School

School

Burlesque Venue & Recording Studio

Location:	Hollywood, Redmond, Seattle
Lifestyle:	Squatter - Low
Biases:	None
Notables:	xxx

The venue called "School" used to be the Hollywood Schoolhouse, an old 19th century schoolhouse that has seen life as a school house, a community center, and eventually a rental hall for weddings and the like.

Layout

The edges of the School property are bounded by sunken-in plascrete pilings, providing barriers for cars and other larger vehicles trying to ram the building proper (though motorcycles are still capable of getting through). It has a fair-sized parking log on its eastern side, and the northern face, behind the club proper, has a large plot of what used to be a carefully sculpted garden, which has grown into a riotous tangle of weeds, thornvines and toxic-ground growth. There used to be a large back deck, but it has long since rotted away, with only bits of rotting wood sticking up out of the ground and protruding off the back of the house remain of it. The back door that once led to the deck has been locked.

First Floor

• Entry: The entrance is up a short flight of stairs, to a front porch area, with someone at the door taking cover. The entryway itself has a small bar with quick drinks - already mixed and poured, for quick pay-grab-drink on the way in. It is also a mingling area somewhat away from the action of the main hall.
• Main Hall: The main club area. It has tables along the walls, with lots of empty space used for spectating during performances or dancing the rest of the night. A large stage dominates the back wall, beside a locked door that used to lead out onto the former back deck.
• Bar: Sequestered off storage space and bar area. It is usually quite busy at night.
• Gallery: A place to chill and/or keep an eye out, the club usually stations at least one person here to keep an eye out for trouble. It is also used as a dark corner for patrons to make out or have small conversations. Furnished with several chairs.
• Lounge: A large lounge, with (scavenged) comfortable mismatched furnishings. A locked door along its east wall leads to a stairwell with a storage closet and the stairs that lead up to the second floor.

Second Floor

• Attic: The large space above the main hall below is dangerous. Though it has to be navigated occasionally to hang lights and other equipment, the attic is largely off-limits due to the danger of falling through the floor and into the main hall below, thanks to all the rotting wood.
• Bedrooms: A series of six bedrooms, quite spaciously designed, from the days when the rooms could be rented by clients. Each has its own bathroom.
  • 1: Aka
  • 2: x
  • 3: x
  • 4: Taig
  • 5: x
  • 6: Temper
• Lounge: A comfortable space with a refrigerator technically for the use of clients of the recording studio when they are at work recording, but frequently used as a defacto living room space for those who live here.
• Tech Booth: Booth filled with technical equipment used to record and mix music.
• Recording Space: Acoustically precise and soundproofed space for recording artists at work.