Seattle Investigative Services

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Touristville neighborhood details available here.

REDMOND

Category	Level	LP	Description	Logic
Comforts	Low	3	You own some cheap furniture, purchased second hand or at a mass-market retailer. Still, your chairs probably match, and you have somewhere to sit while enjoying your AR. You have a single household drone to help with chores; sure, it’s prone to glitches, but at least you don’t have to vacuum. Your walls are decorated with cheap AR paints.	This is how we’ve been playing it.
Entertainment	Low	2	You have a budget to cover some basics and enough to pay for a monthly subscription or two, all of it commercial-laden or low quality.	This is to cover business entertainment expenses.
Necessities	Middle	3	Your home is comfortable and cozy. You have stable utilities, although the occasional peak-usage brownout still occurs. You have a 90–100 square meter home with a patio/porch. It comes with a designated parking space in a garage attached to the home. Soy is prepared on a multi-function soy processor and is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and you can occasionally splurge on real food like coffee on Sundays. You can afford bottled water, you have centrally controlled appliances that work, such as a laundry machine and dishwasher.	This is how we’ve been playing it.
Neighborhood	Low	2	The Low lifestyle neighborhood actually has some community to it. Most people live in apartments or multi-family housing and even pay rent. This is a typical part of the sprawl, with dilapidated buildings, petty crime, and little maintenance or public services. There is power and water available, although the utility companies probably ration it. The residents are low-paid wage slaves, factory workers, day laborers, and the skillwired workforce. The neighborhood pays a gang or criminal syndicate for security (response times of 10 – 20 minutes).	See the Rough Neighborhood quality below.
Security	Middle	3	Your building’s security keeps out unwanted visitors and casual thieves. Determined thieves will have to work to get access to your place. Locks and in-home security are above average. Your neighbors are likely to notice any suspicious characters or loud noises and call security. Smoke detectors and fire suppression systems are standard in all apartments and homes at this level. Your Matrix system has an average firewall and will at least monitor itself for intrusions.	This represents upgrades that we’ve made.

Qualities

Quality	LP	Description	Logic
Easy-going Landlord	1	The Landlord isn’t overly concerned with late payments, or the occasional gunfight.	Our landlord is so easy-going we don’t even know who they are.
Poor Condition	-1	The home is vulnerable to certain weather or elemental conditions. For example, when it rains, the roof leaks or the basement floods. Maybe it’s so hot in the summer or cold in the winter that the vinyl furniture molds to your butt or your goldfish bowl freezes over.	This conveys some of the dilapidated nature of the building, which dates from 50+ years ago (pre-Crash).
Rough Neighborhood	-1	The home is in an area where people are stereotypically the criminal type. Gangs are more active, people are more aggressive, and people don’t even walk in the daytime without protection. Regardless of Security, crime is double that of the given type of neighborhood purchased.	This represents the gang/syndicate activity of the area.
Sprite Magnet	-1	Your home attracts sprites that seem to enjoy inhabiting your CHN, drones, and wireless systems. Roll a die. On a hit, a sprite has inhabited a device or node in your home (such as your CHN or a drone) and refuses to allow you access for a period to be determined by the gamemaster.	Just for fun, based on recent Interludes.

Source	LP	Price
Base	11
Qualities	-1
Total	10	2,000 nuyen per month

5E rules
Lifestyle
Seattle, Redmond, Touristville
¥7,400/month total
¥1,850/month per person
• Comforts & Necessities: 3
• Security: 4
• Neighborhood: 4, a B security rating
• Garage (Body 5+)
• Grid Subscription
plus a second garage offsite for the second car

Visualizations
Low angle view of the entrance
High angle view of the living area

This page has the new (4E) details on top and the old (5E) details below. This page will not be updated going forward. The new page that will be updated is here.