The Crossroads (#113)

(an instance of Generic Post-Apocalypse Room made by legba)

     The road continues north and south here, intersected by a narrow road running east and west. An old traffic light swings precariously from a frayed cable above you, flashing various colors at random. Various items dangle from the cable: several pairs of shoes, a headless Barbie Doll, neckstump down, twisting from a noose that was once a rhinestone neckace, a Vidal Sassoon 1,000 Watt Blow Dryer, red boxer shorts and a rusting bicycle frame. Lining the streets is a row of abandoned storefronts: roofs mostly caved in, windows shattered. The letters that remain on the dangling signs spell out meaningless words.
     Some of the buildings seem to have been more or less repaired, and look inhabited.

EXITS:
      [ south ] Stone Lions. You head south, but the neighborhood isn't going to get any less strange.
      [ northwest ] Outside the Grocery Store. You walk toward the grocery store.
      [ southeast ] Outside the D.E.W Drop Inn. You walk over to the building on the southeast corner and take your place in line. Everybody checks you out to make sure your clothes are right.
      You look north along Broadway's trash-covered streets and ruined buildings. [ north ] Broadway.
      [ northeast ] Crumbling Foundation.
      [ east ] North End of the Park.
      [ west ] riverrun.
      [ taxi ] Taxi.
      You have to step further and further back to take in the whole of the cathedral, whose highest spires disappear in the haze over Bellona. [ southwest ] Cathedral Steps. You climb the crumbling marble steps to the southwest, avoiding vagrants and dangerous-looking debris.