San Andreas Suburbs

The San Andreas area has a number of towns in addition to the major cities of Hightown, Oldtown, and Industrial Town.

=Ciudadela= Ciudadela, or properly La Ciudadela de los Hijos Olvidados, has the dubious honor of being the site of the oldest apparent settlement in the San Andreas area. The name is a translation to the first European language in the area of the original native's name for the place.

Existing in the northwestern area, the place has gained the epithet The Enclave, for it has been a gathering place for non-kindred supernatural creatures and has existed as such for as long as any can remember. As a haven for some manner of supernatural creatures other than Kindred, entrance by a Vampire is punishable by death.

The scourge is often seen guarding the bridge. Presumably waiting to issue immediate punishment to kindred trying to break the law by crossing the bridge.

=Little Salem= Capitalizing on the occult mystique of Mount Andreas, this suburb of San Andreas has sprung up. A combination of local mortal pagans and "occultists," the town's major industry is tourism. Primarilly, the town caters to new-age clientele but hikers, mountain bikers, and rock climbers are all well served. The area is sometimes, derisively, referred to as "San Salem."

Imboca
This small town would be a suburb of the San Andreas tri-cities, but somehow it has developed largely independently of the remainder of the tri-city area. First settled in 1843, and became a center of marine prosperity by 1900. Never populous, the birthrate in the town has historically remained exceptionally low. Due to its size, the residents had become highly insular and suspicious by the time of the Industrial revolution and the explosive expansion that period brought. The town continued to be successful in its economic nich but its teetering population would be severly, if not fatally, damaged by losses in WWII. The further Pacific wars of the later 20th century continued to ravage the population of this village even as its birthrate remained low and immigration in or out of the area stagnated. All of this has raised the often whispered question of what will happen to the town of Imboca in the coming decades as the tri-cities expand and, eventually, try to annex the area. The citizens of Imboca are not well liked by the rest of San Andreas and are, at best, considered inbred degenerates. The well known steriotype of the Imboca citizen includes certain physical characteristics, such as narrow heads, flat noses, and bulging, stary eyes.



Imboca is a town of wide extent and dense construction, yet one with a portentous dearth of visible life. Three tall steeples loom stark and unpainted against the seaward horizon. One of them crumbling down at the top, and in that and another there were only black gaping holes where clock-dials should have been. The vast huddle of sagging gambrel roofs and peaked gables convey with offensive clearness the idea of wormy decay, and as approached along the now descending road one can see that many roofs had wholly caved in. There are some large square Georgian houses with hipped roofs, cupolas, and railed "widow's walks". These are mostly well back from the water, and one or two seemed to be in moderately sound condition. The decay is worst close to the waterfront, though in its very midst an observer can spy the white belfry of a fairly well-preserved brick structure which looks like a small factory. Here and there the ruins of wharves jut out from the shore to end in indeterminate rottenness, those farthest north seeming the most decayed.