Tremaine's Pub

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Renown: 1

Description

The first floor of Tremaine's pub is almost nice to look at. There's usually a little sand on the hardwood floors but it's for show, no one can remember anyone bleeding or vomiting in the main room in ages. It's not a place where kids go and the occasional group of collegiates that finds their way there is usually just not served.

See, a lot of Atlanta's cops like to frequent this old pub. They like the quiet atmosphere, the cheap beers, and the dim light. They like that the jukebox is kept turned low and mostly only plays old country tunes, and they like the fact that they get the opportunity to kick the shit out of the people that frustrate them and their efforts to clean up the city, day in and day out.

The regulars know to go around to the back, knock on those big cellar doors, and head down into the basement. Past the long disused barrels and down the long flagstone path, there's a small open area. It's poorly lit save for one overhead light that swings from a chain, but it's enough to see the heavily bloodstained floor that marks out the rough dimensions of the boxing ring.

Tremaine's is one of the last refuges of bare knuckled boxing. The cops know about it but they won't shut it down because too many officers would be implicated. It's a place where people of starkly different backgrounds meet: ex military men, police, thugs, criminals, and even the occasional bored professional who was inspired by Fight Club, though these last don't usually do as well as they might wish. Women are a rarity but they do come by, and ratio of women spectators to women fighters is actually far lower than amongst the males. Since fights are negotiated privately, there are no gender divisions and no weight classes. If there's not enough fights to fill out a night's ticket, spectators run the risk of being conscripted into the ring.

Still, there's a raucous crowd down there, a tremendous amount of betting and "promoters" always guiding around the fighters and demanding their cut. The house takes its cut of the action too, though no one minds since usually it's the old mute bartender that's covering everyone's action anyway, though several independent bookies flourish there too. The gambling pays for everything, from fighters' purses to, some say, all of the bar's overhead. No one knows if that's quite true but undoubtedly, there's a lot of money to be won or lost on the unforgiving stones of the blood stenched basement of Tremaine's.

Size, Location and Security

Size 3, Location 1, Security 3

Benefits

Minor

You've been frequenting the place long enough and talking to the right people to occasionally be taken around to the basement and allowed to watch a fight, or even bet on one. You want necessarily get the most favorable odds but if you're savvy, you might win a few bucks anyway, and watching the fights is always educational anyway.

+1 brawl, can bet on fights but must always give odds, making it not very profitable (Every month, gain +$150 on your normal resources)

Sizable

You don't need to be taken around the back and specially invited anymore, you're a regular at the fights and you've probably even participated once or twice. The people generally like you and trust that you can keep your mouth shut, which is the most important thing to these people. You can even begin to take bets as a bookie, and even if you don't many people will assume you do just because of the crowd you sit with.

+1brawl, +1streetwise, +$400 to monthly resources

Uncontested

You're not simply a regular, you're the regular. You schmooze with cops and criminals nightly, and they all know you. You promote fighters and some people rumor that you've even heard the cantankerous old owner speak, and you might even know his real name.

+1 brawl, +2 streetwise, +$700 to monthly resources, once a month the police will lose the paperwork on charges related to you or a friend