Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

"Nothing Succeeds Like Excess!"
Connection	6
Type	Seattle Nightlife
Player May Join	No
Health	Maintaining
Area of Operation	Seattle

Faction Information

A staple of the Seattle Nightlife, Dante's Inferno is also very poorly covered in 5E texts. The below work is almost entirely the work of, and attributed to, Eric Faber of Airborne Ham Games, with our sincere thanks

Summary

Perhaps the premier nightspot in Seattle, Dante’s Inferno has earned its place at the very top with a long history of devotion to the motto “nothing succeeds like excess.” One of three sister-nightclubs (the other two in London and Hong Kong), the Inferno takes the theme of “Nine Circles of Sin” quite literally, having nine levels. The first seven are associated with the Seven Deadly Sins; guests enter at the topmost level and descend to the increasingly select and rarified depths, weeded out by the Inferno’s door-staff and the wishes of the club’s manager and its owner, Dante Passini.

At the lowest levels are Purgatory (“where there’s a promise of getting into Heaven”) and Hell (“where you forget all about Heaven”). These are invitation-only, open to Dante’s favored few and the rich and famous of the Seattle nightlife scene. A ticket into Hell is a sure sign you have truly arrived in the Emerald City. With fantastic AR displays complementing transparent floors and spiral staircases, and full-service bars and menus on each level, there’s more than enough sin at Dante’s to go around, so pace yourself!

>You have to hand it to Dante. The Inferno, like a snooty French restaurant, makes being discriminated against part of the experience, but they do it in style. For example, a fantastic wrought-iron staircase spirals around the outside of the club so guests enter from the top floor and make their way down, meaning the lowest floors are the most exclusive. So, if you have to stand in line for hours, you might as well do it with a great view, right? The stairs have a canopy, so Dante’s can accommodate much longer lines than other clubs, and people are willing to go there just to be seen waiting in line!
>Khan-A-Saur

>Dante himself is an increasingly rare sight at the Seattle Inferno, as he prefers his townhouse in London and spends more of his time there. The nightly affairs are in the well-manicured hands of the manager, an elf named Alessio; always dressed sharp enough to cut you in the latest designer suits, his bald head covered with animated tattoos of hellish torments and delights and his solid black cybereyes reflecting the hot glimmer of flames, even when there are none present.
>Ethernaut

>The Inferno sometimes rents out Purgatory and Hell for private parties, which include a very nice security package, making them ideal for those get-togethers where nobody wants to be disturbed, or have their image captured.
>Danger Sensei

Major Locations

Entrance

The nine story building, taking up its own city block, is actually dwarfed by the surrounding architecture of downtown. Because of this, sky bridges from neighboring buildings stretch across the streets to the top of the Inferno and act as the only way to reach the entrance of the club, apart from the private landing pad on the roof.

Upon arrival, bouncers under the order of Charon, the club’s head of security, weed out the undesirables at the entrance to the first level. There, anybody who is allowed in has two options: party in limbo or try to go deeper. A stairway spirals around the exterior of the building from top to bottom, stopping off at each floor along the way. At each level, another team of bouncers wait to judge whether you are allowed to go deeper. If not, you go into the layer you are on or are asked to leave.

Access: Public - anyone can come to the entrance, but not everyone gets in.

>Nobody knows if Charon took the name to keep with the club’s theme or if it just worked out for him. Either way, the name fits his role. Charon and his guys are the ones who pick and choose who gets into the Inferno, following any specific directions from Dante or Alessio of course.
>The Fitz

8th Floor: Limbo

The layer that is open to the public, Limbo is a pretty standard nightclub experience while still maintaining the hellish theme of the whole club. It does not represent any particular sin or vice, but instead represents the section of hell that all people go if they do not accept a pious life. By allowing anyone in, it shows that anyone who wants to can get into hell, but the real sinners go further.

“Anyone” is a misleading statement when referring to who is allowed into the first layer of the club. While it is officially open to the public, bouncers at the door allow only the elite, well-known, wealthy, or attractive individuals to enter the club. Only those with invitations or higher status get to the lower levels.

Access: High Lifestyle or above - Only the well known and the wealthy

>Getting into Limbo isn’t difficult if you can clean yourself up. If you look rich, or at least look good, you can get in. Smooth-talk Charon’s guys at the door and you can probably get in even if you ain’t that pretty. Main thing is that they don’t want chummers making the place look like some Puyallup dump, so they hand pick the clientele to maintain a high-class atmosphere.
>Blackout

7th Floor: Lust

The first layer of the club that is off limits without invitation or prominence, Lust is a strip club. Walking down the stairs into Lust, you are met with the slowly growing scent of sweat and sex. Inside, stages, cages, and poles are scattered around the large room. Dancers of every race, sex, and cybermod niche are on full display showing off to the visitors. While most dancers are hands-off, there are several who can take you in for a “private dance” where you go behind closed doors and get a one-on-one experience.

Access: Luxury Lifestyle or Patron of the Arts

>This whole experience is just not the same without access to the bar. Like any bar, it serves a variety of drinks and drugs. However, Lust also serves a plethora of SimSense soft to enhance the patron's experience. If you ever wanted to feel the urge to hump everything that moves, and even some things that don’t, Lust is the place for you.
>Oz, the Wiz

>If you are easily offended by nudity, you might want to keep out of Lust. If you have an obscure fetish you need to indulge, you, chummer, have found the right place. Just be sure to know which kinks get private dances before you go prodding around for a romp with the dancers. Nobody likes a sleaze, not even at a strip joint. 
>C088

>While sex and nudity are the primary features of the second circle of the Inferno, it is also important to keep in mind that information flows more in Lust than anywhere else. Below Limbo, only VIPs can get in, but they have a tendency to be more distracted while staring at a pair of elf tits than just lounging around a club. With the added bonus of being the least restrictive VIP level, the patrons of Lust are a bit less careful about what they say to strangers. If you can get down one set of stairs, you get one of the best opportunities to be in the know. WIth that said, the view through the glass floor above does have a better angle to look down girls’ shirts.
>Morris Kimiyo

6th Floor: Gluttony

Below Lust is Gluttony, the gourmet restaurant for the extremely VIP in Seattle. While all the layers of the Inferno serve food, this is where you go if you want the premiere Seattle dining experience. Still maintaining the hellish nightclub atmosphere with the matching glass dance floor in the middle, the booths and tables around the third level are for visitors seeking to have their “last meal.” For a measly 500¥, a visitor to Gluttony orders the only available option, entitled the Last Meal. This entails a sort of all-you-can-eat dinner of anything on the menu. Almost any imaginable food, even non-soy delicacies, can be ordered at no end. It is truly the most elite level of dining in downtown Seattle.

Access: Patron of the Arts (Dante's)

>While the bosses who need absolute privacy use Hell or Purgatory, Gluttony is where lots of the higher-ups in the mobs and the Yaks hold their “casual” meetings. It is still a night-club, so it is loud and hard to overhear conversations, but it is also a restaurant, so they get to have a long conversation over a meal with less fear of eavesdropping. 
>The Fitz

>The Last Meal is technically the best deal in town on non-soy food, but only if you can hold it all down. Gluttony doesn’t give chummers who can’t finish their meal any sort of carry-home box, so if you don’t eat your ¥500 worth, you don’t get your money back. But if you find a tricky way to sneak some out, you could probably make a profit selling real cow meat on the street.
>Oz, the Wiz

5th Floor: Greed

If you want to throw away your money at the most premiere casino in Seattle, you need to find your way down to the fourth layer of Dante’s Inferno. Greed has a reputation for big payouts and crushing losses. People have both earned and lost their fortunes and status there, although primarily the latter. While all casinos admit that their games are weighted towards the house, Greed has designed their games so that payouts happen few and far between. The lure to be seen gambling at the Inferno is enough to drive people to keep playing and keep losing, although the occasional billionaire jackpot is something everyone secretly hopes for.

Access: Patron of the Arts (Dante's)

>Gambling at Greed might seem like a good time, maybe even a good idea, but if you manage to ask someone who has lost everything at the Inferno, I bet they tell you to stop before you even started. I say “manage” because chances are, chummer, that you ain’t ever gonna see them again. We say they sold their soul to the Inferno for a reason, because the drek that ends up in debt to the house at Greed never turn up.
>Morris Kimiyo

>They never turn up because they get forced to work with the Yaks to pay off their debts. Everyone knows the Inferno has those ties and I’ve heard that sometimes they turn up doing suicide missions sometimes. Of course the soulless won’t get out alive, and I’m sure they know that. That’s why they get dragged off kicking and screaming when they lose everything at the club.
>C088

>We ain’t working for… I mean, the Yaks ain’t working for Dante. I’ve never heard that rumor before. You’re wrong.
>Morris Kimiyo

>Yeah, okay.
>C088

Narrative Significant Runs

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Small Embers	Asmodeus		15 September 2084