The Bonnino's Stripclub

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**The Bonnino's Stripclub**, also shortened to and advertised as **The Bonnino's** or simply **Bonnino's**, is Thugtown's most popular adult entertainment venue, run by the eponymous Bonnino family.

## History

Officially stylized as a "Venerable Social Club", this private club has proven itself to be quite profitable, bringing in a small fortune each night for its owner, Sonny Bonnino, the boss himself. With 13 shows each night, 7-12-2, it is located in the center of Thugtown, on the south side of the city near the city river and bridge. Despite the Prohibition having dealt an otherwise detrimental blow to businesses like these, Bonnino's seems to have only increased in clientele since then, thanks to a plenteous selection of both liquor and "entertainers". The city seems to pay little mind to the otherwise illegal activities of the gang, likely due to their speakeasy's popularity and positive effect on morale, with some of the unemployed locals openly working as walking adverts and criers. When the Drunken Riots started to get increasingly violent, so did their once loyal customers, forcing them to seal them, along with the unfortunate female employees of the establishment, in the lobby and front halls when they invaded the venue. Meanwhile, the remaining Bonninos barricaded themselves inside the rest of the club, along with some of the adjacent buildings.

Their once so prestigious dive is now their hideout during this time of crisis, now stationing a few dozen men outside the joint and the area surrounding it, who constantly look out for clusters of zombies nearing their headquarters or rival gang members looking to use the situation to weaken the Bonninos, though they may or may not be guilty of a couple of assaults on their base themselves.

## Guns, Gore & Cannoli

The stripclub is a rather big one, filled with dance stages, "special" private rooms, two bars, and mostly covered in reddish pink wallpaper. Backstage, behind the main pole dancing hall, are a number of staff-only rooms. Some are typical for stripclubs, like storage and break rooms, while others, primarily further back, are used by the Bonnino Gang for criminal activities, though almost all of these rooms are bloodied and have had their walls riddled with bullet holes. Beneath the club are also a kitchen and a garage.

The club was first mentioned by Rusty, formerly a regular patron of the club and their services, who tells recently arrived Vinnie that he suspects that his person of interest, Frankie the Fly, is being kept prisoner there by the Bonninos. Vinnie makes his way to town center, killing zombies and patrolling Bonnino gangsters, before breaking down the front barricade at the entrance and taking out the guards.

The inside of the club is swarming with zombies, but he eventually manages to fight his way through the horde until he reaches a barricaded doorway. Vinnie effortlessly tears it down and is immediately confronted by Sonny and his right-hand men. He brutishly demands that they hand over Frankie, causing Sonny to order his goons to attack. As Vinnie engages in combat with the Bonnino thugs, Sonny attempts to pry more information out of Frankie, who they've been keeping tied up in their warehouse at the very back of their club. Sonny gets increasingly impatient with Frankie's denials on what he really knows about the current happenings, mentioning that he had shown up at his door, not too long before the riots, maniacally ranting about a scenario not too dissimilar from the one they are experiencing right now. Just as he is about to get physical with him, Vinnie shows up and kills his nearby henchman. Vinnie gives him one last chance to run, but Sonny stands his ground, voicing his intention to "teach [him] some respect". Surprise, surprise, Vinnie wins, kills the rest of his gang and turns Sonny's brain to mush with a Magnum before rescuing Frankie and heading onwards to the bridge to the northern side of the city, where the Belluccios are. The club was possibly destroyed in the incoming bombing by the Army.

## Trivia

* Dominatrix Zombie first appears in The Bonnino's .
* Syndicate City also has a stripclub. Not only does it bear a striking resemblance to Bonnino's, from interior design to use by criminals, but is also features portraits of Thugtown residents, all if whom have some connection with the criminal underground. It is difficult to discern whether this is an elaborate Easter egg and throwback to the first game, implies that the Bonninos had more than one location in other cities in other states or even that some members survived the onslaught and relocated to Syndicate City.