The Los Angeles Underworld – Liberation MUSH

Hollywoodland

The area around Hollywood has long been the spiritual heartland for the Legions of Sygia. Even when the mighty Sepulcher stood proud and tall in the Shadowlands near Vernon, most business and dealings perpetrated by the Restless Dead took place in or around the beating heart of Los Angeles’ creative industry. Once a veritable garden of classical architecture erected by Roman Vitruvius, much of that has been torn down and replaced by an image of Tinseltown during the 1950s and 60s, if it were reflected through a dark mirror. Thanks to the Hollywood Preservation society, the heart of Sygian power in the Necroplis appears to visitors as if one stepped backward in time to an idealized vision of the past. In truth, the darkened alleys and hidden corners of Hollywood’s ghostly reflection still contain a seedy underbelly of vice, corruption, and violence. The pathos flows more freely here than in almost any other place in the world, and it is home to many wraiths who seek to strike it rich or while away their eternity rubbing elbows with the wealthy and famous who linger beyond the Shroud. It is the locus of Legion power in the Necropolis. A bulwark against Oblivion. Some wraiths call it a bastion and others a prison.

Whitley Heights

Founded in the early 1900s by Hobart Johnstone Whitley this upscale Hollywood neighborhood was originally based on around Mediterranean design principals. In modern times it has become a historic preservation zone and features more than a few architectural curiosities. It also has hosted a number of very famous celebrities over the years, including Charlie Chaplain, Ronald Reagan, Bette Davis, and Judy Garland. In the Shadowlands, Whitley Heights it the seat of Hierarchy power and influence. Here, the Legion’s gleaming Citadel towers over the structures around it, overlooking the rest of the Los Angeles Necropolis. Within its shadow lies the moldering manors and ruined estates of Hollywoodland’s most wealthy and influential wraiths. The many administrative buildings of the Legions are also located here, including the library, soulforges, court, and clerk’s offices. At most times, Whitley Heights is a bustling hive of activity as the Restless Dead of Underwood carry out their affairs. This is also one of the most secure places in the Necropolis as patrols of Legionnaires come and go from the Citadel on a regular basis. Leading up to the walls of the Citadel is the Viae Aureae, the Golden Road. This road winds throughout Hollywoodland, roughly following Hollywood Boulevard and is said to be reminiscent of the Yellow Brick Road from the Wizard of Oz. A massive soulforged relic bell named the Bell of Lost Souls sits atop the Citadel and can be rung whenever danger arrives. Its powers of Keening ensure that it will be heard anywhere inside Underwood. It is said that when it is rung, its ominous and haunting sound can be heard across the Shroud in the Skinlands. This area is heavily patrolled by the Legions and one of the safest in the entire Necropolis.

Downtown Hollywood

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Resting on 62 acres of land behind the Paramount Studio lot, the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, or Hollywood Forever, as it was later named, is the preeminent place to be buried in Hollywood. Founded in 1899 the cemetery hosts some 80,000 grave sites including famous names such as Mel Blanc, Rudolph Valentino, DeeDee and Johnny Romone, Bugsey Siegal, and Judy Garland. In the Skinlands, this is a peaceful, well-maintained park. In the Shadowlands, it is a ruined reflection of its Skinlands glory, full of ominous stone statues and crumbling mausoleums. The cemetery has undergone several renovations over the years but is well-known for its Classically-inspired architecture, a fact which is reflected in the Shadowlands as a Grecian-style agora called Terminus Plaza that rises amid the graves and memorials. The Plaza’s permanent population consists of some hundreds of Drones and Will-less spirits who wander the property, often repeating the methods of their deaths. The Hierarchy has forbidden reaping of these Drones, officially declaring them ‘protected’ as part of Hollywoodland’s historic preservation effort. That being said, there is a field office of the Reapers that is maintained there. Given it’s close proximity to the Midnight Express platform, Terminus is often the first destination of many new arrivals to Hollywoodland. It is also a place that many freshly reaped Enfants see for the first, and potentially last time.

The Restless Dead in Hollywood often use Hollywood Forever as a meeting spot, especially if that meeting involves the Quick or the Skinlands. The Hollywoodland wraiths have also been known to use this location as a gathering place for events, announcements, and the occasional open-air market. Typically this is a ‘less-than-legal’ Night Market which operates in the shadow of the bustling businesses of Downtown. No small amount of illegal business goes down here as well, just so long as the involved parties stay out of sight and pay their bribes. There is a large pillar in the middle of Hollywood Forever’s Shadowlands. A black obelisk that is called the Nexum. Many wraiths use this as both a site for memoiram, in remembering what was lost or as something of a missed connections board. Still others will use it as a place to hang job opportunities, announcements, and even bounties. A network of spectre-haunted catacombs are said to lie buried beneath Terminus but few Restless are willing to take the risk of exploring the truth of these rumors.

West Hollywood

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The Cicatrix

The Angelus Redoubt

Westlake

Downtown Los Angeles

El Pueblo de Los Angeles

El Corazon Badlands

Pacific Electric Railway

The Jade Crescent

Casablanca

West Los Angeles

The Santa Monica Exclave

Beverly Hills

The Hell Pits

South Los Angeles

Watts & South Central

The Everblight

Harbor District

Slaghollow

East Los Angeles

Mictlan Zigguratt

The Ruined Sepulcher

The Screaming Fields

Mournwail