Electric Flames

**Electric Flames** is a drag club in Downtown. It was founded out of an abandoned bowling alley and doubles as the headquarters for a group of demon fighters. Electric Flames was featured in the Minimum Rage adventure in the One-Shot podcast.

## Appearance

Electric Flames is in a good neighborhood of Downtown, popular with tourists. There is a neon sign that once said Electric Lanes which has been modified to read Electric Flames.

Inside the renovations did not remove all elements of the bowling alley. Two lanes are still functional for bowling. The others have been converted to a stage. There is a functional ball return machine hooked up to a pneumatic tube system. Pinball machines fill one corner. The bar has an 80s streamlined aesthetic. Between the bar and the lanes are several round couches from the bowling days. A wall is covered with portraits of the House Mothers throughout the bars history.

There is at least one bathroom, which has a light switch that can trigger lightshow and electric slide music.

In the back is not only an office, but a loft area inside the mechanical room for the ball return/pin reset system covered in flyers with a vanity station. This is where Bootsy lives. Somewhere else there are make up stations for drag queens, and there may be other residences for employees as well.

## History

Electric Lanes was a bowling alley that eventually closed down. After it closed, a group of drag queens took it over, making it their own club as well as a base for their monster fighting exploits. They renamed it the Electric Flames. Technically the queens are squatters and the bar is unpermitted. However, it has been around for so long that no one notices or realizes except only the police who turn a blind eye because of the monster fighting service.

Over the years the bar has been host to the annual Miss Northwest Sparkplug Continental At-Large Plus Pageant (Flames Edition). On the night of one such competition, the current House Mother tasked her three employees with guarding a copy of the Dicronomicon. It had been taken from a Hooded Patron on a prior night at the club who returned, demanding it back. The book's presence began to disrupt the bar, including turning the liquor to sea water. A replacement supply was found after a deal was struck with local liquor distributing drag king Cappy.

As queens began to arrive to participate in the pageant, possessed sailors began to assail the bar. Talent manager Bootsy managed to purify one of them in the bathroom, and recruited him to the staff while bartender Whiskey and bouncer Bunny held off others. Sea water began to drip in from the ceiling, and Bootsy found the hooded figure on the roof trying to break into the bar. She fought him off with dance performances, while downstairs eldritch horrors began to manifest in the club. The queens lit fire to the bar during the fight triggering the sprinkler system, which Bootsy had filled with perfumed Febreeze, which dispelled the evil.

All in all it made for a great opening act for the Pageant, which otherwise went off without a hitch. The employees sent the book back to Mother at the end of the night, and began to train their new bar back.

## Employees

During its long existence, Electric Flames has had a number of people work for it, including a long line of House Mothers who often based their looks off of monsters (or perhaps were monsters). These included ones based on Frankenstein Monsters, Werewolves, and Dracula. The current staff includes:

* Mother - the current house mother who is an invisible woman save for her large church hat
* Bootsy - a theater queen and the club's primary talent booker
* Bunsen "Bunny" Burner - a beast and the club's bouncer (and occasional musician)
* Whiskey Pickleback - a lip sync assassin and club bartender
* Angie New - a former sailor turned stage kitten turned drag queen - also a bar back

**The Party**: Bunsen "Bunny" Burner - Bootsy - Whiskey Pickleback
**Other**: Downtown - **Electric Flames** - One Shot Podcast - Interview with James D'Amato