Swing City
Swing City is based on documents and films like Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Dick Tracy, and the Godfather. It hearkens back to 1940’s earth with all its post-war glitz, glamour, and noir vibes. Small restaurants, dance halls full of big band music and Sinatra style crooners, and a night life full of casinos, cafes, and black and white films.
Magical Culture
An area full of pulp mystery, noir, and glamour. Magic here is full of shadows and the smell of cigarette smoke in dark alleys, subtle and mysterious. Alternatively, it’s flash and glamour like las vegas show girl moves, sequins set in arcane patterns, or spinning chips and rifled cards. While practitioners in this area have a variety of casting methods, few of them look like “traditional magic”Demographics
No specific divisions
Defences
None in particular though an occasional fancier of the mafioso is not someone you want to cross.
Industry & Trade
Entertainment, eateries
Infrastructure
Swing city is highly urbanized, mostly made of businesses and apartments designed to mimic post-war 1940’s America in major cities like Chicago and New York. Stand alone homes are unusual here but apartments range from the modest to opulently luxurious penthouses. Most of this area is middle class or higher - even those who like to live in a “poorer” setting for aesthetics tend to be more well off than they appear.
Guilds and Factions
The Corleones
An organization of mobsters and ne’er do wells that tacitly tries to control goings on in Swing City. They model themselves directly off the Godfather movies.
AOGPB
The All-Olympian Girls Professional Baseball League - an actual sports league of women that plays baseball. Their games are popular throughout the city and the teams draw members from all around the city and from other boroughs.
An organization of mobsters and ne’er do wells that tacitly tries to control goings on in Swing City. They model themselves directly off the Godfather movies.
The All-Olympian Girls Professional Baseball League - an actual sports league of women that plays baseball. Their games are popular throughout the city and the teams draw members from all around the city and from other boroughs.
History
Swing City was a later development in Olympian history. The documents associated with it were later finds from arks and, quite simply, entertainment and leisure were late comers to the city.
Points of interest
The Feast of St. Anthony
While no one is actually sure who St. Anthony was, this feast day is hosted by the Corelone’s family and is a popular attraction. Held on the last weekend of August, the event features vendors, food stands, and a procession that highlights local musicians and paper mache floats designed by various businesses and groups in the larger city. Wrigley Field
A smallish baseball stadium where the AOGPB plays
Sinatra’s
A night club renowned for its big band music, swing dancing, and featuring up and coming singers who favor the crooner era style music
While no one is actually sure who St. Anthony was, this feast day is hosted by the Corelone’s family and is a popular attraction. Held on the last weekend of August, the event features vendors, food stands, and a procession that highlights local musicians and paper mache floats designed by various businesses and groups in the larger city. Wrigley Field
A smallish baseball stadium where the AOGPB plays
A night club renowned for its big band music, swing dancing, and featuring up and coming singers who favor the crooner era style music
Architecture
Brownstone style apartments and flats, narrow alleys, and cafes and restaurants with sidewalk seating. Open air farmers markets on the weekends.
Population
Medium
Inhabitant Demonym
Swingers, Bogarts (male presenting), Bergmans (female presenting)
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