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[Talia Invierno]

We've all built or encountered those special places in Seattle, the kind that stand out in your memory.

Maybe it's the elf-poser noodle vendor at the corner, the girl who watches all the high-profile trid media types pass by her everyday while she keeps dreaming of the businesses she's going to make happen and somehow never quite manages to get off the ground.

Maybe it's the little Italian restaurant with the checked red and white linen tablecloths on the patio tables (clipped, to protect them from the wind) which serves only real food and the very freshest (and charges appropriately) - which is always available because one of the people with a silent ownership interest happens to be a Mafia don who delights in cooking (real cooking! not that nuked heated-up stuff) and who specialises in smuggling in food.

Maybe it's the New Age Tir-Celtic metal thrash bar whose clientele (although mostly wannabes) does include the occasional true music celebrity, whose two co-owners are retired shadowrunners and current fixers specialising in the entertainment industry (they were into the edgy bands all their lives and had always wanted to open up a place like this) and whose former partner (in intense leather and piercings and a shaved lightly-spiked dyed-bone yellow blonde hairdo) runs a stable of escort-bodyguards for the celebrities (all wired for video and sound) and deals in the information she draws into her net.

Let's create that social map of Seattle together ...