The Annex

Boomtown’s outermost wall is incomplete, and the gap is surrounded by the Annex, a large and dense shantytown that acts as a buffer between the Wilderness and the city proper. It bleeds into a small locality of Lowtown and is recognized by the government, receiving some policing and benefits.

According to Ricky, the Annex is populated by…

“Outsiders who can’t get in, Towners who have gotten out, and locals from birth - all refugees, fugitives, and survivors of both worlds.”

He also alludes to the threat of violent interactions with Outsiders.

Especially in the outskirts near the frontier, this is a place of poverty. Tents and huts have been cobbled together from random materials that have made it this far out from the city. They cluster together and growing denser as they approach the wall.

Nearer to the wall, the neighborhoods appear to have the infrastructure of a small but complete town - there are multi-level buildings, businesses, abundant electricity, and even Institutional buildings - but the people are dirty, the building materials on the storefronts are mismatched and heavily weathered, and the electricity is being carried across wires haphazardly crisscrossing above the trash-strewn streets.

Other, smaller slums and frontier settlements appear near various gates around the wall, and from the Annex and every slum, the Black Pyramid can be seen towering over the city, backed by the broad face of the mountains.

 
 

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