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The Area

Straddling the small creek trickling through the city from the Chesapeake, Chinatown has been a staple of Carcosa ever since the expansion started. It's colorful hues of red and green and yellow form a stark difference against the metallic spires of metal and sepia-colored slums of the city around it. It's buildings all are styled after it's namesake, and fresh coats of red paint are almost always going up at some place in the neighborhood.

With a city ordinance in place to keep anyone who is not a Chinese descendant from living within the area, Chinatown has managed to remain completely true to it's name. Those in the neighborhood are proud of the elaborate carvings and street-level decor of almost all of the buildings. And, although not as prominent after dusk as it is during the day, there is almost always things to do in Chinatown. Whether it's joining the Casinos for a night of gambling, eating at one of the very authentic Chinese restaurants, or going to one of the legalized hookah-styled bars... there is always something for the enterprising young person to do with their time.

Off of the main drags of Chinatown, however, rests the real organized crime threat of the city. The whites, latinos, blacks and other assorted gang groups have nothing on the sheer level of organized law-breaking that is engineered in back rooms and smoke houses of Chinatown. Those on the streets know they have to cut five percent of all of their numbers for the heads in Chinatown because they don't ask twice. This level of ruthlessness has seen embarrassed men not think twice of selling their own daughters to pimps or slave traders after making a fool of them. The stark contrast from the welcoming guise of the Chinatown main streets keeps most of the general public from worrying too much while they traverse the streets, but every so often a brutal murder makes the papers before it's casually written off into later edition back pages.