The Medici

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Renown: 1

Description

This small but intensely popular Coffee Shop faces onto the corner of a busy intersection, displaying an in-store roasting operation through large picture windows. A service counter provides snacks and specialty coffee — both in take-out packages and for consumption in the store. Six tables are arranged near the counter, some with comfortable couches for seating, others with simple chairs. A row of stools is also placed near a small ledge at one of the windows, affording customers a view of the street. During warm weather months, a small, canopied patio runs along one side of the Coffee Shop, providing seating for about 15 patrons around five tables.

The Coffee Shop is clean and pleasant, always suffused with the smell of roasting coffee (which is vented to allow it to waft out into the street as well). Coffee, snacks and coffee preparation equipment are all on sale at the café, as well as a selection of magazines and newspapers. The store is secured only with simple locks on the doors. There are no security cameras or alarms in place.

The place is ripe with a feeling of progression, resistance and general independence, which lends itself to the patrons who visit it regularly. Once can find all manner of “indy” flyers – from protests, to sit ins, to band shows – all of them are welcome at the Medici.

Size, Location and Security

Size 1, Location 3, Security 0

Benefits

Minor

With regular visits to this place, you’ve become something of an acknowledged commodity of the place. You have no trouble spending long hours leeching WiFi connection, or even engaging on the random, non-hostile, debates that pop up within the establishment.

High Speed Internet; If Carthian with Debate club, use 8-roll – all others may use 9-again on Persuasion.

Sizable

As a regular and interactive patron, you’ve got the ability to host events and meetings within the coffee shop after-hours and lock the doors for up to 2 hours from any others. While the coffee shop isn’t closed, and there are still staffers, those who come to the coffee shop have to sit outside (which still means masquerade problems if people get too open-mouthed). The environment, however, lends itself to said meetings, and everyone with you can gain the benefits of it.

High Speed Internet; +1 Socialize; 8-roll on Persuasion and Politics rolls, “guests” may use 9-again on Persuasion and Politics rolls.

Uncontested

This could be your haunt of haunts for everything you put into it. The local indy crowd recognizes you on sight and reacts to you accordingly. You’ve got no problems setting up meetings, and you’ve got no problems dealing with anyone who comes inside.

High Speed Internet; +1 Socialize; 8-roll on Persuasion and Politics rolls, “guests” may use 9-again on Persuasion and Politics rolls; Gain +2 dice on any mundane University-based rolls or any rolls involving The Medici and it's occupants