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===The Rat Pack=== | ===The Rat Pack=== | ||
− | + | [[Ares]], the psychic ex-SEAL played by Silent Wayfarer | |
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[[Alexei]], the suave gunman with a heart of gold, played by Toras | [[Alexei]], the suave gunman with a heart of gold, played by Toras | ||
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[[Doc]], the compassionate street savior, played by nick whalley | [[Doc]], the compassionate street savior, played by nick whalley | ||
− | [[K]], the | + | [[K]], the sultry, mysterious |
[[Salil]], the monster-hunter on a mission from God, played by TheLazyBlank | [[Salil]], the monster-hunter on a mission from God, played by TheLazyBlank | ||
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[[Thumbs]], the grizzled veteran, too badass to kill and too stubborn to die, played by Victor Von Villain | [[Thumbs]], the grizzled veteran, too badass to kill and too stubborn to die, played by Victor Von Villain | ||
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====The Good==== | ====The Good==== | ||
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When cautious crimes were recommited and no shining cross appeared with whispered threats, confidence returned. The Five Families, desperate to regain ground lost to the new freaks and weirdos, made alliances with other immigrant groups, forming the Second Council of Trent. | When cautious crimes were recommited and no shining cross appeared with whispered threats, confidence returned. The Five Families, desperate to regain ground lost to the new freaks and weirdos, made alliances with other immigrant groups, forming the Second Council of Trent. | ||
− | Twelve years ago, just as the Council initiated the 13th member using the syncretic anti- | + | Twelve years ago, just as the Council initiated the 13th member using the syncretic anti-catholic/voudan rituals, the Midnight Samaritan burst through the skylight and announced his return. Since then, he has arrested every one the Rogues gallery at least once, brought down the entire Mediccani Cammorrae and reduced crime in the Vespers 30%. He even smuggles advanced medicines and supplies into the worst parts of the Inferno. |
Some guys say he doesn't kill anymore. Some guys say he is just a normal human. Some even say he is a Vatican supersoldier returned from the Brazillian Wars with some sort of Da Vinci tech enhancements. Regardless, every criminal dreads their "Confessions" and nearly pass out at the idea of their "Time of Repentance" being at hand. | Some guys say he doesn't kill anymore. Some guys say he is just a normal human. Some even say he is a Vatican supersoldier returned from the Brazillian Wars with some sort of Da Vinci tech enhancements. Regardless, every criminal dreads their "Confessions" and nearly pass out at the idea of their "Time of Repentance" being at hand. | ||
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This vigilante steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The only problem is that he brutually and grusomely murders his victims, stalking them for weeks, and then dispatching them like a hunter finishing off his prey. Choice steaks are usually sent to family members the next day as proof of a kill. Nonetheless, Baroque being Baroque, he is idolized in the Inferno, perhaps even more than the Samaritan who battles him. | This vigilante steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The only problem is that he brutually and grusomely murders his victims, stalking them for weeks, and then dispatching them like a hunter finishing off his prey. Choice steaks are usually sent to family members the next day as proof of a kill. Nonetheless, Baroque being Baroque, he is idolized in the Inferno, perhaps even more than the Samaritan who battles him. | ||
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=====OneShot===== | =====OneShot===== | ||
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Of course, it only happens once a night. | Of course, it only happens once a night. | ||
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====The Bad==== | ====The Bad==== | ||
The only thing worse than a punk is a punk who can kill you from 200 yards away... with ''mind bullets''. While not everyone here has that level of competence, they can completely outclass any ordinary resistance. | The only thing worse than a punk is a punk who can kill you from 200 yards away... with ''mind bullets''. While not everyone here has that level of competence, they can completely outclass any ordinary resistance. | ||
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=====The Red Queen===== | =====The Red Queen===== | ||
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Not only has she weathered the wrath of the Raiths, the enmity of the Cammorae and the opposition of the Midnight Samaritan, but she has thrived. This is probably because everyone who ever meets her wants her love. Playing suitors against one another, she has stripped them bare, absorbed their empires and moved to the next target. Her crew call themselves cards, the elite and longserving taking the roles of other Alice in Wonderland characters. They tend to avoid the traditional profitable arenas for criminals - little gambling, drug dealing or the like. Instead, she involves herselves in bank robberies, art fraud, enormous insurance fraud, that sort of thing. She also prides herself on extorting exortionists, demanding a cut from the hard men that run rackets within a hundred miles of her joint. Those that don't pay suffer her trademark decapitation. | Not only has she weathered the wrath of the Raiths, the enmity of the Cammorae and the opposition of the Midnight Samaritan, but she has thrived. This is probably because everyone who ever meets her wants her love. Playing suitors against one another, she has stripped them bare, absorbed their empires and moved to the next target. Her crew call themselves cards, the elite and longserving taking the roles of other Alice in Wonderland characters. They tend to avoid the traditional profitable arenas for criminals - little gambling, drug dealing or the like. Instead, she involves herselves in bank robberies, art fraud, enormous insurance fraud, that sort of thing. She also prides herself on extorting exortionists, demanding a cut from the hard men that run rackets within a hundred miles of her joint. Those that don't pay suffer her trademark decapitation. | ||
− | Her effrontery is building up to open war... that's bad. She is | + | Her effrontery is building up to open war... that's bad. She is '''fucking insane'''... thats much worse. There is no way to define just how crazy this broad is, her genius with chemistry and electronics matched by her fetishes and odd rules. The Jokers mindset and chemical expertise and Poison Ivy' powers and bearing. |
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The Cheshire Cat is her major domo and go-to guy. Always dressing in those snazzy suits, always running the Kitty Kat Klub. He always remembers your name, warns you when it is a bad time to see the Lady upstairs, always has a free drink for you and a brown package if your a cop. Everyone loves the Cat. Course, he needs to be nice, seeing as he is one of them muties. Looks like the Cat from Red Dwarf, only with sharper teeth. No way he could survive outside Inferno. Some say he is an Ultra, one of those mutants with weird abilities. Turning invisible and moving real fast are most often touted as his powers, but nobody can think of a time he ever got into a fight. | The Cheshire Cat is her major domo and go-to guy. Always dressing in those snazzy suits, always running the Kitty Kat Klub. He always remembers your name, warns you when it is a bad time to see the Lady upstairs, always has a free drink for you and a brown package if your a cop. Everyone loves the Cat. Course, he needs to be nice, seeing as he is one of them muties. Looks like the Cat from Red Dwarf, only with sharper teeth. No way he could survive outside Inferno. Some say he is an Ultra, one of those mutants with weird abilities. Turning invisible and moving real fast are most often touted as his powers, but nobody can think of a time he ever got into a fight. | ||
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− | + | Currently, Esperanza de Velázquez holds the Eleventh Seat on the Council of Trent, running the Velázquez Cammorae. Breaking all the previous rules, she is a woman, not of Sicillian or Irish descent, who has never fired a gun in her life. Traditionalists say she used the Evil Eye on the former capo, Don Mediccani. Others say she poisoned him, other that she merely bribed him. Reagrdless, after his mysterious dissapearance, his heir decided she offered much to the organisation. The Council of Trent has never looked back. She is perhaps the biggest single name in organised crime, her gang having close to a monopoly on the drug trade, arms dealing and an absolute monopoly on extortion in the Messandre District. | |
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=====Halloween Jack===== | =====Halloween Jack===== | ||
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Rumour says the Brujah has hired him to "deal" with the Red Queen, and it is a faceoff the entire underworld craves to watch. | Rumour says the Brujah has hired him to "deal" with the Red Queen, and it is a faceoff the entire underworld craves to watch. | ||
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====...And The Ones We Can't Quite Figure Out Yet...==== | ====...And The Ones We Can't Quite Figure Out Yet...==== | ||
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Powerful people defy definition, and the people here are powerful, but not aligned towards justice or crime... | Powerful people defy definition, and the people here are powerful, but not aligned towards justice or crime... | ||
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=====Vincent Lorenzo===== | =====Vincent Lorenzo===== | ||
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According to the story, Vince became the Made Man of all made men. He can't be hurt by bullets. He can cook people with his brain. He can hurl trucks. He can even make robots that look just like him so he can be in more than once place at a time. | According to the story, Vince became the Made Man of all made men. He can't be hurt by bullets. He can cook people with his brain. He can hurl trucks. He can even make robots that look just like him so he can be in more than once place at a time. | ||
− | Whenever any of the old families in America or the Old Country have trouble with masks getting uppity, or new gangs, they can call in Vinnie. This is a huge loss of face, and if the man exists, he is surely busy. Everybody in Baroque has met a guy who claims to have met the guy. So you shrug, say it is just a story and get on with business. But sometimes, when an old time mobster looks too confident at a meet, and he | + | Whenever any of the old families in America or the Old Country have trouble with masks getting uppity, or new gangs, they can call in Vinnie. This is a huge loss of face, and if the man exists, he is surely busy. Everybody in Baroque has met a guy who claims to have met the guy. So you shrug, say it is just a story and get on with business. But sometimes, when an old time mobster looks too confident at a meet, and he whsipers to his consigliari, you're sure you hear the name 'Vincent Lorenzo'... |
− | ===== | + | =====Mister Skitz===== |
− | + | Medically speaking, Mister. Skitz is two people. The worlds most extreme pair of surviving conjoined twins. Despite having only the one skeliton, he has three eyes, two sets of vocal chords, three arms, mismatched colours of hair and a gaping trio of leathery holes where his nose should be. ''Do not mention his appearance, of display disgust.'' This makes Mr. Skitz very angry. You don't want to make Skitz angry. | |
− | + | On a bad day, he can barely move. He has headaches, a cacophony of discordant mumbles matching the sounds in his head. His spine is a twisted thing, visibly pushing against the silky-white skin on his back. He shoots in futility at his tolerant and disdainful henchman, struggling to breath through his clogged nostrils. | |
− | + | So why was he made the leader of the 13th Cammorae, against all tradition and in defiance of all standards? Simple- on a good day, his three eyes give him amazing sight and accuracy, and he can fire three immense guns at once. He has two sets of muscles, making him inordinately strong. He has two brains all mushed up together, working in concert, making him a brillaint tactician. At these times, an animal charisma exudes from him, and he prowls the streets, recruiting minions from the poor, disenfranchised and crippled and seducing women, beautiful as you've ever seen. Some say he has two souls, one of which takes on all the sin they do, the other destined to storm the very gates of heaven when he dies. | |
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− | + | It takes a unique man to simultaniously rule over the Triads and the Solupa Rings while killing each and every single Yakuza to step foot in a city with just under 100,000 Japanese-American citizens. The Jade Mirror would be just such a man... if he were a man. It is agreed by everyone that he isn't. What he is, that is open to debate. His gang, the Spiders (technically, the Lung Te Hsien-ch'üan), terrify everybody in Little Asia with a weird terror mixed with pride, but for the rest of Baroque, simple terror usually suffices. | |
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==Baroque City== | ==Baroque City== | ||
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===Hawksmoor District=== | ===Hawksmoor District=== | ||
− | Named after the man who inspired its architecture (built from some of Hawksmoors unused plans for metropolitan London), but commonly called the Vespers or Hawkers Paradise. It's the reddest of Red Light districts. Drug dens, bordellos, brothels, strip clubs, flophouses and underground fight clubs. The antithesis of the | + | Named after the man who inspired its architecture (built from some of Hawksmoors unused plans for metropolitan London), but commonly called the Vespers or Hawkers Paradise. It's the reddest of Red Light districts. Drug dens, bordellos, brothels, strip clubs, flophouses and underground fight clubs. The antithesis of the Carrivagio Quarter, here is where the rich and poor meet, each providing what theu always ofer each other. Anything goes here, and cops know better than to set foot here. However, some of the establishments are quietly watched over by either JSS or the Brujah. |
===Messandre=== | ===Messandre=== |