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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

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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

**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 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.

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 Born 1921, Stockton, California
-Born in Stockton, he entered the Marines in 1937. In 1941, with the rank of buck sergeant, he was on guard duty at the military HQ, Pearl Harbor.   He served with distinction throughout the war.  He was a platoon sergeant at Omaha beach where he earned his first Medal of Valor.  At wars end he was a Master Sergeant.
+Born in Stockton, he entered the Marines in 1937.
-Serving in the peace time army he grew bored and took to racing motorcycles and jeeps.  Because of his distinguished war record he was forgiven numerous infractions.  He was a terrifying drill sergeant but the soldiers he trained were prepared as best as the Corp could make them.  He had a habit of getting drunk with his troops which made them love him, despite his harshness, but made his superiors hate him.  He grew a tendency to piss off his superiors but the pale blue medal on his chest repeatedly saved him from dishonorable discharge.
-Serving in Korea he became angry at the commanders of his units, and grew argumentative.   Wasteful fighting combined with conflicting orders caused several routine missions to become bloodbaths.  After one such mission he was assigned to bodyguard an officer, a major and a chaplain, an Episcopalian priest, Father Martin Boreland.  While protecting him they were pinned down in a very dangerous situation.   The senior officers were killed and Father Boreland and Master Sergeant Lemkin took over the action, saving the battle and the troops.  Both received Medals of Valor for the engagement, for Lemkin, his second.
-The Korean War ended his military career.   He had a major problem at the end of the war, and was retired honorable, in deference to his Medals of Valor, with full benefits, but only just barely ahead of a court marshal for gross insubordination and assault of a General Officer.
-In 1951, during leave, he had returned home to Choan, where he rode motorcycles with several friends.  Raising hell, taking names, leaving messy corpses behind.
-After the war he returned to Choan and was with the group at its beginning.   He was involved in many of the hyjinks that got the club the name of Chaos Riders.  He was involved in the early illegal activities as well, and led many operations over the years.
-He served as Chapter president from 1957 to 1961, when he was arrested and served 2 years in prison.  Moving to Stockton he served as Stockton president from 1964 to 1968.  Traveling around, he oversaw the creation of several new chapters in Eugene, Tacoma, and Reno.
-Arrested for attempted murder in 1971 in Billings, Montana, he was sent to the Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge.  There he met the prison chaplain, the same Father Boreland he had served with in Korea.   He was assigned to help Father Borland.  The two became very close and in the 4 years he was in prison Shemp Lemkin became a man of god.
-Leaving prison in 1975 he entered the seminary to study theology upon the recommendation of Father Boreland. Accepted, despite his advanced age, he learned well and fast..  He graduated in 1979 and was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Montana.  He served there for 4 years.  In 1985 he returned home to Choan, surprising the Riders by his conversion and his faith.
-His history with the group and his connections throughout the gang has made him welcome everywhere he goes.  He preaches peace, encouraging the gang to seek legal ways of making a living and disparaging the violence of the group.
-He hangs out at the Choan Episcopal Church, in an unofficial position, where he occasionally preaches.  He also preaches peace in evangelical revival church.  He is passionate and funny.  He hates authority, even the authority of his church.
-He can still kick ass, even at 70, having led an active life, but prefers to try and lead his flock to peaceful pursuits.   He seems to never lack for money, which he winks at if asked.  Old timers know he must have a stash someplace.  He carries a pair of cross-draw Python .357, a 32cal 2 shot Derringer, and a walking stick.  On his bike he has a well hidden pair of double barreled shotguns, an Ingram Mac 10, and a colt P89.  Oddly enough he also has 20 vials of holy water, easy at hand. He seems paranoid about Vampires and has gotten into trouble for beating up Goths.
-He seems to have no possessions other than his BMW trike and what’s stuffed in its voluminous saddlbags and packing places. The bike is a fully dressed trike, with a wide range of custom features.  He takes some crap for his bike choice but he laughs it off saying he is too old to have his balls bounced as if they were in a pinball machine.
-From a game stand point Father Shemp can do many things.  He tries to be the voice of reason if something is going down. He will try to convince players to find a peaceful solution.  If shit goes down and he is there, he will chip in and kick ass.  He will defend the chapter house and diligently try and save club relics.   He will not cooperate with the police.  He will, however, talk to police, trying to convince them that nothing is happening.  As a priest they tend to believe him.   Its hard to predict what he will be involved with but he tries to keep his hands clean.