Sorry I am a bit new to Shadowrun. I came across a mention of Glow City in a adventure that I was reading. What is Glow City? I need to know for a up coming game.

Glow City is in the Seattle barrens (do you know what those are?). It's an old nuclear plant that had a melt down, spewing radio active yukiness around it. But, some of the more desperate squatters figured "why let all that good land go to waste?" and moved in, creating a squatter community known as Glow City.

People over there, as you can imagine, suffer from radioactivity sicknesses and malformations. The Rust Stilletoes, an orc gang that doesn't look very healthy, claims the area as their turf.

Hope that helps!

That helps a lot! Thanks!

Why do they call themselves the Rust Stilettoes? As opposed to normal ones? Rusty one's aren't really worse than normal ones except for the fact they give you lockjaw, and if they're living in Glow City, I'm pretty sure they aren't ones for long-term thinking.

Why not the bloody stilletos? The big choppers? The angels of death? The puppy stranglers? They need to fire their marketing consultant.

The gangs of Shadowrun are sort of like the theme gangs from The Warriors. The theme doesn't have to make sense. It simply provides a greater sense of unity and belonging to the gang's members.

Lord Togo?

Lord Torgo is also the size of a small building, hates elves, and took over a gang after wiping out an elven go-gang singlehandedly.

But I don't visualize gangs as going for the long-term kill thing. They seem to abhor subtlety and the long view of things, and rust doesn't make a quick death.

It doesn't make an immediate death, but it can be as short as 3 days later that the victim will die (depending on the wound, 'natch).

I dunno 'bout you, but loading a Street Sweeper (yes, yes, 3rd Ed., shut up) with rusty blades and such will suck hard for anyone getting hit with them.

Shoot that thing off, drop it, and attack everyone else that wasn't hit. Have enough gangers doing this, and the other gang is going to be hurting big time in a few days if they don't seek proper medical attention.

It's from Titan AE.

Have you actually seen the names of some Central American gangs nowadays?

No. And I am happy about it.

Crisps??? Like the british word for potato-chips??? That offers nice possibilities for sponsoring....

Little bit of info about the Central American "maras"

well, keeping with the glow city thread , i just ran a mission in glow city. They ended up having a old fashion showdown with burning bones (the radiation shaman), a toxic fire spirit (radiation is the invisible fire) and a toxic hell hound. It was tons of fun. They almost got burning bones, but last second he vanished. My team thought he knew he had some sort of teleport spell. When i told them later that their isnt a teleport spell and he just went invisible, they were pretty ticked. haha.

Also my team sneaked into the current reactor in glow city and after the mission suffered some really bad radiation sickness. One of my characters mutated (well he wanted to surge so i figured this would work) and another spent 3 weeks in a hospital and flatlined twice. The little girl mage didn't even get a headache.

Lay off! It's better than their old name, The Dirty Shivs.

Just basing it on name alone I'd take more seriously Rusty Stilettos than Mighty Blades of Doom.

Slightly Soiled Shanks? Not so much.