[UA] Milwaukee?

[Tim Toner]

>From: "Patrick O'Duffy" <redfern at thehub.com.au>
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: [UA] Milwaukee?
>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:02:42 +1000
>
>     Hi there.  Just a general question aimed at the Americans on this 
>list.
>
>     In my current campaign (Brave New World, for the curious), my PCs are 
>goign
>off to Milwaukee for a couple of sessions, tracking down a team of 
>political
>extremists who plan to blow up something there.
>
>     I just don't what it is.
>
>     Problem is, I know nothing about Milwaukee, other than cliches about 
>racial
>tension, beer, bowling and steel mills.  I don't know what politically
>interesting buildings or organizations are there - things that the NPCs 
>would
>have an
>interest in attacking.
>
>     Can anyone on the list suggest something appropriate?

MECCA!  That's where GenCon has been housed for the last Umpteen million 
years.  It's a big-assed convention center, connected to the local Arena 
where rock concerts and sporting events are housed.  On one occasion, I 
jumped in a rapidly closing elevator door, and my 15-year old unwashed self 
was face to face with rapper Kool Mo Dee, and two very "We Are Not Amused" 
bodyguards.  Imagine the terrorists want to make a statement by 
assassinating some performer, and doing the work under the pretense of the 
world's largest RPG convention.  Hell, they could discuss the plans openly, 
and no one would bat an eye.

Looking up some online resources, I can see now that what I call MECCA is no 
more, replaced by the Midwest Express Center, which is slightly more huge-r, 
but basically a block south.  Everything is still connected by these 
delightful human habitrails, guaranteeing that you can visit much of 
downtown Milwaukee without actually stepping outside.

Then there's the Safe House, an Espionage themed bar, built before themed 
bars were trendy.  You need a secret password to get in without doing 
something humiliating on closed circuit TV.  The walls have various bits of 
spy memorabilia.  Maybe one of the exibits needs to disappear discreetly...
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