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===Founding===

The "boys from Tucker street" were one of the major players in turn-of-the-century London's crime scene. They were one of the original legendary outfits, known for robbing, running gambling dens and managing prostitution in the golden days of old-fashioned street gangs. They were also known for their very public excesses and for flaunting their power in the streets. Then, like many other organised crime structures, the gang collapsed. But it hadn't been muscled on or killed. It had fallen under the thumb of a mysterious man known only as "the Gent". For decades, the creature known as the Gent turned the original gang into his own discreet army of crime, exerting supernatural control over even the most strong-willed to hold the city in his grasp. He had turned the gang's rabble into a well-oiled profit-making machine, extending his tendrils across the world through his agents.

Then, one day in the early 1960s, the Gent disappeared. No one really knows what happened to him. There followed a few very confusing weeks for his cult of mind-slaves, but the Gent's two main lieutenants and high acolytes, Hugh Cullen and Glenn Abbot, decided to react. They reassembled the Tucker Street outfit and held tightly on to the reins of power, and the gang went on with its petty criminal activities, although infighting constantly threatened to break it apart. In 1971, the Outfit found out one of the crime bosses running the neighbouring area was not human. Using all the experience they had acquired under the Gent, the gang launched a night raid and destroyed him. The entire neighborhood was now theirs for the taking. A common enemy was found, unifying the gang. New business opportunities were suddenly open.

Since then, the Outfit has greatly expanded, opening affiliated gangs in many countries in Europe, Russia and North and South America. They see themselves as protecting their territories, but truly, their specialty is just bumping off monsters who are an obstacle to their expansion plans. The Outfit is now an international corporation, with very strict rules about authority and profit sharing, but it is also built as an underground army. Like every army, it needs enemies to stay together, and monsters provide this enemy.