The Burleson Tower is a hotel located in central Night City.
History[]
1990s - 2023[]
The Burleson Construction Company was in charge of many of the infrastructures in Central Night City, though they went bankrupt shortly after Mob businesses took over in the early 2000s. The Mob left the building standing and the name unchanged as a monument to their victory, and shortly after opened it as a hotel.
During the 2010s, poor maintenance resulted in the slow deterioration of the tower. Despite its condition, by 2020, the one-star hotel rates were high due to the building's convenient location to the City Center, Corporate Center, and financial district. There were also a number of joygirls working in the hotel, as well as a massage parlor operating on the third floor.
The top three floors of the building were occupied by Totentanz, a poorly-supervised club where a lot of boostergang members went. The two story building east of the tower was the home of the Sacred Blades, a gang who often times visited to Totentanz to fight without restrictions.[1]
2023 - 2040s[]
After the Night City Holocaust of 2023, Burleson Tower became part of what was dubbed the Hot Zone. The building was close enough to the disaster site to have been badly damaged, and was soon after abandoned. Members of Maelstrom, who had lost their entire territory to a raging fire after the nuke, decided to go to the former hotel, as they considered the famous booster slam-bar Totentanz their second home. Now led by Crusher after the death of Hammer, he guided them into the building, where they found out that the Warrior Heart gang had taken shelter there as well. A battle to control the tower ensued, with Crusher killing the Warrior Heart's leader and later Maelstrom presumably exterminating the rest of the gang. Once Maelstrom had stabilized the damaged building, they established the middling floors of the hotel as their new base of operations. Their main meeting place was in one of the hotel's old ballrooms, in which one entire wall had been covered in fire-scarred cyberware from the gang members that died to the nuke's subsequent fires, including the chromed-out and mummified corpse of Maelstrom's original leader Hammer. Wearing the old visible-scarred chrome was considered an honor among the living gang members.
Over the following years, Maelstrom repaired parts of the Burleson Tower and reopened the Totentanz. The also repelled vagrants, looters, rival gangs, and even soldiers from various factions. A young Maelstromer known as Warlock became the new leader after the former one, Hextra, had been killed by MAX-TAC. It was thanks to him that Maelstrom's power and influence grew, and the likes of Quake or Flenser, Warlock's lieutenants, that backed him up. The new leader used the tower to house their drug-network operations and as storage for any equipment and cyberware they dug up from the surrounding scorched area, which they would later sell. Flenser, had secured much of the building with locks and security systems as well as video surveillance, while the technician Joe Pitt made sure the building's structure and all installed equipment was optimized. Totentanz was still open, and they were using the tower's underground parking lot to house the gang's vehicles. They also kept the Pit in the subbasement, who they considered their cyberpsycho pet, to entertain and punish.[2]
By 2045 and due to the poor state of Burleson Tower, it was a matter of time before the building collapsed on top of the Maelstromers and their guests. To avoid that, Warlock knew they would need a new permanent home for his gang and the club. For that reason he tasked Flenser, who sent people to find a new place for Maelstrom. She had a list with some places in the Watson Development, though she was preferably looking for another hotel.[3][2] Eventually, this endeavor proved successful and a new Totentanz was opened in an abandoned-under construction hotel in the north of the city.[4]
Locations[]
Notes[]
- The number on the map in Night City Sourcebook mistakenly puts 1st CitiBank Tower over Burleson Tower.
References[]
- ↑ PONDSMITH, M. Night City Sourcebook. Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1991. (pp.22,51,70–71)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 GRAY, J. et al. Danger Gal Dossier. Kenmore, WA, R. Talsorian Games, 2023. (pp.67–70,72–73)
- ↑ Danger Gal Dossier+ (p.3)
- ↑ CD Projekt RED. Cyberpunk 2077. Video Game, Multi-Platform. Poland, CD Projekt S.A., 2020.
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