As you approach it, however, you note both the Torii and steel gate have crumbled from disrepair. Your group can easily walk past it without being slowed down at all.
"Seath? Mind explain' why it all shifted to desert?" You would ask Clover but you feel like he would know as much as you did.
Seath glances around the odd outskirts of this subdistrict. He seems to recognize what's going on here. "If I had to guess, we're in a dust bin. Some parts of D-Corp weren't treated the best by old D-Corp. No grass and crops to hold down dirt so it all just becomes dust and sand."
Once your group passes through the gate, you find yourself approaching the estate proper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PIbf9s4B7k - ABANDONED KETSUK ESTATE
The sandy road transitions into a loose cobble road and the old wooden fence connects towards the estate's actual stone fence. Interspaced throughout the fence are stone lanterns that still glow a faint yellow light even after all of these years.
There's two paths past the manor, one east and one west, though only the one to the east seems to lead to another structure. The west one heads out through a gap in the stone fence and off towards some deserty wasteland.
The manor itself is a large oriental wooden manor that, as Kiara and Max both point out, remind you more of T and S-Corp's architecture than anything else. A wooden porch that has long since started to crumble from disrepair surrounds it and the two side sections, one of each side, connected to the main estate.
The size of the manor and porch is HUGE, for a lack of a better word. It's easily a big enough house to hold a family of six with a small army's worth of maids and butlers and still have room to spare. Even your fancy apartment at I-Corp is easily dwarfed by this manor.
Dead trees surround the perimeter of the manor. They've been dead for a while and when Benjamin tries to harvest the bark of one to study it, the bark crumbles into dust between his fingers. Clover promptly pulls him away from the tree once he realizes what he's doing.
"It almost reminds me of one of the manors my family owns. You knew who lived here, Clover?" Max is clearly a lot more comfortable here than anywhere else in D-Corp. It's familiar to her. Granted, the manors her family owns don't have huge holes in the roofs and shattered windows but that's another story.
"Yeah. I wanted to come here to get some old collectables. C'mon. Not like Kana or her parents are gonna stop us."
Everyone follows behind him through the main entrance. The inside of the manor ain't much better than the outside, to be frank. The foyer's floor has partially caved in on itself to the point that your group has to stand very close together to stay on stable footing.
The paper screen in the middle of the room has been torn to shreds to the point where whatever was drawn on it is no longer visible. The old cactuses lined alongside the door are also long, long gone.
