[Recruitment] Bug City, Alternative Reality, An Infested Chicago Options

[HeySparky]

Woodlands in 2064 Chicago? Like a private park? I'm thinking lakefront then. If that's not too steep as far as real estate goes.

And if we want, it'd be fine if Ana is living out of one of the rooms, though living there would be something of a new thing. She moves around a lot.

[Reign Maker]

Sounds good to me. Sure there are many parks in chicago. Millenium, & Grant are definatley in the containment zone. Most are by the lake shore but they are all big. And most of the nice apartment towers in chicago face them its called the "gold cost". I would suggest parking being underneath the building... only really really big & nice places have their own parking lots the size that building would need. Most people park on the street or use city parking lots (the kind you got to pay by the day or hour). Um my one question are
1)How BIG is the containment zone? And how close are we to the edge of it?
2)I assume it goes into the lake how far out into the lake is safe before the metroplex guards gun you down?
3)I assume that the building has other occupants and probabley security are they gonna be like an npc "gang" we get to start with or did they mysteriously disappear?
4)Does chicago have grid guide? I would think it would and even though the cameras and transpoders are probabley toast in the first few hours the magnetic coils would still provide power to grid guide cars...
5)Is the power on, I assume the EMP from the nuke nocks it off for a few hours but does it come back on? Do the metroplex guards controlling the wall control it?

[Sphynx]

1a) Your character doesn't know yet.
1b) You're near the center of the city but still on the east side (the Museum is across the street about 5 blocks away)
2) Your character doesn't know yet.
3) Stuff you find out when the story begins.
4) Had Grid Guide a minute ago....
5) Stuff you find out when the story begins.

[scoundrel]

[mallet]

Well, a big compound on 10-15 acers of land, doesn't really go with the "local neighborhood pub/watering hole" idea for my guy, but I can change my guy to fit a more "upscale, B&B, private retreat/getaway kind of place." -- Just have to take out the big screen TV's and add a wine celler. oh... and maybe start washing the mugs... :)

If this is what people want then it is good with me. I can do rich/upscale.

If people want to do low rent, old school tenement building with pub down below and everyone living/working above I can do that too.

It only makes for a minor personality adjustment for my guy.

[Reign Maker]

Leave the pub how it was before a dwarven gritty blue colar type. Only the penthouse was luxury (before my dumb orc ass decided I needed a demolitions shop in the living room). Maybe you hire someone to take care of the renting and just run your pub... wouldn't have to change nothing.

:wobble: I am kind of confused by the bed and breakfast thing.... no idea where that came from... did I miss someones post? Who lives in a damn bed and breakfast?

[Sphynx]

Ok, step 2.

First of all, how about you all DON'T live there, it's just a place owned my your good friend Mike who you've aided before. Shit hits the fan, he calls you for help (he's still rennovating the 'rooms' for occupation maybe, having recently inheritted the place, and only running the pub side of things so far). Shit's hit the fan, and his 'fortress-like' home sounds like a good place to secure up with all the lawlessness going round now that LoneStar has quit due to lack of employees who all went home to protect their loved ones.

I suggest that because you're all kinda 'tough', a bit more Shadowrun looking than you'd expect all living in one building... but all living next door is also cool with me.

Thoughts?

[Reign Maker]

Ohhh ... bye bye penthouse... I kinda liked at least one of my dependants starting in a secure place. It doesn't much matter to me... Shits hitting the fan and no matter where I start I'm gonna have to go out to get my pa.... just need to find out if I got to worrry about the wife too. And Sphynx you make it hard to plot...

Lone Star?... They have the contract in Chicago?..A CAS compnany...Jesus well I guess Knight Errant has the CAS sector of Denver while Lone Star has the UCAS sector ... Just more of the same from FASA... GOOO FASA. lol no wonder they went under.

[Frater Inominatu...]

Here is my 2 cents worth:

Hagvas owns a "small" arms manufacturing facility [READ: Firearms Facility] that is looking branch out [READ: Armor, Vehicle, Demolitions, & Ammunition Shops]. Facility is surrounded by a three meter wall, concertina wire, etc...

Ana owns the now closed electronics shop across the street. business closed when her father got sick.

Next to Ana's shop is "Hennessey's" the pub where all the factory workers across the street go after work. Also a place where local "talent" generally goes to meet with Johnsons as it is centrally located and serves good food and spirits.

On the other side of the pub is Eric's magic shop. Eric may provide "Hagvas Arms" with magical security; wards, elementals, etc... Eric and Ana's children might go to the same school.

Locke Ana and Baker could easily know each other from previous jobs, live in the area when the fecal matter hits the rotating blades...

Gnat and Eric might know each other through Eric's shop. He has an excellent library and Gnat may use it from time to time...

That gives all of us a connection to someone else in the group, puts us in the same area and provides a reasonable "perimeter to call a "fortress."

As for lifestyles: We live and work in the area so maybe there is a Residential block on one of the other streets facing Hagvas' facility. Penthouse and all...

[Sphynx]

I think I'm going to stick with the original apartment complex as per the ascii drawing (primarily because I've already started writing the story around it). The beginning story will entail how you 'create' the shops, since none of the backgrounds really stressed on the shops as something that were a major factor other than the pub. After all, if this story line happened to me, I don't care who was in my way, I'd stockpile like a crazy man, especially if I had the sort of firepower you guys have, cause who's gonna stop me?

Most were bought as 'shops' anyhows, meaning enough to fill a van at best. I'm going to say that since his apartment complex was under construction, there's a machine shop with enough tools to give you the 'shop' bonus for nearly anything, which explains the firearm/armour spots with no ammo, it's for fixing, not stocking.

I'm more interested now in why you are here. In the 'neighborhood' scenario, you'd be so busy defending your own shops that the game would never really take-off like I need. So, 1 building as the 'fortress' is best, so the current step is to decide how the team came to be there. Residence is ok (anyone who wants to be living there is fine), but other ideas could revolve around someone calling you, or maybe you walking down the street and running in for safety, or maybe to help against some thugs trying to claim the place....

So most important question right now is, why are you there, at the apartment complex?

[scoundrel]

Gnat could've asked Mike for a place to crash after he got kicked out of his apartment, so he could be a temporary resident in the complex when the city gets locked down.

For people who already have a home, it would still make sense for everyone to decide to band together at one place to increase chances of survival across the board.

[Reign Maker]

The Penthouse is done... and they even finished construction on knocking down some walls for the new babies room edition. Everything below that is being renovated now. Turning it from Spacious Loft apartments into "Economical Apartments" more apartments = more nuyen....hence all the components for the various shops and facilities of mine... Ill stick with the top floor of the pub thanks :D !!

I'm sure any one else wanting to live there can just claim their floor is done with renovations... I suggest picking a floor also (toward top or bottom) leave the middles open so we can use them as a buffer fire fight zone if the insects try to come from either top or bottom.

But no matter what the rest of you choose my Penthouse is there..and my Wife is in it!!!! Now time to blast my way to pops and pick up more ammo and supplies on the way. Who's With Me.

[mallet]

Your penthouse is right above the pub? On the second floor? Shouldn't a penthouse bee on the top floor?

[Reign Maker]

It Is on the top floor.... hence "everything below that is being renovated now" Meaning its ABOVE everything else.... I said the "top floor of the pub" meaning the whole building sorry if this led to confusion...

[Sphynx]

Actually, I was thinking it was only a 2 story building anyhows... ?

[nick012000]

[Reign Maker]

LoL ok never mind I am right above the pub then. Makes for easier defense than a large story building anyway :P !! And no long flights of stairs up... ok I am happy... Can we KILL BUGS soon??

[mallet]

So, where do I live? Also above the pub? Do we share the place? Some sort of odd couple thing? The slobby dwarf and his highclass human roomate? :)

[Reign Maker]

I am an orc, so is the wife. Maybe the top floor is split you get one half I get the other. With shared roof access in the lease (but I doubt I'll go up there lol). Share one stair way up with our doors on opposite sides of the landings? Stair way up can be a seperate door right next to the front entrance or just inside the pub?

[scoundrel]

Personally, I think we're lending too much time to a relatively minor detail. For my part, I say let Sphynx decide and get on with the game. :)

[Reign Maker]

I've been ready for days.

[HeySparky]

Wrote this last night, but forgot to post:

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That was Spynx's conglomeration of our various expenditures.

I'm thinking we took over a combined retail/commercial area that had the shops/stores/bars/restaurants below and living space above. A common urban arrangement. To provide a lot of different quality of hosugconverted to high-end condos but squatted in by the rest of us rent-control hold-outs. :)

What I don't know about is the forested area. It will be good to have if we need to uh... grow food : / or something else woodsy and uncomfortable.

10-15 acres isn't all that big when you consider the size of Central Park (843 acres). A good-sized urban park would be that big. For visualization, an acre is about the size of an American football field without the endzones.

The area that we take over could have a big park like courtyard that the buildings surround - part of which is fenced or easily defensible. Or we could claim a nearby park as our turf when everything goes down.
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Having said that. I'd like Ana to be crashing in one of the rooms, which she knew about because she's a regular at the place. The pub part.

[scoundrel]

Is this to be our OOC thread?

[Reign Maker]

[HeySparky]

Actually, I think it'll be interesting if we want the PCs to stay together but some of them are torn because they'll have to decide whether to leave their families and risk their necks or stay behind to watch over their families while other families' fates are unknown.