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18.
CARTER APARTMENTS
 The
Carter
Apartments serve as 2-3 Sets base of operations in
their foray into the Combat Zone. The building
itself is very large. Many of non-support walls
have been knocked out on the first two floors, and the
2-3 Set allow junkies and the homeless to squat there,
making the first floors a building a veritable
labyrinth strewn with desperate lost souls. The
2-3 Set themselves have claimed most of the rooms of
the upper floors, though there are a few tenant whom
they have allowed to stay, mostly because kicking them
out is more trouble than its worth. 2-3 Set also
controls the basement, where they have set up labs for
rocking up synth-coke, which they then distribute to
the surrounding neighborhood.
 All
deals
are done in the courtyard, and all access to the
floors above level 2 and the basement is heavily
guarded. The front doors are sealed, and the
only way into or out of the building from the ground
are in the main doorway inside the courtyard.
This allows the 2-3 Set guarding the courtyard to have
complete control over who enters the building, and
anyone attempting anything funny in the courtyard
immediately finds themselves in an inescapable
shooting gallery. There are six men with fully
auto rifles equipped with low-light scopes scattered
through random windows overlooking the courtyard at
all times, and one with a heavy machine gun. An
additional four are set up in the windows of the
alleyway leading to the courtyard, and several more
watching the streets and alleys surrounding the
building. In addition there are always at least
3 men on the roof with high powered scoped hunting
rifles. Two solitary front men stand in the
courtyard, and money and the drugs they purchase are
exchanged via a rope and bucket lowered from the
fourth floor. Drugs are sent up from the
basement through an old laundry chute converted into a
dumbwaiter.
(For more info on 2-3 Set, see Gangs Of Little Haiti)
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