Archive for April, 2006

Seattle: Fire and Ice Funeral Services

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Fire and Ice Funeral Services [Auburn]

Small Funeral Home and Medium Cryogenic Storage Facility • 1806 Cole St • Fredrick Fire and Ignatius Ice, Owners and Operators • LTG NA/UCAS-SEA-956-487-3249

Fire and Ice offers a full funeral service set to any of fifteen available religious settings. All services come complete with a burial; or their specialties: cremation or cryogenic storage. Since the arrival of Shedim the need for such services has grown exponentially, and luckily, the facilities can handle the demand. According to Fire and Ice, no Shedim has disturbed to slumber of a cryogenically stored person.

Built on top of an industrial incinerator, the funeral home can handle up to four funeral services at one time. The cryogenic chamber is open to relatives of the deceased and offers an affordable rent of around five hundred nuyen per year (more for ‘some’ metatypes…). The current expansion project will ensure a safe resting spot for many more.

> That cryo chamber is spooky, let me tell you. Rows and rows of dead people standing in those tubes with blue faces staring out the windows. And they have this creepy music echoing through the whole place. We went and saw my grandma just that once, and haven’t been back since.
> Strippeddown

> The two owners are getting up there in age and the kids have started squabbling over the money distribution. Iggy’s kids want the cryogenic money separate from the funeral home, but the Fire twins don’t like that idea at all.
> Trixless Wino

> That music is from the janitor who lives in the upper levels. He’s some kind of weird conjurer named Vincent something. He calls up the spirits of the “guests” and has them help him keep the place clean. I guess they’re only too happy to oblige.
> Identical Forge

Seattle: The Divider

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

The Divider [Auburn]

Large Bar • 213 71st Street East • Lyle Granger, Owner • Bias towards Humans • LTG NA/UCAS-SEA-912-966-2392

Gambling on bare knuckle fights while drinking cheap synthol, what could be better? Other than the drinks, service, music, clientele, building condition, and location, nothing could improve The Divider. The bar hires two Orks or Trolls to duke it out for a night in front of smashed crowds. In exchange, they get fifty nuyen and funeral costs should they be needed - and they have been. The contestants are usually pumped up on drugs, so the fights are bloodier and longer than you might expect. Falling plaster often spices your drink as the entire bar shakes when a fighter is knocked to the floor. Not a good place for dates - or metahumans.

> A few of the Night Hunters have taken to following the winner home and then beating him or her to death. Just to prove how strong they are, I guess. Lyle doesn’t case as long as he can get new fighters, and for a lot of tusks it’s the only job around.
> Trixless Wino

> Wait a tic, aren’t the Night Hunters a Renton gang? What the hell are they doing in Auburn?
> Whitewashing Windows

> I’m not surprised to see a splinter in Auburn, but I’d be surprised if they last.
> Twenty-Five to Life
“All the same to an Ork”

Seattle Break

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Just a quick FYI that I’m probably going to take a few days break from posting Seattle locations. I have six tons of work on my plate, and one less thing to worry about for the next few days will help keep me just a little bit saner. I think I’ll be back posting by Wednesday.

What does everyone think of the [near]-daily postings, in general? Is it a useful/interesting way of putting out material? I have to admit, comments have been lighter than I expected. Are people confused about whether they should be posting IC or OOC in response to these entries? I don’t care which you do, since both would make sense in this case. So, if you feel like it, go back and make a comment on one of the entries, or just make a comment here to say if you like or dislike things.

Seattle: Bandit Clothing Company

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Bandit Clothing Company [Auburn]

Medium Textiles Factory • 20 42nd Street NE, Auburn • Perfecto Textiles, owner and operator • Bias against Animal Rights Activists • LTG NA/UCAS-SEA-854-253-3204

Bandit Clothing Company offers designer knockoffs at low prices, but stands out from other knockoff companies in a few ways. They pay a bounty on animals normally considered “pests” by sanitary codes. They process the animals into their textile products using only minimal plastic feedstock creating a ninety percent natural fiber. Workers and drones weave the fiber into the final products, and that finished clothing is sold straight from the factory doors to local consumers. The factory has become a sore spot to animal rights activists, but the local government defends the business as an “upstanding community service.” Having seen the size of rats in Auburn, I tend to agree.

> And unlike the Sanitary Office, you don’t need a SIN to collect the bounty. The pay ain’t so great, about ten cents per coon. And they pay SINless in store credit, but plenty of folk will swap the credit for cred - or something else, if you know what I mean. It’s not so uncommon these days to see an old beater driving around dragging a line of Devil Rats and Bandits all bludgeoned to death. You can get a bit more for the nasties like Gabriel Hounds and Incubi, but, of course, those ain’t as easy to catch.
> Harvey Grave

> I’ve heard they had trouble with Demon Rats attacking customers and generally making a nuisance around the factory. One friend even swears that a pair of them broke in and sabotaged some equipment before getting tasered by the night watchman.
> Twenty-Five to Life
“All the same to an Ork”

> Perfecto Textiles is a subsidiary of Perfecto Polymers, which in turn is a subsidiary of Aztechnology. However, there’s absolutely no evidence of blood magic anywhere. Sorry, kids.
> Beancounter

> They do use the animal remains to make telesma, however, and then sell it out the back door with the cloths. Most of their stuff is junk, but a good eye can point out a worthwhile piece here and there.
> Star Folly