p[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/FudCbtO.png[/img] [img]https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/e176d520-cf6a-4d56-87d8-9310b80f79e3/d3ilh4q-7f0f7a06-3686-43b5-85c8-f59ddcd1d18a.png/v1/fill/w_1024,h_598,q_80,strp/sun_city_by_adam_varga_d3ilh4q-fullview.jpg[/img] [b]|[/b] [color=dodgerblue][b]LOCATION:[/b][/color] West Florida. [b]|[/b] [color=dodgerblue][b]SIZE:[/b][/color] 176.9 mi² [b]|[/b] [color=dodgerblue][b]POPULATION:[/b][/color] 296,643 [b]|[/b] [color=dodgerblue][b]CRIME:[/b][/color] High [b]|[/b] [hr][hr][/center] [indent]Plucked in the middle of Western Florida is the near perfect paradise that is Charity City. It started out as a small resort town before it quickly expanded after World War II and became a major metropolis in the state. Geographically, the city has a variety of different rivers running through it that lead to lakes and beautiful waterfalls. The primary river of the city is known as the Dog River, which leads into the, you guessed, dog lake. The rivers and lakes have expensive and beautiful houses running alongside them with scenic palm trees and rocks. A majority of the communities are suburbs of some type, and the city is largely middle-class - but there's, of course, a sizable lower class area. Charity Beach has a variety of different activities from the beach the city is named after with a variety of different amusement parks, restaurants, and such and such. Thus, it is a huge tourist attraction. The city is, naturally, large enough to be split into a variety of different districts and communities, which is mainly because the city is quite diverse. It has a large Caucasian community, but an almost as big Spanish community (a majority of which is Cuban). It has plenty of African Americans, but a less than an ignorable amount of Asians and Native Americans.[/indent] [h1][color=dodgerblue]♦ MAJOR FIGURES ♦[/color][/h1][hr] [indent][hider] Coming soon... as in soon as you fuckers come up with some. [/hider][/indent] [h1][color=dodgerblue]♦ LOCATIONS ♦[/color][/h1][hr] [indent][hider][indent] [h2][color=dodgerblue]♦ Districts ♦[/color][/h2][hr] [indent][h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ Central Charity ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [color=dodgerblue][b]Downtown Charity:[/b][/color] [indent]The most touristy part of town, Downtown Charity is located north of the Dog River and bordering the beach. Here, you can find an assortment of nice restaurants, amusement parks, night clubs, hotels, and plenty of tacky gift shops. The famous Charity Beach boardwalk extends long the beach here. The boardwalk contains high-rise hotels, amusement parks, dozens of arcades, casual dining options, and the Charity Beach Aquarium, a massive cylindrical glass building extending five stories up. The police presence here is heaviest, and crime is met with extreme prejudice (nobody wants to disturb the tourists). [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]The Bank District:[/b][/color] [indent]Found to the east of Downtown Charity is the Bank District, a modern-looking economic area filled with glass and metal skyscrapers. The Bank District is relatively new, only about twenty years old. Before its construction, the area was mostly beach houses and mobile homes, but due to changes in property laws in the early 2000s, a number of businesses, several national banks included, began rushing into the area and buying up land to put main branches and corporate headquarters. Not much in the way of attractions can be found in the Bank District, save a few high-rise hotels and single-story shops or restaurants, but much of the city’s middle and high-class workers commute here each day. The border along the Dog River is dotted with yacht clubs and marinas (this is where that lovely picture in the OP was taken). As there are barely any residents here, gang activity is very low (no one to sell to). [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]College Village:[/b][/color] [indent] Charity University lies to the east of Downtown Charity, bordering Dog Lake to the south and the Seminole River to the north. It is a mid-sized college campus, with around 25,000 students. The buildings here are mostly modern, with tall glass windows and stone exterior. All around Charity U are tons of apartment buildings and row homes mostly frequented by students. Most of the businesses around here also cater to students, with lots of pizza shops, cheap bars, and nightclubs. Crime in College Village is moderate, with Boyz influence beginning to enter the area, as students have begun to try Happiness. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Amapola Village:[/b][/color] [indent] Just before the Dog River runs into Dog Lake, a smaller tributary breaks off and skirts southeast in towards central Florida. It runs just around Little Italy and just north of Los Costas. In between Dog Lake and this river (the Amapola River) lies Amapola Village, the richest part of town. This area is quite large and is filled with enormous houses and green lawns. Lots of parks dot the area, as well as residential plazas with fountains and palm trees. The Charity Reservoir marks the center of Amapola Village, a massive artificial lake of crystal clean water. The houses here are very modern, with wood paneling and lots of glass and metal. Several private schools with old stone walls around their lush green campuses dot the area, as well as the St.Anne Seminary, a massive and ancient-looking stone building. Crime here is very low, though some of the neighborhood’s citizens still get drugs from the mafia or the Boyz (only the younger citizens trust the Boyz though). [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Jackson Row:[/b][/color] [indent]Located south of the downtown area, across the Dog River, Jackson Row is the bougie part of town. The houses here are all narrow row homes with brick and limestone facades. This part of town contains the Charity Beach Museum of Modern Art as well as several other museums. The main branch of the Charity Beach library can also be found here, a large, palatial building with glass domes in the ceiling and limestone walls. The area along the Dog River is known as Dog Run, and contains a string of popular trendy bars and fashion boutiques. The property value is high here, as it's become a trendy place for young well-off people to live. Crime in Jackson Row is moderate, with many of the city's newcomers looking for more high-brow drugs (cocaine, marijuana). Happiness has begun to become trendy among the druggies of Jackson Row however, and the police have begun to become concerned that Boyz presence in the area will grow over time. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Little Italy:[/b][/color] [indent]To the east of Jackson Row is the idyllic neighborhood of Little Italy, a small and charming area with lots of greenery and nice, well-kept buildings. Here, strips of fine restaurants and high-class bars can be found along small parks and beautiful stone churches. The houses here range from upscale limestone row homes to moderately-sized single-family homes the farther east you go. As one could expect from the name and description, Little Italy is protected by the Italian Mafia themselves, and crime here (besides their own trading of drugs) is near zero. None of the city’s gangs dare step foot in Little Italy and those who commit crimes there usually disappear within a week. [/indent] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ South Charity ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [color=dodgerblue][b]Las Costas:[/b][/color] [indent] Located to the south-west of Jackson Row, Las Costas is a large, poor area of the city, populated mostly by people of Latin American and Cuban descent. The houses here are mostly brick-front row homes and overcrowded projects. The property value is low, with boarded up windows, busted sidewalks, empty vacant lots, and many condemned buildings. Las Costas contains many churches, including [i]La Catedral De La Caridad[/i], a large, beautiful church near the beach. The people of Las Costas are at odds with the police, who often act with prejudice towards them. As such, The Boyz have formed a strong foothold here and Happiness runs rampant. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Whitesand Village:[/b][/color] [indent]About twenty-five years ago, a conglomerate of real estate investors bought up all of the beachfront property in Las Costas. They paid the vulnerable citizens dirt for their homes and then immediately bulldozed them, erecting a long strip of nice beach houses and hotels which they sold for dazzling profit margins. Whitesand is a cheaper alternative to Downtown Charity for many beachgoers, who rent or buy the stilted pastel-colored homes and condos there. Few businesses can be found there save a mini-golf course or two (it’s a resort town, of course, there’s mini-golf) and an occasional kitschy beach supply store or pizza shop. The Boyz have a foothold in Whitesand Village, where they sell drugs to young tourists visiting the city for beach weeks or fraternity celebrations. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]The Industrial District:[/b][/color] [indent] Located south of Las Costas is the Industrial District, a series of warehouses and factories where many of Charity’s lower-middle class and poor workers find jobs. The area is very old, and it shows, with many of the smokestacks and aluminum-sided warehouses showing signs of rust and decay. Found here is the Charity Power Plant, an enormous natural gas-fired plant which provides the city with much of its power. About a quarter-mile south of it is the old Carl Mendoza Power Plant, a coal-fired plant that was abandoned in the 90s when Charity Power was built. The old plant is heavily decayed and rusted (the city meant to implode it but a political battle broke out due to a discrepancy in some old zoning paperwork and it was then forgotten about). Many of south Charity’s homeless live in the Mendoza Plant, and the police mostly leave them alone. The Industrial District also contains the headquarters of The Boyz, a series of old abandoned warehouses covered in graffiti. Many of The Boyz live in these warehouses in makeshift bunks in the upper levels, and inside the places are basically the equivalent of if Peter Pan’s Lost Boys had access to amphetamines and Happiness. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Port of Charity:[/b][/color] [indent] The Port of Charity can be found to the west of the Industrial District. It consists of a long strip of the manmade harbor which bows in from the rest of the coast. Dozens of enormous cranes and seaport piers work to unload cargo ships here. Past the piers and cranes are piles of shipping crates as far as the eye can see, as well as car lots filled with imported vehicles and surrounded by electrified fences. The Port of Charity is the primary smuggling route of the Boyz and provides them with crack cocaine, ecstasy, and other drugs from Mexico and Cuba. The port authority struck a deal with The Boyz agreeing to turn the other way when drug deals take place so long as The Boyz stay away from the car lots (long story short, a Boy tried to hijack a freshly-imported Mercedes Benz and it didn’t end well for anybody). [/indent] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ North Charity ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [color=dodgerblue][b]Seminole Hill:[/b][/color] [indent]North of College Village, across the polluted and green Seminole River, lies Seminole Hill, known to law enforcement and criminals by the grisly nickname “Crown Town”. Seminole Hill is the poorest area of town, characterized by row upon row of identical brick projects heavily marked up with graffiti. Boarded up windows and dilapidated shutters are common sights. Homelessness is high here, and shopping carts filled with all of a person’s belongings are common. A shockingly high amount of the area’s youth, especially young men, have become involved with the Red Crowns and the drug trade, and the CBPD has basically given up on trying to remedy the situation. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Spaniard Town:[/b][/color] [indent] On the west coast of North Charity is Spaniard Town, a large area which, as its name suggests, has a very high Spanish population (ie, from Spain). This is a typical city neighborhood with a lot of cultural pride. Light posts here have Spanish flags hanging from them along with kitschy mottos about cultural unity. Most of Spaniard Town is lower-middle class, with more high-end homes and restaurants to the South along the Seminole River (closes to Downtown Charity). A few of the restaurants here are known as some of the best in Florida. The Red Crowns hold a little bit of territory in the northeast of Spaniard Town, but for the most part, have trouble dealing with this region due to its heavy police presence and security-minded citizens. To the north of Spaniard Town lies Odyssey Stadium, where Charity Beach’s own major-league baseball team, the Charity Matadors, play. Their colors are red, yellow, and black, and their symbol is the front half of a charging bull. [/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Charles Village:[/b][/color] [indent] To the east of Spaniard Town is Charles Village, an economically-mixed area of Charity that becomes poorer the farther east you get. This area has a high African-American population and has been historically instrumental in many civil rights issues in Florida. The area along the Seminole River contains several art museums, as well as Charles College, a historic black college. Jazz clubs can be found here as well, several of which are fairly famous in the area. Unfortunately, much of South Charles Village’s opulence depends on North Charles Village’s poverty, and many of those same Jazz club owners are lieutenants in the Red Crowns. Not unlike Las Costas in the south, Charles Village’s citizens distrust the police, though the Red Crowns are much less concerned with outreach than The Boyz are and thus aren’t trusted either. [/indent] [/indent] [h2][color=dodgerblue]♦ Specific Locations/Buildings ♦[/color][/h2][hr] [indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]The Boardwalk:[/b][/color] [indent]Spanning the beach side of Charity Beach is the world famous Board Walk. It's a miles wide location that has hundreds of different shops, restaurants, and more on it. It's merely a few feet above the beach itself, so it's easy to access to the beach. You can find all sorts of people from tourists to inhabitants, riding bikes, eating ice cream, and so forth.[/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]St. Mercer's Hospital:[/b][/color] [indent]The famous hospital in the Bank District of Charity Beach. It's a massive hospital that is comprised of several smaller buildings with the main building being dozens of floors tall. It's staffed by the best of the best, plucked from all over the nation. It's, naturally, a very busy and hectic hospital with hundreds of nurses and doctors running around trying to make sure everything's in order. Ever since the Happiness craze, the drug has sent hundreds of people to St. Mercer's, and everything is falling apart.[/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]The Emperor Motel & The Lucky Scale:[/b][/color] [indent]Apart of the Valos Family's foray into Charity Beach, they first purchased the Emperor Motel, the largest and most illustrious motel in the city. Then they created the Lucky Scale, a massive casino, not too far away. The Lucky Scale is the [i]premier[/i] casino in Florida and has people from all over going there specifically just to gamble. The Grand Scale is staffed by an excellent and diverse array of people carrying the Valos' signature V on their uniform.[/indent] [color=dodgerblue][b]Charity Mall:[/b][/color] [indent]One of the largest malls in the southernmost United States, Charity Mall is a massive building that can be seen from miles away, packed with thousands of different stores. The mall is three stories tall, and every inch of it is a business of some sort. It's a beautiful and scenic mall that has rivers built around it and people from all over visiting it.[/indent] [/indent] [/indent][/hider][/indent] [h1][color=dodgerblue]♦ FACTIONS ♦[/color][/h1][hr] [indent][hider] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ FAMA ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [indent]Check organizations in the Metahuman section for more information. Due to the high amount of Metahumans in Charity Beach, there is a FAMA department set up in the city. It's particularly large and their regional headquarters is set up on the beach, with various outposts all over the city. The Charity Beach branch has a small amount of Metahuman agents in their ranks, but many agents are getting transferred to the department to account for the growing Metahuman gangs that are appearing in the city. However, the department is gaining notoriety for their corruption as crooked agents are being outed left and right and the department has a major shortage at the moment. Rumor has it that the branch is gearing up for war against the various groups.[/indent] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ The Boyz ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [indent]A gang of outcasts and freaks that the city didn't want, forming their own gang. The Boyz are a gang of drug dealers and other petty criminals that have a pretty large presence in Charity Beach. They are not racist in their recruitment as they have people from all races in their ranks and their leader wants outcasts, whatever they are. Their gang is primarily comprised of crazy drug addicts but some teenagers and other folks have taken to their philosophy and joined their gang. Their gang symbol is a smiley face a big toothy grin and the eyes crossed out with Xs. The Boys modus operandi is to get rich by selling drugs and become the biggest force in the city for the downtrodden. Their leader is Joy-Boy, a Metahuman with an unknown ability, and he maintains a loose leadership through his three generals (or "Dragons" as he calls them). He asserts that every member of the Boyz proves themselves before they may join, and once they are an official and trusted member they get a mask of their own creation - usually a smiley face. They were a pretty small-time gang/fad until they started distributing the Happiness drug and were able to quickly expand territory. The Boyz now have a large chunk of the city under their control and it's getting larger with more Metahumans joining their ranks. FAMA, the CPPD, and other law enforcement are preparing to move in on The Boyz, but Joyboy has prepared for war.[/indent] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ The Red Crowns ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [indent]The self-proclaimed "Kings" of Charity Beach, compared to the Crips, and the Bloods, The Red Crowns are the newest part of the "gangster" craze (Fueled by bad rap music). They are mainly comprised of African-American and Hispanic males (With some Asians) who were forced into a life of crime by circumstance. The Red Crowns were originally two smaller gangs, the Reds, and the Spanish Crowns. They united because of a mutual agreement of the leaders of the groups, and eventually formed an alliance, and that alliance quickly became a combination of the two factions, and they quickly grew from there. Gathering people that were abused by the other groups, they became a massive threat within Charity Beach. Despite having a bit of infighting, and rivalries within the members, they can be a force to be reckoned with when you get them together. They distribute drugs to the community and do things you'd expect such a gang to do (Rob people, break up stores, and etc). They have a very small percentage of Metahumans among their ranks and several of which are leaders of the Crowns, but they have been known to attempt to force other Metahumans to join them. Their members are denoted by red colors and symbols of royalty. It's not uncommon for them to spray-paint their territory with Crowns, or Thrones. It's best not to cross the Red Crowns, as they are very numerous and dangerous.[/indent] [h3][color=dodgerblue]♦ The Tyrants ♦[/color][/h3][hr] [indent]Check organizations in the Metahuman section for more information. The Tyrants have been making moves into Charity Beach in order to establish a foothold in the town. They have many members in the city peddling drugs straight from Stadium City and they wish to drive out other criminal organizations.[/indent] [indent][/indent] [/hider][/indent]