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| - The Chrome Dome is a bar in Victoria Island with a nostalgia theme. Unfortunately, that theme is Seattle circa 2050, where the Predator was the gun you carried, the Yamaha Rapier was the bike you rode, and everyone said "Frag" and "Drek" for some reason. Prior to the current building and ownership, it was a bar that loosely tried to model itself over the famous Seattle and Hong Kong nightclub chain called "Dante's Inferno". The building burned down sometime in the late 60's from a boneheaded idea to introduce "live flames" to the "atmosphere" of the place, which promptly burned the entire building to a crisp. Remarkably, at least for Lagos, no one was injured in the blaze.
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| - The Chrome Dome is a bar in Victoria Island with a nostalgia theme. Unfortunately, that theme is Seattle circa 2050, where the Predator was the gun you carried, the Yamaha Rapier was the bike you rode, and everyone said "Frag" and "Drek" for some reason. Prior to the current building and ownership, it was a bar that loosely tried to model itself over the famous Seattle and Hong Kong nightclub chain called "Dante's Inferno". The building burned down sometime in the late 60's from a boneheaded idea to introduce "live flames" to the "atmosphere" of the place, which promptly burned the entire building to a crisp. Remarkably, at least for Lagos, no one was injured in the blaze. Under "new management", the building was overhauled into a garish 3-story dome that looks remarkably like a chromed skull half-buried into the earth, with the eyes of the skull as entry points. The bouncers and staff are all groomed to look the part, like rejects from a "Striper: Shadowrunner Assassin" trid. Everyone has a large prominent datajack (most of them are fake), the waiters and waitresses carry large old-style keyboard cyberdecks for menus, and the whole deal is a pretentious attempt at looking tougher than it actually is. * Much like most of the Shadowrunners in the 50s, but I digress.* Captain Jack Raptor 'The best pirate you've never met!'. * Easy on 50's Shadowrunners, chummer. Sometimes they come back to bite you in the fragging hoop.* Circe. The Chrome Dome tries to make itself look like a center for illicit corporate activity, and to that end, it has "hidden privacy booths" on the 3rd floor upon request (never mind that the prominent one-way windows on the cranium allow easy access for laser microphones and spy drones), and a surprisingly competent security team that prevents trouble. This place doesn't see much trouble, however, since no shadowrunner worth his salt would ever set foot in this place. Basically, it's the ultimate "runner wannabe" bar. * While it is a laughable place to go "network for some wetwork", the reason that the security staff is so competent is simple. Most of the bouncers are actually goons and runners from the 50s and have survived to this day, in Lagos no less. Chrome installed in the 50s may be outdated, but an Ares Predator with an old cyberarm-mounted palmpad smartlink will still kill you just as well as a brand new Ares Predator 4 Alpha Mk. II.* Ophelia.
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