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> What are your favorite Runners bars ?, Where does your runners hangs out ?
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post Nov 3 2003, 05:59 PM
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for me the main runners bars in Seattle are:
Matchstick's
Blue Flame
Dante's Inferno
Big Rhino
Penumbra
What's yours ?
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post Nov 3 2003, 06:00 PM
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post Nov 3 2003, 07:33 PM
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post Nov 3 2003, 08:58 PM
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Runner bars? Too conspicuous. We always went to someplace where people have no curiosity:

Bangkok Hut


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post Nov 3 2003, 09:04 PM
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The Hot Legs nightclub. But only if the Replicants are playing.

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post Nov 3 2003, 09:15 PM
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Whenever we need a Decker, we head to the Pink Flamingo...
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post Nov 3 2003, 09:20 PM
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9 times out of 10 I GM groups through biz meetings at The Murdered Mime (that is.... until a group decided to ram a winnebago through its front windows.... *sigh*)

I just ran some players through a meet at "The Tack Room"-- a very old gentlemen's club (plush chairs and cigars type, not topless dancing type) in Renton. I like locations where the runners stick out like a sore thumb. Kind of levels the playing field for Seattle's corp types. Lets folks know who's hiring runners (though for what purpose is still unknown). After 1 drink, the maitre d' asked the runners, politely, to leave.
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post Nov 3 2003, 10:28 PM
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We typically meet and look for work at Reno's (Seattle Sourcebook, p. 35, © 1990). It's owned by a former combat biker who often supports Shadowrunners in their missions.
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post Nov 3 2003, 11:26 PM
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Well, for the group I played in for the longest time, it was definetely The Inferno... Then again, we owned a room in Hell, and Dante owed us a list of favors longer then his arm. :)

As for the rest of the groups I've played in/GMed, it's sort of a toss up. One group liked the Murdered Mime and the Italiano, while another liked a little place down-town that specialized in 'Imported Entertainments.'

The group I'm GMing right now has a little spot in some gang turf I invented for my game. The place is in Hells Kitchen, and it's called Eden. It's run by a guy named Meggiddo and his ghoul daughter. :rotate: *makes Homer noises*

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post Nov 4 2003, 12:07 AM
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Well, I have a hole in the wall that actually spent some time as an open IC on the forums and in mIRC. Tiggy's Bar and Grill is an absolute craphole. It features dart boards with bullet holes, strong drinks (there's even Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. I have the recipe. Seriously.) and shady characters. Each of the bartenders is a retired runner, and most of the regulars are, although business is seldom done there. It's really an R&R kinda place. There's also the bit about the ghost of old man Tiggy, but that's something else entirely.
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post Nov 4 2003, 01:12 AM
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[drunk japanese]NEON NIPPLE!!![/drunk japanese]

(A strip club that very few runners ever bother with.)
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post Nov 4 2003, 02:05 AM
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A friend of mine created a truck stop on the Seattle/NAN border. It's called The Fifteen Troll Bar and Grill. It is essentially a bar designed from the ground up to fit trolls, from the table sized stools to the pitcher sized bottles of beer and the 2kilo cheese burgers. There's a section in the back for meta's though. The bartender is an old, scarred, on horned troll name Tigger. He doesn't own the place, and wont say who will, but he does run the place. The food is good, the drinks are cold, and privacy is pretty much guaranteed.

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post Nov 4 2003, 03:46 AM
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Dante's Inferno...

Though I'm crafting a Nightclub/Casino/Brothel based off of the Alien Games from Heroes Die. Run by an elven sorceress, mainly populated by metas. You're friendly house of sin.
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post Nov 4 2003, 05:00 PM
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We use mostly the Penumbra, together with a couple of places I created: the High Lights (an enormous gothic disotheque) and the Matrix (a small decker hangout).
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post Nov 4 2003, 06:48 PM
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Our starting groups usually meet at the Doublecrossed. What's this place, you ask? Well, description follows:
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DoubleCrossed
Medium Bar/Eliak Obanon, Owner/Bias Against Police
This bar is made for shadowrunners to gather and make a meeting with Mr. Johnson. Corps usually are careful with this place and send some messagerunner (low level employer) to deal with Shadowrunners. Mr. Johnson will not ever come to make deal with the Shadowrunners to DoubleCrossed, it’s just too dangerous. Overall feeling of the bar is that everone in the room is armed, also the bartender. There is a jukebox in the back of the room by the way and it doesn’t work. Or it does work, for the favor of owner who doesn’t repair it because runners seem to lose some money into it.
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This place was made by one of my past GMs. It was supposed to be one-shot, but it stuck, so we just use it whenever meeting new Johnsons. Or when characters want to go out drinking in some low-class place. Or something.
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post Nov 4 2003, 07:06 PM
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The Blue Orchid

This private lounge features a very down tempo atmosphere. The subtile blue lighting and comfortable seatings allow you to relax while enjoying the lounge's namesake drink, a blue slightly fizzy liquid whose presentation is sure to dazzle you. Let the down tempo beats of trip-hop flavouring guide your rythm as you move on the central dance floor. The music really is sublime. After all, what else would you expect from the two-dimensionnal (litterally) cartoony jamaican looking Free Spirit DJ that spins those tunes, without doubt the source of the Orchid's fame.

>> Here's the download on the what Joe Shadowrunner needs to know about this place: the owner is rumoured to be an ex-runner with lots of contacts, so mind yourself. Security is tight at all times, and if you ain't a beautiful person, don't even bother trying to find where this well hidden place is. The yakuza provide high-quality mind-benders in there. Mob disputes are however not tolerated by the establishment, a dubious feat that speaks about the owner's influence.

And if you're planning asomethng with that free spirit, think twice. Although he sometimes coems down from his booth to mingle, he doesn't talk or otherwise communicate. Word is he exists purely to experience music in all it's form. He's not interested by metahuman drama. And the Orchid's security always keeps a watchful eye on those who take an interest in him since a Mantid spirit tried to eat him a few years back.

This place is PACKED with fixers, so if you're looking for work, you'll find some. The simple fact you got in the door is usually enough to impress most people there. Many other colourful and shadowy characters come here, so always keep an eye out if you're here for business. <<
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:02 PM
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No more visits to the Murdered Mime. It was a mime it died, end the insanity.
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:20 PM
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I don't know. I've always had very bad fealings about the whole concept of runner bars. I mean, the whole point of shadowrunners is that they're meant to be annonymous and untrackable. Having places where they're all known to congregate and anyone with even half a brain and some etiquette skills could find, just screams bad idea to me. As I've said before, what's to stop the police or corps from staking the place out and just taking down the details of everyone that comes and goes? :/
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:26 PM
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Because the Corps know how useful Shadowrunners are to their business, and the Police know that the Corps pay for their contract, essentially. A respectable Shadowrunner bar/clubs would have good enough internal security to provide secluded conference rooms in the back where Johnsons can chat with runners. (Whitenoise generators practically built into the tables as well as the extra ones often brought in by Runners.)
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:32 PM
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For an initial meet, it's generally in the Johnson's hands. Dante's is always popular, what with Club Penumbra being out of vogue (what with the Arc right next door and all).

For anything else, I prefer to walk one block straight ahead, and look to my left (provided you know that part of town well enough to not walk into a hostile place) and go into whatever's there. Can't beat random joints for some quiet discussion with people who know how to talk around subjects.
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:35 PM
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Ugly's

A great little dive bar out in Renton run by a big ass mean troll named Ugly .
A former child prodigy pianist who could not cope well with his goblinasation . Ugly always had our back , and knew what we wanted to drink when we got there .
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post Nov 4 2003, 09:40 PM
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Saying something is a "runner bar" is like saying, it's a "cop bar."

This is not to say that only cops frequent the bar, but it's a preferred haunt.

Now, try IDing all the people going and coming who might be a cop -- whether plain clothes, uniform, detective, etc.

With that in mind, so many people come and go from a bar or nightclub it would be amazingly difficult to track all the people coming and going and connect those IDs with open cases. Especially if those cases suffer from multi-national boundries.

And I imagine that it's just not worth the effort -- the amount of time, energy and money spent to stake out a maybe runner bar and sort out the "real" runners from the wanna-bes would tedious at best.

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post Nov 4 2003, 10:12 PM
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Had our own in Redmond which kept cropping up called the Terminator's Armpit (if anyone remembers Thrud the Barbarian his favorite tavern was called the Hobbits Armpit, so we stole it and 2050'd the sucker). We found there were branches all over the world in popular runner spots, always in Z-zones. Was very cool, till the damn suborbital landed on the one in Seattle...
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post Nov 5 2003, 02:06 AM
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I mixed the bar from a couple Nigel Findley adventures with a bar I visited a couple of times in Korea and came up with:

The Blue Door

Small bar archetype.
On Canyon, between Hwy 512 and 112 St. Erin Blokovich Owner/No Racial Bias LTG 4026 (31-5419).
A smoky club situated on the borderlands between Puyallup proper and Loveland. It’s famous for the drink from which the bar gets its name. A hangout for runners looking to relax, and gangers from the barrens looking for some neutral territory. The beer is real and not watered down, and the food is greasy but hot (and more soy than not). A lot of shadowy types meet here, but not much actual business is done, as there is no privacy.

>>>>>>[The Chinaman is the only guy who ever waits tables there, even though the bartenders seem to change every couple weeks. As long as you tip him good, he’ll pass along messages and keep his mouth shut. And if you’re real friendly, and really need a place to meet or just hide out, there are a couple of rooms in the basement that can be had.
There is no detector at the door, so expect everyone to be packing heavily. And never, ever have a Blue Door if you’ve got work to do in the next few hours]<<<<<<<<<
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post Nov 5 2003, 02:37 AM
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When my recurrent important NPCs are tailed, they head to the Blue Oyster ... mwuahahahahahahaha!
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