[Ganggreenkhan]

      So hears what I got for next week. Next week Vincent Cabrini is gonna explain to the team that he is looking for a team of Awakened soldiers to be more competitive with other crime syndicates. He is going to tell the team the first thing he needs them to do is blow up the head quarters of a small biker gang in Redmond. He needs this done within the next week. The job is gonna pay $25k. He will tell them that if they do well then there will be a bright future for them in the 'family."

      Then Cabrini is gonna explain to them that the guy they carjacked is one of his couriers who happens to be "blood" so he can't punish him. He will not explain that Giovani is the illegitimate son of his boss Don Gianelli. If the players work their contacts they will discover this, it is an open secret in the underworld. He will continue to explain that he is making this "mook", as he calls Giovani, their new boss and contact with the family. He will also tell them that the guy is a moron and if he tries to interfere with the specific of operations to just humor him then to do what the characters think is best. He gives the players his personal number to call only if they have any trouble with Giovani and he tries to make them do something stupid. So basically he is their boss but they have full latitude in operations.

     The last thing that Cabrini will tell them is that the cooks they sold the data to will be the families new cooks and that they will cook at a preselected site in Redmond and that the PC's will be on call to respond to any attacks against the lab. Then he will call in Giovani and get a good laugh at his expense in front of the players. Hilarity should ensue.

      He will tell them Giovani is their new contact and grant them their leave. Giovani isn't gonna confront the players in his bosses mansion but it will come up at some point. He will however make arrangements to give the players the explosives they need for their task.

      I'm gonna throw two other jobs at the players next week. One job is going to be from a BTL Prodcer, GUnshow called him looking for work as soon as they got the Ambulance. The BTL producer is going to tell them he needs some male troll "talent" and offer the PC's $10k to obtain it. He will give them one week.

      The other job will be from the Yakuza Lieutenant Yoshi Yakamori, as soon as Ninja reestablishes contact with Yakamori . He will task the team with obtaining 3 males and 7 females with a charisma of 5 or higher of any race. The job pays $50k and they have one month.

      Ninja is going to havta find out about the new alliance with the Mafia second hand. He is passed out in the ambulance during the meeting. He will also havta travel to Yakamori's restaurant in person. Yakamori told him not to call him again on the old line.  When he does he will tell Yoshi Yakamori about the teams new position with the Gianelli family and the up coming demolition job. Yakamori will tell Ninja he wants the biker gangs leader killed but wants his second in command to survive the blast. We'll see how the players get the guy outta or if they just wait it out, or even how Ninja will infulence the team to make this happen. If he doesn't show up next week I'mma kill him off cause I don't wanna havta play all this myself. Maybe He can offer the team a bonus from his employer, like $10k if the second in command lives.
     Yakamori wants the second in command to live cause he is already courting the guy and uses him to influence the biker gang.

     My long term goal to have the mission in the runners tool kit "anatomy of a shadowrun" except they will be running the mission for the Kenran-Kia against the Mob and they will be shipped off to Hong Kong and become Yakuza enforcers in Hong Kong. This is much farther down the line and neglecting the influence the dragon Urubia is gonna have on the game. Unless the players fuck up so bad they havta leave Seattle and I gotta run the relocation early. Which is a distinct possibility since the players are working for he Yakuza and the Mob.

[Ganggreenkhan]

      Small clarification. Vincent Cabrini doesn't tell the PC's about their first job for the mob. He just introduces them to Giovani and Giovani tells them about the job after they leave the presence of the mob Lieutenant.

[Ganggreenkhan]

     Ok so here's some more specifics about the mobsters. I found this http://the-mafia.weebly.com/structure-of-the-mafia.html. I'm gonna modify the rank structure. There is going to be an underboss, or Soto Capo, for every area of the city the Gianelli's operate in and each Soto Capo is gonna have several Caporegime with their own crews. Vincent Cabrini is the Soto Capo of Tacoma and answers directly to Don Gianelli. Giovani is being "promoted" to Caporegime. He is only gonna be a rating 3 contact because he has no mademen in his crew, only associates, the PC's. He will not beable to offer the PC's any soldier's as support cause he doesn't have any. He won't be respected by the other Caporegime who view his promotion as nepotism. There will be rumors that he fucked something up as a courier and that's why he was put in charge of a crew of outsiders. So the other Caporegime will reject him and not afford him the respect due him station.
 
     The way I'm working contacts is that a Don is a rating 6 contact, an underboss is a rating 5, a Caporegime is rating 4, a mademan is a rating 3, a Picciotto is rating 2, and an associate is rating 1. Conversly a ganger with his own crew is only rating 3, a ganger 2, and a gang associate is rating 1 the same as a mob associate. The disparity of the ratings represents the political connections the Mob has that gangers don't.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

That ... is very nicely done.

[Ganggreenkhan]

     Thanks Wyrm that means alot coming from you. Again I'd like to thank you for being my muse. I was gonna have Giovani being a corporate guy slumin it. This way is much better.
      Some other points of clarification. The drug lab is going to be in Bargain Basement and the new apartment the players found is also going to be in Bargain Basement.
 
      Here is the background I've got for Vincent Cabrini so far

     At six foot one and three hundred and fifty pounds Vincent Cabrini is a large man. Olive complected and dark haired he is a very hairy man. He wears one of his many Evo: Executive Suits when in public.
     A Soto Capo in the Ganelli crime family of Seattle. He answers directly to Don Joseph Gianelli himself. Cabrini lives in a modest two story mansion in the gated community of Rolling Patures in Tacoma. The house is oversized for the lot. There is no yard to speak of in the back or sides with only fifteen feet to the fence. The front yard has a cresent driveway big enough for a limo and little else.
     Vincent Cabrini has recently come into possesion of a process by which double strength Novacoke can be produced. Stolen from a Ghost Cartel. He see's this as his stepping stone to Don and has plans to begin mass production from a warehouse in bargian basement.
     A ambitious middle aged Mafia Capo who looks to be the Don one day.
     He see's his recent "misunderstanding" with the players as lucky happenstance. Even though a thrid party has aquired the drug formula he is setup for immediate production now that he has aquired some chemist through happenstance. He is hoping that being the one in charge of expanding the Family business into drug production will put him in a good possition to become Don when the time comes.

    I'm still working on Giovani's background. I'm using Life Modules to make all the NPC's.

[Ganggreenkhan]

Future Plot Points

     1. The Ghost Cartel the Gianelli's stole the 2XNovacoke formula from will allow the Gianelli's to setup a facility and begin production. Then they will attempt to blow it up and kill the cooks.

     2. Because Debo, the Dissasembler gang leader, personally delivered Giovani to the back door of Gianelli's word will spread within the family of his abduction. After several months, when the Kenran-Kia version of the 2XNovacoke hits the street, several of the Caporegime will put two and two together and realize that this is related to Giovani's abduction and his subsequent "promotion" to Caporegime. Once the Caporegime investigate they will uncover the PC's role in this foul up.
       The reaction of the Caporegimes to this will be dependent on how the players perform in their duties to the Gianelli's over this period of time. If the players do not perform their duties well, or if one of the Caporegime rolls real well and discovers Ninja's link to the Kenran-Kia, these Caporegime will take action to cleanse the Family of the PC's. If the PC's perform their duties well and are not discovered to be Yakuza plants then the Caporegime will decide to let bygones be bygones and nothing will come of it.

     3. Yoshi Yakamori, Ninja's Yakuza boss, a Koydai or Big Brother. Will use his limited resources to influence the PC's mob missions to the Kenran-Kai favor, and the Kanaga-gumi's misfortune if at all possible. He will leak the players involvement with the Gianelli's and their involvement in drug production on Kenaga-gumi territory to the Kenaga-gumi. He will not ask the PC's for to many bonus objectives on their Mob missions cause he wants them to advance in the Mob and is playing the long con. He will however use the PC's involvement with the Mob to start an Gianelli/Kenaga-gumi war.
       Eventually if the players do well for Yakamori he will have the opportunity to use the players in a hit against a yet to be decided Mafia Family, probably not the Gianelli, maybe though. This run will be the run out of "Anatomy of a Shadowrun" and the players will be wisked away to Hong Kong for a new career as Yakuza enforcers.

[Ganggreenkhan]

    Found this about the Yakuza Structure.

http://forum.ls-rp.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=387560

     Yoshi Yakamori's background
 
      He is a 47 year old second generation Japanese. 5'6" brown eyes long black hair.

     So after reading this I've decided that Yoshi Yakimori is a Koydai sworn directly to Kenran-Kai Oyban Kosuke Tomizawa. This means he has the right to form his own Family. If I'm reading things right. He owns a Chinese Restaurant in the Puyallup neighborhood proper. He has his restaurant crew of 50 (this includes his administrative staff), 5 ten man street crews (Organized Crime Rating 4 SR5),and a crew of shadowrunners (the ones who made the pickup from the players).

      His main money maker is the gambling casino in the basement of his restaurant. Due to his underground casino he has moderate amounts of various currencies from national to corporate script. He sells some of this script to other Koydai at better than market exchange rates. For their clandestine dealings. After surviving the destruction of the Shigeda-gumi he is a firm believer in the "New Way".

     Yakamori is fiercely loyal to Tomizawa. Yakamori isn't going to get into the drug production business, instead he is going to gift the data and the drugs to his Oyban. Yakimori is happy with his position in life and his little kingdom, he doesn't wish the risk involved in larger operations, and is content to serve his Oyban well.

     He views Ninja as a relic of a bygone era and his refusal to use guns as a critical weakness in-spite of his Adept abilities. He is undecided as to weither Ninja is a disposable asset or not. Only time will tell. He would prefer Ninja keep his identity secret from the team but questions Ninja's ability to do this. In the event that this happens he will not press the team for loyalty over the Mafia, he will simply attempt to cash incentivize the PC's into sabotaging their Mafia operations. Though he does not have the resources of a Soto Capo (he is more like a Caporegime) he doesn't have to compete with the Capo's entire warchest. He only has to beat what the Capo is paying the PC's. If the Capo finds out Yakamori was responsible for stealing his drugs then he will have to go to his Oyban for help. An Oyban who will happily come to his Koydai assistance.

      Also when the Soto Capo asked the players what they called themselves they responded with  "The Redmond Party Patrol" so there is that. I imagine they'll use their chameleon paint to do something festive with that.

[Ganggreenkhan]

    Here's Giovani's background

    Average hieght and average build. Olive complected with short black hair.

   Giovani is the illegitimate love child of Don Joseph Gianelli and a caberet girl named Rosa Pectori. Rosa is from the old country and met the Don working in one of the Gianelli families strip clubs in Seattle. Of course Joseph Gianelli wasn't a Don when Giovani was born. The senior Gianelli has always paid the bills for Giovani his whole life. Though he refuses to agknowledge him as a son publicly.

     The senior Gianelli has always doted on his bastard. Sending Giovani to prepshool for highschool. And state university for business afterwards. Don Gianelli provides a rating 2 trustfund for Giovani's living exspenses. Giovani is outspoken against the poor. This is on top of the negative -4 negotiation dice i'm giving the characters against him because of the carjacking. Giovani could never grasp Italian growing up so he got a skillware for it after highschool.

     When Giovani came of age he was given a possition as courier, under Soto Capo Vincent Cabrini, a position he has held since graduating college. He has shown little ambition and is happy to just drive around in his exspensive car running errands for the Mob. He even enjoys that he occationally gets to shoot someone. Preferably someone poor.

      Ever the incompotent Giovani is know in the Mob for always being late and drunk on the job.

     After getting carjacked by the Players and becoming their new boss he goes out and gets reaction boosters, expands his skill ware, gets skillwires, tailored pheromones, and gets a Deltaware internal comlink implanted.

    The spoiled rich child of a mafia Don and his concubine. Giovani is perpetually drunk or high on Novacoke or both. Irresponsible and undependable.

    Giovani is not pleased at all with his promotion to Caporegime. Though the fact that he is just relaying orders to the players and has no real responsibility now free's him up for Novacoke and Hookers, he fears the fallout from failure at his new job.

 

[Ganggreenkhan]

       Just found a new Ninja. SO Ninja should be a PC again this week. We're playing sunday night this time so expect play update early Monday morning.

[Ganggreenkhan]

     The job from the mob.

      The Gianelli's want the "Redmond Party Patrol" to blow up a small biker bar, named "Redds" in The Verge. There is a proxy war between the Mafia and Yakuza in The Verge, being fought by various gangs. A small biker gang, called the "Toxic Rangers", of about 50 members, is playing both sides against each other. Their clubhouse is a bar on the ground floor of a six story residential building. Many of the bikers live in the apartments above. It is on a corner. The bar takes up the entire ground floor. The Mob wants the players to plant the explosives in the bar and blow it up when the most gangers are there. We'll say they have a gang meeting on Monday mornings when the bar is closed. The bar will be closed between 5am and 3pm. It is a public bar, the Toxic Rangers can't afford a private clubhouse. They do attack people they don't like in the bar, so it's public but dangerous for the unaffiliated. Anyone, who isn't a regular, without business with the Toxic Rangers is hassled and at the least interrogated. There is no cleaning crew during off hours, this isn't the kind of bar that gets cleaned.
     
    The owner is to afraid to kick the gang out and lets them have their run of the place. If the players approach the owner, Bob Newman, for help against the gang he will be hesitant to aid them unless they can intimidate him into giving up information about the gang. If they tell him they want to blow up his bar to kill the gang he will tell the Toxic Rangers of this to try and stop it. If the owner is convinced the players want to hurt the gang and has no idea they are going to blow up his bar he will help the players however he can, once sufficiently intimidated. He lives in a corner top floor apartment of the building. He spends most of his day drinking at the bar.

     The day shift bartender is an elf named Lisa and she is sleeping with the leader of the Toxic Rangers, Spike. She was sleeping with Bob before the Toxic Rangers arrived and rubs it in Bob's face that she is shacked up with Spike now and Bob can't fire her. She will subtly alert Spike to anything she over hears that could hurt the gang or if the players start asking questions about the gangers. She is very flirty and friendly. Her shift is from 2pm-10pm. She lives with Spike in one of the apartments.

     The night shift bartender is a troll named Decklan. He despises the gang and longs for the better days of before the Toxic Rangers found the bar. He's not stupid and will only aid the PC's for cold hard cash and not at all if he finds out they want to blow up the bar. He works from 10pm-close. Decklan live across the street.

     On the weekends Bob works the bar during the day and both bartenders are there Friday and Saturday night. Bob pulls a double on Sunday.

     Various members of the Toxic Rangers are in and out of the apartment building at all hours. Their bikes block half the street and they have setup road blocks to stop anything bigger than a motor cycle from traversing the street. Between 10pm-12pm is when the bikers start filtering into Redd's from their days "work". On any given night about half the gang is in the bar. The leader Spike holds court at the corner booth in back of the bar. Past the pool tables. The second in command, Slash, hangs around the bar area when he is in the bar. Slash usually comes in after 2am cause he is busy with gang business. Spike comes in around 10pm and sets up court in the back booth.

     Now once Yoshi Yakamori hears about this he will offer Ninja a $10k bonus if he can save Slash from the slaughter. It should be interesting to see how Ninja tackles offering this to the team. If she (yes Ninja had a sex change whilst passed out in the Ambulance:) approaches the team with this offer they will become aware that Ninja is snitching on them to her contact. It should be fun to see how she tackles this.

     The Mob will tell the PC's that they don't havta take down the entire building but if they do there will be a bonus in it for them. This bonus will take the form of rating 5 fake SIN's and all the necessary licenses for the PC's. I decided the Mob will give them two weeks to accomplish the mission. It is Monday now and the Mob wants Redd's to blow up by 2 Mondays from now.

     

[Ganggreenkhan]

     Almost forgot. Security at Redd's during closing hours is limited to a rating 4 maglock on the doors, bars on all the windows and doors, and cheap rating 1 camera's with low light. There is also a sensor on the door that calls Bob when the door opens

[Ganggreenkhan]

     I just talked to face about why he threw Ninja under the bus with Vincent Cabrini. He seems to feel Ninja's loyalties are divided between the team and his contact. He says he's happy to give Ninja to the Mafia if it come to that. He is all bent outta shape about Ninja's contact threatening to kill them if they didn't except the offer of $20k Ares script. I explained to him that they are a band of homeless carjackers sitting on multimillion dollar paydata. He is lucky they offered him anything. Much less afforded him the knowledge that they would kill him for it instead of just killing him.

     He just texted me that he thinks Ninja works for the Yakuza and can't wait to throw him under the bus. Stupid players I want them to go with the Yakuza so we can go to Hong Kong. It's ok I'll work around this. He's trying to kill Ninja so his girlfriend can play Cleopatra Brown with a purple afro..... ack ok I can salvage this. If they kill Ninja Yakamori will just havta send an emissary. Ok so this isn't so bad. Yakamori already thinks Ninja a relic of questionable use. No problem calm down ok

     Ok so they wanna kill Ninja cause they think he is Yakuza and they wanna play Cleopatra Brown. So they already told Vincent Cabrini that they sold the stuff to Ninja's contact. Ninja is passed out in the Ambulance. Vincent is gonna ask how good a friend this guy is, Medium Smoke is gonna say "you can have him.' And so ends the ignoble career of the Yakuza plant.
 
      This is gonna change Yakamori's roll. He is going to setup a meet with the players and offer them hard cash to betray the Mafia and stress his organizations much larger global footprint. So the players will be aware that they are betraying the Mafia. They should bite at this cause Face already realizes he will never pay his Mafia debt and wishes to get out from under their thumb and he hasn't even done the first job yet.

      So next week Ninja will be handed over to Vincent Cabrini, giving him a plus one loyalty boost with the players, and cleopatra brown will be their new neighbor in the Freindly Arm's apartment building.

[Ganggreenkhan]

     Ok so here is Cleopatra Brown's background. Very similar to Ninja, made some adjustments to adept powers, made her more impersonation oriented than combat oriented but still almost as good as Ninja at combat.

    A 5'11", 21 year old african-American women of above average build. She has the powers of Melanin Control and Facial Sculpt. She is rarely seen in her true visage.

  Born on a peanut farm in Missisippi. The fifth of seven children. She has always had a photographic memory. She developed an attachement to the Mentor Spirit Snake on the farm. She learned to Speed Read at night in the limited hours between farm work and bed time. And most importantly she learned Jujitsu from her older brothers. Her younger sister followed her off the farm and latter to Seattle.

     She moved to New Orleans as a teenager when she ran away from home, after she developed her powers. Cleopatra and her little sister quickly fell into hustling tourist on the streets of the Frech Quarter. Performing for money, selling drugs, selling fake drugs, confidence games. Whatever she could do to make a buck. Especially confidence games. Eventually making a burlesque act out of her face changing and skin color changing abilities and joining a burlesque troop. She became a Creature of Comfort during this time, now she will settle for nothing less than a middleclass life style.
     This is also whenCleopatra developed a mild addiction to both Novacoke and Cram.

    Once in Seattle Cleopatra went straight to Urubia's Funhouse. Even in New Orleans the street urchins talk of how Urubia aids homeless Awakened. She had heard the rumor about Awakened who squat in the abandoned towers of Urubia's complex get a hand up from the benevolent dragon. So that's just what Cleopatra Brown did. She sneaked into one of the empty towers and bed down for the night.
    True to rumor Cleopatra, and her little sister, were awoken by a patrol and brought into the Funhouse and feed and bathed. this is when she met Urubia's "friend" Clive Baker, a mage. Clive explained to Cleopatra that Urubia is friend to all Awakened. She was given a luxery apartment and given the run of the Funhouse for a week. She had lots of fun and even got to dance ontop of the dragon herself. After a week Clive told Cleopatra that Urubia was going to extend her a loan to get a fake SIN and an apartment and that she was welcome back to the Funhouse anytime, her color changing burlesque routine on top of the dragon was a big hit. Clive told her there was no rush on paying back the loan.

     Then she ventured out into Redmond to find an apartment. She found one that meets her standards on the third floor of the Friendly Arm's, second apartment from the corner, in Bargain Basement.

     On the bottom corner of the Freindly Arm's is a small dive bar Cocktails. Maybe ten people can fit inside. Cleopatra has befriended the owner Al and gotten her sister a job there. Cocktails is also the place she meets her drug dealer Mason.

 A master of infiltration and impersonation. Uses her Killing Hands instead of weapons.

  In Seattle less than two weeks and she's already indebted to a Dragon, has an apartment and a job for her sister. Cleopatra feels like she is off to a good start in her new town.

EDIT BIG EDIT CHANGED indebted 4 quality!!!!!!!!!

[Ganggreenkhan]

     Face's is really aggravating me with with his going on and on about how the Ninja's contact threatened to kill him over multi millions of dollars. I've been all come on your homeless and it's a loyalty 2 contact. I'm gonna havta explain to him that he's gonna get that alot in my game when multimullion dollar proprietary processes are being hawked to street level contacts. If he wants to kill of a character everytime one of their rating 4 loyalty 2 contacts threatens to kill the team this isn't gonna work. Face thinks he's a badass. I had a migrain when we ran the fight seen and that's the only reason I read the rules wrong and he won. Now he thinks he's a gansta cause he took out some goons and the Organisized crime syndicates should respect his homeless street urchin ass. He doesn't even have any street cred yet. We are going to have a long talk about this game day and how if he kills a character everytime their contacts does something that offends him this game isn't gonna work.
     He also stupid enough to think that since the mob failed at a last minute haphazrd short notice attempt to abduct them that he can take on the entire mob now...... I really might just kill the whole lot of them to make a point. It's ok next time people come gunning for them they are gonna have ADPS not SnS. Face has an over inflated ego and an under appreciation for the power of organized crime. I'm gonna havta fix this some how. Can't let them have anymore success just cause Vincent Cabrini is being nice to him he thinks he's a mademan now.

      He's not a mademan, he's a fucking associate who's one step above a homeless bum..... I really wish I'd have read the Stick n Chock rules right and they woke up in a meat locker.

[Ganggreenkhan]

     I forgot the worst part is he threatened Twitch with death if he abandons them on a run. So he's killing one character and has threated to kill another character. I'm putting alot of work into these characters. I understand he wants to kill Ninja so his girlfriend can play Cleopatra Brown. This is the only reason I'm giving him a comparable charcter. If he gets any more characters killed I'm not giving him a carbon copy replacement. If he gets anyone else killed he'll be lucky if I give him a replacement at all.

     He wants every character to be perfect and not have any flaws he's already talked about abandoning Gunshow if his Wolf mentor spirit kicks in and he refuses to retreat from a fight. Guess this is what I get for giving a spoiled college boy a street character and expecting him to know how to act on the streets...... I'm gonna explain to him that if he tries to sell Multi-million dollar paydata to loyalty 2 street level contacts in the future he will again have this problem. They shouldn't be in this possition again though so not that it matters.

     I have a feeling it's gonna be hard to keep these fuckers into contacts. Going around threatening and killing his fellow players.... I really expected more out of someone with a law degree..... or maybe I should have expected such unreasonable behavior out of him because he has a law degree. As usual he feels laws apply to others but not himself. Maybe he's just doing a good job of playing a ruthless street level gang leader..... all I know is if he starts looking for reasons to kill characters because they are flawed I'm just gonna havta replace them with even more flawed characters.

     For instance Ninja was a road for them to join the Kenran-Kai. Now Cleopatra brown is indebted to a fucking dragon.. Everytime he wants to kill a character I'm gonna make it worse for the group. For the sake of the story I'm still gonna have the Kenran-Kai extend a job offer, and they won't know it's Ninja's contact contacting them so it won't matter if they are pissed at him, cause they won't know it's him who threatened to kill him.

     Killing Ninja is actually a good thing for their long term prospects with the Mafia, the Mafia was going to eventually sniff out his Yakuza ties. So now the Mob won't have an automatic reason to find they are Yakuza plants. I really want them to work with the Yakuza cause I wanna end up in Hong Kong in a couple of months, the Mob can't send them to Hong Kong. If they stick with the Mob they are going to send them to Chicago. Being a gang of awakend they really don't wanna go to Chicago, we've already discussed this and they want to stay away from Chicago.
    Whatever organization they go with they are going to havta get out of Seattle and lay low for awhile. Chicago is just gonna happen to be where the Mob sends people to do such things.

     Must punish these PC's... must punish.... I let them get the better of me last week and I can already feel things spiraling out of control......