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| Tallahassee,
the capital city of the sovereign state of North Florida, Confederated
American States, is a dynamic city that is seemingly a contradiction to
itself. While it has some of the most progressive social programs in
the CAS, it is still plagued with a rumbling undercurrent of
anti-metahuman racism. The subtle and masterful politics of the treaty
of Tallahassee in 2034 peaceably separated the state into North
Florida, CAS and South Florida, CL. Yet the city shares an armed,
armored and uneasy border with the Appalachacola Tribal Refuge.
Tallahassee is a wonderfully clean city of just over 3 million people.
However, outlying rural areas suffer the effects of heavy industry and
over 150 years on unwise agricultural practices. |
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| [In an effort to be fair, I’ll allow
a limited amount of chatdrek in response to your query. Just remember
that the ‘runners who are crashing this matrix query are a full of drek
as the politicians who wrote the original document.] decker@sysop.scri.talweb.tlh <<<[“Wonderfully clean city?!?” Maybe to someone who’s never seen the slums around Memory Gardens, or who’s never smelled Lake Jackson after too many hot summer days. Who pays Proctor to write this drek?!?]>>> Joan saint@orklahoma.freenet.web |
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| Despite
it’s huge growth in the past fifty years, and concurrent modernization,
the city still retains beautiful parks and historic areas. The downtown
area is bisected by Park Avenue, which is a graceful promenade of
azaleas and live oaks. The physical and social center of the city is
the thirty-story capitol building. The antiquated old capital building,
the state supreme court, and the newly renovated CAS federal courthouse
building are also important city landmarks. |
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| <<<[12% of the people in
Tallahassee are awakened.]>>> TriviaTroll <<<[They don’t mention that the previous building was demolished because it was contaminated by bioweapons planted by the fragging Ork Rights Council because of the execution of two ork terrorists in Atlanta the previous week!]>>> aintgonnatakeit@ray&leos.nucrawfordville.pub <<<[I thought it had been taken over by bug spirits. Didn’t you see the bone-through-the-nose shamanic freakshow they begged from ATR to clean it out first?]>>> raid@entomology.fsu.edu <<<[Dareya to say that A20K drek to my face, Confederate boy.]>>> Joan saint@orklahoma.freenet.web |
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| Another
notable building in Tallahassee (or at least a highly visible one) is
the DCI skyraker. This fifty-story building is DCI’s largest except for
their Atlanta home office. Renraku’s Kochima building is also a notable
part of the skyline. The gleaming Chromalloy building, near the civic
center, offers tours of it’s eco-friendly solar array and rainwater
filtration/distillation system |
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| <<<[The tallest building in
Tallahassee is the DCI skyraker. The biggest is the Aztechnology
R&D facility. The oldest is a small shack in Maclay Gardens. The
most expensive is the Capitol.]>>> TriviaTroll |
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| The downtown area is famous for it’s international cuisine. The embassies for UCAS, the Caribbean League, the California Free State, Aztlan, Renraku, Tir Tairngire, the Free City of New Orleans, the Pueblo Corporate Council, the Sioux Nation, the Five Tribes Council and others have created a host of multicultural shops, restaurants and leisure activity specialty areas in the “international district.” (The southern terminus of Magnolia Drive.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[they dont mention that
the anti-metahuman anti-non-cassie racism-nationalism is so bad among
the impoverished humans that work near there that MSI patrols are all
over the area like white on rice]>>> tragic magic |
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| Matthew’s
Security Incorporated currently holds the law enforcement contract for
the Tallahassee area. Their personnel make up the bulk of the Leon,
Jefferson, Wakulla, Franklin and Gadsen county law enforcement. In
order to ensure that MSI does not overstep it’s bounds and to provide
better services to the metro area, MSI is supplemented by law
enforcement personnel appointed by each county. |
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| <<<[Sellout MSI wannabees,
ya’ mean.]>>> been.there@done.that.com <<< [Not only that, but they tend to be heavily rigger-augmented. They have specialty training schools for building riggers. Not to mention the best drone repair shop on the planet. Ares is always trying to get MSI to train riggers as test pilots for their military hardware.]>>> Rigger Mortis <<< [To quote a close and personal friend of mine “don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve created.” What they have in technical skills, they lack magical power.]>>> Skywalker@tatoonie.brightcenter.mil <<< [Although Tally’s pretty tame compared to Atlanta or Miami or New Orleans, sometimes MSI gets in over their heads. Or they start dealing with organized crime. Some folks in Whitney Stavitski’s Special Projects section have been known to hire ‘runners to do what MSI can’t or won’t do. It’s not bad work.]>>> Inside Info <<< [Yeah, but sometimes, they don’t want anyone to know about their special projects. Not the people upstairs, not the Tally government. They know the best way for two people to keep a secret.]>>> Hiding Under the Bed |
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| The government of the state of North Florida has solicited bids from Lone Star and Confederate Law as well as numerous other smaller agencies, but the stellar service of MSI as well as the founder’s local heritage are well appreciated by the people. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<< [Do you even think Old
Matthews knows what his people do?]>>> wandering wonderer <<< [Doubt it. I served with his dad. His son’s a good man, but he’s a sarariman, not a soldier or a policeman.]>>> Old.Bold.Soldier@army.vet.gov |
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| The
premier communities for elegant living lie to the northeast of the
city. Renraku, Chromalloy and Teledyne have huge arcologies in the
Bradfordville/Centerville area. Beautiful, well guarded neighborhoods
are plentiful in the area east of Thomasville road. On the western side
of Thomasville road, the neighborhoods fade into larger homes on land
parcels of up to one square mile. Lake McBride Estate, Ox Bottom Manor,
the Lake Elizabeth Home, Kenji Ogawa’s home, and the home of simsense
star Daisy White Star grace this area. Alfred B. Maclay gardens forms a
lovely gateway to this area, which is colloquially known as “MTB” or
Meridian to Bradford. The area to the west, near Carr lake, lake Jackson and Orchard pond is populated with the working class. There are extensive government housing areas to the north of lake Jackson, that are provided and policed as a service to the less fortunate in the area. |
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| <<< [Let me just say *how*
much I enjoy living in Brill Point Towers. Soy twice a day for the
whole family as long as the supe gets to bang my sis. Drugs are easier
to come by than food. The “adolescent activity center” is a humanis
policlub training camp, and the Matrix reception sucks devil rat hoop.
] >>>movinonup@freenet.tlh <<< [At least they have places where they will feed and house the SINless, as long as you’re willing to be ‘printed. Beats living in the woods or on the street.] >>> anonymous@publicmail.tallahassee.cas <<< [Alright, since the Proctor won’t give you the real low down, let me. South of lake Jackson, it’s not so bad. Your average middle lower class neighborhood. There are no (unmetahuman) predators, there is ambulance and police service, there aren’t shootings in the street on a regular basis. We’d all do OK in Sunny Village or Greenwood Hills. There are a few small parks (Meginnis Arms, Fuller Drive, Memory Gardens) and the Indian Mounds park, which is much larger. North of Jackson you have sprawl. Slums. A residential push that fell through, as well as light industry that went bankrupt. It’s full of abandoned warehouses., tenements. heavily armed liquor stores, and the thousands of little shops that keep people like me goin’. Snappylube. Soy Joy. Stuffer Shack. Ramen House. Spice Discount Clothing and Armor. The synthedrine labs, underground chop-shops and BTL production houses are the only thing that keep the area’s economy in the black. There’s *things* there too.] >>> touron@hardknox.edu <<< [At least Saeder-Krupp, Hewlett-Packard, Bell CAS and Honeywell have plants there. There is some money coming in from something legal.] >>> Optimist <<< [I bet if you’d ever seen the conditions on the plant floors you wouldn’t be talking about them being legal. It’s blue collar slave labor.] >>> Optometrist <<< [The Indian mounds area is a place with some residual magic in this concrete savanna. Strange things happen there at night.] >>> meow@skfh.com <<< [You mean misled teenagers go out there with pigeon and seagull feathers on their heads and pretend to be Indian shamans or some sort of hooliganism like that. I’ll call the police on you next time too!] >>> Mothers Against Stupid Teenagers <<< [Djou ever eat at Feng’s up there? Mmmmmm. Feng’s.] >>> riggerX@ares.r&d.com |
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| The
city’s southwestern border is somewhat less attractive. The Tallahassee
International Airport (Lawton Chiles Airport) was actually within the
Appalachacola Tribal Refuge when the Five Tribes Council seceded from
North Florida in 2038. It has been a point of contention between the
two ever since. The airport is strongly walled in on the sides that
face the ATR, and contains a variety of anti-missile and
anti-spellcraft protective measures to discourage terrorist attacks
from the ATR/FTC. There are four smaller private airports in the area: Airtrans Tallahassee on Capital circle southeast, Ogawa in the east on Chaire’s Cross Road, the Teledyne Helopad and Repair center in the northeast on highway 61/Centerville road and a very small private facility for personal and recreational aircraft off of Bannerman road in the north. Many large buildings have helopads, and air taxi services are available. MSI maintains excellent air-traffic control and safety. There is a sealed-tube maglev train that runs from Tallahassee to Atlanta. This trip takes approximately two and a half hours. Maglev service to the Saint Joe Paper Pleasureplex has been suspended for the last six years due to conflict with the Five Tribes Council. There is standard rail service to the port facility in St. Marks. Anyone arriving from out of the CAS into the port of St. Marks is expected to go through customs there. The drive to St.Marks on the new superhighway 363 takes less than thirty minutes. Within the Tallahassee metro area there are rental vehicles available, as well as numerous taxi services (Race Car Taxi, Capitol Cab, AAA Taxi.) Taxis are generally not available in the areas northeast of lake Jackson. |
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| <<< [Even Race Car is
afraid of the gangs up there!]>>> Y Band Tuner <<< [Look, you drek-sucking, limp-wristed, hoop-twisted deformed piece of maggot-infested putrefying troll placenta, if you wanna race, I’ll race. But you gotta have something worthwhile for a prize.]>>> Kamakaze Kab <<< [Did I tell you I did your girlfriend? She says she always like trolls better anyway, I mean compared to you puny, weakly-endowed humans. Check it out, she’s got a small bruise on her right hip right now.]>>> Y Band Tuner <<< [Tuner, you better pray that KK gets to you first.] >>>  _Messages deleted_ [The gang rattling is going to have to go to another channel. If you have something pertinent to say, then say it, if your going to argue, go outside. Nice text flourish, Hermia.] decker@sysop.scri.talweb.tlh <<< [Gang news flash – Rozas De Muerte – that hoop kickin’ girl gang NOJ, just got a new Head Honcha. Her name is Magdalena, heavily cybered, and I am soooo in luv with you baby. I’d love to change your oil, lube the chassis…] >>> Tru Luv Tekkie <<< [Estoy muy honorada! Tengo una cyberrodilla rompada, podria repararlo? Para una besa?] >>> Magdalena <<< [Repairs still cost cash, baby. I’m sure we could work out a barter system for maintenance though.] >>> Tru Luv Tekkie <<< [The Proctor ain’t gonna say this either, but Tally is a virtual vacuum of organized crime. The Mafia has only a token presence here. The Yakuza and the Triads have little in the way of Japanese or Chinese culture base to draw on. The corps and government are organized crime at the white-collar level. The Sombras are the closest thing we got.] >>> been.there@done.that.com <<< [Doesn’t nature abhor a vacuum?] >>> studentT@statserver.fsu.edu |
GANGS IN
TALLAHASSEE
ANCIENTS – Most popular
elven gang. Black market anything, especially magical stuff from the
left coast. Magically equipped.BLACK OPS – Black gang dedicated to beating on white gangs. Some drugs. Excellent underground music studio, So So Def Musik. CONFEDERATES – White gang dedicated to beating on metahumans. Heavy hallucinogenic drug use, and synthedrine. KILOTONS – Biker gang in the southeast, many metahumans. Weapons smuggling. MARVELENE BRANCH REVIVIAL – The “Revivalists” are a splinter pseudo-Christian cult with no clear purpose. Protection rackets and as corporate muscle. Charismatic leadership. MATADORS – Hispanic gang that smuggles immigrants in from Aztlan and works them to death in sweat shops. NETWORKERS – Dwarf fences association. ROZAS DE MUERTE – Hispanic girl gang. Prostitution, BTL, smuggling, contract killers. SOMBRAS – A large, well-organized Hispanic gang with strong ties to rebels in Aztlan and several south American countries. SONS OF SAURON – Trolls only gang. Several combat mages. SPIDERS – Mysterious gang. Powerful magical backup. Hate bug spirits. Cult-like. SYNGOTHICS – Go gang, fond of black leather, loud music and synthedrine. WARFARIN BROTHERS – Rat shamans from hell. Hire out as magical muscle to anyone. |
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| Taltrans
has just completed construction of an elevated rail loop in the metro
area. Bus service is available within Tallahassee for 3¥ a day. The Appalachacola Tribal Refuge shares a border with the city of Tallahassee. This border is maintained with a series of 3 meter fences, topped with concertina wire, and patrolled by armed guards on both sides. There are official checkpoints on State Road 373/Springhill Drive near the airport, and road 363/Woodville highway. Visas can be obtained for CAS citizens at the Five Tribes Council embassy on Magnolia drive. During times of increased tension between the FTC and the city of Tallahassee or the state of North Florida, visas may be recalled, or not allowed. |
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| <<<[Which
is kinda like Christmas for us hard-working smugglers out here!]
>>> Nowyaseeme Nowyadont <<<[The highest “mountain” in Florida is in the ATR. Sand mountain, 96 meters. Highway 77 north of PC.] >>> TriviaTroll |
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| Although most of the Appalachacola Tribal Refuge is rural, there are larger villages located in previously existing towns. The largest settlement was created de novo in 2039 at a “magically fortuitous” site on the Appalachacola river, in Torreya state park, and is called Chattcotawee. The Five Tribes Council is made up representatives of the Miccosukkee, Seminole, Choctaw, Loxtahachee and Cherokee Tribes. Citizenship is open to anyone who can prove at least one-eighth decent from one of these tribes, including metahumans. The principal exports of the ATR are lumber, seafood, tomatoes, peanuts and melons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[What the Proctor ain’t
saying is that the FTC packs enough magical heat to wipe Tally off the
map. And that the wizzers in the oh-so-civilized state of North Florida
depend on the foci and other magical gear that pours out of the ATR.]
>>> Altowapola, Snake shaman <<<[Your opinion, madam.] >>> kelmscott@mana.fammu.edu <<<[Justsoyaknow… hermetic magic is frowned on in the ATR. *Very* déclassé. The most common totems are snake, gull, raccoon, owl, gator and mouse. Bear, panther, fox and eagle are more rare. I can think of at least two shark shamans. Find me, I can hook you up!] >>> The Compleat Talismonger <<<[You can get some “unique” herbs at the Ruttil nurseries out Miccosukee road. Useful for that shamanic stuff.] >>> the mad polock <<<[There are plenty of wiser men and women who can instruct and guide you if you are struggling on the path. Look for John Laughing Gull for help. How you get into the ATR is your own problem.] >>> Felix Laridae |
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| The Five Tribes Council controls large area north of 98 into the state of Georgia that reaches to Fort Walton Beach and includes Eglin Air Force Base (currently called Choaha Air Base, or Falcon Air Base.) The Appalachacola Tribal Refuge is clearly marked, and should be avoided. Safe routes to beach areas are provided. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[You can get to the
beach more quickly, and safely, for a small contribution to the
Sovereign American Indian Movement. Or two.] >>> been.there@done.that.com <<< [As long as your name ain’t Proctor.]>>> Skywalker@tatoonie.brightcenter.mil |
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| The coast of North Florida has finally thrown off it’s backwater image, and has been developed as a major recreational area. The Saint Joe Paper Pleasureplex stretches from Port Saint Joe nearly 35 miles to the north to Panama City Beach. This area was developed under the auspices of the Saint Joe Paper. Modern conveniences, including a new nuclear power plant in Mexico Beach have been developed in cooperation with various financial sponsors. | Tallahassee
Statistics Population density: 400 per square kilometer Per Capita Income (mode): 18,000 to 26,000¥ Population below poverty level: 26% Corporate Affiliated Population: 40% Government Affiliated Population: 20% Hospitals: 32 Crime Rate: 12 per 1,000 persons per year |
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| <<<[What
the Proctor meant to say was that they raped the coast, put a nuke on
it and it was sponsored by the biggest polluter in North Florida with
help from the Triads, the Mafia, various defense contractors and who
knows what other shady operators.] >>> halfbeest@loxtahatchee.ftc.com <<<[Ok, I give up. What’s this “Proctor” drek?] >>> newintown@wet.behind.the.pointy.ears [For reasons that are not clear, and believe me, we’ve had people looking, half of the politicians and prominent business leaders in Tallahassee have been members of the Proctor family. Back before the turn of the century they were mostly into realties, law firms and car dealerships. Now they have their hands into everything. Many people genericize a yes-man politician as “a Proctor.” They mostly live MTB.] decker@sysop.scri.talweb.tlh |
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| Beautiful beaches, beautiful babes, exciting casinos, and a lively nightlife make this one of the premier vacation spots in North America. Millions of visitors travel to this spot to vacation each year. St. Joe Paper still operates recycling operations, as well as the manufacture of paper products from recycled materials. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[This
is a document rather than live feed because nobody, but nobody can lie
like that with a straight face. SJP logs what wood they can steal away
from the ATR. They dump their drek right into the Appalachacola and
Choctawhatchee rivers, not to mention the aquifer. You should see the
muties and Awakened muties I end up collecting or exterminating
downstream of their plants. I could tell you stories about the things
in the caves in that area that make the entire defensive line of the
Rattlers cry for mommy.] >>> Zookeeper <<<[If you don’t listen to the treehuggers, it’s not a bad place. Local law is lenient, plenty of places and crowds for hiding. It operates 24/7. Some very nice, secure places to get business done. A lot of “specialty shops.”] >>> bottomline@club.ventillate.sjpp.con <<<[Local law is especially prone to policing certain types of magical research less rigorously than in Tallahassee because of economic incentives. That doesn’t mean you don’t have to answer to those in power, though.] >>> Hathor@mana.fammu.edu |
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| Tallahassee is home to several major learning centers. DCI sponsors Florida State University. There are discounted educational packages available to all state residents, as well as minority metahuman scholarship programs. And don’t miss the excitement of the FSU Deckers football! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[I *still* call ‘em the
Seminoles. I understand why they changed the mascot after the ATR
brouhaha in ‘38, but the game hasn’t been the same since. At
least DCI didn’t change the color to big blue!] >>> gonoles@garnet.fsu.edu |
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| FSU
has ranked programs in cybernetics, matrix navigation, hardware
engineering, materials science, genetics, chemistry and oceanography. |
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| <<<[Did anyone hear the
rumor that FSU is being used as a test lab to produce biowe TRANSMISSION INTERRRUPTED – ERROR 4612-20-574 |
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| Famous
appointments to the school include the Porter Chair in Awakened
Genetics, the Bouck Fellowship in Creative Grant Funding, the Tilburg
Center for Aerospace Engineering, the Exner Institute for Sucrose
Studies and the Suderman Memorial Chair in Fluid Dynamics and
Electrical Engineering. South of FSU is the Florida Agricultural Mechanical and Magical University. FAMMU students are traditionally from minority groups, and today this University proudly continues this practice. This is the only school in North Florida with undergraduate programs in Troll Urban Culture and Ork Urban Culture. The agriculture department offers cutting edge programs in shamanic-grade organic gardening, hydroponics and marine agriculture. FAMMU also has excellent programs in vehicle technology, control systems and electronics. The Kaisha School of Magic has theoretical and applied programs in conjuring and sorcery, and extensive practice areas. FAMMU has a fantastic hermetic library which is available for public use. Another notable thing about FAMMU is that it is one of the few remaining private universities in north America. Although Aztechnology and Chromalloy have both tried to become sponsors, they have been met with strong resistance. |
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| <<<[If
you’re interested in vehicle technologies, go to Aristotle’s Coffee and
Garage at Ocala and Tennessee. Expensive coffee, cheap repairs. Quad
Expresso White Chocolate Mocha!!] >>> Doczilla <<<[If you’re looking to buy/repair some internal hardware try Bodytek in Woodville. Genuine Chromalloy parts, hot off the press.] >>> Neurochrome <<<[Hot in every sense of the word.] >>> Silicon Carne |
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| The
industrial center of Tallahassee is in the southeast portion of the
city. This area was largely destroyed in 2015 by hurricane Gwen. Since
then it has been rebuilt with city, county, federal and industry funds.
There are only smaller arcologies in this area because the major
workforce of Tallahassee lives just north of the industrial center, on
the north side of Appalachee Parkway. DCI, Renraku, Chromalloy,
Teledyne, Saeder-Krupp, Hewlett-Packard, Bell CAS, Honeywell, Lockheed
Martin, General Electric-Oyahama, Xa-Min Plastics and Aztechnology all
have business facilities in this area. |
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| <<<[A virtual smorgasbord
of exciting places to break into, and new things to steal. From
Chromalloy’s newest low-cost wired reflexes prototypes to GE-O’s
precious metals refinery. Makes me sweat just thinkin’ about
it!]>>> KleptoKat |
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| There
are over 15,000 international companies in the Tallahassee business
area, and thousands of CAS based companies. Nearly 300 of the top 500
businesses on the Boston Stock Exchange have offices locally. In addition to being a great place to work, Tallahassee is a great place to play! The Tallahassee Scorpions (urban brawl) have won the Vanderbilt Cup four out of the last ten years, and look like they will have another excellent year this year. The Tallahassee Jaguars (football) have a new look now that they are owned by Aztechnology, but are still the same great team. They are set to battle the Miami Dolphins (their interstate rival) in a few short weeks at the Tallahassee civic center. The Tallahassee Manaboltz (combat biking) are on suspension yet again this year for equipment violations. Coach Jason Vendreaux has been recovering from his heart attack, but has high hopes for keeping the ‘Boltz under control long enough to get them off of suspension. FSU Decker football has already been mentioned, but no sports enthusiast could rest in this town until she’s seen the FAMMU Mystic Rattlers play. What a halftime show at those games! For a full list of game times, and ticket availability, be sure to check the sports section of the Tallahassee Technocrat. |
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| <<<[TalScorps win so often
because of their new, research prototype cyberware from Chromalloy.]
>>> Neurochrome <<<[Yeah, but my toaster has more personality than that bunch of cyborgs.] >>> the mad polock <<<[Have you seen the Jag’s new uniforms? They’re all Azzie, like Huitzilipochtli. Way cool.] >>> gonoles@garnet.fsu.edu <<<[I bet those dudes are just glad to get hell and gone from Jacksonsprawl! The OGTZ was starting to pollute their groundwater, and the whole city started going crazy. Or mutating. Or worse. Looked like something out of one of those “Survival during the years of VITAS2” trid dramas.] >>> Zookeeper <<<[Que es la “OGTZ?”] >>> Sister Souljah <<<[The Okeefenokee-Gainesville Toxic Zone. Bad news, hermana.] >>> Zookeeper |
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| There
are two major shopping malls in Tallahassee. Governor’s Square mall has
just added yet another story, which makes it the only five story mall
in the state. Tallahassee Mall is smaller, but has a much more upscale
variety of stores, including the famous AMC 60 Simema, and the
Tallahassee Aquarium. Several smaller malls are located through the
city. The South CAS Technomall is located between Crawfordville road
and Woodville highway. This shopping center features the finest and
newest advances in personal electronics, computers, cyberware and other
high-tech goodies, many of which are locally produced. |
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| <<<[Problem is, unless you
know who and what you’re dealing with, they get a little picky about
SINs and permits. You can get anything there, at a good price, as long
as it’s perfectly legal.] >>> Uncle Sammy <<<[I wonder what would happen if one offered to take one of the salesfolk out for drinks, a night on the town, whatever. Once you get them outside the oh-so-carefully monitored areas of the SCT, might they change their opinion on government regulation of free trade?]>>> XX?@fakeshell.com |
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| There
is an abundance of small shops specializing in magical supplies located
near the FAMMU campus on All Saints Street. The Proctor Vehicle
Supercenter and Automall takes up large portions of Tennessee street
west of FSU. |
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| <<<[The prices on All
Saint’s are really high, but the selection is good.] >>> Hathor@mana.fammu.edu <<<[Graduate students have to make money somehow. Prices are better for guild members, if you’d deign to join us mere mortals, your highness.] >>> kelmscott@mana.fammu.edu <<<[I’ve almost got that polymorph other spell working. Would you like to try being a sticky-toed tree frog for a while, junior?] >>> Hathor@mana.fammu.edu <<<[Polymorph other spell?!?! That’s impossible!!] >>> Felix Laridae <<<[Try me.] >>> Hathor@mana.fammu.edu |
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|
The Tallahassee nightlife is always cutting-edge exciting.
Several bands from this area have become international stars in the
last decade. Hydrogen Whisky and Joy Circuit still return to their
hometown to play special concerts in small venues like the Moon. One of
the up and coming bands on the NuCountry charts, Walkin’ After
Midnight, records in Tallahassee. Induction, MacHumaine, Troll Darling
and Raveflier are sponsoring a “Sprawl-Relief” concert in a few weeks
at the new Suwannee music park. The Tallahassee Jazz Club is the oldest club in the city. It was founded by the legendary Acme Rhythm and Blues band in 2002, and has survived three plagues, the Awakening, four class 5 hurricanes, the secession, four fires, two bankruptcies and the repopulariztion of polyester. It will probably be here longer than you will! The Tennessee Strip (between North Monroe and Ocala) has always been a hangout for FSU/FAMMU students. There are a variety of bars, coffee shops and other businesses that cater to the students. The west side of Monroe street between Tennessee and Gaines street is also rich in unique restaurants that range from quaint pubs to the extreme techno-inspired. |
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| <<<[Club Park Avenue
rocks!] >>> Techine <<<[Claro! Y hay salas privadas para negocios importantes.] >>> Magdalena <<<[I like Urban Scrawl better. Their food is good, and it’s quiet enough to hear yourself think on the third and fourth floors. ] >>> meow@skfh.com <<<[Think Tank is the best decker bar in town. Plenty of anonymous jackports. Bartender will set you up an IV if you like, or jack in and remind you to eat.] >>> Tinman <<<[FSU computer lab in Dirac is the best decker bar in town! Much better hardware if you don’t already own a primo deck.] >>> gonoles@garnet.fsu.edu <<<[Venus Rising has killer shows though. Oh those girls!] >>> treefrog@freenet.tlh <<<[Elven? All this coarse food getting you down? Try Thalia’s. Just like Tir, but less expensive.] >>> Solneon <<<[I like Casa Mia Pizza. They get my order wrong every time, they bring it late, but oh my God that’s good pizza. They delivered over 50K pizzas in 2049.] >>> TriviaTroll |
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| If during your stay in the capital city, you become ill, or are injured, there are 32 hospitals and clinics in the area that cater to a variety of special needs. Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Tallahassee Community Hospital, the Capital Emergency Medical Establishment (CEME), the Metro Emergency Direct Intervention Clinic (MEDIC) and the Chromalloy Cybertechnology Clinic are by far the largest in terms of size and number of patients treated. CEME, DocWagon™, and MEDIC all offer emergency medical rescue service. For the Awakened, New Leaf Healthcare has specialty services designed with the magical practitioner in mind. NLH has a reputation for being one of the finest homeopathic magic-sensitive health services around. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <<<[3C (Chromalloy
Cybertechnology Clinic) has good prices, but there’s a hitch. I had a
friend who went in for skillwire upgrades and came out with a cortex
bomb. Mr. Proctor bought his doc!] >>> Silicon Carne <<<[Do you work for Whitmyer Biomechanix, or what? Just trying to scare the newbie? Sick fragging bastard. I’m surprised the sysop lets you on the matrix.] >>> Neurochrome <<<[Besides, if Knick hadn’t double-crossed the Proctor in the first place, he wouldn’t have had that little problem. Did he pull through?] >>> XX?@fakeshell.com <<<[Yep. Proctor didn’t though.] >>> Knick O’ Teen |
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| Tallahassee’s
matrix is the end product of nearly seventy years of computer
evolution. Tallahassee was one of the first cities in the United States
of America to have a freenet. |
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| <<<[Which it still does.
Which you can get access to SINless. Which has plenty of secret doors
to CASgrid, to TALgrid. Which is the home of Hardknox.edu and other
neat places.] >>> movinonup@freenet.tlh <<<[No part of Florida is more than 96 km from the beach.] >>> TriviaTroll |
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| The local telecommunications grid (LTG) is administered by the Super Computer Research Institute (SCRI). SCRI leases out computer resources to many local companies for very competitive rates. The main Tallahassee host, “Sunshine” has excellent security records, and leases space for virtual shops and meeting places as well as data storage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [Don’t even think of hacking my
system. Don’t even try.] decker@sysop.scri.talweb.tlh <<<[Who me? No way. Nyet. Non. Nicht. Nuh-uh. Never. I’m the paragon of all law abiding matrix citizens. ROTFLMAO.]>>> Tinman <<<[He’s really going to fry you one day, Tinman. Besides I heard that Decker isn’t really even a human. It’s an autonomous, self-governing, learning-capable personality overlay program. Any commentary?]>>> XX?@fakeshell.com <<<[Are you trying to say the Tally sysop is an AI?]>>> Silicon Carne _Messages deleted_ <<<[In addition to Hardknox.edu be sure to check out Virtual Club Ventilate, Uncle Sammy’s Double Whammy and Klub Kholé.]>>> Wireframe [So, that’s it for introductory material on the capital city. Any further you wanna dig, you’ll have to go through Sunshine, on start looking on the shadowy parts of the matrix. Good luck, pinkie!] decker@sysop.scri.talweb.tlh _END TRANSMISSION_ |
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