Hutcherson City

**Hutcherson City** is a subterranean city appearing in the dreamworld of User:joshua60. It was named **Hutcherson City** retroactively as it originally bore no name. **Hutcherson City** was a once-great city, but after a period of decline, it began to experience a phenomenon known as *underpopulation* or *de-employment*. Underpopulation means that **Hutcherson City** housed a very small working population, pushing unemployment to absolute zero as there were not enough workers to fulfil demand - thus the city fell into great decline and disrepair. Hospitality, transport, construction and other services are among the multitude of industries heavily affected by **Hutcherson**'s underpopulation with a great scarcity of available labour. All windows in **Hutcherson City** are blacked out, including the gothic-style arched windows in the Hutcherson Mersey Tunnel, due to an extremely high crime rate and the normality of robbery.

## Access

The only way to access **Hutcherson City** is through the *Hutcherson Mersey Tunnel*, which has a unique property of mimicking everything on its ceiling, as if by magic. The tunnel also has large gothic-style arched windows on its city approaches, all of which are blacked out as per city protocol. **Hutcherson City** is also rumoured to be accessible from the surface through its numerous tunnel systems, interconnected with *Hutcherson Rail*, the city's rapid transit.

## Hutcherson Rail

*Hutcherson Rail* is **Hutcherson City**'s rapid transit, which by now is mostly disused due to faults that cannot be fixed due to labour shortages. Only the lines connecting the outer reaches of **Hutcherson** to the inner city continuously run with inexperienced rail operators often attempting to fix faults any way they can in order to keep the line running, with duct-tape being the most used solution. Hutcherson Rail has not had working signals for at least 2 years, train operators are now instructed to proceed with caution when approaching stations or when driving over faulty sections of track. Trains on Hutcherson Rail often ride with the doors remaining open, as the opening and closing mechanism has long since worn out.

## Architecture

**Hutcherson City** is mostly made up of Victorian industrialist architecture, with significant influence of architectural styles from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Most, if not all, buildings in **Hutcherson City** have fallen into disrepair due to the scarcity of construction labour and prevalence of crime.

## Hutcherson Hotel

The *Hutcherson Hotel* is **Hutcherson City**'s last remaining hotel, with a total of 3 staff members. Most of the hotel is now disused due to a lack of demand, with only the ground floor bookable. Josh Hutcherson is a known employee of the hotel. Hotel staff do not tend to prohibit customers from accessing the upper floors, but it is highly discouraged as the hotel is extremely unsafe and in need of repair.

## Crime

**Hutcherson City** is known to have an extremely high crime rate due to the complete absence of a properly functioning police force. Many residents have found ways to combat this themselves, such as in the Hutcherson Hotel were they use old hotel room doors to barricade all entrances after a certain time of night.

## Caverns

**Hutcherson City** consists of 5 main caverns and numerous minor caverns, all interconnected by a series of long jumbled tunnels, some of which are used by Hutcherson Rail. The 5 main caverns are: Glendower, Cadwallader, Dowage, Fulloch and Candage. Many minor caverns are organised into cavern-groups, of which there are 5. The 5 cavern-groups are: Trefeilor, Lloyderage, Prysis, Marredutch, and Connahdor.

## Connahdor Essential School

The *Connahdor Essential School* is a school for children aged 11-16 located in the Lower Cavern of Connahdor, a cavern-group in the outer-reaches of **Hutcherson City**. The Lower Cavern is closed off with blast-proof steel floodgates, which were originally used to prevent the spread of water in the event of a cavern-flood but have since been utilised to ensure the safety of all students, as the outer caverns of **Hutcherson City** are known for their prevalence of crime. The *Connahdor Essential School* is **Hutcherson City**'s last hope for training and qualifying a workforce to combat labour scarcity.

### Uniform

The *Connahdor Essential School* enforces a lenient uniform policy, with the only uniform being a blue blazer worn over a black hoodie - both of which are provided by the school.