Aurora Heights Businesses
The following are a list of places where you can play your characters at or they can work. Most of the students at AHHS work for a living, very few don't have some sort of job.
- Hard Drive Cafe: A traditional Cyber Cafe lined with PCs that you can rent by the hour hopped up with the latest games. Free WIFI for anyone who wants to bring their own laptops. Comfortable chairs, a couple of couches for those who just want to hang out, and artistic tables fashioned in various abstract designs for those who come to sip the cafe's imported coffees and designer smoothies.
- Asylum: A music and dance club located off of main street. Teens and Night Worlders can easily slip by the poor security and if have enough money can drink to their little hearts desires. The music is always live and usually from passing by bands but every now and then they get someone local whose very good. It's dark inside and larger than you'd expect with padded walls and straight jackets underneath the tables covered by a layer of thick glass.
- Black Beard's: A fairly cheap but good restaurant at the docks made popular by the younger crowd of Aurora Heights for its handsome manager, who no doubt is a made vampire and in his younger years a true pirate. Staff wear a fake parrot on their shoulders and are dressed in pirate-y garbs. Girls as wenches and guys with bandanas and other such things. The place is popular for tourists and has lots of variety when it comes to fresh fish.
- Treasure House Cinema: The towns old school theatre that doubles as stage shows during the week days. The High School puts on plays at Treasure House. There is a discount for students on Friday nights, but general price is already pretty cheap. To get the discounted price, students must have their school ID present.
- Pocket Change: The local arcade which has a lot of old school games but also newer ones, kids tend to compete with each other for the highest score on games like Pac-Man and things like that. It has a few soda machines but in general is darkly lit and popular among all kinds, even girls.
- Star Diner: A classic diner that offers food 24-7. Has the classic jukebox that offers a mix of all sorts of music styles, burgers and fries place mostly, tasty milkshakes with a variety of desserts. It's been open since the 30's so much of the memorbilia is unique to the area with the occasional celebrity who passed through and they managed to get a picture of with an autograph.
- Spin: The local music shop with a variety of styles, a lot of indie material as well as imports. Has vinyls lining the walls and even some 8-tracks glued to the ceiling. Has an old school sort of feel to it, a lot more punk than modern trendy and run by a guy who used to be in a local band. They are the place to look for rarer material and sell other items in addition to music. Turn tables, old record players, and they offer repairs as well.
- Notables: Target, Walgreens, Aurora Grocery, Ben & Jerry's, Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse (Candian steak restaurant), Various Fast Food Places, and so on. Aurora does have a small complex full of your typical stores (a dollar store, a general store, etc). Not far from town there is a fair sized mall.