western town · southern texas · starkpoint · small town · slice of life · class divide · mining district · slums · high-class district · calm atmosphere
Dust swirls in the golden late-afternoon light as wagons creak and traders hawk their wares across Starkpoint's marketplace. The air smells of leather, gunpowder, and fresh bread. Beside a stall of gleaming rifles, a shopkeeper spits tobacco and calls to you, "You lookin' to buy or just passin' through?"