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Velvet
The city stays awake here. Come for the music, the money, the company, the trouble—or whatever you hope nobody asks about tomorrow.
Velvet is Saint Jude’s Landing’s district of indulgence. Nightlife, luxury, entertainment, and adult culture draw residents and visitors from across the city. The streets stay crowded from dusk until morning. Glamour and grime share the same blocks, and a night out can become almost anything.
Welcome to the party
01 / The districtNightlife
Velvet is packed with bars, clubs, lounges, dance halls, theaters, restaurants, hotels, private clubs, brothels, sex shops, adult entertainment venues, and businesses that remain open long after most of the city has gone to sleep.
Adult Culture
Sex and sexuality are openly integrated into Velvet’s culture. Human, demi-human, and monster attraction is commonplace. Interspecies dating, monsterfucking, kink communities, fetish scenes, BDSM, exhibitionism, unconventional relationships, and other consenting-adult subcultures have established spaces throughout the district.
Luxury
Velvet contains expensive hotels, private residences, exclusive clubs, high-end restaurants, designer shops, private entertainment rooms, and invitation-only establishments. Wealthy residents can live extremely comfortably here.
Monsters
Monster residents and visitors are common throughout Velvet. Some venues specifically cater to monstrous species or interspecies relationships. Fangs, claws, tails, horns, fur, scales, unusual anatomy, enormous size differences, and other nonhuman traits can be part of the district’s erotic culture without making the beings involved less ordinary members of society.
Come as
you are.
Velvet attracts every kind of adult. Wealthy patrons, performers, sex workers, musicians, criminals, tourists, regulars, celebrities, service workers, monsters, demi-humans, and people simply looking for somewhere to disappear for the night all move through the district.
Physical beauty is not restricted to one type. Fat bodies, muscular bodies, scars, unusual anatomy, monstrous bodies, older bodies, short men, pretty boys, femboys, and unconventional appearances are all part of Velvet’s social landscape.
Pretty lights, ugly business
02 / Behind the scenes⚠ The Underbelly
Luxury exists alongside exploitation, crime, addiction, trafficking, blackmail, organized crime, predatory businesses, and people willing to take advantage of vulnerable patrons or workers. Not every establishment is safe simply because it is expensive.
♫ The Performers
Musicians, dancers, actors, drag performers, burlesque artists, comedians, escorts, adult performers, and other entertainers work throughout Velvet. Many performers develop dedicated local followings.
♡ The Complications
Velvet is a place where people meet strangers, lovers, business partners, enemies, future spouses, temporary hookups, lifelong friends, and people they immediately regret meeting. Relationships can begin casually and become complicated very quickly.
⌂ The Streetscape
Velvet contains a mixture of old buildings, renovated venues, apartments, hotels, theaters, restaurants, storefronts, private residences, and purpose-built entertainment spaces. The district’s buildings vary enormously rather than following one unified architectural style.
03 / Last call is a suggestion
A night in Velvet
Lush, crowded, decadent, sensual, loud, intimate, expensive, filthy, glamorous, and occasionally dangerous. Velvet is adult, erotic, romantic, hedonistic, dramatic, funny, messy, and unpredictable.
It can be luxurious or sleazy, tender or depraved, depending entirely on where someone ends up.