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| **Employer**: | **Employer**: | ||
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | Previous\\ | ||
| [[Alan MacKenzie Frazier]] **Deceased**\\ | [[Alan MacKenzie Frazier]] **Deceased**\\ | ||
| [[Gabriel Sandoval]]\\ | [[Gabriel Sandoval]]\\ | ||
| [[Sylvia Sandoval]]\\ | [[Sylvia Sandoval]]\\ | ||
| + | Present\\ | ||
| [[Tad Adelbertsmiter]]\\ | [[Tad Adelbertsmiter]]\\ | ||
| [[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]\\ | [[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Close Businesses**: | ||
| + | Dojo\\ | ||
| + | Pawnshop\\ | ||
| + | Sav U More Self-Storage Facility\\ | ||
| + | |||
| **Business Description**: | **Business Description**: | ||
| - | * a one-woman garage; Volkswagen mechanic; anything German-made | + | * a one-woman garage; Volkswagen mechanic; anything German-made\\ |
| + | * in the older industrial area of Kennewick< | ||
| + | * ten minutes from Mercy' | ||
| + | [[Moon Called]]\\ | ||
| + | * laundry and shower in the back of the shop< | ||
| + | * office on the side of the garage next to customer parking lot< | ||
| + | * from inside garage to the office has a gray door< | ||
| + | * through the office and into the garage< | ||
| + | * step by the office door< | ||
| + | * safe in the office< | ||
| + | * street behind the garage; with a street light< | ||
| + | * beside parking lot is an alley that allows access to the garage bays< | ||
| + | * cement floor; a lift (first bay? | ||
| + | * in the far corner are big tool chests< | ||
| + | * second bay; harsh lighting< | ||
| + | * heavy garage door in the bays< | ||
| + | * shelf on the wall in the far corner; big crowbar sitting on it< | ||
| + | * has a window< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Blood Bound]] | ||
| + | * parks at the far end of the lot< | ||
| + | * room for four+ parked cars in the lot< | ||
| + | * battered but comfortable chairs in the corner of the office< | ||
| + | * corner of the shop; place for next restoration project< | ||
| + | * big air conditioner< | ||
| + | * storage shed on the lot; has a lock; with a thermometer on the outside< | ||
| + | * has work benches< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Iron Kissed]] | ||
| + | * deadbolt; new black keypad with shiny silver buttons< | ||
| + | * new security system; alarm; cameras in the lot and inside the garage< | ||
| + | * cameras; five in the lot; four in the shop; two in the office< | ||
| + | * cash register in the office< | ||
| + | * step ladder in the office to reach the higher parts shelves< | ||
| + | * two tool chests< | ||
| + | * parts shelves line the far back corner; deep enough to house bit boxes of belts< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| + | * camera placed in front of the door to catch the face of anyone breaking in< | ||
| + | * every tool is exactly where it belongs at the end of the day< | ||
| + | * day-glo pink door; that will fade to orangish pink and be repainted brown or green< | ||
| + | * was run down looking but wall next to door newly painted bright white< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Silver Borne]] | ||
| + | * big heaters in the shop< | ||
| + | * hall to the office< | ||
| + | * behind the counter a used-to-be-white board with hooks with keys of cars being worked on and mystery keys< | ||
| + | * door between the office and shop< | ||
| + | * six inch sill at the bottom of the big window< | ||
| + | * door between the office and the garage is steel set in steel< | ||
| + | * battered chairs line the wall of the office< | ||
| + | * six chairs< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | [[Frost Burned]] | ||
| + | * has a little boneyard (where remnants of a few dead cars were harvested for parts< | ||
| + | * it and parking lot well lit; new halogen lights< | ||
| + | * has an-alive-but-need-help parking lot; house at least 4 cars there< | ||
| + | * big first aid kit in the shop< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Night Broken]] | ||
| + | * oversized bathroom; acts as a changeroom< | ||
| + | * there' | ||
| + | * office has bit picture windows< | ||
| + | * has a bolt-hole for her coyote at the back of the garage, on the top of the floor-to-ceiling shelves; an old wooden box; fake with no lid< | ||
| + | * fourteen foot high garage< | ||
| + | * back wall covered with a plethora of rubber hoses and belts hung semi organized< | ||
| + | * has controls on the wall that operate the garage bay doors< | ||
| + | * fire extinguisher on the wall< | ||
| + | * has gorilla racks< | ||
| + | * smoke detector in the office; above the counter; can be reached from a stool on top of counter to remove batteries< | ||
| + | * after Flores fight; cavernous hole where the cement floor of the garage was< | ||
| + | * | ||
| + | [[Hollow]] | ||
| + | * half the garage had collapsed after it had been tunneled under< | ||
| + | * there wasn't enough money made in the business to justify dumping more in< | ||
| + | * it would be an extra fifty or sixty thousand dollars after the insurance money to rebuild; many things needed to be brought up to current building code< | ||
| + | * lucky to clear fifteen thousand a year< | ||
| + | * most of the car fixed were older than Mercy< | ||
| + | * | ||
| ====Mercy' | ====Mercy' | ||
| [[Mercy' | [[Mercy' | ||
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| **Employer**: | **Employer**: | ||
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | [[Kim]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Lee (C)]]\\ | ||
| **Business Description**: | **Business Description**: | ||
| - | | + | |
| + | [[Hollow]] | ||
| + | | ||
| ===== Alpha & Omega Series ===== | ===== Alpha & Omega Series ===== | ||
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| ===== B ===== | ===== B ===== | ||
| + | ====Bakery|Mexican==== | ||
| + | Mexican Bakery \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | |||
| ====Bonarata, | ====Bonarata, | ||
| Bonarata Corporations \\ | Bonarata Corporations \\ | ||
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| ====Contractor|A==== | ====Contractor|A==== | ||
| - | Contractor A \\ | + | Contractor|A \\ |
| **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]\\ | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]\\ | ||
| **Location**: | **Location**: | ||
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| * has an anteroom where the men usually change after class; has a bathroom for the women to change< | * has an anteroom where the men usually change after class; has a bathroom for the women to change< | ||
| * just a short hike across cheatgrass and down the railroad from the garage< | * just a short hike across cheatgrass and down the railroad from the garage< | ||
| + | |||
| ===== E ===== | ===== E ===== | ||
| + | ====Edythe Campground==== | ||
| + | Edythe Campground\\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * | ||
| + | |||
| ===== F ===== | ===== F ===== | ||
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| * "Rest Well": St. John's wort with lavender and orange; anti-nudge, not quite chemical castration but it will bring your life back into balance< | * "Rest Well": St. John's wort with lavender and orange; anti-nudge, not quite chemical castration but it will bring your life back into balance< | ||
| * offered 10 percent discount for names and numbers of friends< | * offered 10 percent discount for names and numbers of friends< | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Irish Pub==== | ||
| + | Irish Pub \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Gray]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | [[Irish Pub Bartender]]\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Gray]] | ||
| + | * [[Elyna O' | ||
| ====Irish Wolfhound==== | ====Irish Wolfhound==== | ||
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| ===== J ===== | ===== J ===== | ||
| + | ====Jazz Club|A==== | ||
| + | Jazz Club|A \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Gray]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Gray]] | ||
| + | * can fit around sixty or so crowded together< | ||
| + | * serves mixed drinks< | ||
| + | * hunting ground for [[Elyna O' | ||
| + | * popular club in the Loop; attracts tourists< | ||
| + | * dark outside the club; has a private dark space around the back< | ||
| + | * has a half-alley trap, no bigger than ten feet by twenty for a hiding spot< | ||
| + | * was [[Pierre Colbert]] favorite club< | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Jazz Club|B==== | ||
| + | Jazz Club|B \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Gray]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Gray]] | ||
| + | * closed for remodeling sign on the door< | ||
| + | * not in a nice neighborhood< | ||
| + | * a large room full of tarps, sawhorses and tools< | ||
| + | * the walls had been newly painted a burnt orange< | ||
| + | |||
| ===== K ===== | ===== K ===== | ||
| ====Kadlec Regional Medical Center==== | ====Kadlec Regional Medical Center==== | ||
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| [[Moon Called]] | [[Moon Called]] | ||
| * Samuel set up a medical clinic; came back to his pack about two years before the start of [[Moon Called]] | * Samuel set up a medical clinic; came back to his pack about two years before the start of [[Moon Called]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Museum==== | ||
| + | [[https:// | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| ===== N ===== | ===== N ===== | ||
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| * | * | ||
| - | ====Opium Den==== | + | ====Opium Den|A==== |
| - | Opium Den \\ | + | Opium Den|A\\ |
| **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]]\\ | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]]\\ | ||
| **Location**: | **Location**: | ||
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| **Business Description**\\ | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| [[Fairy Gifts]] | [[Fairy Gifts]] | ||
| + | * down in the mining tunnels< | ||
| + | * would sometimes put arsenic in the opium to deter thieves< | ||
| + | * customers all paid ahead of time or they didn't get in< | ||
| + | ====Opium Den|B& | ||
| + | Opium Den|B&C \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Fairy Gifts]] | ||
| + | * sometimes took their nonpaying customers deep into the mines and left them in the maze of tunnels out of which they never found their way< | ||
| ===== P ===== | ===== P ===== | ||
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| * giant, cubicle-filled room< | * giant, cubicle-filled room< | ||
| * company library< | * company library< | ||
| + | * men outnumbered women in the IT department by better than three to one< | ||
| ====Pasco Hotel==== | ====Pasco Hotel==== | ||
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| **Business Description**\\ | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| [[Moon Called]] | [[Moon Called]] | ||
| + | * around the corner from Mercy' | ||
| * had the nearest soft drink machine | * had the nearest soft drink machine | ||
| * Tony ran the business as an undercover cop; low-key, cheerful, middle-aged man | * Tony ran the business as an undercover cop; low-key, cheerful, middle-aged man | ||
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| [[Bone Crossed]]\\ | [[Bone Crossed]]\\ | ||
| * good at his job, and he had half dozen people (human) on his payroll< | * good at his job, and he had half dozen people (human) on his payroll< | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Private Detective/ | ||
| + | Private Detective/ | ||
| + | **IA**: \\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | [[Warren Smith]] \\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| ====Prophet Database Company==== | ====Prophet Database Company==== | ||
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| **Employer**: | **Employer**: | ||
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| - | Aurielle | + | [[Auriele |
| **Business Description**: | **Business Description**: | ||
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| * far side of town< | * far side of town< | ||
| * in a little hut< | * in a little hut< | ||
| - | * one of those miniature house-looking places; covered with cedar shake shingles that made it look vaguely | + | * one of those miniature house-looking places; covered with cedar shake shingles that made it look vaguely |
| * set up as a drive-through; | * set up as a drive-through; | ||
| * closes from two to four< | * closes from two to four< | ||
| * two metal picnic tables between the coffee shop and the snow cone stand< | * two metal picnic tables between the coffee shop and the snow cone stand< | ||
| * parking lot beside the coffee shop< | * parking lot beside the coffee shop< | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Sav U More Self-Storage Facility==== | ||
| + | Sav U More Self-Storage Facility \\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Moon Called]] | ||
| + | * behind Mercy' | ||
| + | * surrounded by a chain-link fence< | ||
| + | * has cameras< | ||
| ====Scorci' | ====Scorci' | ||
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| **Location**: | **Location**: | ||
| - | **Employer**: | + | **Employer**: |
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| [[Anna Cornick]] | Previous\\ | [[Anna Cornick]] | Previous\\ | ||
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| Simon Landscaping and Lawn Care \\ | Simon Landscaping and Lawn Care \\ | ||
| **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]\\ | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]\\ | ||
| - | **Location**: | + | **Location**: |
| **Employer**: | **Employer**: | ||
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | [[Lisa Simon Assistant]]\\ | ||
| [[Simon (A) 4 Crew]]\\ | [[Simon (A) 4 Crew]]\\ | ||
| [[Simon (B) 4 Crew]]\\ | [[Simon (B) 4 Crew]]\\ | ||
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| **Business Description**\\ | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| [[Hollow]] | [[Hollow]] | ||
| + | * business car is a gold Chevy Tahoe SUV< | ||
| * yard-care company centered in Yakima, but they service all the way from the Tri-Cities to Ellensburg—about a hundred-mile radius< | * yard-care company centered in Yakima, but they service all the way from the Tri-Cities to Ellensburg—about a hundred-mile radius< | ||
| * do everything from designing yards to maintenance< | * do everything from designing yards to maintenance< | ||
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| ===== T ===== | ===== T ===== | ||
| + | ====Taco Wagon==== | ||
| + | Taco Wagon\\ | ||
| + | Tow Truck Service\\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]]\\ | ||
| + | **Location**: | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Employer**: | ||
| + | **Employees**Sweet-faced woman\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | **Business Description**\\ | ||
| + | [[Bone Crossed]]\\ | ||
| + | * small trailer laden with whiteboards that listed the menu with prices< | ||
| + | |||
| ====Tow Truck Service==== | ====Tow Truck Service==== | ||
| Tow Truck Service\\ | Tow Truck Service\\ | ||
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| **Employer**: | **Employer**: | ||
| **Employees**\\ | **Employees**\\ | ||
| + | [[Biddy]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Cook]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Cover Charge]]\\ | ||
| [[Fergus]]\\ | [[Fergus]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Kinsey]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Uncle Mike's opener]]\\ | ||
| **Business Description**\\ | **Business Description**\\ | ||
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| * a small dance floor cleared in the center of the room, with clusters of small tables scattered around the outside< | * a small dance floor cleared in the center of the room, with clusters of small tables scattered around the outside< | ||
| + | [[Blood Bound]] | ||
| + | * dumpster out back< | ||
| + | * overflow parking in the warehouse' | ||
| + | * doesn' | ||
| + | * staff uniform; lincoln green tunic and hose< | ||
| + | * cover charge desk< | ||
| + | * small stage for live music< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| + | * the ceilings in Uncle Mike's are about fourteen feet in the air< | ||
| + | * staff in distinctive green doublet< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Fire Touched]] | ||
| + | * had been shut down for more than half a year< | ||
| + | * smelled of alcohol, sawdust, peanuts, and the scents of hundreds of individuals< | ||
| + | * smelled of magic< | ||
| + | * when open the lights were low< | ||
| + | * with all the lights on it was nearly as bright as it would have been had there been windows< | ||
| + | * most tables stacked in a pyramid in one corner of the room; large tables on the bottom, smaller on top< | ||
| + | * chair mostly stacked< | ||
| + | * one big scarred table set in the middle of the mostly empty room, and chairs were set around it< | ||
| + | * closed doors marked EMPLOYEES ONLY in bright green letters< | ||
| + | * behind the doors only a stairway that led up or down< | ||
| + | * the tavern shouldn' | ||
| + | * climbed more than one floor; 10 floors< | ||
| + | * flat roof, the kind of roof expected to have, with battered machines happily humming away, keeping the tavern a steady temperature, | ||
| + | * tavern open again for business—but this time open to humans and others alike< | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Storm Cursed]] | ||
| + | * has a hitching post< | ||
| + | * the big //Uncle Mike' | ||
| + | * lighted //Open// sign on the door< | ||
| + | * all the work, from bussers to the brewmaster himself, was done by the fae< | ||
| + | * card-table-sized table, in front of the stage< | ||
| + | * new uniform, black pants and kelly green shirt emblanzoned with Uncle Mike's logo< | ||
| + | * serves food< | ||
| + | * Mike's office, big leather chair; large enough to contain a big desk and a wall of filing cabinets and still have ample room for six large mismatched but comfortable looking chairs< | ||
| + | * cement floor< | ||
| ===== V ===== | ===== V ===== | ||
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| * in the Columbia Basin every business the vampires considered under their jurisdiction (meaning anyone touched by the supernatural who was too powerless to stand against them) paid them protection money | * in the Columbia Basin every business the vampires considered under their jurisdiction (meaning anyone touched by the supernatural who was too powerless to stand against them) paid them protection money | ||
| * just like the mod, the vampires only protect you from themselves | * just like the mod, the vampires only protect you from themselves | ||
| + | |||
| ===== W ===== | ===== W ===== | ||
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