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| ====== KITTENS FROM SPACE ====== | ====== KITTENS FROM SPACE ====== |
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| ===== Overview ===== | ===== Overview ===== |
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| ===== Architectural Significance ===== | ===== Architectural Significance ===== |
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| * **Construction Materials:** Built of volcanic stone sourced from the [[ralar|Ralar volcano]], the structure reflects Firetown’s characteristic utilitarian aesthetic. | * **Construction Materials:** A New Frontier build assembled from welded cargo containers, salvaged [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] hull plates, bulkhead ribs, and reclaimed industrial beams. Outer surfaces are soot-stained metal and patch panels; only the footings and a few thermal anchor blocks use rough local stone hidden beneath the structure. |
| * **Floors:** Single-story layout with private rooms and a spacious main hall. | * **Floors:** Single-story sprawl — a wide central hall volume plus container-lined side modules (private rooms, bar storage, staff annex). |
| * **Design:** The original design emphasized luxury and intimacy, featuring plush furnishings, dim lighting, and private alcoves for exclusive services. | * **Design:** Built for heat retention, discretion, and fast conversion. Thick insulation layers and double-door vestibules keep warmth in while allowing constant foot traffic from the Entertainment District. Curtains, partitions, and modular alcove frames create intimacy without permanent walls. |
| * **Lighting and Heating:** Illumination was provided by neon signage and atmospheric lighting, while heating was connected to the [[federal_geothermal_power_plant|Geothermal Power Plant]]. | * **Geothermal Feed Vents:** Insulated steel stacks and vent assemblies integrated into the rear façade, channeling heat and hot water from the [[geothermal_power_plant|Geothermal Power Plant]] to maintain interior temperature |
| | * **Air Vents / Heat Recovery Ventilator:** The building's air exchange was managed by a centralized, mechanical ventilation system with a central intake on the exterior of the building. |
| | * **Power Supply:** [[quantum_fusion_batteries|Quantum Fusion Battery]] |
| | * **Lighting:** Exterior identity comes from neon iconography and torch brackets; interior lighting mixes warm lanterns, low-red practical lamps, and selective stage spotlights to keep the room dim, flattering, and hard to read from the doorway. |
| ===== Building Structure ===== | ===== Building Structure ===== |
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| ===== Look and Feel ===== | ===== Look and Feel ===== |
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| Step inside and you’re submerged in a heady cocktail of neon and heat — every breath heavy with the scent of geothermal steam, exotic perfumes, and chemical stimulants. Velvet drapes frame private alcoves, their plush seating littered with spent shot glasses, scattered condoms, and pill vials glinting under low‑red lamps. The central stage pulses with a live “Space Tango Band,” its sultry rhythms beckoning patrons to the four raised pole platforms where dancers writhe in sync with each beat. | Step through the recessed metal doorway and the cold of Firetown snaps shut behind you. Inside, the club is a welded maze of containers and ship-salvage, their steel walls sweating faint condensation where geothermal heat fights the Dark Side’s frost. |
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| | The air is thick and warm, heavy with perfume, spilled alcohol, chemical stimulants, and the faint metallic tang of heated steel. Steam hisses softly from vent seams above, blurring the red and violet glow of neon strips bolted directly to bulkhead ribs. Chain-hung lanterns sway with the bass, throwing restless shadows across dented wall panels and threadbare velvet curtains that mark off private alcoves. |
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| | At the center, the main hall opens up around a low, reinforced stage welded from cargo decking. Four raised pole platforms ring it, their padded rails scarred by boots and fingertips alike. Holo-lasers cut slow arcs through cigarette smoke as dancers move in time with the band — bodies framed by light, metal, and heat rather than elegance. The crowd presses close: miners still dusted with copper ore, mercenaries with frost-bitten coats slung over chairs, gamblers hunched over low tables where chips clack against steel. |
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| | The bar is a brutal slab of ship plating and copper piping, bottles rattling in open racks as the bartender works fast. Shot glasses and pill vials scatter across tabletops, nudged aside by hands reaching for credit tokens or flesh. Laughter, bargaining, and whispered deals overlap in a constant low roar, punctuated by cheers when the music peaks or a high-roller wins big. |
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| | In the alcoves, curtains breathe with every movement behind them — silhouettes shifting, voices dropping. Nothing here is truly private, only obscured. The sense of risk is constant: bouncers loom near the stage, watching with practiced indifference, and everyone knows that one wrong touch or unpaid debt will end in violence measured in seconds. |
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| Each evening’s highlight is “Madama Talara,” a mesmerizing [[the_zark|Zark]] woman whose alien grace unfolds in a daring topless tango, chains of light tracing her silhouette as she strips amidst the holo‑lasers and smoke. Her performance is both sacred ritual and forbidden art — a fleeting communion between alien beauty and frontier desire. | Kittens from Space doesn’t pretend to be refined. It is heat and noise, desire and desperation — a place built from scrap and survival, where Firetown’s excess burns brightest against the endless night. |
| ===== Roles and Responsibilities ===== | ===== Roles and Responsibilities ===== |
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| * **Club Owner:** Oversees operations, resolves high-stakes disputes, and sets the tone for Hedonist clientele. | * **Club Owner (1):** Oversees operations, resolves high-stakes disputes, and sets the tone for Hedonist clientele. |
| * **Head of Security:** Coordinates bouncers, manages lockdown procedures, and liaises with[[guarding_troopers| Guarding Troopers]]. | * **Freelance Accountant (1):** [[maria_reuter|Maria Reuter]] manages financial ledgers, payroll, and covert “off-the-books” funds. |
| | * **Head of Security (1):** Coordinates bouncers, manages lockdown procedures, and liaises with[[guarding_troopers| Guarding Troopers]]. |
| * **Bouncers (3):** Three hulking ex-guards posted at entrances and the dance floor. | * **Bouncers (3):** Three hulking ex-guards posted at entrances and the dance floor. |
| * **Service Staff:** Bartender and couriers for private alcoves — approximately 25 employees during peak. | * **Service Staff:** Bartender and couriers for private alcoves — approximately 25 employees during peak. |
| ==== Adventure Hook Example ==== | ==== Adventure Hook Example ==== |
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| * **Vanished Farmer –** Late one evening, Jacob Lenz, a devoted father and farmer from [[Hope|Hope]], slipped away with a friend for a quick night out in Firetown’s Entertainment District. Their bar‑hop ended at the neon‑lit dive known as Kittens from Space, where Jacob’s last coherent words were “I need to chat with Madama Talara.” When he didn’t rejoin his friend, panic set in. Another witness places Jacob, Madama Talara, and an unknown man entering the notorious [[saloon_gloria|Saloon Gloria]]. Now his desperate wife has hired you to retrace his steps through Firetown’s seedier spots, unearth what happened behind those swinging doors, and bring her husband home—alive, if he still is … | * **Vanished Farmer –** Late one evening, Jacob Lenz, a devoted father and farmer from [[Hope|Hope]], slipped away with a friend for a quick night out in Firetown’s Entertainment District. Their bar‑hop ended at the neon‑lit dive known as Kittens from Space, where Jacob’s last coherent words were “I need to chat with Madama Talara.” When he didn’t rejoin his friend, panic set in. Another witness places Jacob, Madama Talara, and an unknown man entering the notorious [[saloon_gloria|Saloon Gloria]]. Now his desperate wife has hired you to retrace his steps through Firetown’s seedier spots, unearth what happened behind those swinging doors, and bring her husband home — alive, if he still is … |
| ===== Related Pages and Further Information ===== | ===== Related Pages and Further Information ===== |
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| * [[Isaac Lubega|Isaac Lubega]] | * [[Isaac Lubega|Isaac Lubega]] |
| * [[Ken Petridis|Ken Petridis]] | * [[Ken Petridis|Ken Petridis]] |
| | * [[maria_reuter|Maria Reuter]] |
| * [[firetown_bowling_alley|Firetown Bowling Alley]] (successor, [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]]) | * [[firetown_bowling_alley|Firetown Bowling Alley]] (successor, [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]]) |
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