The city itself is kind of a mess, all piled up on itself in the middle of the desert with no rhyme or reason, designed by someone with no concept of straightlines. The area brought in is a main shopping district, a large square bordered by buildings.
The building are all at least two stories tall (some are three or four) and the street-level floors are storefronts, ranging from clothing stores to bookstores to Deathbucks coffee shop and Death Robbins ice cream. The upper floors are rented out apartments, most walls painted in bright colors, with a sort of lived-in-by-students feel. The buildings are just a border to the main center of activity, a marketplace made up of stalls and booths, full of... assorted junk. Everything from cheap jewelry to (by now rotten) produce to used textbooks (middle- and high-school level, all subjects including soul theory). Basically a farmers market/flea market/yard sale all in one, the sort of place where anyone can spread out a beach towel on the cobblestones and sell their junk.
Clothes available in stores range from maid/butler type uniforms in Deathbucks to well, things in the above linked scenery pictures. The general client base is teens and preteens with money to spend. Technology level is very rule of cool. Gas lamps line the streets (which are brick and cobblestone more than paved) and internal lights in buildings are electric, but old-fashioned filament bulbs rather than fluorescent. The most advanced piece of technology in this area might just be the jukebox in Deathbucks, which is coin-operated and loaded with jazz and classic rock records, all unfamiliar artists. Stoves are gas, refrigerators in the apartments are technology level circa 1950. Basically think 50's "cool" for technology and The Gorillaz meet Tim Burton meet Japanese street fashion for style.
Stylized skulls are everywhere, in architecture and art and fashion. The money is American dollars. There's a general feeling of a stylish hipster paradise downtown that's very lived in, college-town feel. It would be generally cheerful if not for the fact that it's existing in the aftermath of the Calamity.
The statues here are almost all children, except for the shopkeepers.
Crona - Death City
The building are all at least two stories tall (some are three or four) and the street-level floors are storefronts, ranging from clothing stores to bookstores to Deathbucks coffee shop and Death Robbins ice cream. The upper floors are rented out apartments, most walls painted in bright colors, with a sort of lived-in-by-students feel. The buildings are just a border to the main center of activity, a marketplace made up of stalls and booths, full of... assorted junk. Everything from cheap jewelry to (by now rotten) produce to used textbooks (middle- and high-school level, all subjects including soul theory). Basically a farmers market/flea market/yard sale all in one, the sort of place where anyone can spread out a beach towel on the cobblestones and sell their junk.
Clothes available in stores range from maid/butler type uniforms in Deathbucks to well, things in the above linked scenery pictures. The general client base is teens and preteens with money to spend. Technology level is very rule of cool. Gas lamps line the streets (which are brick and cobblestone more than paved) and internal lights in buildings are electric, but old-fashioned filament bulbs rather than fluorescent. The most advanced piece of technology in this area might just be the jukebox in Deathbucks, which is coin-operated and loaded with jazz and classic rock records, all unfamiliar artists. Stoves are gas, refrigerators in the apartments are technology level circa 1950. Basically think 50's "cool" for technology and The Gorillaz meet Tim Burton meet Japanese street fashion for style.
Stylized skulls are everywhere, in architecture and art and fashion. The money is American dollars. There's a general feeling of a stylish
hipster paradisedowntown that's very lived in, college-town feel. It would be generally cheerful if not for the fact that it's existing in the aftermath of the Calamity.The statues here are almost all children, except for the shopkeepers.