breaks, into anything else.