Union Chapel

Union Chapel is located in the South City district of central Night City.
==History==
===1990s - 2020s===
Union Chapel was constructed as a church building during the initial glory days of Night City in the mid-late 1990s, located not far from Lake Park. At some point it was abandoned, being fenced off, and with its doors and windows boarded up. Over the following years, the abandoned church fell under the Blood Razors territory, and the building's exterior walls were painted by their symbols, though the gang themselves didn't spend much time in this area.
By 2020, the building had fallen into disrepair, with most boards being torn off. That same year, Hubert Treadwell hided inside the building.
===2020s - 2040s===
After the Fourth Corporate War, Union Chapel was located inside the borders of the Combat Zone of South Night City. The old building was occupied and transformed into a bar for a time, though it was soon after abandoned. Later, the establishment was used as a lair by Lord Ruthven and his followers, who mostly used the basement as their base of operations. They killed many people, especially gang members, and decorated much of the building's interior with their remains. 
By 2045, the disrepaired structure was surrounded by rubble, and had been converted into nightmare for anyone that visited it. Lord Ruthven had been kidnapping women around the University District with the aim of bodysculpting them to resemble Network 54 news anchor Barbara Dahl. He had built a hidden room in the basement which contained an oversized medical pod he used to bio-sculpt his victims. A merc group was hired to find one of the victims, NCU student Lucy Rhinemeyer. After killing Ruthven, the mercs found Lucy, who was the only survivor of that ordeal. Not much later, a group of Reckoners turned the basement as their refuge, giving the abandoned architectural landmark a new purpose.
==Layout==
===2020===
The abandoned building had a large foyer with rows of benches and an altar. On the left side of the building there were a kitchen, two bedrooms, an office room, a storage, and a bathroom. At the back of this area there were stairs leading into the attic, which housed a small loft, storage space and windows to the nave.
===2045===
Most of the building's entrances were blocked by rubble except the main one at the front, which had an open neon sign above. Just outside the doorway hanged two large candelabra handles, and a rolled out carpet made of sewed human skin led inside. The skin carpet displayed many different gang tattoos. Inside the building there was a large open room with a bar area and dozens of decaying tables and chairs, all occupied by rotten corpses. On the bar counter there was a display of severed cybered heads. At the end of the room there was a stage decorated with blood and human remains. On the right side of the room was a staircase leading downstairs to the basement.
The basement staircase was littered with ammunition cases, and blood red candles were placed along the handrails. A white doorway adorned with red pentagrams and with an upside-down crucifix hanged above it was found at the end. Behind there was an underground chapel room with a row of ten benches covered in the rotten remains of the victims of Lord Ruthven, and at the end of the room the body of a borg was bolted to a large metal chrome crucifix. Behind a tapestry there was a soft white LED illuminated hallway leading into a secret room with an oversized medical pod used by Ruthven to bio-sculpt his victims.
==Gallery==
The Church Map 2020TFH.jpg|Layout (2020)
Union Chapel Map REDTOTRSS.jpg|Layout (2045)
==References==
Category:Cyberpunk 2020 Locations
Category:Cyberpunk RED Locations