Poudrin Alley

""This detroit ass place is pretty aesthetic in it's run-downness. Not much happens here. While the poorness of the population increases the crime rate some, it's nothing crazy. There are some really old buildings around here though. While squatters infest them, they're still very majestic when viewed from outside. This church building from the 1800s is my favorite. Most of the stained glass is still intact.""

- Niboe

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A low-rent residential district. Site of the city's one and only 7-11 (closed for renovations).

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Densely packed, claustrophobic mazes of residential apartments stand above poorly planned roads with broken streetlights that spark and flicker over the cracked pavement. Only the locals know how to navigate the residential labyrinth effectively, by utilizing the interconnected, narrow alleyways the district is named for.

Poudrin Alley is the principal residential district of the city, outfitted with enough low-rent apartments for the lower-middle class to house the entire city on its own. Sadly, for most of the impoverished dredges of the city, these low rents just aren't low enough and the majority of the apartments go unused.

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Bent and broken streetlights spark and flicker over the cracked, derelict pavement. The 7-11 stands dimly opposite a row of apartments, its CLOSED sign crooked and dusty.

7-11
The darkened derelict 7-11 stands as it always has, a steadfast pillar of NLACakaNM culture. On its dirty exterior walls are spraypainted messages about "patch notes", "github", and other unparseable nonsense.

A pillar of NLACakaNM culture.

History
The 7-11 is one of the few non-Slimecorp owned and operated businesses

Despite being one of the most common convenience store brands, the 7-11 in Poudrin Alley is the only location of the franchise in NLACakaNM

The franchisee, one "Samuel Slimerson", is noted as being one of the first and last male Slimeoids produced

The story of the founding is one of betrayal, gang warfare, and independent business shenanigans:

Once Samuel crawled out of the ditch he was dumped into post creation, he saw in front of him a stolen sign of a 7-11 from the neighboring town of Blinkstown, and knew what his first dream was; to rule over the convenience store world

Needless to say, said the dream was quickly abandoned as Samuel found joining a reestablished franchise was waaaay easier, and became the first franchisee of the Seven & I Holdings Co.'s 7-11s

To do so a large loan was undertaken by Samuel, and due to not reading THE FINE PRINT was caught in a clever ruse by one M@thew H May

His debt, threats of violence against the store, and a sect of villainous ghosts moving in and seizing the 12 floors of basements beneath the shop used for storage forced Samuel to consider closing his still young shop after only being open for 12 minutes. Before he could do this however Samuel disappeared without a trace, and the 7-11 became the empty husk we all know it as



The questions raised by his disappearance were many, and the number of suspects and motives even more numerous

Was it a Slimecorp hit squad? Did the Ghosts drag him to the sewers for some dark ritual? or perhaps Samuel simply skipped town to escape the surrounding hell-scape that is NLACakaNM?

This mystery may never be solved due to the complete and utter lack of still living detectives in the city, but perhaps one day Samuel Slimerson will reemerge, reopening 7-11 to unleash unknown horrors onto our proud city

Future?
The storied past of the 7-11 is only dwarfed by its perceptual future

As stated by the kingpin Ben Saint on 07/28/2018 - "Prophecy states that the 7-11 reopening will herald the end of Slime City"

Various tales are told about what is now locked within the walls of this historic structure

24 Karat Shopping
It's a couple of decades old small shopping center which used to hold all the small businesses of the zone, the only building in the area that makes actual fucking sense. Nowadays, it is a shadow of its former self after being completely smashed by gangsters and juvies alike. Its few surviving shops remain in the midst of wreckage and extreme vandalism. A structurally relaxing oasis in this maze of a district, lost gangsters usually take a breath here and talk business with the local dealers.

Apartment Complex
You're balls-deep inside of one of Poudrin Alley's infamous apartment complexes. This section is particularly labyrinthine, being made up of tight corridors with poor lighting and drainage. You have no idea how the locals navigate this shit.

Abandoned Intersection
This four-way intersection is one of the few points of interest in the district that isn't hidden away in some obscure alleyway or backstreet. This crossroads is home to a few sketchy take-out restaurants, a gas station, and a few foreclosed businesses.

Skewer Road
It's a dead-end zig-zag road in ruins that has more turns and pointy corners than an Speed Racer episode of him running from bulls. This road It's the only access to a lot of the houses in the district, you could call it one long, crooked alleway. It remained unattended for so long that everything ended up all cracked and bent. People commute everyday through this road every day in the form of a slow ballet-like traffic, trying to avoid getting their toes shaved by the sharp erupted asphalt, getting impaled by a broken streetlight or eaten entirely by a pothole, like many other less fortunate neighbors.