New Orleans -In With the Family, OOC - comparing notes Options

[fistandantilus4....]

This kind of establishment, with it's connections, you could probably do pistols jsut fine. Anything bigger though, and you might be having an unpleasant, one sided conversation with someone named Vito "The Guy That Hits Hard " Spinelli or some such

[Lady Door]

[fistandantilus4....]

Kozlowski family - Organization
The Kozlowski family is the head of the three crime families in New Orleans, heading out the Romeros and the Mussinos. At the head of it all is Capa Miriam Kozlowski. Miriam's been Capa sincec her mother passed some years ago. A woman in charge of a family ,much less a city, was unheard of before Miriam's mother Paula. Her huusband Stan Kozlowski did everything with Paula, and helped arrange things so that when he passed on , she was already in place as his successor. Things might have gone a bit different in the succession from Paula to her daughter Miriam, except that Miriam was absolutely ruthless in taking control of her family, then the city.

Miriam is known as La Belle Dame Sans Merci - The Beautiful Woman without Mercy, Or simply le Dame Morte- the Lady of Death. When the first signs of resistance cropped up, Miriam engaged in a short and brutal campaign of murders and assassinations that left her in control of the city.

The only group to challenge her since her asceension was a group of krewes (smaller organized crine syndicates, based off of the Mardi Gras 'krewes') that organized them selves back in '65. In a bloody campaign that lasted twp years,led by Miriam's sottocapo Harry "the Hammer" Rybinski, the Kozlowski family slaughtered all opposition. This became later known as the Krewe Wars, and gained the Kozlwski famliy and even tighter hold on the Crescecnt City.

Shortly after the Krewe Wars, Miriam fell in with a young woman named Mama Bourdon, a voodoun mambo from the city. The mambo appears to be a young mulatto woman, no older than 20, with long black hair and purple eyes. It is known that Bourbon used to be a run as long ago as the '60's, in Denver of all placecs, and that she is also wanted in Seattle for numerous crimes, including killing multiple Lone Star officers.

Some how , Miriam decided to make Mama Bourbon her new Consigliere, and moved Erik Weisler, her current advisor, laterally to a sottocapo position. Weisler, a long time friend of Miriam's father Stan, still remains loyal. Miriam then suprised everyone again by bringing in the infamous magical assassination group the Voodoo Posse in to the family as it's magical arm.

Now the Romero family is vying to get back some of it's operation it lost back in the Krewe Wars, ,and more than a little miffed about Miriam's break in tradition, as she begins following the Voodoo religion. The Massinos seems to have taken a "wait and watch" approach, and some new krewes are popping up to fill the void where the decimated krewes once stood. Miriam is taking noe of this sitting down, and tightening her grip. She made her first move by stealing a shipmen of Ares arms being smuggled in to the Black Throat Krewe, and using those arms to slaughter over a dozen of them.

WIth the return of Jack "Oz" "Ozlowski, Miriam's unncle to the fold, family politics have shifted yet again. Oz is a traditionalist. ALthough he loves his niece dearly, he also believes she's moved away too much from "traditional family values". He has begun teaching Miriam's chosen heir (and rumored illegitimate daughter) Pamela Rodenbush the way of the family business. This could be chancy as well though, as Pamela is a changeling, looking something like a fabled succubus, and has had some time to learn Miriam's way of dealing with adversarys.

[fistandantilus4....]

Mafia Organization

Capa - Head of a city - The lead Don

Don(Dona) - The head of a family. Boss

Consigliere (Advisor) - outside the chain of command, the Don's advisor

Sottocapo (Underboss) - next step from the Don, the sottocapo do a lot of the running of the organization and over see the Captains, making sure the Don's wishes are carried out.

Caporegime (Captain) -street level administration. The captains work the family's endevors, such as controlling their smuggling, prostitution ,etc. Work directly with the made men, much more hands on than the sottocapo.

Saldato (Soldier) - The Made men of the family are the street level guys that do the familiy's business, work with the street low lifes, handle family business such as extortion, etc. These are the guys that have sworn the oaths and do most of the work.

Associate - Not a made man or sworn to the family yet. Can often be people like accountants or lawyers, people who work with the family often such as mob shadowrunners.

The family works off of the Honor code that spereates it from the common criminal.
The Costra Nostra is literally "this thing of ours". It is never spoken of directly ,never spoken of to outsiders, never even admitted to exist. Hence "wise guuys" talking of "taking care of the thing with the guy". If you're caught, you do your time. The family will take care of your affairs while you're in. If you talk, you die.

Once you're in the family, you're in for life. There is no out.

[fistandantilus4....]

Added some more personalities and places to the Cast of Shadows listing, now on the first post on the first page IWTF OOC.

Some new one include:
Malice
Shadowland- New Orleans
The Arena
Harry the Hammer Rybinski

Enjoy

[fistandantilus4....]

Update for posting format and game progressing

OK, we all know Deva is now on with us, we'll also be adding in Callidus in to our groups. We're still wating for Wratish 325 to decide for sure whtehr he's going ot be sticking around. I've seen you pop in a few times buddy, but no posts. What's up? In or out man? I know you've got some RL concerns, so if you're on hold at the moment, please let us know. There's always room for you later, but we need to know for IC reasons and to move the game along.

Also, very important. As we now have more players in, and ou guys are not always going to be together in posts, please add the following format concern

Start all posts with which characters are present, beginning with you own, then a date and time stamp. Please put all stamps in military (24hr) time t oavoid any confusion.
Example:
Plan B is posting. Lucky, Sinn, and Rayo are present. Streak is not. It's Tuesday, Aug 14th, in the morning, 930 am.

Lucky/Sinn/Rayo Tues, Aug 14th, 0930

Questions?

[fistandantilus4....]

Tracking Edge[/COLOR]
Sinn 3 points of Edge used.
-1 point during initiation
-2 points used during ambush

Lucky 4 points of edge used
- 4 in alley fight

Streak 0 points edge used

Rayo 0 points edge used

[Wraith235]

been waiting for something to come back to me lol I been sitting at the bar Reading that list so ya

[fistandantilus4....]

Well you were requested to be there at 10:30. You've been there. They've been there. They've had their little meeting. I think if you're going to be in on this, this is the time.

If you still have issues going on, I understand that, and it's no problem. If you're not going to be able to post regularly, go ahead and wait until things mellow a bit. But if you're going to be in, I need you to be in.All you really need to do is be able to check/post once or twice a day.

[Wraith235]

the time stamp thing is going to help a lot ....tho Streak has been at the bar and hasnt been Called in and since Lucky owns the bar thats what hes waiting for .... I check the forums every day 2-3 times but hes not going to just "Walk into the office" unless hes invited to come in especially since Lucky Owns the joint

[Lady Door]

What does Streak's weapon and cyberware scan show?

[fistandantilus4....]

[ Spoiler ]

*Area Predator IV
Ruger T-Bolt
MCT Flyspy Drone

Wired reflexes 2
Vehical Rig
Datajack
Smartlink -2
Cyber Arm (Right)
Cyber Arm (Left)
Cyber Eyes

[fistandantilus4....]

WANT KARMA!?
Ok, now that I've got your attention,here's what's up.

I've been working on fleshing out the shadow community in New Orleans for a while now. The great thing is that it's pretty unique, especially in comparison to Seattle, that it's goign to have a small, but present Shadow Community. For example, there aren't a lot of corporations in the AAA bracket, since they're all based in Atlanta, the CAS capitol. There's still biz, especially in smuggling, but there's also the mob presence.

So what I want to do is to create a personality for every singel shadow runner in New Orleans. Seattle , as estimated by Synner, can support around 150-200 Shadowrunners. As in real runners, not wannabes. So I figure that a place like New Orleans can support around 30 or so runners that are more or less independant, plus maybe two full time teams. Give or take.

Then there's also the rest of the shadow folk, like fixers, street docks, weapons dealers, etc. So what I'm going to do is put up a couple of lists of contacts and runners I want created. Then people can pick which list they want to do. Then you'll get karma for the ones that you create, amount depending on quality and amount of write up on the contact/runner/whatever.

Once we have the lists, I'll start pulling characters from the lists for reference in the game. You can hire some of the runners, or maybe even run against them. You can go to one of the street docs, or hire one of the hackers for data searches, etc.

Once you've got yours done, post them here in the OOC thread.

This is available for any of my players : Alex, Plan B, SinN, Callidus, Deva, Wraith325, Grinder. If you're not in an SR game, you can get some LP for it. Be creative, be interesting, be useful... uhhh... be house trained!

[fistandantilus4....]

For BP, you don't have to actually stat the NPCs. Just use them as guidelines for how good they should be.

[Lady Door]

I'll take List #5 for 500, Alex. :)

[ludomastro]

I'll take List #1.

Plan B. You can have #5. :D

[fistandantilus4....]

[Deva]

List #2 is mine. All mine! *evil scienties laugh*

[Grinder]

I won't take a complete list, if that's ok. Just see what I can get done in time.

[fistandantilus4....]

well the more you write the more you get LPs for. As you're not in this particular game, that's ok. You and Alex are the exceptions. Besides, I know you've got school and freelance crap to write for RB anyways. wouldn't want you to get too much into an SR mind frame when you should be writing ED.

[Lady Door]

hehehe.. I can see it now. For some reason, the latest Horror constructs all look like Richard Villiers. *ooooh, scary!*

[fistandantilus4....]

"And I would have gotten away with it to, if it wasn't for you meddle some Lightbearers! And your darn light sprite too!"

I love Richard Villiers/Scooby-Doo cross overs

[Grinder]

[Lady Door]

[fistandantilus4....]

Yeah, be happy to. Something you want me to do on here? Or table top, or which?

Lemme know if you need anything else drawn. I've really got the itch right now, and not a lot of material to work on besdies some of the NPC sketches I've been doing along the way for IWTF. Also, I will do everyone's character sketches after I get a better feel for their cahracters. I REALLY liek a lot of descriptiveness to work off of.

I draw a lot better when I'm excited about the character. So the more you give me on them, especially in game, the sooner you'll get it.