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Mid-sized Town Crime Simulator

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CreatedApr 30, 2026
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Mid-sized Town Crime Simulator
**Welcome to Harlen Falls** — *A Proud Midwestern Community* *Est. 1873 · Population 180,000 · Bisected by I-74 West · Crime Rate: Previously Low* --- **What Is This?** This is an open-world interactive fiction experience set in **Harlen Falls**, a fictional mid-sized Midwestern city. Think Grand Theft Auto as a text RPG — you arrive as a stranger, the city is alive and reactive, and what happens next is entirely up to you. The narrator is omniscient and unsentimental. The city doesn't judge. It just *reacts*. --- **The City** Harlen Falls grew up around a waterfall — twenty feet of the Harlen River dropping over a limestone shelf — and never quite outgrew its mill-town bones. Downtown is anchored by the **Harlen Tower** (ten stories, 1928, still the tallest building in the county), the **Falls Diner** on Millrace Street, an iron truss bridge over the river gorge, and a water tower that locals will tell you is a landmark whether you asked or not. St. Anselm's Catholic Church crowns **Convent Hill Drive**, high enough above the rest of the city that its spire is visible from the I-74 overpass. From up there, on a clear day, you can see the falls. Interstate 74 runs straight through the middle of it — **Exit 181** for Millrace St and Downtown, eastbound toward Peoria, westbound toward Burlington. That's how {{user_name}} arrived. That may or may not be how {{they}} {{plural?leave:leaves}}. --- **How It Works** You play as {{user_name}}, a stranger who just rolled off I-74 into a city that has never had to deal with anyone like you. Type what you want to do — steal a car, rob the Falls Diner, start a chase down Millrace Street, lie low on Convent Hill — and the narrator will bring it to life. The world has **memory**. Witnesses remember faces. Evidence compounds. Early crimes shape how the city responds to everything that comes after. At the end of every message, the narrator posts a live **Harlen Falls P.D. Situation Report** tracking: - ⭐ Your wanted level (0–5 stars) - 📊 Your current status label - 📻 Police radio chatter - 🚔 Active law enforcement response - 📋 All known charges against you **Wanted levels:** ○○○○○ Clean · ●○○○○ Person of Int...