LOCATIONS: MERKADOME
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MERKADOME
HISTORY
In the days of the World of Yore, President Trump Beta (a Donald Trump clone with certain flaws) decided to build the world’s largest shopping mall, almost like a small city. A huge android factory had been built nearby, and its workers needed a place to spend their money. Visitors from all over the country and beyond came to visit the site.
For its construction, a huge dam was created, but its wall was made of glass instead of cement. This transparent wall was part of the mall, and from it, visitors could see a multitude of spectacular aquatic creatures that they brought to the resulting lake. A huge dome covered the entire complex, allowing people to see the outside or functioning as a giant screen where advertising messages could be shown. In addition, the water from the dam flowed out through a hole in the dome, forming a navigable river that runs through the inside of the mall until it exits through the main entrance.
Description
After the creation of the Megalopolis and the abandonment of the outside world, the place deteriorated and became filled with mutant beasts and other creatures. Although the dome managed to resist, parts of the interior have collapsed onto the parking lots and the sewers below. In general, the risk of inhabiting the place was too great… until a few decades ago.
A group of disaffected Wastelanders, who depending on the rumor came from the Junkbridge area, from beyond the Great Sea, or a thousand other places, managed to occupy a small area of the place, and more importantly, they managed to restore part of the power provided by the dam. The place became known as Merkadome, and once word spread, more and more Wastelanders moved in, until it became the powerful settlement it is today.
In reality, only a small part of the mall is habitable. Most of it is wild and dangerous areas that, although they house technology from the World of Yore, generally only lead to death. Despite everything, “civilization” has grown within the structure of the mall as if it were a city. Shacks made of sheet metal, fighting pits, precariously added structures and walkways, docks on the riverbank…
The leader of the settlement is the Sherif, who controls and distributes the intermittent power, using it as a means of exchange and oppression.
The Wall, the crystal wall that separates Merkadome from being engulfed by the water, is in quite deplorable condition, with constant cracks and leaks. The once crystalline water is now a murky mass where nothing can be seen beyond a few meters behind the Wall. The finger of an enormous mechanical hand rests on the Wall, forming cracks that still don’t let much water through but are becoming increasingly worrying. It is said that within the waters there is an enormous creature that some of the inhabitants worship.
departments:
In Merkadome, there are many different Departments (what in other places would be neighborhoods or simply zones), and they vary greatly in size, as well as in their organization or function, but all are an important part of the settlement and are governed by the Mascas. Of these Mascas, 12 sit on the Syndicate’s board, the settlement’s governing council. These seats are not fixed and can vary as influence and power fluctuate.
NEARBY LOCATIONS:
Within the territory known as the Merkadome Zone, there are a multitude of locations beyond the settlement that gives it its name, as is the case with the Junkbridge Zone further north. Of course, not all of them are described here, as it is a vast area with many smaller settlements and places that may be of interest.
