Shadowrun RPG Seattle - Bellvue Page
Bellvue Overviews
2050 Details
- Accomodation
- Flair's Appartment (Appartment)
- Food and Drink
- Breadboard Quaff and Stuff (Tavern)
- Orion's Organic Grocery (Grocer)
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2072 Details
High Tech, High Class - Located across Lake Washington from the Downtown district, Bellevue is the favorite retreat for Seattle’s well-to-do white-collar community. Even before the Awakening, the area’s wooded hills and lakeside views made it a popular place for real estate and home development. Even though manicured parks and condoplexes have replaced most of those woods, Bellevue retains a serene air of natural and architectural beauty.
Expect to spend a day exploring Bellevue’s elegant shopping and business district. Lovers of electronics will enjoy all it has to offer, since Bellevue’s main industry remains Matrix hardware and software, with boutiques selling the latest commlinks, AR wearables, and grid-gear. You can also expect to find some fine designer fashions, primarily for the business-conscious consumer. In the evening, visit the district’s many fine restaurants and nightspots to wind things down with a nightcap or to kick off the evening with haute cuisine appetizers and top-shelf cocktails.
- JackPoint Comment
- Bellevue bills itself on its “everything is fine, everything is lovely” atmosphere, and goes to great lengths to maintain it. After all, the district shares a long border with the Redmond Barrens, with plenty of ferrocrete barriers, monowire, and patrol drones ensuring that the have-nots remain on their side of the line: outside looking in. Everywhere you look in Bellevue is some part of the façade: gated communities with biofabric domes to filter toxins out of the air and absorb some of that acid rain, quiet drones crawling along the carefully clipped green lawns or scooping up trash while keeping an electronic eye out for anyone or anything that doesn’t belong. The whole thing is like a real-life sim of what pleasant suburban life should be.
- Glitch
- JackPoint Comment
- That’s the key to dealing with Bellevue: use the illusion to your advantage. So long as you look like you fit in, you do, since everybody is invested in not scratching too deeply beneath the surface. Of course, if you’re anything other than some flavor of human (or maybe elf or dwarf looking to pass), chances are you don’t fit in. But dress and act like a Straight Citizen and you might as well be invisible.
- Danger Sensei
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