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The V-Club is a hacked night club in the virtual world, in which young people gather to indulge in various questionable activities. The club is a "no limits" environment featuring drug dens, group sex rooms and the "kill zone"―an area where visitors can fight others in hand-to-hand combat or with firearms. There is also a ritualistic sacrificing of a virgin on stage, an offering to the goddess of the underworld, Hecate ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}. The producers decided to open the pilot with the V-Club sequence to be provocative and immediately establish a world different from the Re-imagined Series.^[1] The original script concept was even darker, featuring a "stylized and heavily ritualized human sacrifice show" that was toned down for broadcast.^[2]

The V-Club was shot at the Orpheum theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia for the pilot episode of Caprica. This was the same location utilized for the Opera House on Kobol.^[3] For subsequent episodes, footage from the location shoot was reused in conjunction with green screen in "Reins of a Waterfall," and a smaller private space or VIP room in "The Imperfections of Memory," "Ghosts in the Machine," and "End of Line".

Director Jeffrey Reiner wanted the club to feel "almost claustrophobic" and crammed as many extras as possible into the location to achieve the energetic, crowded feel.^[4]

Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand initially visit the V-Club for the party atmosphere, but later come to view the V-Club as a sign of the Twelve Colonies' descent into hedonism, decadence, and ennui. Graystone goes on to create a separate chamber accessible from the V-Club, where she houses her duplicate avatar in a replica of the Monotheist Church retreat on Gemenon ^{(CAP: "Pilot", "Rebirth" and "Unvanquished")}.

A VIP room attached to the V-Club provides a private meeting place, which is later utilized by Rand and Zoe-A ^{(CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine" and "End of Line")}.

Despite its illicit nature as a hacked site, the V-Club is accessible through the V-Match dating site ^{(CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory")}.

Gallery

A woman being sacrificed before Hecate in the V-Club ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

References

↑ Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:02:07
↑ Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:02:35
↑ Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:25
↑ Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:01

[1] Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:02:07

[2] Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:02:35

[3] Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:25

[4] Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:01

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-The '''V-Club''' is an illicit virtual reality club, not the only one of its type, accessed by the [[holoband]].
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-At the V-Club, the rule is "no limits"--group sex, drug use, and violence (albeit virtual) dominate. It is frequented by many people, especially teenagers looking for somewhere to indulge themselves in all sorts of unsanctioned activity.
-[[Zoe Graystone]] and [[Lacy Rand]] originally attended for some of these activities, but they later came to view the V-Club as a sign of the Twelve Colonies' descent into hedonism, decadence, and ennui. Zoe later creates a separate chamber that can be accessed from the V-Club, where she interacts with her [[holographic avatar]], [[Zoe-A]].
-Sometime after the [[Maglev|Maglev 23]] bombing, Lacy brings [[Daniel Graystone]] to the V-Club, showing him such areas as "the kill zone" (where one can "shoot their friends, shoot the Prime Minister, shoot themselves, whatever"), the fight room, group sex dens, drug dens, and an area for virgin sacrifice to [[Hecate]], as well as mentioning "the really gross stuff" beyond. She then gives him access to the chamber and to Zoe-A ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot]]). This chamber and other sections of the V-Club become Zoe-A and Lacy's primary meeting place. Zoe-A also uses the club to arrange her first face-to-face date with [[Philomon]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]").
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