Notes

Medium Nightclub/Digitex 11011, Manager/Bias Against Loud People

A nexus of underground communication, Notes provides access to extensively diverse forms of communication relay, ranging from on-call couriers, to trackless matrix access, to anonymous FedEx overnight shipping.   The club, enveloped in a special brand of pulsating techno that somehow eliminates the travel of foreign sound further than a meter from its source, is filled with terminals, drop boxes, Post-It note pads, bulletin boards (both electronic and cork), encryption machines, decryption machines, key databases, sat uplinks, pipe pingers (units that hammer out code across the city’s water system,) and just about every other device that can be used to get in contact with another person.

The club perpetuates its existence primarily through blackmail.  The club database (a fierce realm of Black IC) contains message interceptions from just about every individual who could possibly want to shut the place down.  And for those officials who have somehow stayed clean, fabrications of communications were created in order to keep them quiet.

As far as anybody can tell, the entire club is run by computers and drones.  Drones guard the door, serve drinks, and communicate with the patrons.  Since each “interactive” seems to have a personality, most believe that a team of decker/riggers operates on the side lines, keeping things in order.  However, unless they happen to have a 3 month supply of necessities within the club itself, they certainly don’t live there.  (The cops kept the place under tight above and below ground surveillance for nearly half a year and didn’t come across a single individual entering or leaving who wasn’t a patron).

How does Notes pay for all this?  The nightly cover is 500 bucks, and that’s before you pay the various surcharges on transactions.

Calvert’s Den

Small Store/Den Calvert, Owner/No Bias

The vault within Calvert’s Den contains blood samples from over 5000 species of animals, both mundane and awakened, and are kept “fresh” through cryogenic freezing and/or powerful stasis magic.  In fact, 80% of the store consists of the vault, with the rest of the room taken up by a modest office and a small room containing terminals that access a database listing all of the blood types available, their prices, as well as the price to obtain samples that Calvert doesn’t possess.  Prices range from 1 nuyen for a 100cc sample of rat blood, to 1.2 million for a 1cc sample from an Icelandic Kraken (now extinct).

The store, which is built into the basement of an otherwise unoccupied row house, has reinforced walls, heavy duty security doors, hidden sentry weapons, a bacterial grid to keep out unwanted astral visitors, and at least two elementals on patrol at all times.  Den himself is an mage initiate who specializes in a variety of quick and dirty combat spells that he’s not at all afraid to use against anybody who threatens his inventory.  Be sure to get a reference before even attempting to ask Den for assistance.

Diversity Labs

Small Lab/Virginia Marks, Owner/No Bias

Consisting of a small central testing facility and a multitude of response vehicles, Diversity Labs provides on the spot analysis of materials, including DNA scans, toxicology breakdowns, drug analysis and a plethora of other services.  They have a strict “no questions asked” policy and never keep records of the work they’ve conducted.  In order to utilize their services, you simply stop by their central facility, provide a ¥25,000 non-refundable deposit and receive your personal services I.D. number that allows you to call into their support center and request that a vehicle be dispatched to your location.  The cost of services is withdrawn from your deposit and the account can be recharged at any time by simply clicking over more cred to one of their technicians.  Objects are either analyzed on the spot or are sent back to the central lab if they require more complicated equipment to conduct the tests.