Editing Crucible:Night City (section)

== The Zone Of Night ==

The rift casts a fixed zone of darkness across part of Los Angeles. Within this area, ordinary sunlight is blocked by the alien sky overhead. Day and night still technically pass around the district, and clocks work normally, but the streets beneath the rift remain in a state of permanent nocturnal gloom.

The effect is more than simple shade. The light has a strange quality, as if the district is illuminated by stars that are too bright and too distant at the same time. Neon, headlights, streetlamps, signs, and windows seem sharper there. Shadows pool more deeply. Colors flatten or flare unpredictably. Some residents claim they can feel the alien sky looking down at them.

Scientists classify the zone as a persistent dimensional atmospheric overlay. Occultists use less comforting language. They call it an omen, a stain, a half-open eye, or a bruise on the skin of the world.