Edgerton
The apocalypse messed a lot of people up. It messed a lot of places up. In all of this, though, one place seems entirely untouched. Edgerton is a little area of Get High Falls that appears not only untouched, but as if the apocalypse never happened. People drive their cars around, go to the store, sit down to watch tv, and live their lives like nothing happened. They function under the understanding that outside their little area, shit hit the fan, so why leave? They have their paradise, why not stay there forever? Here the old world is safe, and here it is safe for everyone.
The apocalypse also messed up the water supply to Edgerton. Edgerton is one of the places perhaps most touched by the influence of the Maestrom, despite appearances otherwise. The effects of the Falls on the people was to somehow turn their desires for a world untouched by the apocalypse into their reality, and it has manifested with such strength that those who enter also fall under this illusion. The reality is not what they think. People run themselves to death pretending to be cars, walk to abandoned and long since raided stores, sit down in burnt down houses staring at any image or mirror as if it has the best sitcom they have ever seen playing on it, and feed on whatever their deluded brains grabbed for food that day, including each other. They function under the illusion that everything is okay, when in reality, this is one of the worst places to be, because for all the shit out there, most of it is pretty apparent. This is their hell, and they will stay there forever. The old world is gone, and here is what happens when people forget that.
Demographics
This place wasn't well off before the world went to shit, and it didn't change much since then. Assorted ethnicities, mostly people in their 30's, but few live past 40.
Government
No rules are really implemented here, the people live as if they are still part of Rochester, and occasionally have town council meetings in one of the parks there.
Defences
The town needs no defenses due to the natural hallucinogenic atmosphere here, which makes all who enter believe in the same reality.
Industry & Trade
Those that survive are dying, fast or slow, because very little they eat is actually nutritious, and often it ends up being other people, or parts of themselves.
Infrastructure
Most of the area is destroyed, very few structures remain. When things started to go bad, this was one of the places that went bad first.
Assets
There is nearly nothing left of value here, and if there is, it would be very difficult to find.
RUINED SETTLEMENT
2021
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