Maps, Area Descriptions, and Location List

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Below are detailed descriptions of all locations that characters have explored or are immediately likely to explore within the city, and maps of every part of Seattle proper. The areas further south (Burien, White Center, Tukwila, Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Normandy Park, and SeaTac) that are also accessible do not have maps yet, and we're currently also looking for a map of SeaTac International Airport that includes the 1973 renovations but (for obvious reasons) not the ones that began in the 1980s.

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The houses and apartment complexes in Southeast Magnolia are in just as much of a state of disrepair as those in the neighboring Lawton Park and Briarcliff. The lawns are overgrown and full of weeds, as are the desiccated remains of gardens. The windows are all broken out, drywall and furnishings alike are mouldering, and there’s little of value left inside.

On 34th Avenue, immediately to the south of Lawton Park, is a large building whose sign proclaims it to be the “Catharine Blaine School”; judging by its size, it’s most likely a combined elementary and middle school. The classrooms on the outside of the building don’t have anything particularly interesting left in them - the books of arithmetic and social studies and English have developed thriving colonies of mildew, and the globes and other plastic models are peeling badly. The chemistry labs have been emptied of all chemicals and specimens; there’s a little bit of glassware left, but most of it is broken, and the spark lighters are rusted beyond usability. A lone dirachnid is building a web in one of the fume hoods. There are half-frozen puddles on the floor beneath the shattered windows.

The few classrooms with no windows are better preserved. Some of the books are intact, and in the margins of a few are childish scribbles, though there’s something sinister about the contents of those scribbles. The sketches of a tall, dark figure beaming out “mind control rays” or references to a disease that “makes you a zombie maybe???” could be channeling standard Cold War fears, but the sketches of children kicking strangely disjointed baby dolls are more difficult to explain.

The school is situated between two sets of athletic fields, one a large lot of overgrown grass that might have been used for soccer games back in its day, and the other, slightly less overgrown, appears to have been intended for playing softball. Next to the latter on the 34th street side is a set of tennis courts, though the fields themselves are more visible from the 32nd street side, where a sign describing them as the “Magnolia Playfield” remains, but has fallen over.

At the corner of 32nd and W Smith, next to the softball fields, is the entrance to the Southeast Magnolia metro station. The entrance is largely bricked off, with concrete barricades placed in front of it for good measure; however, one of the barricades has been moved aside, and there is a hole in the bricks large enough for a man to fit through easily. The longer one stares at it, the more one will feel oddly compelled to go through it and explore the station.

East of the Magnolia Playfield, on 32nd street, is a grocery store.

The rest of the commercial area is mostly south of the school, on both sides of Smith and McGraw between 34th and 31st streets. Just south of the Magnolia Playfield is the Magnolia Garden Center, and across from it is a hardware store.

South of the hardware store and garden center are a number of abandoned restaurants. A few of them are completely empty, doors still locked even though all the glass is shattered; in others, it seems as though the staff figured the evacuation would only be temporary, as all the equipment and utensils were packed away - though, some of the drawers are busted open, with knives and spatulas and strainers spilled out onto the floor - and the food disposed of, save for five-gallon cans, the labels missing, in one completely overlooked storeroom. Still others seem to have either received no warning, or been operating up until the last possible moment despite it. The pots and pans and utensils are caked with filth, and the stench coming from the industrial refrigerators and freezers is still cloying. There are a few more huge cans here and there; if opened, they’ll prove to be mostly stock, or vegetables, or especially tomatoes, but there are a few of fruit, salsa, olives or other assorted pickled substances, or some obscure meat - and a few have the distinct bulge of botulinum contamination.

At the southernmost end of Southeast Magnolia is a large, but mostly deserted, marina.

East from the stores, a large sinkhole blocks passage on 28th between Smith and McGraw, extending all the way to the front steps of a school building that looks as though it was abandoned decades before the rest of the area, given its relatively extensive graffiti and the rotting plywood still covering many of the windows. Judging from the faint sulfurous scent floating up from the sinkhole, it resulted from the collapse of a sewer main, and it looks as though, with no one around to fix the first one, several successive collapses and some erosion have enlarged it. Directly beneath the steps of the abandoned school, a handful of human bones protrude from the soil, and at the bottom of the hole, mostly submerged, are a bent television aerial and a few dense, misshapen bones that don’t appear to be human.

Further east, on 21st street - next to the Interbay - is an Irish pub.