House Of Cards

Large Nightclub/Diana Medline, Owner/Bias Against Freaks

At first glance, the House Of Cards nightclub may not look like much of a runner hangout. Everybody is fairly suavely dressed and no weapons are ever visible. Fights are uncommon, and everybody seems unusually civilized. The fact is, nearly 1/2 of this clubs patrons are Shadowrunners.

The House Of Cards was established by a former shadowrunner who wished to help change the way employers perceived runners. Most corporate higher ups and other groups who frequently hire runners often carried the perception that runners were barbaric, sewer dwelling, uncouth individuals. While it’s true many of them are just that, many of the veterans are actually intelligent, professional, and fairly cultured. They’ve been around the world, learned about different places and cultures, learned new languages and skills, and generally acquired more practical knowledge than any corporate big-wig ever has. The House Of Cards gives the runners a chance to dress up and prove their knowledge for the large corporate crowd.

Big-Ass Alley

Barrens Marketplace/Owner, None/Bias Against Non-Orks/Trolls

Big-Ass Alley was created by a bunch or orks and trolls who took an alley between two burnt out barrens apartment buildings, nailed up a shaky aluminum roof, and set up a number of booths which sold and built large melee weapons. Soon, other dealers were moving in, selling weapons modified to fit troll and ork hands, magical goods which catered to large metahumans, and even clothing shops which carried plus-plus-plus sizes. Now Big-Ass Alley occupies not only the original alley, but many floors of the adjacent apartment buildings as well.

The Hose

Medium Squatter Restaurant/Owner, Chepee McGee/Bias Against Non-Squatters

Inside The Hose you’ll find the worst food and the most down and out people on the face of the earth. The restaurant’s layout a chaotic, consisting of many levels of ‘booths’ created by stacking packing crates on top of each other. The food is cooked in a small back kitchen. The restaurant is called The Hose because a large sanitation hose sprays down everybody who walks into the place.

The only reason most people end up in The Hose is when they’ve gotten to the point that they’ve had to sell their cybereyes for cigarette money. Runners occasionally end up here, too, but their reasons usually involve a quest for information. Runners must be very careful on how they ask for information or offer up bribes. Once a runner offered a bribe to one of the patrons and, shortly after everyone else in the room caught sight of the certified cred stick, the runners was laterally torn apart by the mob.