Carcinopolos

A naive person might not expect there to be a sprawling metropolis in the middle of the negative energy plane. Upon hearing that there was they might expext its residents to be undead. Upon hearing that they weren't undead they might expect it at least to be a somber, dour, and ashen place. They would be wrong on all accounts.

Propped up by powerful wizardry, the city of Carcinopolis is the ultimate party town. The people of Carcinopolis eat and drink and smoke and use amphetamines all hours of the day and night. It's not bad for them. In fact, if they stop, they'll die.

Some time ago some powerful sages and magic users determined that the Negative Energy Plane is a great place for partying because so much bad stuff becomes less unhealthy there; overindulgence actually allows one to survive without magical protection. On the Negative Energy Plane people waste away, but not if they consume half their body weight in fat every day. On the Negative Energy Plane your heart will slow down and eventually stop entirely, but coke and meth will speed it back up againm. On the Negative Energy Plane cells die at an alarmingly fast rate, but if you smoke enough and eat enough processed crap they'll start multiplying at an alarmingly fast rate too.

The founders of the town wove mighty spells and created wonderful artifacts to keep the flow of food and coke coming, and in time more people came as well; friends of the original founders, and planar travelers following rumors and, people stranded on the negative energy plane seeking refuge. In time the settlement grew into a sizable town.

You'll never meet someone who lives there though unless you're there too. Occasionally you'll meet someone who's been there, but the permanent residents of Carcinopolis never leave. Like Elysium and Hades and the realms of the fey and elfin deities Carcinopolis is the kind of place that you can never leave once you've been there a long time and partook of the food. Most of the longtime residents are more cancer than man, and without the negative energy of the plane to keep their celk growth in check would die in a matter of days