The Interstellar Orchestra was a storied place; perfectly understandable for a place that went from a perfectly normal bar with a big jazz band to an almost fixer bar to a minor Yakuza holding to a sort of runner bar. And as the clock turned over to the 22nd, there were members from just about every era in the place, relaxing, enjoying the benefits of 'membership', or preparing for the coming day.<br/><br/>Aurelius, the virtuoso jazz pianist and likely least violent adept in town, is preparing, testing out the instrument sounds and reading the day's music selection. At a table, one of the bar girls, an ex-bunraku gal, a cosplayer, and a mallrat are playing a game of poker that, most other places, would have gotten broken up by now. If not because most of the players were incredibly close to baring it all (the worker has her name tag between her legs, the gal's got on garters, and the mallrat's got only a novelty swimming lamp keeping anything hidden) then because the winning player was showing enough luck that any reasonable person would think there was cheating going on. But given that half of the reason those four played was to come up with ridiculous forfeits to avoid losing that last bit of their outfit and that Caren was allergic to cheating, the game went on.<br/><br/>To the unfamiliar, the calmness of the whole scene would be rather absurd. When a private security firm and a gang were in the same place for a long time, something ... violent was bound to happen. But that was also the beauty of the setup. The Heart Police were fences and procurers of weapons (and occasionally armor) first and foremost. They were security basically only when weapons were involved or in the rare case that things got out of hand enough to start risking large sections of the building. The resident Mr. J had his own guards, some of the fixers didn't come in person, and everyone else basically relied on the presence of a gang and a security firm as a kind of deterrent security.<br/><br/>The 69 Gang were, after all, among those that only had to pay a small fee to be allowed to bring a weapon in, and also only pay a small fee to recover the weapon if they happened to get it taken away for being too threatening under the influence or the like. And in an hour, the host's appearance would change from the outer-space theme of the night time to a more partitioned one, giving each of the big groups their own look in their own section.