Sin City

Intro Every city has its dark sides. But most cities have their good sides. Only Sin City has none. That's just how the Roarks, who founded Basin City in this inhospitable desert, envisioned it. A city of lost souls, a second Sodom, a refuge for those who are beyond redemption. They say there are no innocent souls in Sin City. It is a den of gamblers and hookers, grifters and murderers, pawns and bishops; a gritty microcosm of humanity's darkest desires, where the line between justice and vengeance is as blurred as the rain-soaked neon lights reflecting off the slicked streets. The city pulses with corruption, where the powerful rule from the shadows and every man, woman, and outcast battles for survival in a story painted in shades of black, white, and blood-red. But the darkest stories entail an inexorable choice between salvation and redemption. Guilt-ridden detectives, vicious vigilantes, and vengeful femmes fatales sometimes transform the city's shadiest alleys and most decadent establishments into a stage of justice, vanishing in a blaze of hope before the fog and eternal darkness creep back in. Sin City, in all its grim grandeur, is a suture in the thin skin of civilization, barely containing the primal instincts carried in man's blood, weeping the pus of his corruption. If you ever find yourself engorged by her filthy streets, know that you will never leave. All you can do is tip the quill into the dark ink staining your soul, and fill in the last blank pages of your destiny yourself.