True Cross City was a cramped mockery of a large Japanese city. Like Tokyo and other cities of its nature, it was constantly teeming with life, with far more people in it than should have been reasonable. Unlike Tokyo, though, True Cross seemed to be shoved in to one very small location, and rather than having the resources or the space to build out, it was built up until it eventually became a mish-mash of different architectural styles, buildings and structures that spiraled up, up, up, resembling some crazy person's idea of a layered cake.
(That crazy person may very well have been Mephisto. We really have no idea).
But that information is only to really inform how odd some areas in True Cross really were. Namely shopping centers. In other places, they would be far more "open air" and spread out to accommodate for the teeming masses that would come through every day, but not in True Cross. The Southern Cross Street Shopping Center, located not that far from the church/boys home Rin and Yuki grew up, was no different. Tucked in to what was an area that really should have been called an alley more than a street, shops, walk ways, and sky bridges were all piled one on top of another, stuffing as much as possible in to a fairly small area with a small roof covering only parts of the center.
Most of the shops were cheap things, and nothing about the shopping center screamed "expensive" or "ritzy". It was almost like it was trying to be a poor man's Shinjuki or Akihabara but with half the charm of Harajuku or Shimokitazawa. One would be lucky to spot a brand name store within its walls, though the rest of the stores couldn't really be called "knock offs" either. More like places that had just barely surpassed Mom and Pop status but couldn't get much further than that.
Yet it was always crowded. For some reason, people liked it enough to keep visiting. Even Rin frequented it, even if it was just her bumming around and window shopping due to a lack of money.
With the small three block section found on the Skyway, a few clothing stores, some odds and ends stores, a couple of food joints, a single very small coffee shop, an odd little souvenir shop with very, very strange, kitschy items in it, and one konbini will be found, including one set of stairs connecting to a sky bridge to get to some of the higher locations otherwise blocked off by the broken remains of the district. There will be a lot of items, more than one person can conceivably carry by themselves. Three or four people may be able to clear out a good section of stuff, but chances are no one group is going to make it back with everything inside.
There will be no plot relevant items for Rin or anyone else to find, just a lot of stuff to be brought back.
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Rin - True Cross Campus Town
Date: 2014-03-28 08:38 pm (UTC)Rin's creature: One very large Hobgoblin (Able to be tamed, but difficult)
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True Cross City was a cramped mockery of a large Japanese city. Like Tokyo and other cities of its nature, it was constantly teeming with life, with far more people in it than should have been reasonable. Unlike Tokyo, though, True Cross seemed to be shoved in to one very small location, and rather than having the resources or the space to build out, it was built up until it eventually became a mish-mash of different architectural styles, buildings and structures that spiraled up, up, up, resembling some crazy person's idea of a layered cake.
(That crazy person may very well have been Mephisto. We really have no idea).
But that information is only to really inform how odd some areas in True Cross really were. Namely shopping centers. In other places, they would be far more "open air" and spread out to accommodate for the teeming masses that would come through every day, but not in True Cross. The Southern Cross Street Shopping Center, located not that far from the church/boys home Rin and Yuki grew up, was no different. Tucked in to what was an area that really should have been called an alley more than a street, shops, walk ways, and sky bridges were all piled one on top of another, stuffing as much as possible in to a fairly small area with a small roof covering only parts of the center.
Most of the shops were cheap things, and nothing about the shopping center screamed "expensive" or "ritzy". It was almost like it was trying to be a poor man's Shinjuki or Akihabara but with half the charm of Harajuku or Shimokitazawa. One would be lucky to spot a brand name store within its walls, though the rest of the stores couldn't really be called "knock offs" either. More like places that had just barely surpassed Mom and Pop status but couldn't get much further than that.
Yet it was always crowded. For some reason, people liked it enough to keep visiting. Even Rin frequented it, even if it was just her bumming around and window shopping due to a lack of money.
With the small three block section found on the Skyway, a few clothing stores, some odds and ends stores, a couple of food joints, a single very small coffee shop, an odd little souvenir shop with very, very strange, kitschy items in it, and one konbini will be found, including one set of stairs connecting to a sky bridge to get to some of the higher locations otherwise blocked off by the broken remains of the district. There will be a lot of items, more than one person can conceivably carry by themselves. Three or four people may be able to clear out a good section of stuff, but chances are no one group is going to make it back with everything inside.
There will be no plot relevant items for Rin or anyone else to find, just a lot of stuff to be brought back.