You find a parking space along a curb off a side street from Redmond Way. Lana already pointed out Club Sonoma and the side street you're parked on is only 2 blocks east. B.B. decides to stay in the car and monitor the situation from the matrix. The rest of you climb out of the car along with Lana and start walking towards the club.
Time 7:30@Rest of Group
The neon signs and ARO's along the strip reflect off the light drizzle and create a sort of fluorescent mist permeating the atmosphere. You see club names which float over the sidewalks...."Zanders, Frida's, Takara" mostly surrounded by little food stands manned mostly by orks of asian decent serving the typical ramen, topoki, or soyfry....but you pass the occasional exotic stand manned by talismongers and purhaps even mildly awakened shaman's who sell all sorts of strange snacks and pass them off as awakened nourishments.... only for a hefty price will they sell you a single mana cube created with a weak nourishment spell. Creating those addicitive little cubes is heavily regulated in Seattle, and that's one of the reasons why people from all over like coming to Touristville.
The smuged onyx entrance to club Sonoma is on the first floor of a grimey 4 story plasticrete building and is quite small and inconspicuous, the only sign that this is the entrance to a night-club is a violet black-light sign running along side the door along with several AR ads weaving around it. The bouncer is a well built ork in a leather neo-tunic who's braids fall all around his shoulders. He has a little cred slot box and as you approach him he distractedly tells you that it's 20 nuyen per person....but when he sees Lana, he smiles and asks her:
"Are you staying or just making a pickup?"
Lana:
"These guys just want to make a pick-up...c'mon Jarius, we'll just be a minute."He nods and waves you all through.
@B.B.:
Through a little AR window you can see the VR sculpting of the matrix node to the Sonoma. Like most clubs, it's a heavily idealized imitation of the true physical layout of the estalishment, but detached from any of the surrounding buildings. You are allowed public access into a vestibule lounge where a few persona icons are having conversations with each other. The bouncer agent tells you that it's 15 nuyen to get user access.
[OOC: Matrix perception: Analyze 6 + Computer 1 + Neocortical 3 + PuSHed 1= 11 11d6.hits(5)=4.]Your Analyze ARO is running a scan you see the club node is System 3, Firewall 4 and is running an Analyze 3 along with a bouncer agent rating 3.
@Rest of Group:
You walk down a flight of steps and proceed through an entranceway to your left. The dimly lit interior of the club looks quite a bit classier than the exterior of the building and relatively empty this early in the evening with most of the people sitting at the neon blue bar which snakes along one whole wall of the establishment.
Lana looks at you and nods towards a man standing next to the bar talking-up a group of girls in a distinct Australian accent. His back is turned towards you, his shoulder length stringy hair and his trenchcoat are still a little wet.
Lana:
"That's him over there....listen, please don't hurt him....he never did nothing bad to me...just get what you want and then let him be."
