NAME: formally the S.D. Ferrell Building, formerly informally known as the Hideout, now known as “that creepy old place” LOCATION: Excelsior, somewhere on the outskirts DESCRIPTION: It used to be home to many a start-up business, and so it used to be all shiny and chrome like so many other buildings in Excelsior. However, too many of the start-ups turned out to be fronts for supervillain shenanigans, and the building soon became known as the Hideout, where you could put up an underground lab and hold experiments on test subjects who may or may not have been less than willing to be there. Eventually, however, one too many failed experiments proved to be the building’s doom—what used to be a three-story Art Deco masterpiece now is a one-story (on the surface) semi-Brutalist mess, a testament to what happens if you put one too many disgruntled scientists with few moral qualms and chips on their shoulder in the same building together.
There may, or may not, still be sentient Roombas still roaming around the premises. (There totally still are. Some of them have knives attached. They act kind of like feral cats.) There is also a rather expansive network of underground labs underneath it, all of which have some kind of failed tech experiment still lurking around within. ASSOCIATED NPCS: Currently owned by a 54yo man named Thaddeus MacDonald, who got stuck with the whole thing when the previous owners absconded and just wants to be rid of it, but the legal kerfuffle the building’s gotten tied up in has gotten very hard to sort out. Other people have been sniffing around and expressing interest in it, especially those from the Society.
LOCATION: abandoned hideout in excelsior
LOCATION: Excelsior, somewhere on the outskirts
DESCRIPTION: It used to be home to many a start-up business, and so it used to be all shiny and chrome like so many other buildings in Excelsior. However, too many of the start-ups turned out to be fronts for supervillain shenanigans, and the building soon became known as the Hideout, where you could put up an underground lab and hold experiments on test subjects who may or may not have been less than willing to be there. Eventually, however, one too many failed experiments proved to be the building’s doom—what used to be a three-story Art Deco masterpiece now is a one-story (on the surface) semi-Brutalist mess, a testament to what happens if you put one too many disgruntled scientists with few moral qualms and chips on their shoulder in the same building together.
There may, or may not, still be sentient Roombas still roaming around the premises. (There totally still are. Some of them have knives attached. They act kind of like feral cats.) There is also a rather expansive network of underground labs underneath it, all of which have some kind of failed tech experiment still lurking around within.
ASSOCIATED NPCS: Currently owned by a 54yo man named Thaddeus MacDonald, who got stuck with the whole thing when the previous owners absconded and just wants to be rid of it, but the legal kerfuffle the building’s gotten tied up in has gotten very hard to sort out. Other people have been sniffing around and expressing interest in it, especially those from the Society.