So I’m staying that the Pasadena Sheraton, which is located next to the Pasadena Convention Center, an elderly, sprawling complex with a substantial amount of both space and parking below ground.
And I know this particular parking structure well because, well, this is where the Justice Squad faced off against the Alienesque horror of the Sh’hurdik.
Back in the day, when I lived in SoCal and worked in Pasadena and was running my Justice Squad supers campaign, the JS was headquartered atop an office building directly adjacent to mine, and I set various battles and encounters in and about Pasadena.
For one particular arc, battling an infamously powerful and nasty alien monster, I set the action in and about the Pasadena Convention Center, drawing on its multi-level layout as a nice way to break up the action.
It was good fun, justice prevailed, the Sh’hurdik was defeated … and I think I just parked my rental car next to where the critter lobbed a pickup truck at Our Heroes.
Memories …