===== The Red Bar ===== 
A drinking establishment.\\

**Location:** Just a hop, skip, and a stagger northeast of NewHome on mapsquare M6.\\

**What's it like?** It's patterned after a scuzzy Tennessee roadhouse, but thousands of miles away from Tennessee and without the roads.\\

**What's with the name?** The origin of its name is wordplay on the red status bar next to a player's name in chat that formerly indicated that a player is offline.((It used to be a solid red bar; as of this writing the solid red bar has been replaced by a broken bar. There has been some discussion about changing the place's name to The Busted Bar or something similar.)) Busted or no, the Red Bar is a place conveniently close to NewHome to kill time waiting for one's friends to show.\\

**Why?** There is stuff to do there. Like watch the bug zapper out front. Or get a memento. Or play the jukebox.((If you have an original song title, distract it to [[characters:player:Gamina]] and she'll try to get it added to the jukebox.)) Or sing the //99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall// song. Or try to get the bartender to tell a joke.((He fucking can**not** tell a joke.))\\

**Bartender?** The running joke about the bartender is that his name would change every week, suggesting that either there is a high rate of turnover among shifty bartenders, or the owner just can't remember the guy's name. For a long time now his name has settled on Callahan.((It's an //homage// to the //Callahan's Crosstime Salloon// stories by Spider Robinson.)) He spends most of his time asleep behind the bar.\\

**Mementos:** Yes, multiple\\

**Beds:** Yes