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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. |
