Rough Trades

Rough Trades

The **Rough Trades** is the social club for the laborers, the farmers, the workers of every sort. It's the place you only find if you know where to look. If you know who to ask you may even find the pub in the back room. And if someone knows you, you might be invited to the fisticuffs in the back-back room. Don't go spilling the beans about it, they're awfully guarded with what's theirs around there.

The facility is owned and operated by Michael "Micky" Sullivan, middle aged Irish immigrant laborer. His wife - Margaret "Mags" Sullivan owns the Butcher Shoppe next door, and the rest of his family are workers of a sort.

## Main Area

The **main area** serves coffee and provides a place to sit and socialize. There's a performance area, where Claire Delune will sing, even after she's moved up in the world. Often this space hosts union meetings and once a month they host a small vendor market. Usually the spot serves as a place to eat lunch, have a chat, or play a round of cards or darts.

## Back Bar

The **back bar** is accessible if you know the right people. On one side of the room is the counter top where alcohol is served with barstools lined in front of it. Nearby is a door leading out into an alley. It is locked and inaccessible from the outside. Seating is dispersed throughout the rest of the room. At the far end is the door to Micky's office. Another door leads back to another room, part of it renovated for storage, the other part leads down to The Pit.

## The Pit

**The Pit** is located in back room of Rough Trades. It's darker than the rest of the building, deeper in and locked tight away from prying eyes, the only natural light coming from a dusty skylight. Unlike the official boxing rings of era, this holds no raised surface, no judges, no rules. Just a dug out pit like a gladiator’s arena of old, bounded with cemented-in crates and tarps. If the night is full enough, a rowdy audience cheers and yells from the benches. There is no decorum here. This is not a place for high stakes bets or famous matches. One only comes here with a hunger for violence and you know well enough not to take it to the streets.

Even then, you don’t go asking around for access. You have to be invited. Can’t have rats or fuzz loitering about, right?

## Office

Micky's office at Rough Trades is surprisingly cozy, given the rest of the establishment. A desk, a safe, a sofa, and a few chairs are scattered about while in the corner stands a washbasin with a small shaving mirror for when Micky needs to spend the night. It's a perfect space away from the hustle and bustle of the main bar and the pit.

* Rough Trades is the local worker's social club.
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## Associated NPCs

* **Conor** is the Lover of Wolves, one of Micky's twin toddler nephews.
* **Finn** is Riona's husband, Micky's brother-in-law, and father to the twins.
* **Frankie** is a player in the sessions at Rough Trades.
* **Macauley** is an Irishman in his 50s who plays in the sessions at Rough Trades.
* **Marc** is the bartender at Rough Trades.
* **Michael "Micky" Sullivan** is one of the owners of Rough Trades and one third of a throple with Peter.
* **Riona**  is Micky's younger sister and mother to the twins.
* **Rory** is the Red King, one of Micky's twin toddler nephews.
* **Seamus** is an Irishman in his 60s who plays in the sessions at Rough Trades.
* **Vitto** is a Sicilian in his 60s who plays in the sessions at Rough Trades,
* **Toulouse** is Moira's cat, who has adopted a number of gods who are terrible at taking care of themselves in different ways. A ginger tom who thinks he's larger than he is, but with a temper to match his Napolean complex. Formerly taken care of by **Gale** prior to apartment crowding, he's more than happy to boss Moira into taking care of both of them. He sneaks out occasionally, enjoying bossing about the regulars in **|**Rough Trades**** with the other grumpy ginger - **Peter**.

#### Margaret Eileen "Mags" Sullivan

   **Margaret Eileen "Mags" Sullivan** is Eimear's niece and one of the owners of Rough Trades. She also helps run McKenna Butchers, the butcher shop gifted to them by Eimear. Known as Mags, she and her husband, Micky, have no children of their own, though they help care for their nephews, Rory and Conor (of Micky's sister, Riona and her husband Finnegan.) In her youth, she was near uncontrollable and often got in trouble with just about everyone. Even in her late 40s, she's fiesty, blunt, a firecracker that could hold her own. She was a part of the family crime business, set to follow Eimear's position, up until she got married and stayed inside the City. Still, even now she sends Eimear messages and updates.

### NPC Gallery

* Mags McKenna
* Toulouse
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