San Francisco Chinatown

## Overview

San Franciscos Chinatown is one of the cities landmarks and famous across the entire west coast. It was founded as the first Chinatown in North America and the largest chinese enclave outside of asia. It is one of the most densly populated districts in the city and its streets are constantly overcrowded with residents and visitors.

While its mostly famous for its countless asian restaurants of expetional quality, of which many serve traditional instead of synthetic meat; in the recent decades it has also turned into a festering pit of gang criminality and drug trade due to its affiliation with the Jin.

## Transport

Cars (or any other transport for that matter) are not allowed to pass through Chinatown, only pedestrians and non-electrical bicycle; a policy that is often violated by nocturnal motorbike races. It is accessable through the Sacramento Street and Grant Ave Cable Car stations and the Chinatown subway station; although the latter is fairly old and partly closed off.

## Landmarks

* **Dragon Gate-** Among the most photographed tourist attractions in chinatown and a famous landmark and meetingpoint since almost a century.
* **San Francisco Suites-** Located at the South-West of Chinatown in a modern 8-stories building that almost reaches the size of the cities skyscrapers. It stands out as one of the most modern an clean buildings in the area and contains over 60 extremly luxurious and expensive suites and rooms. Its most notable part is the security however, that musters 3 pure-strain Nephilim, one of which was sired by *Haze* to fend off any attempts of Hacking. It offers a safe stay for wealthy Tourists, Conjurers and higher members of the Jin family. Its highest story consists of an open loft in which is occupied by *Samuel Min Jin*, the families local leader.
* **Mister Jui´s-** There exist over a hundred asian restaurants in Chinatown, most of which are of exeptional quality. However even among the delivery and fast-food branch *Mister Jui´*s isn´t very impressive (although it offers real meat), but what it lacks in quality food it makes up in special service. It seems as if the owner was unable to pay Protection Money and has resorted to making more special and less legal deliveries to chosen customers, well hidden at the bottom of his famous noodle boxes.
* **Moth and Dagger Tattoo Studio-** Renowned as the best Tattoo Studio of Chinatown, possibly even all of San Francisco, the Moth and Dagger Studio is infamous for offering a wide range of sterile tattoos; many of which include traditional and appropriated chinese and japanese ones. They even offer modern skin implants and luminiscent tattoos at a high quality. It is said that those which are friends with the owners are allowed access to the stores lower area which is rumored to offer illegal body modifications and cybernetic implants.
* **Tin How Temple-** is one of the oldest still-operating Taoist temples in the United States; devoted to the sea goddess Mazu which is said to protect sailors and fishermen. Its insides are filled with countless ornaments and offerings; including the grand Jingxiang temple altar, the temple bell and the image of the goddess which all survived the 1906 earthquake unscathed. The Temple is a pillar of the Chinatown community, most notably its Priest *Jamie Koon*, which organises the local charity. However it is rumored that its lower levels contain a secret shrine to *Haze*. hidden from the public and the majority of the priesthood; aswell as an effigy in which the Voxx can be summoned to commune with.

## Population

### Ethnicities

Chinese (40%), Caucasian (25%), Korean (8%), Indian (6%), Japanese (3%), Taiwanese (3%), Hispanic (3%), Black (2%), Other (10%)

## Background

### Crime

Drug Trade, Illegal Implants, Smuggeling, Gang Violence

### Diet

Plant based (35%), Synthetic Omnivores (10%), Traditional Omnivores (52%), Other (3%)

### City Animals

American Cockroach, Oriental Cockroaches, Bed Bugs, Seagulls, Pigeons, Flies, Rats

* **Chinese Hospital-** It is the only Chinese hospital in the United States; primarily serving the elderly, poor and immigrants from China in the San Francisco area while providing an alternative to San Francisco General Hospital for patients with a language barrier. It was originally build because Chinatown was far off from good medical care and most docotors used to refuse treating chinese immigrants. It is even rumored that some of its nurses smuggle out medicine to those that are unable to afford proper healthcare in the community.
* **Lotus Nightclub-** Although Chinatown is fairly close to Downtown, San Franciscos partymile, the Lotus Nightclub managed to stay in buisness for almost two decades. It has repeadetly modernised and is fairly cheap compared to its competition; but one of its biggest advantages is the protection of the local Triads. The owner of the Nightclub pays large sums of protection money and in return the police will stay far away from it; allowing the clubs visitors to engage with prostitution or drugs without any risk.
* **Silk Vice Club-** Is the only Strip Club in Chinatown and is advertises hosting only asian strippers, something that surpisingly attracts alot of white males from outside the area. It is an open secret that the Clubs girls are willing to offer more "advanced" services for special customers and alot of the residents joke about it being easier to find a Triad member in the Silk Club than the black market.
* **Red Oyster Lounge-** Is perhabs the most expensive and luxorious bar within the entire area. It strongly tries to present itself in a modern but highly "asian" aesthetic, although few of its hand-carved assets would belong to the same culture. It is run by *Lilien Feng*, a famous Aphelius Ophanim. that has strong ties to the local community despite her nature. The bar has a VIP Lounge cut off from the rest that is only accessable to Liliens friends.
* **Chinatown Blackmarket**- Founded in the last two decades by the Jins Triads, the Chinatown Blackmarket is an infamous place. The police is desperatly trying to locate since over a decade and every officer that learned its location was either bribed or threatend enough to keep silent or simply ended up killed. Only members of the Triads and their associats know its location but it is rumored to either be under one of the districts enterprises or in one of the abandoned subway tunnels underneath. It is said that the Blackmarket sells anything money can buy, from military equipment over endangered animals and synthetic drugs to powerful artifacts.

## Triads

Chinatowns, and to a larger extend San Franciscos, gangs have been pushed out by the chinese triads which comitt 70% of the cities gang violence. The majority of them have been taken over by the Jin family, of which all have their headquarters in Chinatown. They have mostly abandoned their old rivalries and work under one banner; although not always without as effortless as their masters make it out to be. In the last decades their code of honor that set it apart from regular gangs and mafias slowly began to decay and wither away; making the modern Triads similarly ruthless although better organised and bolstered through supernatural support.

One of their most reviled practices is breeding with summoned Neverborn to purposfully create Halfbloods; a practice that rarely involved consent and was introduced by the Jin. They practice a careful "mating" plan that compares the candidates abilities and attributes to create a strongest children. Since they practiced this since almost a century most triads host several well-trained Halfbloods and possess inhuman strength and abilites.

Triads use tattoos, secret hand gestures and symbols to communicate and signal their rank and membership. The largest Triads in San Francisco are:

* **Silver Fox Triad-** This Triad is by far the wealthiest and has taken over most of the cities drug trade and dealing; aswell as being masters at coercion and bribery. They are considered the Jins favorite assets.
* **Wah Ching-** As one of the oldest Triads they are well established in the city and entertain a large network that involved them with narcotic sales, racketeering and gambling.
* **Shadow Wraiths-** Are the most brutal triad, specialised in assault, illegal races and street duells. They are the only Jin triad to have their headquarters outside of Chinatown; mostly operating in Tenderloin, Downtown.
* **Wo Shing Wo-** Are a taiwanese Triad that managed to keep contact to their home island and imports and smuggles illegal goods. Although they are very much present in Chinatown their base lies somewhere in the *Outer Sunset* and they keep the wide urban blocks under their thight controll.
* **The Tongs-** they are not techniqually a Triad and are the only criminal gang that does not yeel to the Jin. They are most involved with the Chinatown community and mostly engage in petty crime and theft. Their greatest enemy has shifted to become the police, which is bribed or given tips by the Jin to deal with their rivals. The only reason they managed to stay over water for so long is due to the communities support and their worship of *Haze*.