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Metro City is about the size of a regular city, but contains four sectors total, comparable to the different boroughs of New York, and in most cases it's just easier to think of them that way: Metropolis, Gotham City, Arkham, and a strange, abandoned strip of land on the periphery that seems to be uninhabitable. Unless you like living in the desert, anyway.

METROPOLIS
Welcome to Metropolis! Home of Superman, inspired by Toronto, a beautiful hodge podge of the best parts of the best cities in the US. Shining. Glittering. Bright.

Heroes arriving in Metro City for the first time will find themselves here, or more specifically on a specially designated floor at Stark Tower, not that they're obligated to stay there past the obligatory Welcome Tour.

GOTHAM CITY
The Land of the Bat (although he's yet to put in an appearance). Dingy, grimy, almost perpetually housed in a fog of gloom and doom, Gotham is the exact opposite of Metropolis; the grunge of the industrial age is in high force here, Art Decco abounds, and it practically oozes ill intent.

Gotham is home to the hub for the villains, Happy Harry's, a shady bar for the criminally inclined. Newly arrived villainous types will find themselves in the basement, and from there the world is theirs.

ARKHAM
The third sector, which connects Gotham to Metropolis and acts as a sort of buffer zone, is Arkham. It's your average metro area, nothing exceptional. Neither particularly well known for its ideal nature, nor for its seedy underbelly, it's a sort of limbo, a means of separating the best of the best from the worst of the worst.

All neutral parties, the civilians who fight for neither side, appear here, in the back room of Atomic Comics.

EMERALD BEACH
On the fringes of Metro City, there is a beach. It seems like it's been abandoned for a long time, longer than the city's existed, maybe. Step out into it, put your feet in the water, and try to ignore that nagging feeling of someone watching you. There's no-one around. Really.

Or is there?

Why is it here? Why is it empty? What happened here?