Rosenburg's Bed & Breakfast [***]
S.V. Gnarlycurl, C Deck subfloors 2-4
mildly themed Ancient Astronauts/American hotel
Though most often used by fen whose ship/homes are in for repairs at Shuko's Drydock Garage, Rosenburg's is good enough in its own right to be moderately popular as a place to stay when the ship is in the vicinity of other attractions. Decor is mostly generic American with a few "Ancient Astronauts" twists - this theme is played up to the hilt in the Quetzalcoatl and Montezuma suites, to the point of natural-stone-clad walls, simulated waterfalls in place of the otherwise standard claw-foot iron bathtubs, and (smokeless, holographicallly simulated) torches with leaded glass crystal skulls to diffuse the light.
Also of note are the D-Deck recreational facilities, which include an extensive park and garden area to port, an equally large beach and swimming pool to starboard, and a gallery overlooking the engine room in between, home to one of the largest single drive modules in space.
Food available tends to staple American fare, but is available at all hours due to the arbitrary nature of 'morning' aboard a spacecraft, and the kitchen staff will attempt unusual requests in off-peak times, with generally creditable results. Many of the vegetables used are grown on board and can be purchased fresh, in both 'wave-free varieties and more exotic, some with a high enough content to reliably cause biomodding if heated in a microwave. Due to the Seibertron strain of Handwavium unique to the Gnarlycurl, nearly all biomods produced in this manner take a cybernetic or techo-organic form.
Just one caveat: Check the ship's schedule before booking your stay if your business isn't aboard, it's quite disconcerting to find your accommodations started moving unexpectedly while you slept and missing your launch window because you were halfway to Ceres instead of at Olympus Spaceport is not grounds for a refund on your charter booking.
Update for OGJ: (cut and paste from King of Fen-ers thread) Post Crystal Osaka, the Gnarlycurl has moved from the Mars/orbit/moons region to the major Belt activity zone - there are already good medical facilities on Mars and at Earth and Venus, but the biggest Belt installation I recall was the "truck stop and diner" on Ceres; anything more is on the Jovian moons, which is just as far away as Mars. Gnarlycurl is by then home to a surgeon and a GP doctor and several nurses, and has one of its three floors done up as a hosital ward with the works. The ship does sometimes leave if there's a major action in the offing (rare) to decoy and make the Black Hats think there is (more rare) or for special events and major disasters, otherwise it stays put and Wave Convoy makes supply runs with a big box trailer. (End of paste, how this could be condensed for relevance is eluding me at the moment.)
Post OGJ: Business returns to a more tourism/general maintainance model with the destruction of the Black Tower, but OGJ, Space Patrol and MARS craft still get priority service and the hospital aspect remains as well, though scaled back to half a dozen rooms instead of an entire sublevel.
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill [**1/2]
somewhere
Pancakes, Tex-Mex, and Chinese take-out
A very odd little restaurant shoehorned into an L shaped space between a holotheater and a supplementary environmental plant, Cowboy Feng's appears to be a mishmash of Warsie and Wild West, to the point of reproduction lightsabers and six-guns in brackets on the walls, but is in fact a near-perfect replica of the titular establishment from an obscure time-travel novel, designed in continuity when the only surviving materials created in its original destination era were Star Wars and A Fistful of Dollars. Whovians who recognize the reference and Warsies who don't mind the mixed mileu can be found but the bulk of the clientele is actually there for privacy, due to an unintentionally reproduced quirk of the original: any recording or surveillance device used on subjects within its boundaries will have the sound drowned out by the air conditioning's D-below-middle-C hum, and if video monitoring is included the view will be blocked by a potted cactus. Always. Even if the camera is placed openly on a table in the middle of the room. This makes it a popular spot for business and romantic rendevous, though the management work closely with local law enforcement to prevent exploitation and are quick to call them in if shady dealings are noticed.
The All-you-can-eat Pancake Buffet served daily from six to ten AM is highly reccomended, the tex-mex reasonable at modest prices and in good quantity, but the Chinese is barely acceptable. Beverage selection is excellent featuring items from all over the system and even Starbase Two Andorian Blue Brew and Hades-distilled Old Singularity rum, along with a wide variety of non alchoholic juices, at prices commensurate with rarity.
The White Dragon [****]
Marsbase Sara Level 1-EX
Chinese themed dine-in restaurant
A free-standing "open air" establishment under the new transparent carbon expansion dome, The White Dragon is a high-quality place with decoration along traditional Chinese lines. The food is excellent and the atmosphere generally calm and freindly, even when half the regulars tend to show up in their flight suits for a drink after patrol it's not too rowdy for a family meal. Kareoke nights are wednesday and Friday, the rest of the week music is generally canned and in keeping with the theme though professional groups, even some of the better known ones, have been known to do weekend shows and accredited members of the Musician's Aid Society can usually swing a gig for the asking as long as they only expect to be paid from the stage's tip box.
Excelion's High-Test Pit Stop [***]
Marsbase Sara Level 5
Humaniform AI and 'borg fuel and fluids
Catering to machine or mostly-machine life forms, Excelion's has a wide variety of liquid and solid fuels as well as biological foods ranging from thin nutrient slurry to (sadly expensive, due to the scarcity of cattle so far from Earth) triple decker cheeeburgers, and lubricants ranging from Heineken mini-keg 'borg-size beer' to fish oil to Haephestean Black 'Wave. It also opens directly off the floor level of the main mecha bay, and has a simlarly tall cieling and mecha "barstool" scissor-lifts adjustable from six to twenty feet high. The flamboyant proprietor is a high-percentage cyborg who built a cyberrigged secondary frame for himself styled after the Transformers character from whom he takes his name after Wave Convoy open-sourced his 'Cybertronian style' construction techniques and made the neccesary 'wave strain available on base. The service is in all ways excellent, but regulars tend to be a bit possessive and completely uncybered/nonpilot patrons who drop by are likely to be considered 'wannabes' even if the staff remains just as courteous.
Odd's End Gubbins and Bobs [rating?]
Odd's End, (location) Wizarding District
Traditional English and Scottish cuisine
One of the few places in Fenspace where you can ask for spotted dick or a nice hot toad in the hole and be immediately understood, Gubbins and Bobs is a restaurant, apothecary, and general junk/magitech shop all in one, with that oddball mashup atmosphere the Wizards at their best pull off so well, and as long as one stays away from carelessly sampling the apothecary wares is nearly completely free of accidental biomodding risk (or as Wizards tend to put it, Magical Mishaps.) For the less cautious, the local Mungo's Clinic is just up the nearby Even Street zero-gee vertical transfer shaft. Of particular note is the house brew, Ron Gubbins' Very Old Peculiar Scots Firewhiskey, which has a wonderful smoky heather flavor but is EXCEPTIONALLY strong.
Suggestions:
Warsie bars "The Cantina" and "Dexter's" hotels "Jabba's Palace" (ala Ceasar's Palace, possibly even Mob (Sith?) -run) and "Bespin Station"
Buffyite Jossies (supposedly Senshi... New Watcher's Council Interplanetary subfaction, HQ Babylon .5, so they're as arguably an odd branch of the Rangers - mainly because there's nothing listed for B.5 yet but lots for the Venusian cities) - The Bronze, Espresso Pump, Doublemeat Palace
Austrailian Free Trade Zone (around the megatowers) - some kind of flying open cart-style eatery, ala the one in The Fifth Element
Belters - The Auger Inn, where pilots (as opposed to miners who happen to fly a ship now and then but aren't caught up in that rocket-jockey silliness) NEVER EVER stay. Motto: "Come in and crash for a while."
Gearheads (Luna or earth orbit wherever Genaros was supposed to be) - Hot Legs, with a 2030 Replicants-impersonator house band and general BGC themed decor.
- CD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
S.V. Gnarlycurl, C Deck subfloors 2-4
mildly themed Ancient Astronauts/American hotel
Though most often used by fen whose ship/homes are in for repairs at Shuko's Drydock Garage, Rosenburg's is good enough in its own right to be moderately popular as a place to stay when the ship is in the vicinity of other attractions. Decor is mostly generic American with a few "Ancient Astronauts" twists - this theme is played up to the hilt in the Quetzalcoatl and Montezuma suites, to the point of natural-stone-clad walls, simulated waterfalls in place of the otherwise standard claw-foot iron bathtubs, and (smokeless, holographicallly simulated) torches with leaded glass crystal skulls to diffuse the light.
Also of note are the D-Deck recreational facilities, which include an extensive park and garden area to port, an equally large beach and swimming pool to starboard, and a gallery overlooking the engine room in between, home to one of the largest single drive modules in space.
Food available tends to staple American fare, but is available at all hours due to the arbitrary nature of 'morning' aboard a spacecraft, and the kitchen staff will attempt unusual requests in off-peak times, with generally creditable results. Many of the vegetables used are grown on board and can be purchased fresh, in both 'wave-free varieties and more exotic, some with a high enough content to reliably cause biomodding if heated in a microwave. Due to the Seibertron strain of Handwavium unique to the Gnarlycurl, nearly all biomods produced in this manner take a cybernetic or techo-organic form.
Just one caveat: Check the ship's schedule before booking your stay if your business isn't aboard, it's quite disconcerting to find your accommodations started moving unexpectedly while you slept and missing your launch window because you were halfway to Ceres instead of at Olympus Spaceport is not grounds for a refund on your charter booking.
Update for OGJ: (cut and paste from King of Fen-ers thread) Post Crystal Osaka, the Gnarlycurl has moved from the Mars/orbit/moons region to the major Belt activity zone - there are already good medical facilities on Mars and at Earth and Venus, but the biggest Belt installation I recall was the "truck stop and diner" on Ceres; anything more is on the Jovian moons, which is just as far away as Mars. Gnarlycurl is by then home to a surgeon and a GP doctor and several nurses, and has one of its three floors done up as a hosital ward with the works. The ship does sometimes leave if there's a major action in the offing (rare) to decoy and make the Black Hats think there is (more rare) or for special events and major disasters, otherwise it stays put and Wave Convoy makes supply runs with a big box trailer. (End of paste, how this could be condensed for relevance is eluding me at the moment.)
Post OGJ: Business returns to a more tourism/general maintainance model with the destruction of the Black Tower, but OGJ, Space Patrol and MARS craft still get priority service and the hospital aspect remains as well, though scaled back to half a dozen rooms instead of an entire sublevel.
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill [**1/2]
somewhere
Pancakes, Tex-Mex, and Chinese take-out
A very odd little restaurant shoehorned into an L shaped space between a holotheater and a supplementary environmental plant, Cowboy Feng's appears to be a mishmash of Warsie and Wild West, to the point of reproduction lightsabers and six-guns in brackets on the walls, but is in fact a near-perfect replica of the titular establishment from an obscure time-travel novel, designed in continuity when the only surviving materials created in its original destination era were Star Wars and A Fistful of Dollars. Whovians who recognize the reference and Warsies who don't mind the mixed mileu can be found but the bulk of the clientele is actually there for privacy, due to an unintentionally reproduced quirk of the original: any recording or surveillance device used on subjects within its boundaries will have the sound drowned out by the air conditioning's D-below-middle-C hum, and if video monitoring is included the view will be blocked by a potted cactus. Always. Even if the camera is placed openly on a table in the middle of the room. This makes it a popular spot for business and romantic rendevous, though the management work closely with local law enforcement to prevent exploitation and are quick to call them in if shady dealings are noticed.
The All-you-can-eat Pancake Buffet served daily from six to ten AM is highly reccomended, the tex-mex reasonable at modest prices and in good quantity, but the Chinese is barely acceptable. Beverage selection is excellent featuring items from all over the system and even Starbase Two Andorian Blue Brew and Hades-distilled Old Singularity rum, along with a wide variety of non alchoholic juices, at prices commensurate with rarity.
The White Dragon [****]
Marsbase Sara Level 1-EX
Chinese themed dine-in restaurant
A free-standing "open air" establishment under the new transparent carbon expansion dome, The White Dragon is a high-quality place with decoration along traditional Chinese lines. The food is excellent and the atmosphere generally calm and freindly, even when half the regulars tend to show up in their flight suits for a drink after patrol it's not too rowdy for a family meal. Kareoke nights are wednesday and Friday, the rest of the week music is generally canned and in keeping with the theme though professional groups, even some of the better known ones, have been known to do weekend shows and accredited members of the Musician's Aid Society can usually swing a gig for the asking as long as they only expect to be paid from the stage's tip box.
Excelion's High-Test Pit Stop [***]
Marsbase Sara Level 5
Humaniform AI and 'borg fuel and fluids
Catering to machine or mostly-machine life forms, Excelion's has a wide variety of liquid and solid fuels as well as biological foods ranging from thin nutrient slurry to (sadly expensive, due to the scarcity of cattle so far from Earth) triple decker cheeeburgers, and lubricants ranging from Heineken mini-keg 'borg-size beer' to fish oil to Haephestean Black 'Wave. It also opens directly off the floor level of the main mecha bay, and has a simlarly tall cieling and mecha "barstool" scissor-lifts adjustable from six to twenty feet high. The flamboyant proprietor is a high-percentage cyborg who built a cyberrigged secondary frame for himself styled after the Transformers character from whom he takes his name after Wave Convoy open-sourced his 'Cybertronian style' construction techniques and made the neccesary 'wave strain available on base. The service is in all ways excellent, but regulars tend to be a bit possessive and completely uncybered/nonpilot patrons who drop by are likely to be considered 'wannabes' even if the staff remains just as courteous.
Odd's End Gubbins and Bobs [rating?]
Odd's End, (location) Wizarding District
Traditional English and Scottish cuisine
One of the few places in Fenspace where you can ask for spotted dick or a nice hot toad in the hole and be immediately understood, Gubbins and Bobs is a restaurant, apothecary, and general junk/magitech shop all in one, with that oddball mashup atmosphere the Wizards at their best pull off so well, and as long as one stays away from carelessly sampling the apothecary wares is nearly completely free of accidental biomodding risk (or as Wizards tend to put it, Magical Mishaps.) For the less cautious, the local Mungo's Clinic is just up the nearby Even Street zero-gee vertical transfer shaft. Of particular note is the house brew, Ron Gubbins' Very Old Peculiar Scots Firewhiskey, which has a wonderful smoky heather flavor but is EXCEPTIONALLY strong.
Suggestions:
Warsie bars "The Cantina" and "Dexter's" hotels "Jabba's Palace" (ala Ceasar's Palace, possibly even Mob (Sith?) -run) and "Bespin Station"
Buffyite Jossies (supposedly Senshi... New Watcher's Council Interplanetary subfaction, HQ Babylon .5, so they're as arguably an odd branch of the Rangers - mainly because there's nothing listed for B.5 yet but lots for the Venusian cities) - The Bronze, Espresso Pump, Doublemeat Palace
Austrailian Free Trade Zone (around the megatowers) - some kind of flying open cart-style eatery, ala the one in The Fifth Element
Belters - The Auger Inn, where pilots (as opposed to miners who happen to fly a ship now and then but aren't caught up in that rocket-jockey silliness) NEVER EVER stay. Motto: "Come in and crash for a while."
Gearheads (Luna or earth orbit wherever Genaros was supposed to be) - Hot Legs, with a 2030 Replicants-impersonator house band and general BGC themed decor.
- CD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows