NOTABLE FURIES

 

LEADER: BRIANA “BRIGHT-EYES” RICARDO

Bright-Eyes was a 20 year old girl living with her mom in Marsten when the city began herding its most violent and problematic gangs into the area.  Her boyfriend was a member of the Piranha’s, a low level gang not even on the radar who had been pushed out of one territory to the next.  She acquired her name from her boyfriend due to her unflinching optimism.

 

After her gang was wiped out, and she and the other girls in the gang had been brutalized, she decided she was never going to be a victim again.  While recovering from her injuries and abuse, she began training, hard.  She learned how to handle a gun from an uncle who had served in Nam.  The uncle also taught her guerilla tactics and some basic hand to hand.  By the time it came to strike back, Bright-Eyes was a changed woman.  The naiveté had been stripped from her, replaced by determination, will, and conviction.

 

She watched as Arzin Tynon burned, she coldly and methodically put bullets into anyone who tried to escape the conflagration.  She used the reputation she earned from her vengeance to form a small army of women behind her.  She rallied them under the cry “They won’t take anything else from us, from this point on, we do the taking, we decide for ourselves, and we protect our own… and anyone who gets in our way will end up in the grave.”

 

Under Bright-Eyes leadership, the Furies have gone from something of a novelty, to a respecte gang in the Zone.  She will use any means necessary to achieve her goals and keep the women and children under her protection safe.  She forms alliances where it will make her gang stronger, and destroys those who dare oppose her in her territory.  She has long term plans to expand her territory, but for now seems unwilling to take the risk, even though most of her Hillaries are pushing to push north and close the gap between Slaughterhouse and Stomp territories to take the gang out of the crossfire.  For now she knows Stomp is too strong, but she is actively working on alliances with Slaughterhouse and the Saracens to further that agenda, and waiting for Stomp to weaken enough to make it a reality.



BOBBIT: CLARA “PRINCESS” WALES

Princess is Bright-Eyes best friend, body guard, and most trusted advisor.  She grew up in a small town in Kansas, where she would have fit in nicely if she weren’t a lesbian and feminist.  Her parents were supportive, but the town was not.  She was ostracized and bullied constantly.  She was the frequent target of the son of the town Sheriff who thought he had the cure for her “problem”.   She learned how to fight quickly, lessons from her father who had been a boxer in college.  She learned how to watch her back, be on alert at all times for potential threats.  These traits would serve her wll when she finally decided to ditch the ignorant hillbillies in the hopes of a bright future in California.

 

Unfortunately, she was as unprepared for life in Night City as she was in Kansas.  The city was unforgiving to unskilled homely country girls with attitude problems.  She soon found herself homeless.  She was squatting in the Zone when Brigth-Eyes found her and took her in.  It was the first act of true kindness she had gotten since leaving her parents. 

 

Princess is fierce and loyal.  She is an able and dirty fighter, her skills honed from surviving on the streets.  Still, as much as her life has improved, she remains angry, at the world, at women who put up with any form of degradation, and especially at men in general.  This last trait has caused Bright-Eyes to rethink Princess’s role as bodyguard, as it has created tension when negotiating with other gangs.

 

Princess is in a relationship with Replay from the Digital Renegades.



 

HILLARY: TASHA “CINDER” DEREK

Cinder was a nomad with a small family affiliated with the Snake Nation.  Her family was smuggling medical supplies into the Zone when they were hit by the Dead Zoners.  The entire family was wiped out, only Cinder managed to escape.  Wounded, running through the alleys, and hopelessly lost and alone.

 

It was by sheer luck that she managed to make it to Furies territory.  He cries in the night were answered as a hail of gunfire erupted from two sentries patrolling their turf.  They brought Cinder in and treated her wounds.  She has been a member ever since. 

 

Cinders contacts with the nomads have proven useful to the Furies, and while she and her family were caught off guard, she has had more than enough experience fighting to be one of Bright-Eyes top Hillary’s.  She often leads patrols, and her tracking abilities have often come in handy when trying to find missing members or track down enemies through the zone.

 

Cinder is generally friendly and well liked among the Furies.  She parties as hard as she fights, which has made her very popular among the gang.  Her easy going demeanor and ability to sense danger have made her invaluable. 

 

 

 

  HILLARY: LOIS “STORMY” DREDNER

Stormy was a cop, a good, one, 4 years she walked the beat, then she was transferred to vice.  She was undercover, investigating the Petrillo family, when it was discovered she was a cop.  She was shot 8 times, including in the face, and her body was dumped in the bay.  Miraculously she survived, but it cost her left arm, her kidneys, her heart, her right eye and most of the bone surrounding it.  Because she suffered memory loss and could not identify exactly the man who shot her, there was no case to be made… after her recovery, furious, she dove back into the case… and it was there she began putting pieces together.  She had been sold out, by cops on her own squad.  She held her tongue, and waited.

 

In the early days of the Combat Zone, cops used to enter it when chasing a suspect… She responded to a call for backup from the cop who betrayed her.  He was in the combat zone, trying to apprehend a murder suspect accused of killing her pimp.  Stormy was the first to arrive, and she found the Detective beating the young girl suspect, trying to get the location of the pimps stash.  Stormy kicked him off the girl, then beat him to death with a piece of rebar that had been lying in the alley.  The Furies had been watching from above… they continued to watch as she handed the young girl all the cash in the detectives wallet and told her to run for it. 

 

Stormy radioed that she found the detective dead, and quit the force 3 days later.  Bright-Eyes contacted Stormy, who was near suicidal, and offered her a place in the Furies.

 

From her time working the beat and with Vice, Stormy knows how the cop and the streets work, she uses this knowledge and experience to further the Furies goals.




DIANA “DEE-DEE” FRANCO

Dee-Dee was just another girl in Little Odessa when she developed scoliosis.  In order to pay for  a prosthetic body, her parents borrowed money from a loan shark affiliated with the Russian mob.  Unfortunately her family had no way to pay off those debts, and though they tried making payments the interest alone was killing them.  Eventually the loan-shark got tired of waiting and called in the marker.  They snatched her mother on the way home from the store, and gave Dee-Dee’s father an ultimatum.  He had 24 hours to come up with the money, or his wife was dead.  Desperate, her father tried robbing a bank, but was killed in the process.  The loan shark killed his mother to eliminate any connection to the crime.  The loan shark then tried to eliminate Dee-Dee, things went… poorly for him.

 

Alone and destitute, Dee-Dee wandered the streets… she was trying to make her way to Shrapnel, but found herself lost in Furies territory.  Stormy found her and brought her in to the gang. 

 

Dee-Dee has since upgraded her body, and become one of the most versatile fighters in the gang.  She is generally somewhat shy, self conscious about her body, and reserved.  Only among her closest friends does she ever seem to let go.

 

 

 

ANITA “SAD GIRL” LYONS

Sad Girl was one of the original members of the Furies.  Her brother was killed by the Arzin Tynon and she stood next to Bright-Eyes when they took their revenge.  She would be higher up in the game if it weren’t for her alcoholism.  As it stands she is an able fighter, and fully supportive of the Furies, but her judgment can no longer be trusted, so she has been demoted to Amazon. 

 

Sad-Girl and her brother were extremely close, and his murder sent her into a spiral of depression, which in turn has sent her chasing ghosts at the bottom of a bottle.  While drunk she alternates from extreme melancholy to aggression, and the anger has reared its head at several inopportune moments.  The worst instance was when she started a fight with a Saracen during a negotiation that it was hoped would ally the two smaller gangs and allow them to take over territory from Stomp.  While attempts have been made to re-establish that line of discussion, the damage was done.

 

When not on patrol, Sad-Girl can usally be found in her duplex apartment, drinking while staring at pictures of her brother.  Cinder has tried to offer support, but it seems all anyone in the gang can do is wait and hope she pulls her shit together before she gets herself, or another of the Furies, killed.

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