Downtown NLACakaNM

""The buildings are very densely packed here. The streets are painted in green blood from the fighting of today and of generations passed. There are loose slimecoins tucked inside every sidewalk crack. There's a little booth outside the stock exchange building. It's selling Super Saiyan Investor and Kanman bobbleheads. Cute. I would purchase a couple except I have no slimecoin. Maybe one day I'll be a wealthy boi.""

- Niboe

Channel Description
Skyscrapers tower over every street as far as the eye can see. Fluorescent signs flash advertisements in strange glyphs and the streets roar with the sound of engines and scraping metal from the subway deep underground.

!look Message
Skyscrapers and high-rise apartments tower above the jam-packed, bustling city streets below for as far as the eye can see. In this dense concrete jungle, your attention is constantly being divided among a thousand different things. Neon, fluorescent signs flash advertisements for all manner of amenities and businesses. The streets rumble with the sound of engines and metal scraping from the subway system deep underground. Hordes of men and women from every imaginable background walk these cruel streets, trying desperately to eke out a pitiful existence for themselves. This district never unwinds from its constant 24/7 slime-induced mania for even a moment, let alone sleep. Downtown is the beating heart of New Los Angeles City, aka Neo Milwaukee. With settlements in the area predating the emergence of slime, its prime location along the newly formed coastline naturally grew it into the cultural, economic, and literal center of the city. Due to its symbolic and strategic importance, it's home to the most intense gang violence of the city. Gunshots and screams followed by police sirens are background noises for this district. Some say that this propensity for violence is result of the sinister influence from an old obelisk in the center of town, ominously called ENDLESS WAR. You aren’t sure if you believe that, though.

Endless War
Its bright, neon green color nearly blinds you when observed from this close. You are overwhelmed by an acute, menacing aura as you crane your neck to observe the obelisk in its entirety. You almost thought you saw it looking back down at you, but it was probably just your imagination. You shouldn't stay here any longer than you have to, you always get a weird feeling in the pit of your stomach when you stick around for too long.

Slimecorp HQ
Here, the few active employees still attempting to rebuild SlimeCorp powerwalk from every direction to every other direction. They barely acknowledge your existence outside of muttering under their breath when they're forced to sidestep around you and the other clueless juveniles loitering in their lobby. Above the first few floors begins the endless expanse of crumbling concrete and broken glass that the once bustling building has become. This labyrinth of near-infinite waste repeats itself for nearly every floor of the towering skyscraper. This place used to be a cut above the rest, with tech the rest of the city's enterprises could only dream of. You have your fellow gangsters and a particularly disgruntled N1 to thank for the husk it is right now.

Past countless receptionists' desks, waiting rooms, legal waivers, and at least one or two stainless steel vault doors, lay several slime donation rooms. All that wait for you in these secluded rooms is a reclined medical chair with an attached IV bag and the blinding light of a fluorescent light bulb. If you choose to !donate some of your slime, a SlimeCorp employee will take you to one of these rooms and inform you of the vast and varied uses of SlimeCoin, SlimeCorp's "hot" "new" cryptocurrency.

Slime Stock Exchange
A huge, cluttered space bursting at the seams with teller booths and data screens designed to display market data, blasting precious economic insight into your retinas. Discarded punch cards and ticker tape as trampled on by the mass of investors and shareholders that are constantly screaming "BUY, SELL, BUY, SELL," over and over again at no one in particular. Recently reacquired, tents line the streets, filled with eager investors.

For information on how to actually play the stock market, see here.

North End
This is one of the older neighborhoods in the city, and as such the apartments here show some wear-and-tear.

Waterfront
This stretch of coast is home to the city's original wharf. It's long since fallen out of use as an actual dockyard in favor of Vagrant's Corner, but still lives on as a tourist trap full of easily pickpocketed out-of-towners who want to stare out at the Slime Sea through a tower viewer.

Downtown Crossing
This intersection is a bustling outdoor pedestrian shopping mall full of department stores, restaurants, specialty retailers, and more. Sketchy street vendors peddle their wares to all who will listen.

The Common
It's a public park established in the early years of the city. It's basically just a patch of dead grass; all the fountains and monuments were defaced years ago.

Combat Zone
This street has been fought over between the Rowdys and Killers since the dawn of fucking time. The struggle over this corner of Downtown resulted in some of the most legendary moments in the city's history, and is sure to foster many more as the gangs continue to wrestle for control over it.

Financial District
You gaze up at the modern skyscrapers and sleek condos above you. This is where robber barons of all shapes and sizes come up with cool and new ways to exploit the unwashed masses, and to wring as much slime out of the earth as humanly possible. Nice.

Season 1 Version
In Season 1 this channel was named #the-combat-zone and was used for fighting, being the only channel to allow the !kill/!shoot and !suicide commands. The chatlogs from this time can still be viewed once scrolled up far enough.



Map Quote
"And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

- Genesis 11:3-4