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SETTING
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Roshe is a rather large city (approximately 130 square miles (336.7 square kilometers)) positioned in an unknown location. The only fact about its location relative to the world outside is that it is inside of the United States of America, somewhere with lots of trees and pleasant breezes and that gets a decent amount of snow. Not much can be seen above the 150ft (45.72m) tall 15ft (4.57m) wide white wall that surrounds every part of Roshe but there is no dome over the city so weather still exists. Sunrises and sunsets do not, however, since the wall blocks them from ever being able to be seen.

The Downtown Area of Roshe is full of glass skyscrapers (made with bullet proof opaque glass that cannot be seen through), convenience stores, public art created by orange-haireds, electronic screens advertising new shows or positive news stories, electric cars and neon lights belonging to smaller businesses to catch the attention of people. There is a decently sized grassy park located in the center of downtown Roshe that often is where festivals or other social activities are held. Downtown Roshe is very clean and tidy and nice to visit, so long as you ignore the cameras positioned on every street corner and outside of every building. There’s even cameras in the alleys, so the trash can be monitored!

Apart from the trash and the cameras, the weather of Roshe is generally pleasant. There can be dangerous storms that blow over it, which have been able to be handled with relative ease over the past sixty years. Thunder and snow storms are the main threat to the inhabitants, but warnings (or lockdowns) go out whenever one of these is discovered. The roadways and walkways of Roshe are heated to assist with the snow and black-haireds salt the roads as soon as they are able to in order to ensure no one crashes due to wintry road conditions. Thunderstorms are not typically deadly but flooding does happen in certain low areas of Roshe so those who live in those areas are asked to evacuate to higher ground whenever it rains too much.

The remainder of Roshe, not including Downtown or the sky, consists of Enterprise, a businessman’s dream, the Residential Area, which is where the education facilities and most houses are located, the Industrial Area, full of factories, the Farmland, full of cows, and the Forbidden Zone. These shall be explained in further detail below.

• Enterprise
• Residential Area
• Industrial Area
• Farmland
• Forbidden Zone

• Inside of Roshe there is Enterprise, which is the business sector and is located near Downtown. It’s gated off and an identification card is needed to get through the gate. It isn’t automated - there’s security guards keeping an eye on everyone who enters the sector, so sneaking in is not likely to happen unless you’re an invited guest or know someone on the inside who can vouch for you. Enterprise is where the politicians do all of their political work and it’s where the leaders of Roshe meet, as well as where the police are trained, but the police station is not located here. There also is Irwin Library, which is where biographies, genealogical and historical information of Roshe is kept. Calling ahead and requesting a visit to the library for a personal or school project is a definite way to get inside of Enterprise’s locked up grounds, but anyone who visits the library is guided there by a security guard.
  
  ⇝ Irwin Library contains only information about Roshe and the families inside of Roshe within its walls. Any other topic can be researched at the public library, located near the park in Downtown. Irwin is a pretty great place to gather information or do some digging, but the information you can gather here is mostly kept behind locked shelves and you’d need to talk with a librarian in order to get a record out. That’s kind of weird, if one thinks about it. Why would they need to keep records locked up?
  
  ★ Visiting Irwin Library is a required field trip for every fourteen year old child who lives in Roshe to make, regardless of their hair color or status. Gotta find that family information on that trip! And it’s required, which is strange! But oh well! There’s definitely no lies here! Nothing suspicious goes on here! Ignore all the indigo, green and blue-haireds that flit around the library and talk in hushed whispers! Ignore that some of these people do not go back out the exit but somehow vanish from the library! Nothing is weird here!!
• A wide expanse of houses stretching from the edge of Downtown to the edge of Farmland and even the wall. The area is divided up into smaller neighborhoods, some gated, most not. It’s further separated out by churches, parks, grocery, hardware, and general stores, and the schools are all located in this area. A general rule of thumb for determining if your neighborhood is considered wealthier than others or not is its proximity to Downtown: closer means wow, look at that wealth and status (and gated community!), while farther means oh go hang out with those boring farmers and all the sheep. Neighborhoods near the wall, we don’t talk about. The neighborhoods near the public college are considered high-middle class and are usually kept in good repair, as are the ones near the private college, and these neighborhoods have a “college town” kind of vibe to them. There’s cafes and restaurants and arcades and other small locally owned shops scattered around the area. There is a poor neighborhood called Lower East (not to be confused with the middle-class Upper East) located in the Residential Area near the wall that is full of rundown houses in a constant state of disrepair and the impoverished, but it is far enough away from the rest so society so no one really notices it.
  
  ⇝ The size of someone’s house also is a determiner of the status their family possesses in Roshe. Single-story homes or apartments or shared-wall homes are often for the black and yellow-haireds, or the poorest families, or families that have a taint in their family tree. Two-stories are for most of the middle-class. Three-stories or mansions? Rich families only, usually indigo or violet or blue-haireds. The high-rises in Downtown are specifically reserved for indigo or violet-haireds, or favored families, which there are actually a surprising number of.
  
  ⇝ Public transportation is a big thing throughout all of Roshe, but it’s especially important in the Residential Area. There’s bus lines that go everywhere (even to the schools, Farmland, Lower East and Enterprise). Black-haireds run the buses into the early morning hours to cover the various hours the inhabitants of Roshe work.
  
  ⇝ Housing and utilities are free in all of Roshe. Repairs to housing are not, unless you are in the very upper-echelon of society. The place where a family resides is determined based on the family tree and can get better or worse depending on the contributions a family makes to society. Families can be forcefully moved for any number of reasons, the main one being if a family member is too problematic, as a form of punishment. If this occurs to any family then it is viewed as a scandal and whispered about for quite a while in the neighborhood.
  
  ★ There are several trash facilities located in the Residential Area to cover every neighborhood. There are guards stationed at them, but they work in shifts, and there are certain times when they are not there. There’s also manholes into the sewer systems on every street in the Residential Area, but those shouldn’t be opened or gone through, because someone might be seen on one of the cameras on the light posts or street signs.
• Peppered along the base of the wall, this area is factory land, basically. This area primarily consists of the less than desirable buildings, but it’s where a lot of things are created or destroyed or otherwise disposed of. There’s a metal factory, a mine for getting that metal, processing plants, electric power plants, and more, some of which may or may not be secret from all of society! It is not gated or guarded like Enterprise, but that’s only because it’s not hiding much from society (supposedly), unlike Enterprise. There is potentially a way to get out of Roshe if one investigates this area, but there’s several other ways to get out of Roshe that do not require forcing something open- Oh, oops! Well, that can be a hint. Forcing what open? A door? A lock? Something else? What’s in the Industrial Area, really? Is it just factories or is there more to it? That does tend to be the trend in Roshe…
  
  ★ The Roshe Cemetery is located near the Industrial Area, but it is isolated from the factories by a 15ft (4.57m) brick wall that surrounds the entire cemetery lot. It’s also surprisingly quiet, mostly thanks to the factory that is closest to it being oddly silent. People that disappear are not buried here but there are many memorials left here, even if there is no headstone for somebody. There are no secrets at the cemetery. It is only full of dead people and memories.
• This area takes up several miles of Roshe and starts around the edge of the Residential Area and pushes up against the wall. Rolling fields full of crops, cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, goats, chickens, and even ducks and turkeys and fish farms are what is in this area. If you’ve ever been somewhere rural, that is what this area is, with the long roads and wooden fences and everything. There are a few houses for yellow-haired families in this area, and there is cell and internet service out here, but there is very little of interest to explore in Farmland. Well, there are some petting zoos and a wild animal “zoo” and festivals sometimes, but that’s pretty much it. The only thing that might be intriguing to explore is the affectionately (and stupidly) named FoRoshe, Roshe’s forest, because while it only takes up a small portion of Roshe, it’s one of the few places where there are no cameras. Perhaps an oversight on the leaders of Roshe’s half, but perhaps there are actually cameras inside of the trees and the forest simply exists to see what the inhabitants of Roshe do when they do not think they are supervised. Or perhaps there is nothing really going on with the forest at all and it is just full of trees and bushes and some deer. And a couple of very dangerous ravines that should be avoided at all costs.
  
  ⇝ There are several greenhouses, both large and small, located in Farmland to continue to grow food during the cold months. These are maintained primarily by yellow-haireds but occasionally green-haireds go out to care for them as well. The greenhouses are a relatively new addition to Farmland, having been implemented only 35 years ago. They’re a common sight to see now, though. Some kids even like to play in them!
• This zone? Does not exist. It’s not in Roshe because it does not exist. Don’t keep reading. You’re still reading, aren’t you? You are. I know you are.
  
  Fine, keep reading, but don’t tell anyone about it, okay?
  
  There is a very tall curved dark gray brick wall that is along the North of Roshe, which can be seen from Downtown and the Industrial Area and certain neighborhoods of the Residential Area. No one is sure how tall the wall actually is, but they can clearly see that it is shorter than the white wall that surrounds the rest of Roshe. Also noticeable is the color difference of the two walls and the color difference on the dark gray wall itself. There is a large section of it that is darker than the rest of it, almost like it was patched up in the past. Perhaps the patch was because the wall collapsed, but the shape of the patchwork does not look like a collapse: it looks like some kind of explosion. Quite a large one. There are several very tall metallic antennae or thin towers or needles that stick out above both walls but that are inaccessible unless one goes inside of the Forbidden Zone. Along the bottom of the dark gray wall surrounding the Forbidden Zone is a lot of graffiti and murals, but these frequently get painted over by inmates dressed in cream colored jumpsuits. Wait, inmates? Oh, this must be where the jail is located! But, hold on, that doesn’t make sense, because the jail is just outside of Downtown. So then what is the Forbidden Zone? Why is the wall patched so obviously? Why are inmates over here instead of over at the jail close to Downtown?
  
  No one has any clear answer as to what exactly the Forbidden Zone is, but the most common belief, according to the elderly of Roshe, is that it was a different section of Roshe that collapsed in on itself. Not physically, but socially. The elderly believe (but are not completely certain) that the Forbidden Zone was a smaller town or something similar that did not survive after infighting and crime took over. There’s also several other theories, since the elderly of Roshe are very rarely to be trusted: it’s where they keep the more dangerous criminals. It’s where they’re researching scientific things to help the outside world. It’s a way to get to the outside world. It’s where the aliens are at. It’s where all the missing people end up. It’s a secret project the leaders of Roshe are working on that will help make Roshe even more prosperous. It’s where the hole in the tall white wall is at.
  
  Most theories are just theories, but theorizing about what the Forbidden Zone is, or even what the dark gray wall is hiding from the rest of Roshe, is dangerous and should not be done unless someone wishes to disappear then never return. Going near the wall is also not advisable, since there are far too many guards and military personnel that patrol its entire length. Oh, so this is where the military is stationed! Outside of the weird mysterious Forbidden Zone! There are two doors that are on the far sides of the wall and one in the middle, but those have three guards near them at all times.
  
  It’s all really kind of bizarre, but don’t mention how weird any of it is, since the Forbidden Zone very clearly does not exist. It’s just a plain old wall that is not interesting in the slightest and nothing needs to be discovered over here. This location is definitely not important to the plot at all. It’s just a boring wall.