Los Angeles by Night
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New Hope Psychiatric Hospital
The New Hope Psychiatric Hospital is an advanced, privately funded facility that provides mental health
services to select clients, including a few well known celebrities. Headed by Dr.
Jeremy Abrams, the facility also has close ties to Wolfram & Hart. On several occasions individuals
have been placed under care at New Hope on behalf of the demonic law firm and their clients. In addition to
conventional security, the hospital building and grounds also boast supernatural defenses against intruders.
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Wolfram & Hart
The Los Angeles offices of the law firm of Wolfram & Hart have been on the same site in the city's center
almost as long as there has been a city center. Built on deconsecrated ground, the offices of Wolfram &
Hart have been the center of most supernatural, and not a little regular, evil in the city for over a century.
To the general public, W & H is like many large law firms, presenting a good public appearance through
charitable work while providing legal services to some very powerful people. The office building itself has
a good deal of supernatural resources to bring to bear on behalf of the firm's clients and the enigmatic
Senior Partners.
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Kronos Industries
Kronos Industries is the multinational company founded by Leland Richter.
On the surface the company operated as any diverse corporate enterprise but secretly the company's main purpose was
the accumulation of mystic power for its founder. The corporate headquarters in Los Angeles had its share of supernatural
resources including security forces consisting of vampires, hellhounds, and zombies; as well as a secret demonic shrine
on the thirteenth floor. The company has fallen on hard times since the disappearance of its founder.
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The Oracle's Sanctum
The Oracle lives and operates out of a tenement apartment
in East Los Angeles. The people who live in his building know what the Oracle does and often leave him
small offerings in exchange for mystic good luck charms and other small services. Most people only see
the main room in the Oracle's apartment, which is generally kept dark, lit only by candles. This sanctum
contains a few tables where the Oracle performs readings and other rituals. The rest of the room is
decorated by shelves of mystic books and items used in the Oracle's magics. Behind one curtain is the
door to the back room where Lorne lives. Lorne has a closed
circuit TV link with the sanctum so he can observe the Oracle's customers and offer his own advice via
the Oracle.
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South L.A. Clinic
Located not far from the East Hills Teen Shelter in South Central Los Angeles is the South LA Clinic.
The clinic offers a variety of public health services to the people of South Central. The night shift
also sees the usual array of homeless, prostitutes and junkies seeking after hours help.
Ethan worked at the South LA Clinic until he was fired for stealing
from the clinic's drug supply.
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Dana's Apartment
Dana lives in a student apartment building in Westwood, near the UCLA campus.
The apartment is frequently a mess, with various occult tomes, ancient scrolls, and whatever else Dana
is researching scattered around. The somewhat paranoid Dana has a half-dozen locks on the front door, of which
only a random number are kept locked at any given time. In addition Dana has added a few small mystic security
measures. A private individual, Dana very rarely has visitors. The main exception was
Gordon Campbell, who lived a few floors down in the same building.
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Blue Plate Diner
Located in south Los Angeles, near Ethan's apartment building, the Blue Plate Diner
is a greasy spoon sort of restaurant where Ethan would often go for coffee after a shift. After their first
meeting and subsequent supernatural fight, Ethan brought the rest of the group to the diner for a slice of pie.
Since then various members of the group have come the diner after a battle with the forces of evil for a slice
of pie in what has become almost a tradition.
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Randolph Manor
The ancestral estate of the Randolph family lies in the Hollywood Hills. When
Lionel Randolph used the Oracle Gem to alter his family's
history he wound up causing their wealth to vanish decades before his birth. Because of his precautions,
however, his occult library survived the change intact. Patrick and his
allies were able to purchase the now derelict manor and grounds for a cheap price and the group (except
for Dana) haved moved in and use the place as their home and base of operations.
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Paradise Theater
Once a prosperous location for live theater in Los Angeles, the Paradise Theater fell on bad times in
the 1960s and eventually closed down. Over the years the theater has been used by community theater groups
and even as a cheap second-run movie theater, but the building has been abandoned for over ten years now.
Patrick has twice encountered the Dusk Lord
Talan and his vampire minions at the Paradise and the site
was also used by Patrick's evil double as the site of his attempt to "auction" the powerful
oracle Jennifer Guerrin. An ancient stone sarcophagus was
buried deep beneath the theater, but it was unearthed and taken by Talan.
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