 What are your favorite Runners bars ?, Where does your runners hangs out ? |
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 Nov 5 2003, 05:07 PM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,109 Joined: 16-October 03 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 5,729  |
Here's a few questions for you. First off, did your runners do any research about the place where the meet was going to be held, or do they always show up in "typical" runner garb (armored jackets, combat boots, etc..)? being a Shadowrunner is about blending in, so why would the runners choose to show up to a meet sticking out like a sore thumb? What good are all those etiquette skills if you can't fit in? And sure, THOG the troll Samurai may have to wait outside, but that's unlikely to hurt negotiations. My runners usually do their best to blend in with any environs they know they are going to encounter. And if the only clothing your runners own is layered with kevlar, then they probably won't last long as runners. There's a bar here where I live that is VERY much like you described...it's called Churchills, and I've been there a few times. However, I've never shown up in a t-shirt and jeans....because I know that's a big faux pas in a place like that. However if I know enough about how to fit in, I'm sure runners would too. |
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Jan 1 2004, 09:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 478 Joined: 18-December 03 From: Louisville, KY Member No.: 5,918 |
Ours is a little neighborhood bar (made up by our GM), called the John Wayne. It's not really a runner bar, more of your Joe-Average-Wants-A-Soybeer-After-Work kinda bar.
The owner, a human named, surprisingly, John Wayne, is your classic old neighborhood bartender. A very good contact for a card-carrying psychotic physical adept with an unhealthy obsession for guns, and the need to hide from the law very often. |
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Jan 1 2004, 10:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
Well, my GM torture victims like this one place I made up called Shadow's Edge...Especially our ninja adept...
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Jan 2 2004, 12:57 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 865 Joined: 31-December 03 From: Shadows of Britain Member No.: 5,944 |
Club Penumbra is still a regular haunt for the team i GM, with Dante`s being popular when they are not looking for work or running(in either sense). Also there`s a little place I created for them, down just off Tacoma, called the Glass Spider. Classy little joint with some expensive crystal and fibre optics to light the place.
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Jan 2 2004, 05:51 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Jacksonville, NC Member No.: 568 |
We had the one hole in the wall called Smokey's. It was a small dive out in Renton. The Bartender was an old jazz musician, so the whole bar was filled with old jazz and blues memrobelia. Lotsa people owed Smokey a lot respect but our group never found out why. Had a couple of back rooms where we could meet, but over all it was a place to unwind and have a glass after a run.
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Jan 2 2004, 08:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Breaktime - A small diner in downtown Seattle and home of the "Ľ3.99 All-Day Breakfast" and the "Big Booster" - a 1 litre take-away cup of coffee.
Café Voltaire - A small neo-techno café, filled with "free thinkers" and revolutionaries. (Spot the old computer game reference!) Matchstick's - I need say no more. The Wastelands - Nightclub featuring a lot of Industrial bands and a place to pogo. Hughey's Bar & Grill - A favourite amongst the hicks and crude. On the border of Seattle/Auburn and the Salish Shidhe, this is a cowboy's hangout! |
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Jan 2 2004, 08:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 15-September 03 From: Worcester, MA Member No.: 5,621 |
As a GM, I tend to move the meets around a lot. Take the PCs to the Grey Line if I want to impress them with high-bankrolled Johnsons. In general, my Johnsons like places that have secluded corner booths and usually a bit more ritzy than the PCs like. Put them off-balance enough the Johnson might get a little advantage in negotiations, but not so much they're immediately defensive and looking for a fight.
As a PC, I've always favored The Armageddon. It was something that a group I was playing in decided to start as a side venture/place to hang/meet location they owned. The team called themselves, unsurprisingly, the Four Horsemen. Since then, in my own games, I've created their second venture in Seattle, usually called Ragnarok, with a more Nordic theme. |
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Jan 2 2004, 12:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
I have several of Blackjack's things in my game, and the House of Cards has appeared a lot. Stupids and The Tavern of Butt have been used a couple of times each, too. But the most frequent is a dance club with an upstairs bar, mainly because the fixer they almost all have as a contact likes the place. I created the place for a run that never happened, and wound up just using it for meets. The name is some Japanese gibberish without any real meaning (the owner let the guys in the bar name it because he couldn't think of anything), though the closest thing to a translation is "wherever."
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Jan 6 2004, 03:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
In the Redmond Barrens in place called TouristVille the bars we meet at are
Skunks, Crusher 495 and when we are hired by the Yak we go to the Joke. |
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Feb 2 2004, 09:52 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304 |
Are there any more?
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Feb 2 2004, 11:31 PM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
That would be Bloodnet, 'The Cyberpunk Gothic', by Microprose. Where you meet The Kafka Conspiracy - a nonviolence revolutionary gang, whose leader quotes Umberto Eco ("We are the artificers of the world in which we sin" - one of my favorite quotes ever) and Jesus ("He who lives by the sword dies by it.") I loved Bloodnet, man. What an overlooked game. I coulda done without the vampire bit, but hey, whatever. It let you make drugs, guns, program, kill, steal spines... And you could get gangers from a gang called the Hard Metals in your group! With names like Tempered Steele! That game ruled. Yes, DV8... I've used Voltaire in my shadowrun games, too. <G> |
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Feb 3 2004, 12:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,110 |
In our last campaign, some irresistable force was wiping out every place runners were known to congregate. It got so we'd avoid any gathering place all together. Anybody mention the Pink Flamingo? Decker bar, vibrant bright colors, decker muzak, etc, etc. Always went here when looking to farm out some decker work. I liked to refer to it as "That Gay Decker Bar" much to the chagrin of our GM. |
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Feb 3 2004, 10:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Good man. :) |
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 Feb 3 2004, 02:04 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Funny, nobody mentioned my favorite bar in Seattle. Murphy's Law. Strip club with soy beer and pizza, surly regulars and a long line of former runner/owners named Murphy.
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Feb 3 2004, 02:31 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Gee, and here I thought the Flouncing Troll Grill & Bar would be a stick out. Did I mention the bartenders name is Chuck?
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Feb 3 2004, 02:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 224 Joined: 6-April 02 From: ab.ca Member No.: 2,522 |
The "Insert Bar Here" chain of discount strip clubs was a favourite for a while. The one-armed stripper seemed to add just the right kind of atmosphere.
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Feb 4 2004, 12:27 AM
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HAHAHAHAHA Most of the good ones have folded, but there are a couple I can think of run by other people I appropriated. SH, HP, GD, and... The "G" are a couple of the more memorable.
Oooooh. Amputee and cripple porn. Any midgets? |
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Feb 4 2004, 11:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Jenna's Jiant Jugs - or Triple J - is a strip-club that one of my players insisted on frequenting. I should really make a write-up of that place. Think the Badabing - or however you spell it - from the Sopranos. :)
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Feb 4 2004, 11:36 AM
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We go to Shorty's Cajun Bar and Grill. The owner's an old, retired dwarf with a bum leg. The little Amerindian has a GREAT looking Orc working the floor...she's got legs that just don't quit. He's old friends with our Heavy weapons guy (Mongoose), and a mentor for our Rigger/Electronics guy(Wiz). The food's great, the drinks are cold, and the Blues is hot! It's a great place to unwind after laying low. We make sure not to bring any heat home to old Wailer...he get's mad...just like the time Wiz caught a glimpse of the old man in a soap opera while channel surfing...
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Feb 4 2004, 06:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 24-January 04 Member No.: 6,013 |
Call me old fashioned, but I got a soft spot in my heart for good ol Club Penumbra. In fact my character has been sliding some of his recent pay to the club to help for the rennovations mentioned in SOTA: 2063.
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Feb 6 2004, 12:16 AM
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Bada Bing! /just happy no one's accused me of outing anything |
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Feb 6 2004, 05:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 344 Joined: 28-July 03 Member No.: 5,133 |
The thing about "runner" bars is that it's almost a myth. "Shadowrunners" are pop icons, the dangerous bad boys of modern society, they inspire mysterious dangerous strangers, it's all about the look, the "vibe". My point being, for every actual shadowrunner there are 400 posers. People who copy the "vibe", walk into an industrial/goth bar some time, look around. Lots of people there are dressed all funky, which they don't do during the day, they escape into the mood, the personae. Runner bars are born of rumours and those rumours bring in the posers, the wannabees or just the regular folk who like the style and like to move with the trendy club scenes. It's not like you walk into a "runner" bar and there are 40 runners sitting around talking about their last runs, ya know? You walk into a runner bar because you heard the rumours, that there are SOME real runners that frequent location A or B. Going around blowing up runner bars would mean you just killed 2 runners and 500 normals, not terribly effective and you've just made 500 groups of enemies, at least 1 of which is bound to have enough juice to find you. Bottom line is, whatever bar I walk into, just became a runner bar =) Kong |
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