Pin Liou Tattoos - 421 Fish Row
The door to Liou's storefront is never locked; lights burn mysteriously within the shop throughout many a long, dark night. The tattoo artist is present at all times, no matter when visited. Pin Liou has been in the flesh art business for a long time. His actual age is unknown, but this seemingly middle-aged Asian man has been in business for as long as anyone can remember, and neither he nor his shop has changed in all these years. His shop occupies a rundown storefront rife with exotic oriental bric-a-brac, books in bizarre, unreadable languages, and strange designs of Chinese and Japanese (and less recognizable) origin - a collection of Pin Liou's personal artifacts over a long lifetime of strange adventure. The man only does tattoos, and he does them very well.
Many tattoo designs, mostly in Chinese and Japanese styles, decorate Liou's walls. A sharp-eyed individual may spot mystic signs of warding and guarding woven into some of the designs. Those knowledgeable of such substances might notice a faint scent of opium lingers in the shop, well mixed with the exotic incense that Liou keeps burning day and night. Pin Liou lives in a small, one room dwelling in back of his shop, entered through a beaded curtain into which has been cunningly worked a strange an ancient symbol clearly not of Asian origin.
When the signs are inauspicious Liou may not leave his establishment for weeks. Sometimes a woman (or is she?) who is possibly his wife (and possibly not) arrives from Boston, bringing to the tattoo artist all manner of strange books, supplies and objects that defy easy identification. The only other resident of the shop is Pin Liou's cat, the Most Honorable Mister Meow Tsa, a Siamese of as questionable age and mysterious background as he.
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Tattoo Parlor
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