<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong><em>Warning: This game contains sensitive themes such as suicide, drug use, prostitution, and abuse. If you are uncomfortable with these, this is probably not the game for you.</em></strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">The Home of the Hopeless</span></strong></span></div><br/><em>There's a place where the homeless, the drug addicts, the prostitutes go. Where the dregs of society congregate. A home for the most desperate who still look for a place to belong. Welcome to Desolation Row, named so by the papers. In the 80s, the place was a new two story apartment building, home to the denizens of a growing city. The Row is in the worst part of the worst city in the nation. Every week there seems to be another suicide, another overdose, another murder. Drugs, money, violence, and sex are more than just the themes for those who make this place their home... they are the heart and soul of the Row's existence. <br/><br/>The inhabitants of the row are split in to three primary groups: the thieves, the prostitutes, and the junkies (other groups do exist though are less prominent). The prostitutes are men and women who sell their bodies for money (usually so they can turn around and spend it on drugs), the thieves are self explanatory (everything from strong-arm thievery, to mugging, to pick pocketing, and the junkies are those involved in the manufacture and selling of drugs. Despite the reputation the Row has, behind the graffiti-coated walls, in the halls and abandoned rooms, the Row is unusually well organized. <br/><br/>Two leaders seem to keep everything under control... from the drugs to the money to the safety of their “family”, these two somehow manage to run the Row. They organize the dealers, they make sure the place has (some) electricity and running water. They keep the cops looking the other way despite the politician's and would be do-gooders cries for a change. Shelter and outreach program workers can occasionally be found patrolling around the Row, too afraid to venture inside and looking for someone to take in for a hot meal and a bed, though the inhabitants of the Row do not want to leave. <br/><br/>The Row's denizens have split themselves up in to “families”: small groups of three or four who can handle living in the same rooms without killing each other, and these families tend to share the same apartment. Not many of the apartment's kitchens are up and running, as the electricity is mostly rigged haphazardly these days, going in to running the water heaters and the occasional odd light or outlet. Most families are lucky they have furniture at all, and what they do have is usually the bare-essentials and second hand.</em><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div align="center"><strong>Current IC Date and Time</strong>: Saturday, July 28th 2012. 7 A.M. <br/><strong>Weather</strong>: Warm, 80° F, Sunny</div> <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">IC Rules</span></strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><strong>«</strong>All families are responsible for their own clothes, food, and necessities.<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>All clothes must be washed at least once every two weeks (once per week for all hookers and prostitutes)<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>50% of all profits must be given over to the Row to pay for electricity, water, supplies, etc.<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>NO BUSINESS is to be done at the Row. Dealers, prostitutes, etc must meet with any clients or those who do not live at the Row elsewhere.<strong>»</strong></div><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">OOC Rules</span></strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><strong>«</strong>All characters MUST be over 16<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>Posts must be a minimum of 300 words<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>No first person posting<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>All character images must be of REAL people. No anime, paintings, etc<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>If you're a dealer, you cannot belong to another group and vice versa(anyone can have addictions, they just can't deal)<strong>»</strong><br/><strong>«</strong>Keep ALL drama IC. Those who cause OOC problems will be asked to leave the game<strong>»</strong></div><br/><br/>All posts should have one of the following headers:<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[b]Name[/b]:<br/>[b]Location[/b]:<br/>[b]Tagging[/b]:<br/>[b]Date[/b]:<br/>[b]Time[/b]:<br/>[hr]</code></pre><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[floatleft][img height=200][/img][/floatleft][b]Name[/b]:<br/>[b]Location[/b]:<br/>[b]Tagging[/b]:<br/>[b]Date[/b]:<br/>[b]Time[/b]:<br/>[hr]</code></pre>