Tatase Home

Tatase Goku lives in the classic suburban neighbourhood of Magnloia Bluff. Cut off from the rest of the metroplex by the Interbay tidal flats, this neighbourhood hasn't really changed much in the last hundred years - its streets are lined with the elegant mansions of Seattle's wealthy, along with some new apartments and condoplexes built to the area's exacting standards of appearance. He lives with his wife Mina and two children Hiro (son, aged 7) and Masato (daughter, aged 5). Asides from the cromulent Lone Star presence in the neighbourhood, the house is constantly under the guard of four Yakuza heavies. It's on half an acre of ground, with a well-tended suburban-style garden that contains a copse of moderately mature trees, and a fair-sized fishpond that's about six feet deep at its centre and contains carp.

Tatase goes jogging most mornings - he's accompanied by a black car containing two heavies and three goons. After that he has a shower and changes for breakfast and the day's work.

Mina has most stats at 3, and has pistols 2 and brawling 1, and carries a Beretta Model 101T light pistol in her handbag (concealability 5, ammo 12(c), semi-auto, 6L damage). Hiro has pistols 1 (he's been taking lessons from one of the goons).

 

The Glass Onion restaurant

This is a large Japanese restaurant on Madison Street and 2nd Avenue which is rather swanky.

 

Hotel Nikko

A luxury hotel located at 3rd Avenue and Pike Street, the top penthouse suite is leased by Tatase Goku's organisation and it is from here that he conducts his day-to-day business. The team would be given their assignments by him here, and he meets regularly with his subordinates here to keep track of business. The hotel is 58 stories high, and the entire 58th story is Tatase's area. It contains a waiting room and large office as well as a master bedroom and two guest bedrooms, kitchen and everything else. It has all the mod cons you could ever want, including BTL decks. It's guarded by two heavies and four goons.

On the roof there's two pads for landing VTOL craft, and also a Japanese garden. These are both accessible to all guests, but Tatase keeps a heavy and two goons up there just in case.

The lobby contains two goons at all times (except when one needs to pee or whatever), and the concierge has been instructed to keep an eye out for the team. The dumb blonde with big tits behind the desk hasn't. The door has a rating 7 Magnetic Anomaly Detector on it, but access can also be gained through the kitchens. There is a room service service, and plenty of uniformed bellhops and doormen bustling about. Normal rooms go for 200 nuyen a night, whilst the penthouses set you back 2000.

The aesthetic design of the place is very rich and extravagant - plenty of real wood, velvet tapestries, deep carpets and gold trim.

If a gunfight should break out in Tatase's penthouse, amongst the things to break are a large fishtank, a big trideo set, a mirrored wall, kitchen appliances, antique plates displayed on a dresser and glass tables. All floors have balconies - the penthouses having ones that go all the way around, the regular rooms having access only to as much balcony as corresponds to the size of the room.

The hotel has a security contract with elite security company Knight Errant.

 

Mister Smart's

This is an exclusive gentleman's club located in an old ivy-covered building in the heart of Seattle's downtown distruct run by former shadowrunner Mister Smart. It is decorated in the style of a Victorian-era gentleman's club and serves as a kind of neutral ground for organised criminals, police officials, politicians and business people. Each attendee is allowed one bodyguard and one only, and most of the security is provided by Mister Smart's bouncers, of which there are eight on duty at a time. Only members are allowed to attend, and membership applications take several months to process and are accepted or rejected on a variety of bases, including being vouched for by other members, social standing and credit limit. It is not a place used to contact shadowrunners, due to the reasonably intimate nature of the place. Real brandy and cigars are available as are limited numbers of newspapers printed on paper, and backgammon is a popular pasttime. Tatase's bodyguard at this place will be either Yoshi (1-3 on a D6) or Hiro (4-6). Cars tend to be parked at the nearby Riley Multi-storey Parking Emporium, where there is an unspoken understanding about which floor which group's cars will park on. Mooks tend to spend their time sitting uneasily in their cars keeping an eye out for other people.

 

Gray Line restaurant

This is Tatase's favourite restaurant, down on Pier 63. It's a large, posh restaurant with a nautical theme going, and best of all is the fact that during high tide the glass wall which lines one side of the building is submerged, showing the beautiful and spectacular undersea world of Puget Sound (ehh, actually it's full of old tyres and shopping trollies and carcinogens, but it's still pretty cool). High tide falls at lunchtime, in case you're wondering. The wall is made of reinforced glass with an armour rating of 8 (see the Barrier Effect Table on page 124 of the Shadowrun 3rd edition book, and remember to double its rating for bullet attacks). There's a rating 5 MAD on the door.

 

Knutson's Country Home

This is a medium-sized and somewhat more intimate restaurant on Broad Street and Elliot Avenue which is completely 20th-century in theme - it's decorated like a 1950s country club, there's an imitation wood fire, candles, and the food is even made of real food and the dishes are all 20th-century style ones. You can get steak, potatoes, wine - the works. Rating 4 MAD on the door.

 

Odeon Theatre cinema

This cinema caters to the oddball market who are interested in old-fashioned flat-screen movies. Nevertheless, many of the classics were made in this format, so the place and others like it manage to stay afloat. Tatase has rented the entire place out for the night for his date - they're watching Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. There's just him, and his girl, and the projectionist (an ancient guy with no teeth and very thick spectacles), and three heavies and six goons and Yoshi and Hiro.

 

The North Pacific Links

The Seattle Metroplex isn't the top holiday destination to spring into the minds of golf players, but it's not totally devoid of facilities. The North Pacific Links is (of course) the best of the bunch, with a full 18 holes boasting real sand, trees and rough (the main grassy bits are artificial, due to Seattle's minimum-50-percent-water rain content). It's well tended and expensive, and most patrons travel in golf carts. Auto-caddies have rendered human caddies obsolete, but the fact that your heavily chromed and wired shitkicking bodyguard can carry a bag full of sticks just as well as a robot has done something to preserve this tradition. Yoshi is Tatase's caddy of choice (as anybody who's seen Goldfinger will understand).

He's playing with two Triad bosses here, an uneasy situation given the enmity between their factions, but he hopes to cut a business deal that will prove beneficial to both sides. There are plenty of mooks from both sides of the equation hanging around, smoking in the trees, patroling about in golf carts and standing beside their bosses staring at each other - 4 Yakuza heavies and 8 goons, and 6 Triad heavies and 6 goons (altogether - only four from each side will be with their bosses at any one time).

The Links have a security contract with Knight Errant, should anything go awry here. There's not really much to keep people from entering the grounds except a 5-meter-high wall all around it, and a security mage on patrol (Intelligence 4, so roll 4 dice against any intruders' Sneak roll to see if they're spotted - repeat every half-hour) who won't take action but will raise the alarm.

 

The Eye of the Needle restaurant

From New Seattle: "410 West Thomas Street - High atop the 185-metre-tall Space Needle is the Eye of the Needle restaurant, Seattle's most exclusive eatery. Johnsons and shadowrunners arrange meetings at the Eye when they're looking to impress people, and the place is quite impressive. The restaurant, situated right beneath the Needle's observation deck, rotates to offer a spectacular view of the metroplex. The Eye of the Needle offers private dining rooms for security-conscious parties, equipped with anti-surveillance gear and magical wards to prevent eavesdropping." Rating 8 MAD at the end of the corridor that the lifts arrive in, and two bouncers (4 in appropriate stats and skills). The same lifts serve the observation deck. The windows have a barrier rating of 4.

 

Sea-Tac International Airport

From New Seattle: "Perimeter Road - Some thirty-nine airlines and air-freight services use Sea-Tac Airport, keeping it humming with activity at all hours. Air travel is basically the most popular way of getting to Seattle, which has forced Sea-Tac to increase its capacity twice in the past twenty years. The main terminal building is on two levels and features extensive security measures such as magnetic and X-ray scanners for pinpointing concealed cyberware and weapons. Chemsniffers ferret out explosives, drugs and other contraband. Lone Star provides security patrols, and the United Corporate Council made arrangements with the airport some ten years ago for each member of the UCC to provide additional security forces on a rotating schedule. At any given time, you can spot Aztechnology Jaguar Guards, Renraku Red Samurai and Mitsuhama security forces patrolling the terminals and grounds."

Make no mistake: the security here is VERY HEAVY. The chances of guns, explosives, knives or dodgy cyberware getting through are slim indeed, for what that's worth. Tatase is catching a semi-ballistic flight to Tokyo at 2200.