"Everybody comes to...?" Topic

On going SF project is to build a serious encounter area for 28mm skirmish/RPG--something suitable for assassinations, murders, thefts, arrests, debt collection or a sort of hiring hall--passage to Aldaran and no Imperial entanglements; two men to find the temple of Black Pharol. That sort of thing. Rooms will come from Tenfold Dungeons, furniture mostly from Etsy and castings from pretty much everywhere.

The full-bore version--bar, restaurant, casino, kitchen, manager's office and a small medlab for people who really don't want to show up at the local hospital--will be owned and operated by Rixx the Hutt, because everybody comes to Rixx. But it hit me today that one of the adventurer's bars in CL Moore's Northwest Smith stories was run by Mhicki the Drylander. So clearly the low-rent version with just the bar and a small kitchen should be Mhick's. (And the adventurers should buy their equipment from Dix. But that's different. Should they use Klix to do computer searches?)

Since this is basically a series of rooms and I can use as many and as few as I please, there are a number of other possible combinations: legitimate pubs? Gentlemen's clubs? Inns with attached restaurant and/or tavern? (I am, of course, tempted to name the bar & grill Enyart's.) What else have we got by way of SF, fictional adventuring more broadly or even real life to describe the various combinations? Bonus point awarded for suggestions rhyming with Riss and Mick's.

Opium den, stacked on top of each other for tenement housing, pawn shops, police sub station, ticket booth (like the bus station, or whatever one may need tickers for).

Rando Fixx, tending to his Fixx It repair shop. "Fixx can fix it right, or half your money back!"

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

Rixx Cafe Aldarain?
Like you say, it's where everyone goes. The Imperial officer and stormtroopers pass through once in a while to make sure everyone is aware. The local enforcer is shocked that gambling occurs there

The first rule of Brix' Fight Club is – you don't talk about Brix' Fight Club…

Grav vehicle parking. If the population and construction density is low, it's probably a concrete pad. In denser situations, it might be a parking structure with floors but without exterior walls, except for a few needed load-bearing walls. Then you can just fly in and park.

Conference room because business needs to get done.

Ballroom because lots of intelligent beings like to dance.

You need: Back alley dentists, pawn shops, skritch joints (get your mind out of the gutter! If you have a furry face, they give you ear scratches. ;-), zip-zap clubs (where droids go to get energy jolts), waiting rooms (where people have no idea what they're waiting for, but everybody hangs out there & has a good time), social/dating clubs (maybe with an attached wedding chapel), thrift stores, and more hole-in-the-wall food kiosks than any mall food court anywhere… ;-)

Transport tube station. VR arcade with snack counter and private rooms in the back, for gaming and what-not. Hydroponic store, for the very best in fresh foodstuffs.

Thank you all! Brix' fight club must be an evening thing, though. I'm pretty sure he sells building supplies by day. (His cousin Bix sells office supplies--and is a forger.)

The Waiting Room is straightforward, Zephyr, but where do I find a Godot figure in 28mm?

Myxemail, the local enforcer is clearly being paid off by Rixx' gambling supervisor, Fixx. (The repairman is a relative.)

And yes, clearly the local fast food chain is Quix. (Has anyone else heard the story that Parisian bistro comes from the post-1815 Russian occupation? It sounds just like the Russian word for "quickly!" The Academy Francais denies this--but then they would.)

The Waiting Room is straightforward, Zephyr, but where do I find a Godot figure in 28mm?

You don't need one, since he never appears.

I read the same etymology for "bistro", but the Russians in question were supposedly ex-Whites in Parisian exile in the '20s.

Eumelus, I think we have to exempt the Whites, since the word appears in writing at least by 1892.

As for Godot, this is wargaming, where the bridge over the Elbe might not blow, Der Fuehrer might wake up and release the panzer reserve, and we might get firm ground instead of mud for Waterloo. I figure on a roll of snakes, Rick drinks with the customers and on boxcars Godot shows up.

He's probably got the letters of transit Dagobah. Or maybe the Minbari Falcon.