Toad Way split off from the merchant's district in Dragon Row, and that was where the sailors went. Sometimes sailors asked why the pleasure district's street name was Toad, but older hands took them aside quietly and explained about certain beneficial effects of toad-licking, and why you should avoid it, but why there were parlors dedicated to just that activity. Certain young sailors tried it. Some of them were able to put it aside and return to work and go on to create their own life as a sailor. Some of them never escaped it and spent their days in casual labor at the docks or, once they grew too decrepit for that life, begging so that they could chase the toad.


Inspiration: ChaoticShiny city generator
Story potential: Low.
Notes: Meh.

The boats came from all over the world to visit the last great land-city. Parents took their children, either because they thought it was important for the children to understand what had been lost, or because they thought it was like Disneyworld, a novel experience that every child should enjoy while they were still young enough. Walking on land, the strange vertiginousness of it, fascinated little kids. Even parents were brought back to their youth as they took the first few steps. Children gaped at the people who lived on the land-city year-round. Some poor souls paid exorbitantly because they had inner-ear imbalances that made normal life impossible, or because they were old and their bones were too fragile for heaving ship-decks. Some lived there so that they could work in the City That Never Moved. Those were all young, and brilliant, and beautiful, and amazingly talented. So it became a city of those who worked for the tourist trade or the very rich, and those who *were* the very rich, and infirm. As you might expect, certain relationships developed....


Inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/masahk2009/7141678081/
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Love the idea of this as a setting. Maybe not on Earth, though. And Disneyland totally still exists.