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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4019944" data-attributes="member: 3087">Gorilla pulls open the side of the decrepit van before getting into the passenger seat. The back of the van is strewn with trash but otherwise bare, there is a tattered leather jacket in one corner. Sicko? Who's sicko? Man Nice has -got- to get with the program. That is key info...Gorilla thumps Snicker on the shoulder, Wasn't sure.Oh yeah, right. Well, now you're Nosferatu confirmed and that means you need to know.OK. Here's the scoop, Nos has a vertical kinda system.Heirarchy.Right. Hierarchy. Sucker's right that you can talk and stuff, and you should you know. But you got to respect it.Anyway at the top is Parovich, who basically set the whole thing up. Hell, he's the one that brought LB into the city in the first place. LB's the prince now, but Parovich backed him. And we back Parovich. And we're like, half the city. Basically, we pick the prince.But Parovich's asleep now, in torpor, and he's old, really old. And really powerful, you know. So he'll probably sleep for decades, maybe? Minimum another ten, twenty years.So when he goes down Parovich wants the Brotherhood to keep up, but he won't pick a system. He's like the people must decide. But we've been with Parovich for so long that we're just thinking I'll be like before. Nobody wants to be too pushy. So eventually, right we wind up with a few guys who want to stand in for Parovich. Luciano is one and Brodi is another.They ran stuff for Parovich, cause LB gave Parovich the domain of crime, which is huge, and so they each had their own gangs already.Snicker turns around to look at you, "You know, you think crime is like, mugging people, or whatever. It's not. It's paperwork.Who has the money? Where did the drugs go? On and on and on."Snicker turns back to the road.So, for some of us, that wasn't so cool. You know. We're not mortals anymore, we don't want to spend all our time dealing with mortal crap.Most of us came here because we were sick of that, we wanted to experience the requiems as ourselves.Anyway, about five years after Parovich slips into torpor shits bad. You know, your under Brodi, or Luciano, and they're really into that mobster thing right? So every night it's like "pick this up" "beat that guy up".[/COLOR]Follow this guy and report back to me.Yeah, totally. Like we're accountants you know.The van makes it's way through darkened streets.Anyway five years ago Sicko turns up. He's got this guy with him 'face, who's something else. Archetypes.Gorilla man, we gotta keep the basics. We get onto archetypes and stuff and we'll be here all night. Anyway they look like characters right, out of a movie or something. But it's deliberate.And the Don's say you have to pick sides.And Sicko says, I came her to serve an idea. So they get all pissed at him and Luciano says that he can stay in Nosferatu territory, which is the east side from Burbank down to Dennison, but not in his territory; which is half of Nosferatu territory, basically. [sblock=The East Side]The "east side from Burbank down to Dennison" is a massive swath of land. It's close to a third of the city, comprising the rusted industrial section, several artists communities, residential neighborhoods, some industrial land, and all the lakes side including the docks. The only thing it doesn't have is much suburban or rural space -- because it runs into the lake proper. Only in on the North Shore.([/sblock]And Brodi, of course, says the same thing. And Brodi controls the other half of the terrorists. I mean, literally like half. They actually were trying to mark it off for a while.So it's like Sicko can't stay anywhere. So he says you've claimed every street, every building every shop for yourselves, so I shall dwell in the ancestral homeland of all Nosferatu. And he disappears.And Luciano and them are saying that he's gone, but you know, he keeps turning up, for meetings or whatever.So where's he staying?In the sewers......under Luciano's house.And so Luciano gets all pissed. And he sends a squad of mobsters after him. So all these mob guys go down, and like a whole squad of his toughest guys right. But with guns, you know? Stupid right? But that's Luciano.So Sicko and 'face just take out the whole lot. Right. But he doesn't kill them. Instead what does he do?Shakespeare.Shakespeare! So he's got these Italian guys, down in the sewer. And I mean, like serious, mafia types and they don't know anything about culture, I mean, I'm not the brighest guy on the block but these guys are really blockheads. And none of them know Shakespear he's like "you're worthless mortals, but I can't kill you until you've experienced some form of art". So he's making them do Shakespeare. And he doesn't move, so they're still in the sewer under Luciano's house.Anyway one guy escapes and comes out and he tells Luciano. And Luciano doesn't know what to do. I mean. He's lost like a dozen mortal lieutenants, Brodi wants to take over his operation, and he's got this like Shakespearean play going on under his house.So he asks us to go down, and we say that that we don't do Nosferatu. Cause that's the rule, you wanna be a dick with that Danse Macabe stuff fine. But Nos don't do other Nos. Period. But he's all it's a misunderstanding. Right. So we go down.[/COLOR]So we go down and things get sorted out basically. Luciano tries to play hardball, offering Sicko stuff, but Sicko doesn't want that sort of thing. And so he finishes his play and moves to the old Clark St station.[sblock=Clark St station]Diego knows the Clark St Station is an abandoned train station, from an aborted rail line near the financial district.[/sblock]And Luciano wants 'face to "serve him" or whatever, but 'face like, basically, throws him through a wall. Which is normally not OK but, whatever, he can't speak and Luciano wasn't getting the picture.But Luciano, right, can't cope with things so he insists that 'face serves Sicko. Or whatever. Cause he's really into this don thing and having everybody under somebody.So then Sicko's a don right? Effectively, because he's been recognized.So what happens?Exodus.Exactly. And exodus. Suddenly all the Nosferatu are under Sicko. You know, because Sickos into being a vampire and doesn't care about mortals, and paperwork and money.And Luciano's like, you'll have to live in the sewers!And you know what?Fine.Exactly. We're fine with that. Because we're Nosferatu, and we dig the sewers.So now, we all serve Sicko, and his instructions.Be true to thine own self.Exactly. Except Nice, whose stuck being LB's bitch. He gets props for that by the way. Nobody'd say it to his face but he does good for us. Stuff like getting you out of those cells tonight? Nice's a solder. But he's still LB's bitch. But you don't get to call him that.. Sucker.And Sucker, of course. Sucker's his own man. With the big man in bed he's the conduit. He coulda been a don but he's got to walk the fine line.[sblock=Nosferatu Clan status]5: Parovich4: The Dons (Sicko, Luciano, Brodi)3: Sucker2: The Soldiers (Snicker, Gorilla, Nice)1: All recognized Nosferatu (including Diego)0: Trigger[/sblock]Snicker looks over at Gorilla . Boy wants to learn some tricks.Trigger's girl?You called it my man. Snicker looks at you. You feeling scary?</blockquote>

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