Detroit

The reclaimed city

Aaron Young — 18/07/2052

Just like everyone else, we lost the surface city of Detroit when the Mist engulfed the world years ago. We crawled back up not too long ago, and we had to claw back every inch of territory, every street and every building from the monsters. But on this day the war is over, on this day Detroit is once again ours!

Ancient home, new home

I didn't want to write this entry before the end of the war. Call me superstitious if you want, it just didn't feel right. Now is the time, as the Council officially declared the retake of the city completed. Sure, some Creatures still lurk in the vicinity, but the gross of the fight is over. For the following generation, let me tell you what Detroit was, and what it has become.

Detroit was our home, before we lost it to the fog. It was hardly a striving city, but one in which we lived comfortably. Only a portion of its inhabitants managed to descend into the underground shelter. The lucky ones. As a result, the demographic chart has been completely flipped over.

Our fathers lived in New Detroit for a few years before the breaching of Block 16. This tragic event prompted our return to the surface, though it was not a breeze. For over 25 years, we led a merciless war against the creature that had taken over Detroit, only to take back the privilege of living at the surface.

A map redrawn

The city of Detroit is nothing like it was. Sure, the general layout is the same, and the streets didn't change much. However, most buildings are in ruins, and the few standing ones are hollowed shells with barely any furniture. This is not enough to discourage us. The F.I.S.H. has settled its headquarters in [building name] since the second year of the fight, Wayne's Sorcerers reign over the campus of Wayne State University and the Gathering seems to have adopted [building name].

Other minor guilds are negotiating to get a territory of their own and especially a building they can call home. The ancient district delimitations have no meaning, and no doubt a new map will be needed to keep track of everything that is happening.

A lot of streets have been rendered impractical, either filled with deadly trapped, clogged with a decades-old traffic jam or outright destroyed. The Macaques are setting up their high ways, a project of aerial paths to connect the different parts of Detroit without relying on unsafe ground.