West Hill

"Not all of Night City is decaying slums, corporate towers and roving boostergangs. Elegant living is the order of the day at West Hill Gardens, as is sophisticated shopping at the boutiques in Pinewood Bazaar. West Hill Gardens takes its name from the luxurious pine trees and shrubbery blanketing the grounds around the executive apartments. Pinewood Bazaar is an underground shopping center, illuminated in the daytime by glass domes set in the pine garden. Together the apartments and bazaar make an integrated community, complete with fitness center and an Episcopalian church, that provides the best in urban living to a pampered corpzoner few."

- Night City A mere five-minute subway ride away from the corporate plaza, West Hill Gardens is the residential community choice of young urban professionals. Apartment rents start at 2,800 eb monthly and go up from there.

All of West Hill is patrolled by corporate security forces. Legally, West Hill Gardens and Pinewood Bazaar are private property. Whatever gang toughs or other undesirables find their way there are immediately detained for trespassing, disciplined, and dumped back in the south end of town.

B1#1 West Hill Gardens:
West Hill Gardens consists of executive class apartments on the gentle slope of West Hill. Underground parking leaves the grounds free for gardens and covered benches. West Hill has incorporated many state of the art services to protect the residents and make their lives easier. Residents enter their building using personal electronic security cards. Contract housekeeping services are available, as are fully automated laundry facilities. Each of the apartment buildings connects with Pinewood Bazaar through underground walkways. Security Level: 2

B1#2 Pinewood Spa:
The spa features all the exercise facilities favored by today’s executives. The management has just installed new Braindance Bodytoner booths, in which the patrons immerse themselves in the latest Braindances while their bodies are electronically exercised. For the more traditional there is an old-fashioned weight machine room, handball courts, and a multi-purpose sport gymnasium. On the roof is an oval jogging track and swimming pool. Security Level: 1

B1#3 West Hill Church of God:
This quaint Episcopalian Church was here even before West Hill Gardens was built. It continues to serve the spiritual needs of the residents in this modern millennium. Security Level: O

B1#4 Pinewood Bazaar:
Light from the glass domes spills down to illuminate the shops and boutiques in this subterranean shopping center. Pinewood Bazaar features many upscale boutiques that cater to the tastes of urban professionals. Among them are Bodyworks bodysculpters; a pair of art galleries: one featuring modem Korean and Vietnamese works, and the other reproductions of the classics; bookstores; clothing shops; jewelry shops; and Merrillians, a fully automated supermarket where customers can shop from a computerized catalog, or even place delivery orders over the Net.

There is even a six screen theater in the bazaar, and Manhattan‘s, a bar, keeps hours until late into the night. The bazaar features two fine restaurants, the Thai House and Little Italy, as well as several fast food shops. Construction has recently been completed on HoloPlex, a braindance theater. HoloPlex features over a hundred individual braindance cubicles where the customer sits in a comfortable reclining chair to experience his choice from among dozens of current releases. The underground walkway exits into the mall as well as onto the street, where there are both a dataterm and a screamsheet box. Security Level: 2

B1#5 Tiajuana Cafe:
Light dishes from Mexico, served under a peasant-style thatched roof. Chef Casteda is not onlya master of Mexican cuisine; his study of custom and history brings an authentic native atmosphere to the Tiajuana Cafe. Try the hand- made tortillas with anything, and don’t forget to order the sopias for dessert. Security Level: 1

B1#6 Nino Tea House:
Japanese fare with an Okinawan accent. Nino’s features full- course meals of everything from rustic pig‘s ear sashimi to more traditional fare. Or try the sushi bar for a light meal and saki. Security Level: 0

B1#7 Serengeti Gallery:
Just inside the door a pride of wild lions lazily sun themselves in the branches of a tree. In other corners giraffes and rhinoceroses graze, as monkeys chatter above their heads. While the plants are real, the animals are only holographs. Serengeti Gallery specializes in African wildlife holography. Perhaps the most startling is the leopard holographt hat looks for all the world like a wild cat draped across the coffee table- a definite conversation starter in any living room. The holographs all come with recorded animal sounds that can be set to play when someone nears. Security Level: 1

B1#8 Park Shops:
Numerous service businesses, mainly coffee shops and a copy store, fill this block. The Krishna Coffee-shop at the northwest corner is renowned for the artists and poets that frequent it. Here one can find the best literary and artistic talents of Night City arguing the finer points of style among themselves. A dataterm and a screamsheet box stand at the northeast. corner. Security Level: 1

B1#9 Apartments:
A mixture of students, artists, and professionals rent in these buildings. Security Level: 1

B1#10 Warehouses and Art Studios:
Some of these warehouses have been converted to artist’s studios, while still others house small businesses. Some of the larger corporations store their goods here. The area also includes an outlet of Silverhand Studios, as well as numerous small art galleries dotting the ground floors of buildings. Security Level: 1

B1#11 Shops:
The Rainbow Art Supply store, a taco stand, and a convenience store grace this side of the block, evidence of the bare minimum artists require to create their works. Security Level: 0

B1#12 West Hill Library:
This is the West Hill branch of the main library. Security Level: 0

B1#13 Petrochem Fine Arts Museum:
Generous corporate sponsorship has allowed Night City to build this recently completed fine arts museum to complement the downtown City Museum. Built in the style of an Italian Renaissance square, the entire museum is open to a central courtyard which can be entered only through the gatehouse. The four main buildings are organized into Ancient Art, Classical, Contemporary, and Sculpture. The smaller building north of the entrance gatehouse contains the administrative offices and functionary rooms for special events and guests.

Petrochem supplies security personnel to staff the gatehouse and maintain security within the museum. Many valuable works of art are on display here. Besides thieves, security must protect the patrons and artwork from gang violence and vandalism. Security Level: 2

B1#14 NCU Fine Arts Campus:
Built alongside the museum, the Night City University Fine Arts campus works with the Petrochem Fine Art Museum in educating the students and maintaining the museum’s impressive collection. Here students can work in the many studios and workshops, and study art history with actual samples next door in the museum.

A contingent of NCU Campus Police maintains order on the Fine Arts campus. The University also operates shuttle buses between here and the main campus in the interest of student safety. Security Level: 2

B1#15 Assorted Businesses:
These high-rise office buildings house numerous small and medium sized businesses. Among them are the GHP Architectural Firm, Stohlman & Stohlman Accounting, Pegasus Graphics, World Wide Engineering, Night City Newspaper Agency, Cueller & Stravinsky Law Offices, Pacific Security Services, Union Publishers, Coastal Real Estate, and many others. Interspersed among the ground floors are many cafes, convenience stores, restaurants, book stores, a kung fu studio, and other retail shops. Security Level: 1

B1#16 Night-Marriot Hotel:
The glossy black tower of the Night-Mamot Hotel standsover its companion convention center at the top of West Hill, where it is visible to the southern edge of Lake Park. Discreetly tucked away in the lobby are a dataterm and a screamsheet box. Numerous small shops decorate the hotel’s ground level concourse.

On the uppermost floor, the Kilimanjaro Peak restaurant commands a majestic view of the city from a top the tower. Dine on the finest African cuisine available anywhere in the city, with representative dishes from every part of the Dark Continent. Security Level: 2

B1#17 Convention Center:
Adjacent to the Marriot is the Night-Marriot Convention Center. The below-ground garage is spacious enough to handle the convention center‘s demanding parking needs. Inside the convention center has the space to handle large trade shows and concerts, or it can be partitioned to house simultaneous smaller events. A dataterm and screamsheet box are in the entrance foyer. Security Level: 1

B1#18 Apartments, Artists’ Studios, Galleries:
Nestled between the University and the executive-class apartments to the north, this transition neighborhood is home to students, artists, and small businesses of all sorts. Much of the warehouse space is in use as artists’ studios and galleries. Small coffee houses and boutiques along the park give this a Greenwich Village atmosphere.

Come here anytime in the weekend to see artists’ works displayed along the sidewalk. For several blocks the artists set up their artwork in what amounts to a giant outdoor gallery. Tollare used to paint in a studio here before he was widely known, and even today you can sometimes find other well- known artists such as Harold Pickman and J. T. Harris displaying their work here on the weekends.

This area has had some trouble with the Bozos, a poser gang whose members have undergone plastic surgery and facial tattoos to make themselves look like carbon-copy clowns. They hang around in identical orange fright wigs, dingy polka dot suits and floppy feet, harassing people as they pass by. The Bozos like destructive practical jokes; one of their favorites is pouring a bucket of paint (or blood) on an artist’s sidewalk display. Fortunately their garish costumes make them easy to spot in a crowd, giving the artists opportunity to drive them off. Occasionally the Voodoo Boys come up this way for a dose of culture, in which case everybody packs up and leaves the street. Security Level: 0

B1#19 Honda Avis Rentals:
This is the Night City local office of the international chain, reorganized in 2002 in a corporate merger between the Japanese automaking zaibatsu and the failing US. rental firm. Honda-Avis (“We‘re Still Number One“), specializes in it‘s own brand of inexpensive, electric-driven Metrocars@. The offices are simple, spare and furnished in Late Japanese Functional. There are usually two to six people on site at any one time, and vehicles are stored in the large parking structure to the north of the main offices. Security Level: 1

B1#20 Parking Garage:
Your basic parking facility. Security Level: 0

Personalities

 * Harold Pickman
 * Melinda Estoria
 * Ed Hill
 * Tamiko Yagata
 * "The Ferret"
 * Thain Wastern

Reference
FISK, C. Night City Sourcebook. 1st ed. Berkeley CA: R.Talsorian Games, 1991

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