[Location] Troll Town

[pringerbeam]

     An old nickname for Portland was the city of bridges.  With the revamping of the city as it became the capitol, one large project decided to embrace this name and set about building a gigantic crossing that would span the Willamette and bridge the downtown East and West banks.  The project was a great success and the so-called Crossing district is a trendy shopping and business locale.  Of course, the gigantic river-spanning superstructure casts a dark shadow over the banks below and it was in this that Troll Town was born.  Named because of the old tales of the habitats of trolls and because of the general population of the area bending towards non-elven metahumans, Troll Town is a refuge for the SINless in the middle of the capitol.  The constabulary occasionally sweeps through the area when the denizens make too much of a scene but otherwise take the position of "out of sight, out of mind" and as long as Troll Town stays in the darkness under the Crossing District, they leave it be.
     As such Troll Town, once a mere homeless camp, now is a sizeable shantytown reaching almost up to the belly of the massive superstructure above and spreading out into the river on stilts and floats.  Troll Town is a dense warren and a common place for runners to duck into to hide from the police or other security forces.  Even if their pursuers continue into Troll Town, they are often easy to lose in the seemingly endless maze of makeshift walkways which may or may not give out underfoot and lead to a sudden impromptu swim in the river at best, and a ten meter fall into rusty scrap at worst.