The Place

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Predator’s Taint: 0

Exterior Channel: Riverside Drive

Renown: 3

Description

Atlanta’s shittiest and one of the few remaining real bars, The Place – located in Forest Park – strikes a bland look to it similar to it’s unimaginative name. The outside parking lot isn’t even a lot, really. There’s no lights save for that of the dimmed yellow lettering of the bar’s barely functional neon sign at the entrance. The lot is just gravel and dust, not even broken cement to cover it up off of the street. There’s a dirty fence surrounding the back of the property and it’s overgrown with kudzu and other vine-type plants. There are spare tires full of mosquito-breeding-ground and no doubt pestiferous water leaned up at random intervals against the fence.

Inside, the view isn’t that much different, the walls are dingy brown wood, with old posters half-torn and half-plastered to the walls advertising country and western band shows, free oil changes and conspicuous numbers and names for local prostitutes (the low-grade kind). The stools look about as stable as the entire place, and more than a few have their lower legs chipped or “wounded”. Similarly, the tables – there are none of them fancy booths – are all marred with cigarette burns, knife-marks and pen-created graffiti and look light enough that more than a few of them have been used as weapons before.

The bar serves beer and whiskey. That’s it. Fuckers who want something else find themselves sprayed with water and a rude awakening from the bartender, John (just John, man), in the form of verbal assault from someone who could probably qualify for a Tourette victim. John knows the regulars and John likes his regulars. If you’re not a regular, you might as well just be another “Fucking A-rab Terr-ist” from the way you’re treated by the crowds.

Size, Location and Security

Size 2, Security 1, Location 1

Benefits

All Visitors

Quick drawing an improvised weapon is considered available for all characters visiting The Place. There are beer bottles, cigarette ash trays, shot glasses, chairs and tables always at hand for violent purposes, and often they see regular use.

Minor

You’re a regular. That means John won’t kick your ass out first if there’s any kind of trouble and you can expect a measured amount of “allowance” from the grating, aggressive other regulars. With that being said, you’ve got access to a group of people who know where and why things get done around the town, and it gives you more of an edge.

+1 Streetwise, +1 Intimidation

Sizable

Not only are you a regular, but you’re a liked regular, which means people will totally come to your aid if you get into a fight there. Let’s be straight here, they’re not exactly kung-fu fighters and bruce lee, but in a bar brawl, they can hang tough and throw down with just about anyone for a little while. Oh yeah, and you can have a bar tab, but really – who the hell has a bar tab at a dive bar?

+2 Streetwise, +1 Intimidation; Gain 2 additional bar fight fighters (use Security Guard stats) – but they don’t try to kill, bar fights are bar fights; Gain Barfly

Uncontested

Man, when you walk in the room, you know just about damn near everyone. Everyone knows you, too, even if they know you by a fake name or some other kind of alias. John will talk shop with you without a problem, and you even know he’s got two daughters (one’s a lesbian, he hates lesbians). Any problems can net you a whole legion of white trash fighters at any given time, and half of them are just looking for a fight anyway. On top of that, John doesn’t mind if you crash in the stock room for a night every once in awhile, which just so happens to be sun-proof.

+2 Streetwise, +1 Intimidation, Specialty (Improvised Weapons); Gain 5 additional bar fight fighters (use Security Guard stats) – but they don’t try to kill, bar fights are bar fights; Gain Barfly; Gain 1 night temporary haven every couple of weeks