Editing Legacy: Ashes of Houston (section)

=== Landmarks ===
*Base Camp: Haven for the Scouts, the original campground where the waited out the end of the world.
*Art Vault: A vault built to preserve art for eternity. It served as the place which the ancestors of the Eternal Masquerade were able to survive the initial nuclear strikes and retains a quasi-religious status for the nomadic artists, with people--especially young people--returning there on pilgrimage for artistic inspiration.
*Reclaimed Lab: lab - reclaimed by nature - and tended by partially uplifted animals. Kind of smack dab near Fresno. I'm also to understand this is kind of where a branch of this huge Houston hospital complex thing is. While also being shortly north of the Scout's (who have perky animals!) initial camp grounds. This will presumably tie into my own family in...some fashion. Blending humans with animals, and blending animals with humans are just two sides of the same coin. What's better? Animals with the smarts of a human, or humans with the strengths of an animal? House Akon knows the answer to that question, but the world might shrug differently! Beneath the reclaimed lab tended by partially uplifted animals, a vast catacombs filled with failed genetic experiments. Are the uplifted animals creating them in their efforts to 'succeed'? Are they trying to keep their 'failed siblings' quarantined? Completely divorced from each other until some eejit breaks containment because they couldn't let the animals do their thing in peace? Something else!?
*The Lost Library, formerly the Houston Public Library, survived surprisingly well for a few years after the bombs due to solid construction and shelters built into the basement. The Scouts visited occasionally, trading supplies for knowledge and learning. But when raiders began attacking the library, the remaining librarians sent out a call for help but had no good way to contact the Scouts. By the time word reached them, they arrived to find the library lost, the books burned and its inhabitants dead or enslaved. They drove the raiders out but the damage was done, and it taught the Scouts an important lesson that survival was about more than being self-sufficient, one had to be a member of a community. These days it's mostly a burned out shell, occasionally used by groups of raiders, but the scouts honor it as a memorial.
*The Texas Energy Company Refinery Complex, a massive petrochemical plant that has become a morass of toxic chemicals, radiation, and what ever horribly mutated could live there. Despite the danger the super mutants are singularly focused on exploring and securing the place. The reason is that Lt Norstrom was part of the Scourging of Necropolis, during that operation she found some old business records that TEC was bought out by West Tek to retool the refinery for pharmacutial production.