Maple Shade Apartments

The ten years since Maple Shade was built have not been kind to it. Though it was built in the somewhat-rough Brooklyn neighborhood in hopes that the new development would help pull the area out of its economic slump, it was too little, too late. The neighborhood continued its downward spiral in the last ten years, and took the Maple Shade Apartments with it.

Today, the poor-but-hardworking families and individuals that originally made up its community have largely fled for safer places. Drug crime, homelessness, and prostitution define the grit of the Brooklyn neighborhood in 1984, and almost no one lives here out of choice. Still, there are decent folk who live here – some of whom have been here since it opened – trying to eke out a life of safety and comfort despite their surroundings.

History: 1976

Staff

	Myrtle Connor Manager • Apt A10 Perpetually exhausted and cynical to the point of apathy, Myrtle doesn't give a shit what happens here. She mostly stays in her apartment, dealing with people who come to her door directly. When she is seen around the property, she is usually clad in bathrobe, hair curlers, ratty slippers, and smoking a cigarette.
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Ground Floor

• Management Office: A sizable office set aside for the use of the complex's manager, this office goes largely unoccupied. It shows signs of having been broken into before, but is now secured with multiple sturdy locks.
• Security Office: A much smaller security office is largely abandoned, much like the management office. It has also been broken into and is now locked with heavy-duty locks.
• Play Area & Courtyard: A "green area" that is more dirt and trash than actual grass, the few children of the complex occasionally can be found playing here. At night, however, it is a gathering point of a variety of shifty characters, who use the lack of lighting, open access, and blocked lines of sight to sell drugs.
• Closed Shopfronts: Most of the shops here are run-down and decrepit, despite signs that proclaim them "FOR LEASE". There are iron bars over the windows, and much of the glass has been broken and not replaced, being boarded over with plywood instead. Every so often, the police cruise past, ready to roust out any homeless who have broken into one of these spaces for shelter.
• Fairways Payday Loans & Pawn: With bars on the windows and roll-down security gates over both door outside and windows inside, Fairways is the closest thing to a bank in the local area. They buy all sorts of pawned goods without too many obvious questions, as well as offering positively usurious "payday" loans that prey on those who have no choice but to take the loans between paychecks.
• Bright Gethsemene Church: A small nondenominational, charismatic church that gathers on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings and evenings, the Bright Gethsemene's stated goal is the redemption of the many sins in this neighborhood. Pastor Lucas Garvey and his wife Jacinda lead services with a small but loyal congregation. On days when there are no services, the Garveys run a soup kitchen for the area's hungry, although these days they can only afford to open it twice a week or so (Tuesdays and Fridays).

First Floor

Floorplans

• Apartment A01: xxx
• Apartment A02: xxx
• Apartment A03: The Flophouse (Edgar Reese, x)
• Apartment A04: xxx
• Apartment B01: Rex Bagby
• Apartment B02: xxx
• Apartment B03: xxx
• Apartment B04: xxx

Edgar Reese Towel Boy & Rent Boy • Apt A03 Edgar is a towel boy at Club Portland downtown and a rent boy on the side. Loves to laugh and sing loudly, very quick wit. He shares an apartment with a number of other queer sex workers that is little more than a flophouse with one bedroom kept tidy enough to bring a john back to. He drives a red VW bug named Hester and has a well loved copy of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive that he always keeps handy to keep her running

Rex Bagby xxx • Apt B01 xx

Second Floor

Floorplans

• Apartment A05: xxx
• Apartment A06: Joel Lerma
• Apartment A07: xxx
• Apartment A08: xxx
• Apartment B05: Desiree Yale
• Apartment B06: xxx
• Apartment B07: xxx
• Apartment B08: xxx

Joel Lerma Pothead Philosopher • Apt A06 Though he works down at the Port Authority, that's not who Joel is, man. A charming pothead who hasn't quite figured out how to get his life together (or if he has, it sounds like way too much work), Joel's apartment usually hosts a collection of his buds couch-surfing or passed out under a table. Joel is usually broke, but everyone always gets paid back, and when payday comes, it's party o'clock for everybody. When high, he tends to expound at length about the problems in the world and with society. Joel is good with kids, and builds the coolest LEGO shit in the complex. He's the sort that is only too happy to babysit someone's kid, but usually only at their place – by no stretch of the imagination is his pothead den even remotely kid-friendly.

Desiree Yale xxx • Apt B05 xx

Third Floor

Floorplans

• Apartment A09: xxx
• Apartment A10: Myrtle Connor (Manager)
• Apartment A11: xxx
• Apartment A12: Jaime Sinclair
• Apartment B09: xxx
• Apartment B10: xxx
• Apartment B11: Winnifred "Winnie" Suttle
• Apartment B12: xxx

	Jaime Sinclair xxx • Apt A12 xx
	Winnifred "Winnie" Suttle xxx • Apt B11 xx

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Fourth Floor

Floorplans

• Apartment A13: xxx
• Apartment A14: The Rutherfords (Evelyn, Isaiah, Lena)
• Apartment A15: xxx
• Apartment A16: xxx
• Apartment B13: Unoccupied (Water Damage)
• Apartment B14: Unoccupied (Water Damage)
• Apartment B15: xxx
• Apartment B16: Ben Pardo

	Evelyn Rutherford xxx • Apt A14 xx
	Isaiah Rutherford xxx • Apt A14 xx
	Lena Rutherford xxx • Apt A14 xx
	Ben Pardo xxx • Apt B16 xx

Fifth Floor

Floorplans

• Apartment A17: xxx
• Apartment A18: xxx
• Apartment A19: xxx
• Apartment B17: Unoccupied (Water Damage)
• Apartment B18: Andy Koval
• Apartment B19: xxx

	Andy Koval xxx • Apt B18 Andy works at a local construction company. He's down on his luck and rebuilding his life in Portland after his life fell apart in Minnesota – he's known to have been an accountant at one point, and to have been married. Now he spends his off time inviting other residents over for coffee and telling tall tales about his past.
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