Choan Riders World View

The multiverse twisted in a corner of shadow outside the wide Tosian Sway and the dominant Amber Sway. Few in either would know it but the wizards that traveled the road that roamed it called it the Repeating Earth Sway. It consisted of thousand of primary worlds and shadows shaved from them.

As occurred from time to time a number of world made a psychic connection and over several decades people with a small key shaped birthmark were born. For most over these people it went unnoticed and perhaps only a few thing happened in their lives that were unusual or extraordinary.

For others, their lives became heroic, for good or evil, Law or Chaos.

In the cyclic worlds of the Repeating Earth Sway the first of the cycle's Key-marked was born.

More would come in time

The Current Date is December 12, 1997

Discord

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Synopsis

Filthy Game Synopsis

Chaos Riders MC- est. 1952.

Originally called the Chaon’s Riders club for the small central California town of Chaon where the club was founded by disillusioned and bored returning Korean War vets. When the first new chapter was added in Stockton in late 1955 the club’s name was changed to Chaos Riders and the original back piece of an 8 pointed compass rose was changed to an 8 point wheel of chaos. Locals had long called the gang Chaos Riders anyway due to the rebellious and freewheeling nature of the club’s founding members. After the Vietnam War the MC experienced a major wave of growth and expansion with new chapters starting throughout the northwest and central California.

Today it is 1992 and Chaon is the smallest chapter of the MC, especially when compared to the closest other chapter Stockton, which is something of a threat to steal away the spiritual leadership of the club. Today the Chaon charter, known as the Mother Charter due to it’s status as the MC’s birthplace, is still afforded a great deal of respect among the club and the MC world, but is in need of younger and more active members to ensure it retains it’s status as the seat of leadership for the entire MC. Different charters have different sources of income, both legitimate and criminal. The Chaon chapter is involved in the smuggling and distribution of counterfeit automotive and computer parts, as well as some small scale gun running and protection rackets. ‘Jimbo’ Teller the MC’s president since 1971 has recently began to make noises about retiring from the club’s presidency. Due to his longtime status as a strong leader for the gang, his retirement would leave the primacy of the Mother Charter in jeopardy so he is asking the younger members to step up their level of involvement and attract some new blood as well. That is where you all come in.

Current Charters

• Chaon, CA-Mother Charter
• Stockton, CA
• Eugene, OR
• Sacramento, CA
• Tacoma, WA
• Chico, CA
• Seattle, WA
• Bakersfield, CA
• Reno, NV
• Salt Lake City, UT
• El Paso-Juarez

Special Charters

• Nomad
• Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• Todos Santos,BCS, Mexico
• Belfast, Northern Ireland,GB
• Medellin, Columbia
• Kyiv, Ukraine
• Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Chaon, CA *est.-1887 pop.-12,585 elev.4,654

A small timber and copper mining town established in 1887 where the redwood forests meet the fertile plains of the central valley. The town could have easily withered and died had the railroad not decided to build a station there. Today the primary industries of Chaon include timber, copper mining, shipping and agriculture. It is a moderate sized town surrounded by large areas of unincorporated county woodlands leading up into the Rocky Mountains. It is some miles from Oakland and Sacramento and closer to Stockton and Lodi. The town retains much of its 1950s feel and looks like it. Most businesses are still mom and pop owned since the powers that be (both governmental and outlaw) have worked to keep franchises and chain stores out.

The area has a long history as something of a refuge for outlaws who in turn help keep the town safe from outside exploitation. The MC has a symbiotic relationship with several members of the county sheriff which is rife with corruption. The MC has something of a grudging truce with local police who have to admit that the club does at least as good of a job keeping meth-dealing Aryans from Lodi and heroin-dealing gangs from the bay area from making inroads into the town of Chaon itself. The Chaos Riders like to say “nothing happens in Chaon that we don’t control or get a piece of.”

Places of interest in and around Chaon

Teller’s Garage

Owned by current club president Jimbo Teller. The garage is located next to the clubhouse, and although they are technically (and legally) separately owned, the 20 foot rolling gate that separates the 2 properties has not been closed since some legal troubles back in the seventies. The garage has 4 bays with 2 car lifts and 3 cycle lifts as well as a small machine shop and office. The garage has its own gas pump and a flatbed tow truck. Known as an excellent garage it turns a decent profit and club members with reasonable mechanical or fabrication skills can often find work here.

Chaos Riders Clubhouse (Chaon Cycle Riders Club est. 1952)

Large cinder-block building on a large lot next door to Tellers Garage. The clubhouse has security cameras on the street entrance as well as the front and back doors. In addition to the clubs sound-proofed meeting room (known as chapel while Friday night meetings are known as church.) The clubhouse contains a well stocked bar with a small kitchen, 2 bathrooms with multiple stalls, urinals and showers (1 which is handicap accessible). Another area encompasses the intelligence office which houses the CCTV monitors as well as the computers, CB radios, police monitors, etc that the gang uses to acquire intelligence. There are also a rack of pagers and sheets of contact codes and their meanings.

There are 4 small private rooms available as housing for club members and members as well as friends of the club are welcome to crash on the several couches or the 2 pool tables. One of the private rooms contains a well executed hidden panel in the wall with a small stash of assault weapons behind it. Weapons are forbidden in the clubhouse due to a long history of raids by law enforcement, but this stash and a rack of baseball bats by the front door are the exceptions. The walls of the clubhouse are decorated with military and club memorabilia. There is a stage in one corner of the main room and a stripper pole on a small round stage near it. A large awning out front provides shade for a few tables and a boxing ring. There is a black Dodge cargo van with tinted windows that the club uses for discreet transport.

Floyd’s Barber Shop

One of Chaon’s oldest businesses. Floyd has run the barber shop since taking it over from his father Floyd Sr. 35 years ago. Floyd is renowned for his hot shave and many of Chaon’s notable citizens can often be found there. Floyd’s shop is often the site of informal parlays between club members and law enforcement. In most cases Floyd will be willing to pass along information to the club. He has also lied to protect club members who have gotten into altercations at his shop before. Floyd Sr. was the same way. No one is entirely sure why.

The Doll House

Chaon’s only legal strip club. Owned by Loraine Webb, beloved wife of longtime club member Henry ‘Fuse’ Webb (currently doing 10 years for arson in Stockton State Prison). The club’s bouncer is ‘Big Mike’ Miller, a local who is the youngest son of a local longtime logging family. Big, powerful and slow he is terrified of motorcycles which is why he has never prospected the gang. Club members needing $ can often get jobs working as doormen and bouncers here. Dancers are often at club parties and several have ended up as old ladies to club members. Loraine is the ultimate success story. Fuse loved her so much he ended up buying her the club. It is well known that anyone hurting one of Loraine’s girls had better watch out for the club’s vengeance.

Doc’s Pool Hall (& Emergency Surgery)

Large 2 story pool hall and bar. Doc lives on most of the 2nd floor with a couple of hot nurses. He was originally a successful and talented surgeon in Manhattan until he had his license to practice revoked for molesting his female patients under anesthesia. Now he runs a pool hall with a large, well equipped, illegal surgery in his spacious basement. He has been known to operate on gangsters and others wanted by law enforcement or who want to avoid legal entanglements. There is an intercom by a ramp down to the basement level that rings his apartment upstairs. He charges exorbitant rates, especially when he is interrupted with the nurses. It is understood no partisan violence at Doc’s if you ever want his services again.

St Francis Hospital

Local Hospital

Hippy Lettuce

A small farm/commune community in the foothills about 2.5 miles N.E. in the unincorporated land outside of town. Originally started as Paradise Hill Commune in the 60s, it is today a small arts and crafts community of trailers and small houses or domes with about 60 residents. The owners of Hippy Lettuce Farms (an actual working organic farm) are the 3 weird sisters. The sisters are witches and there combination of holistic medicine and magic allows those treated and convalescing there to heal at 2.5 times the normal rate. Several old bikers and other types have come here to retire or rehabilitate. Their sweat lodge and ceremony site is actually built on an ancient Indian holy site.

Fishhook Canyon/Sticky’s Cabin

a dirt side road off from the main road to Hippy Lettuce leads to Fishhook Canyon and Sticky’s Cabin. Sticky had been growing herb up here for years before joining the gang.  With the MCs help in sales and distribution he made enough to buy the land and build this cabin and likely a lot more money than that. Sticky stills grows a few dozen plants for personal use and pocket cash. Back in the  seventies he is known to have grown hundreds of plants and employed several Nam vets as full time guards for them. The canyon acquired the name Fishhook Canyon from the locals at HL due to the booby traps Sticky and his boys used to employ to guard it. They included everything from strings of fishhooks at eye level & pungi sticks to AP mines. Locals still avoid the place today. Since Sticky now lives at his house in town the place is used as a secondary clubhouse and a place to keep people out of sight.

Hairy Dog

Bar in an industrial area on the outskirts of town proper, frequented by truckers and Aryans. Used by Aryans from Lodi making a push into Chaon.

Lumpy’s Burgers

Local burger joint and sponsor of the yearly underground bare knuckle fighting championship.

Thornton Lumber

Local logging and lumber mill owned by Chaon’s leading family.

Thornton Beef

See above.

Mount Hope Mortuary

Head Mortician Skeeter Brown. Local boy w/ lots of gambling debts who sometimes disposes of bodies for the club.

Broken Spoke Saloon

Large crossroads biker bar about 15 mi out of town on the way to Stockton. Good place to find a fight.

8 Points Auto Dismantling & Supply

Junkyard & warehouse located in an industrial area outside city limits. Owned by 8 Points a dummy corporation for the MC. The club stores counterfeit and stolen items here, and does things like weapons assembly and serial # removal here.

Morada Self-storage

Located near 8 Points Auto and owned by Gul’s character Sidewinder. However it is ran by Kiki Dewitt a local lush. There is an employee Gus Hunkapapa who is available 24/7 to unlock, unload or recruit labor. Unsurprisingly there are several units full of stolen goods here and even a few full of home brew.

Kwik-E Mart

Local 24/7 store ran by Abdul Kareem Johnson. An Iraqi immigrant. Good source of local information and occasionally illegal items.

Tall Pines Coffee Shop

Local coffee shop. Head waitress is Sarah Ann Jones; a friend of the club.

People

Shemp Lemkin

one of the original Chaon Riders. Father Shemp Lemkin, Priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Montana.

Born 1921, Stockton, California

Born in Stockton, he entered the Marines in 1937.

Sarah Ann Jones

Waitress- 34 Fargo, ND Waitress Sarah Ann Jones 34, from Fargo, ND Born 1957

Witty but cynical, she is the head waitress at the coffee shop near the hangout. Left school at 16 when she got pregnant. Married at 17. Her husband and daughter were killed in a house fire when she was 19.

She is skilled in cooking, and sewing. She has occasionally taken money for sex but is not a regular prostitute and gets angry if told she is. She is not a drug dealer herself but has been a go between in the past for the gang, carrying money, not drugs. She has always delivered the full amount and got paid well for it, taking cash or product.

She has secrets. One is that she accidentally started the fire that killed her family. Another is that she killed a man that attempted to rape her. A third is that she drove the getaway car for several convenience store robberies.

James Hennishaw

Banker- 48, Stockton, California.

Educated at Davis, majoring in Banking. He is keen on making a buck and not scrupulous about it. He has a long history of laundering money for the gang. Sneaking it in to legitimate accounts, and channeling it to numbered accounts in the Caribbean.

He generally does not associate with the gang socially but has on occasion attended parties at the clubhouse in order to get a turn with the trashy biker women.

His secret is that he has set up the Caribbean accounts so that if the owners of them die he can transfer the money to his own accounts. He keeps the details of individual biker’s accounts highly secret just in case.

Shelia Fishy

Prostitute- 17 San Francisco, California.

A runaway living on the street. Polyglot background. 5’3”, long black hair.

She is house entertainment. In exchange for eating from the club kitchen and sleeping on a vacant couch, when not warming someone’s bed, she provides physical services.

Beyond that she is funny, surprisingly well adjusted, and not shocked by violence. It would be very easy for her to become someone’s old lady.

She refuses to discus her past except to admit that her grandfather was a full blooded Crow Indian and that she looks like her grandfather’s people. However a grandmother was Chinese and her eyes make people believe she is part Asian.

She has a mystical taint for later in the game

Jimmy Sanders

Police Officer- 31 Stockton, California

A newly promoted sergeant and a cruiser cop. He is a member of the Citizens Committee for Public Safety and helps organize neighborhood watch patrols.

He drops by the clubhouse occasionally (if the clubhouse ends up being a publicly accessible biker bar). Likes to knock back a few beers. Rides and races amateur motocross and loves talking motorcycles. The gang has occasionally given him evidence against people they wanted busted.

Jimmy is an ‘Ends Justifies the means” kind of guy. He sees the black gangs that push drugs on the jr and High school kids as the worse evil. He has passed info on to the club if it will hurt the black gangs.

His secret is that when he was 17, before entering the marines, he participated in the murder of 4 black drug dealers who had killed a 5 year old Mexican girl in a drive by. His companions were members of the club, 14 years ago.

There is a chance he may eventually join the gang. There is a chance one day he might be promoted to detective. There is a chance he may one day go into local politics.

Kiki Dewitt

57. Born in White Horse, Canada. Born 1934

Choan Self-Storage Manager

Kiki is a lush. Usually drunk. Often toking. She runs the self-storage. Her husband Eddie, bought it originally but got into financial trouble. This is when Mark Shoal bought into the business. Eddie Dewitt died, allegedly over a poker debt. His killer was never arrested.

Her secret is that she killed Eddie in a drunken bout. Mark Shoal disposed of the body.

Gus Hansengruben

39 Born in Fargo, ND. Born 1952 Self-storage employee

Gus is the person that the players would interact with at the storage unit. He is available 24/7 to open empty units, unload trucks, etcs. He likes bikes and likes the gang, may even hangout at the bar. He is not squeamish. He is not eager to be involved in actual bloodshed but has been in a pinch.

He is sort of an assistant manager of the facility. He also has his own social circle of a dozen guys willing to come unload trucks at any time for pocket money. Guy handles their payout. They are even less interested in bloody deals but for BIG pocket money.

Gus acts and talks like he is German. Fact is that he is ¼ German and ¾ Lakota Sioux of the Hunkapapa tribe. He does not often mention his last name.

Paul Miller

Retired Police office and member of the Choan Riders. Lives at Hippy Lettuce

Abdul Karem Johnson

Convenience Store Clerk

44, Born in New York City, NY

Karem is the son of a electrician and a librarian. His father is Iraqi, his mother is American polyglot. He is a rabid Muslim but deals peacefully with anyone entering the store. Born in the USA, he moved to Iraq as a very young man.

He sells a variety of illegal things from under the counter. Guns, drugs, kiddy porn, hypodermic needles, concert tickets, etc. He has a wide variety of things. But not with any regularity and never anything big. The club might sell small stuff to him.

He pays the local police to leave him alone. He does business with several gangs for various things.

He served 8 years in the Iraqi army. He does not talk about it but he is very skilled with firearms and at interrogation. He seems to know everything that is going on in town.

Alan Dean

40 Occupation: Biker, Criminal investigator, FBI agent, Note:Not in club but has attended public club parties, events. Not trusted by the club yet he is liked by them.

Dewer Clan

Mindy Dewer.

25, Born Stockton, Calif\

Drunk party girl. Great example of a bad mother. Had Nicky at 14. Attractive and loud. Alcoholic. Drug user. Prostitute if she remembers to charge. She has done some nude modeling as well as semi-pro porn. Good go between. Might hang around the clubhouse

She suffers from a venereal disease. She has few morals and has a seriously fucked up brain. She has rented out both Nicky and Sally at various times for various things.

Secret- She killed a man for money. She has been molested since she was 5. Nicky is her son AND her brother. She once was the driver for a home invasion robbery and killed her accomplice for the money. Close to $300,000, the money is buried under her house. She is too afraid to use it. She never mentions the mone to anyone, especially not to Shaggy.

Nicky Dewer

14, Born Stockton, Calif.

Local kid. Skateboarder. Byclie racer. Motocrosses. An X-sports guy. Tiny time drug dealer. Tiny time Snitch. Calls himself a spy and collects spy movies.. Likes bikes and tries to hang around the club. He would abandon his mother if given half a chance but would have to take Sally with him.

He has a 10 year old sister that follows him around sometime. She would make a great innocent bystander in a drive by.

He picks up pocket change running errands. Will probably join the club some day.

As a joke they gave him a cut and instead a prospect patch it has a Mascot patch. His mother stopped renting him out when he got it. He also got his own private bank account that day and has more money then his mom.

Sally Dewer

10, Born Stockton, Calif.

Local kid. Follows her brother Nicky around when mom locks the two of them out of the house when she goes to work if Shaggy isn't home. Might wander over to the Clubhouse. Earns pocket money for baby sitting or chores.

Shaggy Roscoe

44, Born in New Orleans, Louisiana

A mechanic of shocking talent. He lives with Mindy but has no illusions of her sanity or lifestyle. He does not use the Dewers children and doesn't allow others too. He keeps everything he own a in the way of clothes in one large duffel next to his side of the bed. His tools are in his utility truck.

He moves around a lot. He can repair vehicles, buildings, planes, tanks. Served in the military for 22 years. Learned how to repair all kinds of things.

He has no feelings for Mindy except to use her and sleep in a bed not in his truck. May someday become a member of the gang. Mindy has not rented out either of the children since Shaggy moved in. He has been tempted to kill Mindy, and take the kids somewhere more reasonable.