Cosmopolis Park

***Spoiler Warning***

*This article contains major plot details from the Renegades series.*

**Cosmopolis Park** is a popular amusement park in Gatlon City that was a hotspot for drugs before the Day of Triumph.

## Recent Events

### Pre-Series

Cosmopolis Park, like many other locations, was abandoned during the Age of Anarchy. Many of its buildings and rides, including the fun house, fell into disrepair. Winston Pratt had a claim over the park, and charged villains and criminals to use the space for drug dealing, gambling, and dog fights. He also sold drugs there himself.

The Park was taken up as a renovation project by the Renegades immediately following the Day of Triumph. They took down the majority of the ruined buildings and replaced them with a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, and a carousel. They never finished the project, however, and several acres remain "under construction."

### *Renegades*

Adrian Everhart and his team interrogate Winston Pratt for information on Nightmare. Winston lies and tells the group that Nightmare was found in Cosmopolis Park by Ace Anarchy and adopted into the Anarchists. Adrian decides to investigate the park, and invites Nova Artino to come along with him. Nova uses the occasion for her and Ingrid Thompson's plan to fake the death of Ingrid and Nightmare.

Adrian and Nova meet up at the entrance, and enter the park. Adrian suggests they play carnival games, and Nova wins a giant Dread Warden doll. They head towards the Ferris wheel, and come across a superhero-themed birthday party, and Adrian draws toys for the kids.

Nova leads Adrian to the back of the park, where the most dilapidated structures are located. They head through the gallery; a tunnel full of historical photos of the park. Adrian spots a picture of the Fun House, which Nova had come in the night to edit the photo and title it "The Nightmare" in order to draw suspicion to the building. She suggests that they should go search the fun house, and they find a trail of footprints that she had placed using Nightmare's boots. Adrian calls to notify Headquarters, and they agree to enter the building together.

They walk through the first room and find more footprints in the dust. As they make their way deeper into the building, Nova falls through a trap door. They become separated, and agree to meet at the exit. Adrian walks through and finds a black and white room with a sleeping bag and duffel bag recognizable as belonging to Nightmare. He send a message reporting the find, and as he exits the room, he spots Nightmare. She disappears briefly before disarming him and running. He calls for backup and follows Nightmare out of the fun house.

He enters a confrontation between Ingrid Thompson, the Detonator, and Nightmare, who is actually Nova Artino, unbeknownst to him. Nightmare argues with the Detonator over the recent murder of the Librarian, and shoots a revolver at her. Ingrid falls back out of sight for a moment, and then rises again and summons an explosive. She throws it at Nightmare, and the explosion destroys half of the fun house.

Adrian is shocked to hear Ingrid laughing. She stands up and explains that the gun was loaded with blanks, and that the entire confrontation had been a show. She starts to fight him, but he uses the Sentinel's concussion beam against her and handcuffs her. The Renegade Council and Adrian's team arrive. Ingrid is delighted to see them present at the park, and the park begins to explode. She had hidden bombs all throughout the park the night before, and is detonating them with her ability.

Two roller coasters are destroyed within seconds. Thunderbird and Tsunami quickly rush towards the park to help the civilians, but before Ingrid can cause any more destruction, Nova Artino appears and shoots the Detonator. Later on, thirty-six casualties are confirmed, though no one was killed.

## Attractions

### Carnival Games

The Park contains many carnival games, mostly based around aim and strength.

### Fun House

The fun house was an ancient, rotting building abandoned over seventy years before the events of *Renegades*. It was a "rickety, two-story building covered in peeling white-and-orange paint." Its many rooms and halls were filled with abandoned dolls and animatronics, dust, and spider webs. Many of the floors tilted, and in one area, there was a trapdoor that lead from the second floor to the first. There was also a room of mirrors that later lent credibility to the Mirror Walker's claim of being Nightmare.

## Trivia

* In Nova Artino's forged McLain documents, she is listed to have worked as a ride operator at Cosmopolis Park.
	+ Millie set up a deal with a manager of the park, having Leroy Flinn him to vouch for Nova's supposed employment. The manager happened to have known Winston Pratt before the Day of Triumph.
* It took Nova Artino three hours to edit the picture of the fun house.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Renegades*, Chapter 39
2. ↑ *Renegades*, Chapter 31
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Renegades*, Chapter 11
4. ↑ *Renegades*, Chapter 31
5. ↑ *Renegades*, Chapter 38
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 *Renegades*, Chapter 40
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Renegades*, Chapter 41
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *Renegades*, Chapter 42
9. ↑ *Renegades*, Chapter 43