As part of the Maestro's establishment, I've got a bunch of NPCs (regulars and business interests), so without further ado:

Scarlet Tyler the Battlebabe works as a waitress here. A fellow named Wisher keeps the place clean. He’s got a weird misshapen body but he’s sweet as a mango and nearly as smart. If you come in at night looking for… personal... services for reasonable prices, we’ve got you covered: our lady Clarion is a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice and a beautiful body. If more you’re into men, there’s Hugo, lean and pretty and stronger than he looks. If they don’t do it for you, I’ll set you up with Ula, who’s not so much into the whole gender thing but knows ropes and whips like whoa. I couldn’t run the place without Partridge, who fills in doing a little of everything. She seems a little spacey sometimes but she always seems to know what needs to be done next.

You can find Lamprey, Ba, Camo, Toyota, and Lits there at least a couple times a week. Lits and Toyota are usually there in the morning for coffee. Toyota meets a lot of people here to talk but I don't know much about them. Lits is my best regular: a tough fighter, but she’s friendly and never starts trouble. Ba and Lamprey are night-timers. Lamprey is really tall, spooky, and likes weird semi-public sex. Ba is round and quiet, likes to get so high he’s practically a liquid. Camo drops in in the afternoons, and he's the worst regular; he’s rude, crude, and loud, messing up the vibe of the place. I wouldn’t let him in at all except he’s got coin and he’s got dope.

I owe Rolfball for the place. He and I used to be lovers; we opened the place together. Rolfball made the excursions to find coffee and other things to serve while I actually kept the place running and we split the business 60-40. After one run he came back… different. He doesn’t want anything to do with me or the place any more, and I’m trying to figure out how to buy out his share.

Gams might be a way to make that happen. She wants in on the business, but I'm wary, because she wants to sell a ton of drugs, and that could screw up the vibe and piss off the Hardholder. I actually work pretty hard to make sure the drug use at Wolf's stays reasonably moderate.

And now I’m hearing about some a**!@&$ named Been. Been wants to get rid of Wolf's, take over the space completely for some other purpose, and I don’t know why. It’s possible it has something to do with the auditorium on the next floor up? Fortunately, the Hardholder has a healthy respect for coffee, so I’m not too worried. Yet.

And it’s not like we’re defenseless if someone tries to make a move. We watch each other’s backs and Everybody’s Packing (the staff is a 2-harm gang small 0-armor), and there’s a Convenient Shotgun behind the counter (3-harm, close, reload, messy).

While I'm a pretty nice guy most of the time, everyone remembers the time I opened up a guy's forearm with a wicked serrated bread knife (2-harm hand) and between the leather pants, vest, and bracers I wear I’m protected for 1-armor.

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Dust, is Partridge a member of your cult? Dog, are any of Lits, Gams, or Camo in yours? Everyone else, feel free to make connections to any of these NPCs. Let's get this web good and tangled.