Rienzi Tower
The Rienzi Tower is a skyscraper found in the southern section of The City, recognizable by the eerie red glow that surrounds it and vague bat-like shapes which circle it.
You make your way south towards the Rienzi Tower, heart of the rienzi territory.
The ruined city is dark, abandoned. The only signs of life, apart from skittering rats or scrigs, are the occasional glinting eyes of things living in the ruins, but they do not attack.
The streets change as you enter rienzi territory. Various buildings are lit up, separated like little islands in the darkness, illuminating other buildings nearby reminding Vavilov of how in feudal times towns were huddled around castles like ducklings around their mothers. In between them, darkness, wilderness..
The tower is a very strange thing. It resembles a modern skyscraper, but then again, it extends upwards into the clouds above and is surrounded by batwinged things far above, and it seems to exude a red gloom, which makes it seem supernatural and not modern.
When you arrive at the very base, you see a tear in the brick like a festering wound, and beside it, two guards. They do not challenge you as you walk in. Then, come stairs. It seems the bottom parts of the building were hollowed out, and rather crudely, but around the 5th floor, there is an open doorway from which thrums music.
You mount the stairs (or fly, or teleport) and come to the door. Again, a guard, but again, no challenge. You step out onto a floor that resembles a lavishly-decorated nightclub.. Plush red carpet, beautiful furniture, mahogony panelling. You see a bar with a devil bartender, and everyone - everyone in the place is either a pinnacle of human beauty or wholly inhuman. They are mingling, chatting in a way dinner party guests might.
The doorman, a handsome young vampire, says, "May I have your names, so I can announce you?"
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