Ground 0 Net Cafe
Ground 0 internet cafe and gaming center (pronounced "Ground Zero") is an internet café in Hollywood, across the street from Red Spot Convenience. Rather than having proper signage outside, the sign is printed on a fabric banner, indicating the business may be new or temporary.
Internet cafés are businesses which rent time on computers connected to the Internet; often used for general surfing or checking email for people who may not have had their own access to the Internet, cafés were also popular for hosting LAN parties for gamers playing games like Counter-Strike.
The back room holds a secret.
Back Rooms
Through the back room and up a flight of stairs is a pornography studio, where presumably the "real" money lies for Ground 0. A number of sets are visible, featuring a number of different styles of beds and couches, a filthy mattress next to a dumpster, and a stuffed zebra.
A second flight of stairs leads down to the real secret.
DMP
Downstairs from the porn studio is a second studio behind a door simply marked "DMP": Death Mask Productions, home to all sorts of vile snuff films. Razor, one of the DMP crew, claimed that the talent were people that no one cared about -- junkies, runaways -- and justified to himself that he was doing them a favor.
Quests
- Dead Ex
- Snuff Is Enough
Gallery
Ground 0 net cafe
The hidden porn studio
The DMP basement studio
Background Information
- Graffiti within Ground 0 includes "AWP Whore" -- someone who overuses the AWP sniper rifle in Counter-Strike -- and "noob camper" -- someone who doesn't move around the map, but stays in one place (a camper) in order to specifically attack new players (noobs).
- A TV in the corner displays a screenshot from an early beta of Bloodlines, during a fight with one of Andrei's creations. The screenshot was also used in the Beach House in Santa Monica.
- In the Plus version of the Unofficial Patch, a film canister laying in the corner of the porn studio has a label indicating it's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer film reel.