Downtown

First Providence Financial

First Providence is one of the two reigning financial corporations in Cape Glory, its operations based out of what is now commonly referred to as Providence Tower, one of the two tallest buildings in Downtown – and the rest of the city, for that matter. In fact, it’s only Torrance Tower – which stands only a few streets away – that competes against Providence Tower for height and majesty, and it’s a rivalry that has existed for as long as most residents of Cape Glory can recall, long through history, since even before the current financial businesses held residence in the impossibly towering skyscrapers.

First owned by the Montgomery family, one of the many “old money” families of Cape Glory, it was financial mogul Trent Montgomery who commissioned the construction of the then-titled “Montgomery Tower” in the 1950s to service his business, Montgomery Mutual Trust. Competition already existed in the form of the Torrance family – and Torrance Tower – but for 20 years, Trent Montgomery enjoyed booming success even in the midst of the rivalry, and quite nearly ruled Cape Glory.

Then 1976 arrived, Trent Montgomery “broke down,” and in the process ended up gruesomely slaughtering his nearest and dearest during a high societal family supper – thoughtfully after dessert, and directly before committing his own grisly suicide. The tabloids had a frenzy.

With no one immediately capable of inheriting Trent’s legacy, Montgomery Tower came into the hands of the bank and was shortly after leased by First Providence Financial in the late 1980s.

People’s Trust Bank (Torrance Tower)

Like the old Montgomery Tower, Torrance Tower – which currently holds the offices of People’s Trust Bank – has its own rich, if less morbidly colorful history. Yet another famously wealthy family in Cape Glory’s past (and present) was behind its construction in the late 1930s, and until the sudden arrival and competing success of Montgomery Mutual, it had been none other than Torrance Investments Co., led by Sal Torrance, which had monopolized city’s realm of finance for years.

The signs of competition between Trent Montgomery and Sal Torrance are evidenced in more than simply fiscal record and paper trial. Even in the present day, both the old Montgomery Tower and Torrance Tower seem to vie for kingly dominance of the city’s skyline. Under the influence of the two competing families, the buildings were continually developed throughout the years until both eventually soared to a breathtaking 80-stories – not including the radio towers that, even today, blink erratically through the clouds, adding even further height to the intimidating skyscrapers.

Currently, while the Torrance family still exists in Cape Glory, the descendants of Sal now merely own the holding company that leases the tower of their namesake. It was in the early 1990s that People’s Trust Bank moved in and set up shop to become the major competitor of First Providence – as if fatefully continuing the age-old rivalry that exists between the two towers.

Cape Glory Rapid Transport Authority

Cape Glory provides bus, light rail, and subway transit to the commuters of the city. Bus lines run throughout the city and stops are located in multiple locations in every district. Light rail and subway lines travel through the majority of the city, alternating between subterranean and elevated rails where necessary. All transit services are available for fees which may vary depending on distance traveled.

Red Hook Harbour

Queen Street

The Harbour's section of Queen Street is completely different to the part that runs through Bay place, across the Bay Bridge. More suited towards industrial activity, trucks carrying cargo to and from the harbour often pass along it, heading in and out of the city through Little Italy.

Glory Port

Glory Port, present day, is but a pale, ghostly shell of its former glory. It remains a bustling center for fishing and shipping, but where legal business trade has petered out, the black market has moved in and drug- and people-trafficking is a profitable enterprise for the city’s underworld.

Tall fences and barbwire enclose the port like a fortress, regularly patrolled by security guards and harbor police, each in a different organization’s pocket. The docks are characterized by areas of intense activity where massive containers are removed from ships and methodically stacked, interspersed with areas of complete stillness, thousands and thousands of transportation containers stacked up as far as the eye can see, and entire pockets of space long forgotten or lost in the system.

Saint Point

Saint Point is the site of the city's Ferry Landing, where hourly ferry's arrive to take tourists, sightseers and the occasional maintence worker to Saint's Isle, between the hours of 10am to 4pm weekdays. The Ferry itself is an old boat which, while is not dangerous, is certainly thrilling to ride on.

Isle of Saints

The Isle of Saints is a large mountainous island a mile off the coast of Red Hook Harbor, shared by two of the city’s historical landmarks – Mather’s Point Lighthouse and a World War 2 battlement and accompanying lookout tower popularly referred to by residents of the city as “the Lookout.” Both sites are privately maintained, and accessible to visitors by daytime boat tours.

Bay Place

Cape Glory Aquarium

The Cape Glory Aquarium is the largest Aquarium in New England, with over 4 million gallons of water and several exciting and exotic species, as well as it's world famous shark tanks. A large glass building, the aquarium is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the city, and for good reason. With several exciting and intriguing glass walkways, vistors can almost walk through the tanks themselves, coming face to face with many aquatic species. Events at the aquarium also allow visitors to feed some of the creatures, as well as occassionally swim with some of the less dangerous ones. Though the Aquarium is closed to the public at night, the Aqua Lounge, known as the "Qua" for short, is the city's Elysium, allowing the vampires to visit the cozy yet exciting venue, which comes complete with a tank built into the floor that features some of the Aquarium's numerous sharks.

The Argyle Hotel

Cape Glory is home to it's own five star luxury hotel, The Argyle. With an average price of $365 a night, the hotel is the premier accomodation for the rich that visit the city to stay in. Located right on the water, the hotel is conveniently close to numerous luxury restaurants as well as the city's Aquarium. Featuring fine dining, an exclusive bar, indoor pool and spa, as well as facilities for business meetings, banquets and conventions, The Argyle is the very essense of luxury, comfort and discrimination. Those that do not appear equipped to afford the Hotel's many features are asked to leave, and in some cases, simply arrested for trespassing.

New Shannon

St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral

West End

Cape Glory Acres

The city's mental hospital has a long and traumatic history in the city. Established in 1816 as Cape Glory Asylum, it had an unusually large number of patients right from it's opening. In 1852, a large fire gutted the building, killing most of the patients as well as a few of the doctors and nurses. Robert Gardner Smith, the asylum superintendent was arrested for starting the fire after being driven into madness himself, confessing to the crime, but stating that he had only started the fire to protect the innocent, and prevent the darkness locked in the madmen’s minds from ever escaping. It was purchased from the city in 1972 and renamed Cape Glory Acres. It currently has over 200 patients, most of which are criminally insane. As such, the facility focuses on containing the patients, as opposed to rehabilitating them, and the methods they use reflect this.

University District

Cape Glory University

CGU is acclaimed for its physics and mathematics departments, though rather than being a center of exciting new innovations, most of the University’s breakthroughs are revealed in the Jane’s Defense almanac, such as their three year research project into increasing cruise missile dynamics and targeting systems, as well as the implications of radio networking waveforms for tactical communication.

The campus has its share of urban myths. One tells the story of a university mathematician that became obsessed with his studies, descended into madness, and was discovered after he’d taken his own life, in an office whose walls had been scrawled from floor to ceiling in numbers and senseless equation.

General Kinetic Corporation

General Kinetic Corporation is a major defense contractor, although many are liable to overlook the flat, square and remarkably unassuming building that serves as the company’s headquarters. The statue in front – a cruise missile, fittingly – is the only clue toward the real business of the corporation.

It’s widely known for regularly giving generous amounts in grants and funds to the university, and for taking in a great percentage of its best graduates. Employment by General Kinetic Corporation is coveted, and it keeps its secrets well: it’s high level of elite security helps ensure that.

Gilman Park

Cape Glory Zoo

Club District

Death in Glory

“The DIG” is the city’s premiere club, a cyber-goth industrial extravaganza. The DIG is easily recognizable, not the least due to its reflective black façade. On any night, the massively sized, two-story building is packed to bursting, exploding in a dazzling kaleidoscope pulse of strobes and the deafening pound of electronic and industrial bass. DIG’s infamous DJ Definite and resident band, Synthesis 16, who wittily “specialize in everything but the Machine,” are regularly in attendance.

Cultural District

Mathers Monument and Chapel

Dedicated to Jerusalem Mather, the venerated founder of Cape Glory, the monument is a formidable centerpiece in the heart of the Cultural District, depicting the historical preacher in passionate sermon, eternally guiding the people of Cape Glory toward the righteous path.

In grand, tangible display of Jerusalem’s past glory, Jerusalem Chapel looms directly behind the monument, its lofty spires stretching for the heavens. Originally constructed by Mather and his devoted followers in the 1600s, the chapel was restored and renovated in 1857, and is faithfully maintained. Religious services are still held in the chapel and the historical site is open to visitors. Fanciful rumors circulate of the old preacher’s spirit lingering on, ceaseless in his duties.

Setting : Landmarks