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SLAUGHTERHOUSE GANG LEADER:SOLOMON CHRIST
Solomon Christ is the original leader of the Slaughterhouse. Back in the day, Before Richard Night began his project, Solomon was old school Blood, slinging dope and running game in Los Angeles. When the quake hit, it devastated his set, so he fled to Coronado City. While the city was under construction he ran drugs and prostitutes out of an old cattleyard in the North side of the city. It was close enough to the construction at to provide easy access, but far enough away and deserted enough to keep out unwanted attention. It was here Slaughterhouse got its name, and Christ quickly brought up the surviving members of his old crew.
As time passed, construction of the new city caught up with the crew, and there base of operations was seized and torn down. Rather than put up a fight, Christ simply moved his base of operations to an apartment complex in North Side, situated right across the street from a police station. However it wasn’t a smooth operation. The Italian crime families were firmly in place with the unions and supply companies, and didn’t look kindly on the street gang muscling in on its action. After a few minor incidents, a meeting was held and a truce was put in place. No one is quite sure what went on during the meeting, but a week later, Richard Night was dead and the Slaughterhouse was operating with the support of the Mafia. As slaughterhouse grew, Solomon stayed above it all. He went to great pains to keep a legitimate appearance, making contributions to the community events, donating to charity, and purchasing several small businesses, mostly bars and restaurants, but also a small recording studio.
It was during this time that Solomon’s attention fell on Brick. Brick was young, fearless, and utterly ruthless in getting the job done. Solomon took the younger gang member under his wing, making him his protege and second in command and chief enforcer. With Solomon’s smooth business savvy and Bricks ferocity, Slaughterhouse began expanding their territories and swiftly putting down any resistance met on the streets.
As Slaughterhouses influence grew, they began to once again make waves in the bigger pond. Solomon was pushing his boundaries hard with the mob, and eventually, they started pushing back. The final straw came when during a confrontation at one of his bars, Solomon and Brick killed a made member of the Petrillo family.
Christ was too well protected for direct retaliation, but the mafia began feeding information to the police leading to several busts and high profile arrests. Christ turned to the Russian Mob, who was just beginning to get a foothold in the city. As things threatened to escalate further, the police raided Solomon’s penthouse, catching him by surprise and finding 6 Kilo’s of uncut Synthcoke in his penthouse suite. The arrest led to a 30 year conviction of Christ.
In prison, Christ continued relaying orders to Brick, the only surviving member of his inner circle. He was constantly in danger, as he had been placed on a hit list by the Italians. Plenty of his own boys were in prison alongside him, all loyal but his real break came when he saved the life of a Russian gangster from a hit by a latin prison gang. This ingratiated him further to Russian mob leader Dimitri Pestroy, who placed Christ under his protection.
During this time Christ began to become suspicious of Brick, his orders weren’t being carried out and the visitations slowed then ceased.
Recently, the arresting officers who busted Christ were all found guilty of long standing corruption in service to the Italian Mafia. Solomon's lawyer has used this to overturn the conviction, and Christ in will be released from prison. He is well connected to the Black Kings and already making plans to retake the gang he formed, by any means necessary. Solomon is an intelligent and stylish man, he has spent a great deal of time and money on educational braindance, and prefers to present an air of legitimacy and finesse. But don’t let his flair fool you, he is no stranger to violence, and he is not to be underestimated. GANG LEADER: KYLE “BRICK” NOLAN
Brick grew up on the mean streets of East LA, his mother was a junkie who didn’t even know who his father was, or who the fathers were to his 6 brothers and sisters. There was never any real hope for Brick to become a decent person, and he fell into gang life at the early age of 9, first working as a delivery boy, then slinging drugs himself by age 10. He committed his first murder at the age of 12. By the age of 16 he had been in and out of Juvie several times, and had managed to become a known personality within the gang culture of the area. After committing a high profile assault on a police officer on his 21’st birthday, Brick was forced to flee Los Angeles and headed to Coronado.
It was here he fell in with Slaughterhouse. His ferocity and penchant for violence, as well as his intimidating size, ensured him a prominence in the gang. He rose quickly through their ranks, eventually catching the eye of the leader, Solomon Christ.
Christ took Brick under his wing, and within a few short years he had become Christs right hand and most trusted lieutenant.
It wasn’t enough for Brick, who was possessed of far more cunning and ambition than Solomon had realized. While maintaining a front of loyalty, Brick began undermining Christ’s efforts. When Christ would order retaliation against a rival, Brick would carefully ensure it went wrong. When Solomon called for the gang to keep a low profile, Brick would instigate a high profile incident. Through it all, Brick was somehow able to remain above suspicion mostly by killing anyone who could point the finger at him. Finally he decided the time was right to make his move. When the Italians tried to take him out, Brick used being in the hospital to his advantage. Unbeknownst to anyone, he had one of the women Christ was keeping plant the Synthcoke in his apartment, and called in an anonymous tip that led the police to arrest Christ. With Christ off the streets he systematically hunted down and killed anyone who suspected him or who he felt would oppose his taking over the gang… all while still convincing Solomon of his loyalty.
With Christ sentenced to 30 years, and all obstacles removed, Brick was now in complete control of Slaughterhouse. But it would be easy. Brick was many things, but he was not subtle. The ongoing feud with the Italian families escalated, and under Bricks leadership the gang took on a much more violent and menacing nature.
Perhaps he took it too far, as the police and city hall, exasperated, targeted Slaughterhouse as enemy number one during the purge. As the police cracked down on the gangs, forcing them out, over the course of several weeks Slaughterhouse engaged in a running battle of territories with the police until finally they holed up in the Marsten Projects. When they could not be removed, the city simply walled up the area they and the other gangs had been pushed into and declared it a Combat Zone.
The first thing Brick did was systematically take over the entirety of the Marsten Complex. The choice he gave to the gangs already inhabiting the buildings was simple: Join, get out, or be destroyed. Most gangs joined up or fled, the few that fought were wiped out to a man. The unaffiliated tenants were given similar choice. Get out, join, or stay out of the way, to similar result.
Now Brick rules the western side of the Combat zone with an iron fist and brutal efficiency. He has managed to retain some influence outside of the zone, and has held on to legitimate businesses outside the Zone as well. His most high profile venture is a music studio, and its one of the few places he leaves the zone for.
Brick is huge, and he definitely believes in surrounding himself with intimidating men, going so far as to help pay for Cyber, Bioware, and Nanite enhancements to body and strength for his Lieutenants. He is a man for whom strength overwhelming response mean everything. Rope, oddly enough, is his own top Lt., but even though the younger man is brilliant with tactics and just as ruthless as Brick, Brick still derides him as “one of them weak bodied but slick and pretty educated niggas!”
SECOND IN COMMAND: OLIVER “ROPE” ROPETTI
Rope was raised in Detroit. His father was a community leader and his mother was a literary critic. Regardless of the families money and influence, they chose to remain in the poorer neighborhood where Ropes father was raised in order to teach the boy the importance of knowing his roots, of imprinting on him the cultural, economic, and political landscapes of his community. Because of this, and because of natural rebellion, Rope would involve himself with bad influences. While he never needed for anything, Rope wanted power and influence of his own, and he wanted adventure. Still he managed to stay out of serious trouble , though not for a lack of trying, and did well in school until he went off to college. It was at the UCLA that Rope met Dollah, Bricks little brother who was there on a football Scholarship. Dollah was failing out of school, but Rope was able to tutor his friend into passing grades. In exchange Dollah introduced Rope to the wild side. After a scandal involving a co-ed and some other members of the football team, Dollah was expelled in disgrace. Rope had graduated the year before, but had stayed rather than go home to the life his parents were trying to build for him. When Dollah decided to go to work for his brother Brick, Rope joined up as well.
Rope, due to his friendship with Dollah, was already in a high position within the gang. But things changed one night when a rival gang attempted a drive-by on Brick and his Brother. Brick saw Rope dive in front of his brother. While both of them were hit, One of the shots that hit Rope in the back would certainly have hit Dollah in the face had he not jumped on the way.
Rope was seriously wounded, as was Brick, but thanks to Ropes intervention, Dollah’s wounds were minor, and he was released after only 1 night in the hospital. Unfortunately, he was gunned down on the hospitals steps.
While recuperating, Brick, at first impressed with Ropes show of loyalty and sacrifice, and then with Ropes display of grief matching his own over Dollah’s death, became close friends with Rope. Though Rope was nothing like the other men in Bricks crew, being of slight build and classically educated, he soon became Bricks most trusted associate.
When Christ went to prison and Brick took over Rope was placed as his second in command. However its Rope who handles most of the day to day business. He is also the gangs strategist, and if it weren’t for him the gang likely would have imploded under Bricks leadership. While Rope is the real power behind the throne, he has gone to great pains to keep this fact concealed, even from Brick itself. However Bricks carelessness in dealing with the Stomp Street and 2-3 Set problems has had Rope quietly grooming others to take Bricks place. And Rope’s increasing condescension and questioning of Bricks decision has had the effect of Brick becoming suspicious and mistrustful of Rope. It seems friendship and loyalty in Slaughterhouse is measured in usefulness and threat levels.
Rope speaks eloquently and purposefully, in 4 languages, French, Swahili, Spanish and English. He uses slang only on rare occasions and then only for comedic or dramatic effect. He affects a much more professional style than most of his gang, and many among the game see this as a sign of weakness, of selling out.
While Brick may leave the Zone to visit the Slaughterhouse owned studio, Ghetto Nightmares, he does it merely to hang out with the acts and throw his weight around. Rope actually acts as producer, and is more often than not at the Studio, surrounded by hand picked bodyguards. While none of the acts he has signed have made it big, he does have several acts rising in popularity in the West Coast underground music scene. Rope has also funded a local radio station that he has used to send out coded messages to the gang members operating inside the zone where cell phones can’t always get a signal.
ENFORCER: MALIK CORBIN
Like Rope, Malik has a definite sense of identity. He is a bit more street, but every bit as well groomed and stylish. Malik wasn’t always this way. He grew up poor and uneducated on the streets of Night City. But he lucked out in finding a mentor, a former radical professor of ethnic studies who took a liking to the young boy, teaching him some of the history of his culture and took look at the bigger picture. To recognize that he could make a change, instead of waiting for other people to make it for him. His mentor was on his way to help him prepare for college entrance exams when he was pulled over by police and shot for resisting arrest. His mentor had no criminal record, and did not carry a weapon, but police claim he assaulted them and they were forced to open fire. There were no witnesses, and regardless of the community outcry to open an investigation, the officers were cleared almost immediately and returned to active duty unscathed.
At the man’s funeral, a widely attended public ceremony, the 2 police officers who killed the man were spotted and a riot broke out when they made racist slurs about the dead man to the crowd. Malik moved through the surging crowd like a panther, and killed the two police officers. He went on the run, going underground. It was here he met Brick. Maliks size and discipline impressed him, and as Brick rose through the ranks so did Malik.
ENFORCER: RUEBEN “RUBY” WILLIAMS
Ruby is young, and somewhat naïve. He comes from a poor family and spent most of his youth in and out of foster care or juvenile hall, with and impressive array of petty crimes… It should be noted however that before his involvement with Brick that Ruby was never involved in anything violent and his crimes mostly consisted of trespass, muggings, vandalism, minor possession. He got into bodybuilding while serving in juvenile detention as a means of staying out of trouble, but due to an unerringly poor judgment in associates, Ruby always found himself on the wrong side of the law.
Brick met Ruby at the gym, and the two began working out together. It was during this time that Ruby’s mother was involved in an accident which landed her in hospice care, and left Ruby homeless and penniless. Brick took him into the gang and even began helping to pay for his mothers bills. Ruby swore his loyalty, knowing that if he displeased Brick, the help his mother was getting, and all hopes of recovery could be lost.
Ruby’s size and utter loyalty to Brick make up for his lack of cunning and intelligence. Ruby isn’t trusted to make his own decisions, but he carries out orders to the letter. He has been seen to have some misgivings about some of the things he is asked to do, and his natural compassion seem to conflict with his orders, but his sense of duty always overwhelms any objections he would otherwise pose… at least so far. Due to his genial nature, Brick tends to assign Ruby to oversee collection and protection duties, and seems reluctant to assign Ruby to the more brutal or ruthless tasks.
ENFORCER: SMOKE
No one is really sure where Smoke came from originally. A year ago Smoke infiltrated the Marsten Projects to kill a low level Lieutenant after being hired to do so by a woman’s husband whom the gang member had raped. He almost escaped, but the rappelling gear he had used was discovered, and Brick and his men were waiting at the bottom. Impressed with his abilities, Brick offered Smoke a job as his chief hitter. Smoke accepted, and has been Bricks go to man for “difficult” targets ever since.
While his background is a mystery, Smoke has obviously had advanced military training. He is a very very dangerous man, and one who follows orders without question. He speaks with a raspy voice, the apparent result of a neck injury. Smoke is heavily scarred, with the neck wound being the worst, he tends to cover these injuries at all times, except the scars to his face. It is unclear what cyberentics he possesses, although it is heavily rumored that behind the shades he always wears are cyberoptics and that he has subdermal armor plating on his torso in addition to skinweave and possibly cyberlegs… he has been seen to take numerous gunshots without so much as a flinch. He moves with silence and determination, and is widely considered one of the most dangerous individuals in the Combat Zone. LEIUTENENT: LESLIE “SWEETS” HUGHES
Sweets is the loose cannon of Slaughterhouse. He lives for violence and relishes in causing pain. Sweets was heavily abused by his father as a child. For his 12th birthday party his father bought him a dress and made him wear it… two days later police came to the house to find his father severely mutilated and the boy still wearing the dress, covered in blood. Sweets was sent to a work farm, where at first the other boys teased him relentlessly. After being involved in a few extremely violent incidents and the mysterious disappearance of one of the guards, the teasing stopped, and Sweets began gathering his own crew who ruled the work farm ruthlessly.
When he was released he started his own gang in one of the Marsten Project buildings, running drugs and prostitutes, both male and female. His gang was wide feared, but not very strong. When Slaughterhouse moved in he chose to join rather than be trampled beneath their overpowering numbers. Since then Brick has had little use for Sweets, letting him continue to pimp out of one of the outlying Complex buildings. The only real use Brick has for Sweets is when he needs to create chaos.
Sweets is
bisexual and extremely sadistic, and effects very
feminine mannerisms. If these mannerisms or
his sexuality are mocked or questioned he tends to
deal with it in the most violent manner
necessary. He also has a disposition towards
subjugating his enemies, going as far as to rape and
dominate them. He is universally feared and
reviled in the Combat Zone, and he is barely
tolerated even by Slaughterhouse.
LEIUTENENT: WAYNE “LI’L DUKE” NOLAN
With
nothing left in Night City for them, Duke and the
rest of Bricks siblings moved to Coronado.
Duke immediately jumped in, and now acts as one of
Bricks top men. While duke pushes for more
responsibility, and resents Rope being second in
command, Brick keeps him tightly reined in… While
Brick would never say it, Duke believes he blames
him for their mother and younger brothers death and
constantly tries to prove and redeem himself to
Brick, often taking risks he shouldn’t. While
Duke has the motivation and drive, and definitely
the loyalty to the gang required, he does not have
the cunning or resources to move up further.
He is rash, headstrong, and flashy. He also
tends to bite off more than he chew, safe in the
belief that his brother and his gang can take care
of any problems that arise.
LEIUTENENT: THELMA “SUGAH-T” NOLAN
Sugah-T is Bricks older sister. She has been married 4 times, and had 5 children, she also stayed in Los Angeles longer than anyone else. However when her husband was arrested last year for drug trafficking, the state took away her children. Distraught she moved to Night City and took up with her brother and his gang.
Sugah-T is the only female in a major position of power in the gang. She has taken on a somewhat matriarchal role in the gang, but do not mistake her for being soft, she is almost as ruthless as brick. She dotes on Duke, Brick, Riley and Sondra, but thinks Keisha has abanonded her family and her roots. She is especially fond of Riley, the youngest member of the family, and does what she can to spoil him.
Sugah-T’s prime role in the gang is that of advisor and peacekeeper. She is often the coolest head in the room and when tempers begin flaring, especially with Brick, she is often the only one who can calm him back down. She is also the only one who Sweet’s seems genuinely intimidated by.
Sugah-T and Brick are very close, after her husbands carelessness and his arrest led to the loss of her children, Brick arranged for him to be “removed” while inside.
RILEY NOLAN
Riley is Bricks youngest brother, and the family dotes on him. Brick keeps him protected and isolated from gang activities, safe in the center building in the heart of the building. Brick has gone to great expense to hire a tutor from outside the zone whom he has escorted in daily to attend to Riley’s education. Sugah-T has been pushing to enroll the boy in private school so that he might socialize with other kids his age, but so far Brick has been adamant about keeping him close where he can personally ensure his safety. Instead he has the children of other gang members brought in to play with Riley. The only freedom allowed Riley is that lately, and only with Bricks approval he is allowed to roam the complex, but never step foot the protection of Slaughterhouse home territory without Brick or Sugah-T with him.
Riley has begun to grow resentful of his limited freedom, and has begun practicing giving his bodyguard Mo the slip for short periods. He very much wants to attend school and has no real idea what Brick is or why he is in danger.
SONDRA “SASSY” NOLAN
Sondra is the second youngest member of Bricks family. At 19 she often rejects the protection and runs the streets. She lives outside the zone in an apartment with her sister Keisha, but often visits and has tried to gain entrance into gang activities. Brick keeps her well out of any criminal doings, and seems to dote on her, but her constant flirtation and wild lifestyle have put her brother on edge several times now. It doesn’t help that Sugah-T seems to encourage this, and has even tried to convince Brick to let her move into the Marsten Complex and away from her “uppity sister Keisha”. But brick wants Keisha to influence Sondra, no matter how much Sondra fights it.
Sondra has
been secretly sleeping with Rope since she turned
18. While Sugah is aware of it and approves,
if Brick found out it would be disastrous.
KEISHA
NOLAN Keisha lost both arms and a leg to a drive by shooting when she was 13. It is mainly due to this that she has rejected her families gangster lifestyle and moved out on her own, graduating high school, then college, and embarking on a career as a model and vocalist. Brick and Duke respect this and encourage it, secretly opening doors for her without her knowledge. However Sugah-T resents her, and thinks she has turned her back on the people who lover her. Sondra lives with her in an attempt by Brick to keep Sondra out of harms way and out of the lifestyle, but Sondra and Keishas relationship is touchy at best, and Sondra openly defies her sister with her wild lifestyle and disrespect. |
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