A Map of Sunnydale
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
A map of the fictional town of Sunnydale, California would incorporate a few facades: clothing and jewelry shops, a few TCBY outlets, a magic shop, stretched in a thin semicircle defined by a Main Street that leads, on one end, to a mall, and on the other end, to Sunnydale High School. Behind this ring is a massive, twisted labyrinth of back alleys full of smoking manholes, unattended trashfires and empty barrels. This area is as endless as the mind and a few reconfigured props can make it, and if you were to run down any given back alley from the retail facade, you could make an endless number of right turns and always find yourself turning into in a new dark alley, like a fractal pattern made from incidental architecture. Businesses thrive in this sunless area of town--The Bronze, a popular nightclub for teenagers, can be found there. On the other side of the retail facade, across Main street, are suburban, Upper-middle-class homes with sizeable backyards. These backyards converge at a monolithic wall, made of ancient rock and crusted with black mold. Behind this wall is a vast necropolis housed with every type of walk-in crypt, mausoleum and gravestone, from every era, stretching as far as the eye can see. Somewhere nearby is the ocean, and a few docks. A highway leads toward the college, and then out of town.
posted by Greg Purcell @ 12:40 PM,
