71. LE FEZ

 Le Fez is a well connected fixer in the black market.  For the right price he can smuggle just about anything into the Zone.  Money, Weapons, Cyber, software, equipment, medicine… but he does not deal in bulk, and he charges outrageous prices.  He is also not a popular man due to some less than savory dealings in the past, and is extremely paranoid but very cheap.  Fez is a short, stubby, somewhat greasy man of unscrupulous nature  who always wears a red fez with a yellow tassle and stinks of cheap cologne.  He speaks with a thick accent.  He employs a full conversion named Montalvo to act as his bodyguard.  Montalvo is huge, and his Full Conversion body is a heap of mismatched parts.  He wears a real skin over his face and neck, the last remnants of identity, as well as his original Gemini body.

Fez’s shop is located in the basement of a crumbling and abandoned brownstone.  The entrance to the building is from a small stairway in the rear, at the juncture of three alleys.

1. Alleyways (dirty, rubble strewn, homeless people are usually lingering about). 2. Door (2-inch steel, a call box sits next to it)

3. Security Camera (watches just in front of door, from 6 feet above, sits in electrified cage to discourage tampering)

4. Customer Room (This is as far as customers are allowed.  The far wall is made from thick polymer transparent but bulletproof material, a sliding portion allows goods and cash to be transferred, a computer screen sits behind the wall, with a keyboard and mouse on the customer side, allowing customers to browse Le Fez’s entire inventory)

5. Le Fez’s office/Showroom. (Select goods are on display here.  Le Fez has a small desk with a computer, and there is another chair for Montalvo.  Beside Montalvos chair is a button to unlock the door and a monitor for the security camera)

6. Steel Door 7. Storeroom  8. Le Fez’s Room 9. Kitchen 10. Montalvo’s Room 11. Secret Tunnel (Hidden behind a sliding false wall of cabinets is a secret tunnel that leads to the basement of a small abandoned house just on the other side of the wall outside the Zone.  This is how he smuggles goods in and out of the Zone)

Le Fez is connected to a notorious crime lord recently arrived in Night City from Cairo known only as the Egyptian.

(Le Fez originally appeared in Chasing the Dragon from Atlas Games)

Written By Deric Bernier, Images from Atlas Games, Matt Bradbury, Five Weeks In A Balloon

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