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19. MARSTEN ELEMENTARY
Marsten
Elementary is the home of the Dead Zoners. This
building complex and the streets surrounding are the
single most dangerous place in the Combat Zone.
 The
school
was originally built for the children of the workers
brought in to build Night City, the original
inhabitants of the Marsten Complex. It continued
to act as a school even as the neighborhood worsened,
right up until Carnival. During Carnival,
a shelter was set up inside the school with the hopes
of providing aid and sanctuary to families and
children who couldn’t escape. However the school
was overrun, first by gang members looking for a
defensible position, then by a large group of bounty
hunters. The chaos and bloodshed that ensued was
disastrous and tragic, as the teachers who had stayed,
and the families and children they were providing aid
for, were caught in the crossfire. Those who
could escape alive left the building a burned out,
shot up, husk.
 After
Carnival,
the school was abandoned, and that’s when things got
really bad. A new gang, the Dead Zoners, moved
in. By far the most chaotic and feared gang in
the Zone, the DEE-ZEES are a plague upon the
land. No one enters the school anymore, at least
not anyone who ever comes out again. No one even
drives by it at night if they can help it, and even
during the day, only the desperate or foolish try to
cross Dee-Zee territory without a vehicle.
The
Dee-Zees
are widely feared for a reason, they are known to be
rapists, murderers, and cannibals. They have
successfully staged raids just about everywhere in the
Zone, regardless of Gang Territory, where they have
hit hard, only to vanish again. The only time
their victims are ever seen again, are as the newest
members of the horde of lunatics that inhabit this
school.
(For
more on the Dee-Zees, please see Gangs Of The Combat
Zone)
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