Medical Center (2020)

"This section of town is known as the Medical Center, thanks to the concentration of health-oriented businesses found here. This area is one most crowded in the city. Filled with offices, the two-building Convention Center, the Transit Center, CrisisMedical Center, etc., the human traffic in this area is of such a volume that the city has started constructing avast skyway which will interlink this block and the rest of the city to allow a greater volume of traffic."

- Night City

This upscale environment was designed right from the start; the first zoning ordinances gave special consideration to Trauma Team and Crisis Medical, among others. This has also kept this area of town clean even through the worst years, as the security around here is tight. Lately, though, with the development of the Transit Center and the labor troubles at the Post Office, concern has been voiced that even this area will begin to fall to the gangs. Alarmed by this possibility, and seeing what has been happening to Medical Block, security has been redoubled.

B4#1 Municipal Criminal Justice Complex
Towering over most of the city's buildings, the dark blue mirrored glass of this Corporate-funded monolith perfectly complements the cold, clean look PR officials desire for the local judicial system. Inside its grand tower and subterranean passages is one of the most efficient examples of the modern justice system at work. Housed here you will find the Night City Police Precinct #1, the city arraignment courts, jail cells, braindance rehabilitation areas, a police academy, and simulators for the officers, as well as the normal offices, file rooms, and vehicle and weapons training and maintenance areas required by a police force.

Regular visitors (both workers and inmates) call this edifice 'The Muckjuck' (from MuCJuC), but this does not belittle its impressiveness in anyone's eyes. Sort of like joking about A- bombs.

Security Level: 4

B4#2 Eurasiabank Plaza
This corporate office structure contains the North American headquarters of this financial institution. With direct lines to all of the world's stock exchanges and brokerage houses, these offices control much of the money that is processed in the Western Hemisphere. Although it is not widely known, the United States Federal Reserve has heavily invested in the European commodities market through this bank, in order to help the economy recover from the isolationist years. This knowledge is, of course, sealed under secrecy agreements.

Security Level: 3

B4#3 The Post Office
Although the main means of communication in the 21st century are electronic (dataterms, faxmail), or by courier services (United Express, etc.) there are still limited holdouts who feel a letter isn't a letter unless it has a Class F stamp on it. Thus, even in 2020, there's a Post Office.

But not the United States Postal Service. With the Collapse, most services of the United States Government were eliminated or drastically reduced. One of the first to go was the US. Mail. With its antiquated delivery vans and dark-ages computer tracking, the old monopoly was no match for a host of smaller, more sophisticated private organizations. As a result, most mail services throughout the US. are now provided by these private service vendors.

Night City's postal service is provided by the largest mail delivery corporation in the country, Federal Express Mail Service (a wholy-owned subsidiary of the Federal Express shipping giant). FEMS' bright blue mail kiosks can be found on street corners throughout the City(65% chance). Stamps (.95eb) and envelopes, as well as other shipping supplies, are dispensed by vending machines on top of the mail drop box. Deliveries are at 10.00 am and 3.00 pm, with pickups at 12.00 pm and 6.00 pm.

This building houses the central clearing house and dispatchers area for FEMS' fleet of delivery AVs. The actual AVs are stored on pads throughout the city, and follow daily routes that pass through this main terminal.

Security Level: 1

B4#4 The Central
This hotel is definitely luxury, but has none of the bells and whistles of most other lodgings. The furnishings are excellent, the rooms spacious, and the price high, but beyond that, everything is strictly utilitarian. No tassled drapes, no gold-plated swan-shaped faucets... no vanities or fetishes will be accommodated here. There is, of course a huge waiting list, made up primarily of professionals who don't want distractions.

Security Level: 2

B4#5 The MacMilan Building
This office complex is known as "Shrink Tower" to much of the city because of the large number of psychologists/psychiatrists who populate this building. There are also several doctors whose private practices specialize in "white collar" injuries. Occasionally a real nut case is brought in to help one of the tenants research a thesis. They don't get loose... at least not often.

Security Level: 2

B4#6 The Grand Illusion
The Grand Illusion is one of the hottest rock clubs on the West Coast. Known for its three bars and hot dance floor, many 'big name' artists got their start in this club and pay homage to it by appearing under assumed names.

Unbeknownst to most, Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne bought the club in 2012. They did not announce it publicly. Driven by memories and using their influence, they have begun an open mike night on Thursdays which is regularly attended by an executive of Universal Records, the label under which both men record.

The Grand Illusion exists for one purpose only: Music. While patrons are encouraged to party, the security here is very strict. All weapons must be checked at the door, and everyone is scanned. When leaving, patrons have their weapons returned, even if they are illegal. It's all a part of the trust that the club uses to get cyberpunks to part with their weapons. The ex-Samurai bandmen are working their way towards the dream of a nonviolent future.

Security Level: 1

B4#7 Bay Bridge Residential Hotel
The majority of this building is occupied by a residential hotel unit, where visitors can rent fully functional apartments by the week or month. The standard of furnishings is excellent. though by no means opulent. The security is decent. although most tenants bring along a few extra gadgets.

Half of the lobby is occupied by Mark 24, a major-chain convenience store, open 24 hours. Ammo can be bought here if you know the right passwords (few people do).

There is also an express elevator to the Night Owl, the bar located on top of the building. This bar is one of the only bars in the city which never closes. The crowd it attracts is of the no-nonsense, mind-your-own-business type. No dancing, quiet music, pool tables, light meals, that sort of thing. Besides its never-ending business hours, the Night Owl is also one of the few places in the city where you can still obtain real(!) beer, and they carry over one thousand in stock (or on special order if you become a regular at the bar).

Security Level: 1

B4#8 The Afterlife
This converted mortuary has three different areas, "The Antechamber," "The Crypt," and "Hades", which are all inhabited by hard-drinking, hard-fighting solos who come here to enjoy the atmosphere and the camaraderie. As one delves deeper into the Afterlife, each successive chamber becomes darker and more dangerous, with Hades being filled with the combat veterans who hire out for the highest prices.

The Afterlife might best be described as a cross between a country-western bar and a motorcycle guild hall. The sound system plays a variety of martial music and gothic rock, and the closest thing to dancing is the occasional brawl. But this is a pro's club, no one needs to prove themselves; their presence here is proof enough. Any brawls are strictly for fun; no one wants to smear each other, but they do play hard.

Although many people come to the Afterlife to hire solos, a larger proportion post messages on a marquee which circulates proposals throughout the bar. Those who do enter the bar do so at their own risk, and have paid the price in the past.

Security Level: 1

B4#9 Ameriline Depot
This is the central nervous system of Ameriline (a national system of heavily armed charter busses). The Airport Shuttle also uses this depot as a base of operations in Night City.

Not wishing the terminal to become the stereotypical home of drug addicts and prostitutes, Ameriline hired a private security force to maintain the area and keep it free of "undesirables." Despite these efforts, there has been a resurgence of crime (due to a contract dispute with the bus line's contract security).

Security Level: 1

B4#10 Garage
This is where the buses load and unload. It's a simple concrete slab with a steel raincover overhead. The northwest end contains garage and maintenance facilities. This is where most of the illegal activity occurs.

Security Level: 0

B4#11 The Night City Convention Center
Known as NC³, the Center is used by organizations who wish to hold their business gatherings on the Central Coast. Renowned for its vast auditoriums and halls (to say nothing of its bar and restaurant) the Center is consistently booked full with conventions ranging from the Grand Order of Opossums to the West Coast Gun Show to the World Book Association's annual display of up and coming (i.e., media-hyped) authors.

Security Level: 2

B4#12 Trauma Team Tower
This building houses the main corporate offices as well as the local operations center for Trauma Team, Inc. The operations center contains a dispatch office, armory, maintenance yard, supply depot and launch area for the many AV's used by the Patient Retrieval Teams™.

Security Level: 3

B4#13 Barbican Building
This black edifice contains the main offices of Argus Inc., acompany specializing in netrunner software. Argus, which is owned by Livewire, has been focusing lately on developing applications for the many local medical facilities. Well regarded among the netrunner community, Argus programs are considered to be some of the most reliable commercial products on the market.

The Short Circuit is a bar set on top of the Argus offices. Favored by many of the city's netrunners and techies, it is highly useful for people looking for help in those areas. The bar's other interesting features is its rotating floor, which allows patrons to see a panoramic view of the City below. Although there has been a lot of corporate interest in the bar, Livewire has forbidden recruiting there because he's had problems with corporations and no longer trusts them (or the people who associate with them).

Rough, street-hired bouncers make sure no one exceeds the dress code. In addition to normal booths, there are booths with interface jacks which allow netrunners access to an area in Netspace where the bar is represented. Whether online or not, many netrunners use the bar as a gathering place to exchange news and services.

Security Level:2

B4#14 Crisis Medical Center
This hospital has one of the most advanced modern-day Trauma Centers in the world. Many of the surgeons employed at the Center have combat surgery experience from any one of the Central American conflicts and are very efficient at quickly repairing any damage done to the body, though the repair may not necessarily be "pretty". Although work is done here without questions, many of the critical cases are only transferred to the City Medical Center if their insurance will cover the extended care.

Security Level: 1

B4#15 The Jellical Inn
This is another hotel catering to business travelers in town attending various conventions. Although the accommodations are somewhat spartan, many business people enjoy staying at this theme inn, which requires that all personnel attire themselves as cats. This seemingly stupid idea is successful as many travellers appreciate any diversion from the normally oppressive atmosphere in which they work. Although constantly booked, the hotel keeps one wing of rooms open (at inflated rates) to those people whose relatives are hospitalized in the nearby medical centers.

Security Level: 1

B4#16 Medical Technologies
This corporation is dedicated to the replacement of body parts. The main building is dedicated to replacement meat: artificial growth of new, and the storage of "donated" body parts. The second (eastern) building is a new addition to the Medical Technologies Corporation, and holds a new cybernetic research and development group. An underground tunnel runs between the main building and Crisis Medical center. There is also a landing pad for ambulances on top of the main building.

Security Level: 1

B4#17 Uniform Group Health Building
A local HMO occupies the majority of this building. Most local corporations have contracts here. The top ten floors of this building are leased to small businesses, mostly specialist practitioners. The local Arasaka office provides security in exchange for health care benefits.

Security Level: 2

B4#18 WorldSat Communications Center
This building is more than just a corporate office building, its also the heart of communications for many international corporations. In addition to the vast cellular network which they control, the executives of this corporation also have interests in the L-5 stations, where they provide some of the communications satellites linking them to both the Terran and Lunar communities. Every so often, some paranoiac in the Corporate Center accuses WorldSat of beaming microwaves at their offices.

Security Level: 3

B4#19 Hotel Hamilton
This modern hotel is very popular with visiting business executives due to the design and security of the building. Although it has some smaller rooms, most are two or three room suites, with full entertainment centers, miniature dataterms and business centers. There are also several convention areas for limited interest meetings.

Security Level: 2

B4#20 U(F)C Health Sciences Center
This is a branch of the University of Free California Medical School, where med students go for their two years of schooling. Some internship is done here, as well. The one-story block that juts out from the west side of the building contains a 24-hour emergency clinic run by the students and interns. They do just fine on stab wounds, broken bones, and gunshots, but the serious cases are referred to Crisis Medical. They will not turn anyone away (they want the practice), but if someone can't pay the fee, the practitioners will cut back on expensive supplies like, say, anaesthetic. At four in the morning, this place is often packed with screaming boosters getting amputations and the like. It's not uncommon to get additional injuries here, especially when a wounded chromer thinks he's been waiting in line too long.

Security Level: 1

B4#21 Madre Maria Children's Hospital
This building specializes in obstetrics and pediatrics, although gynecology is also practiced. Surprisingly, this hospital is one of the leaders in natural childbirth.

Security Level: 1

Notable people

 * Ares
 * Jack Masters
 * Allen Cooper
 * Evie Lark
 * Edgar Hall
 * "Eunice"
 * Richard Wilson