58. ORPHANS WAREHOUSE

This large, run down, and heavily vandalized warehouse is located right against the wall, and is the hangout of the Orphans.  The entire block that surrounds it is full of similarly rotting and decayed buildings, all of which are swarming with the Orphans, who try desperately to maintain their turf while being little more than a nuisance to Stomp who surrounds them to the west and South, and Bushido, who thinks of them as little more than a loud annoying buffer for Stomp.

The warehouse itself is a mess, broken bottles, syringes, beer cans, other garbage, and whatever scavenged furniture the Orphans can put in here until it is destroyed or  simply rots away, litter the floor of the building amidst stagnant puddles of water.  The entire gang parties here virtually every night, the loud metal can be heard for blocks.  

While the Orphans are a large enough gang to keep their territory, however tenuously, they have no friends and garner little respect.  Their adherence to their skinhead racist roots keeps even relatively benevolent gangs like Bushido from allying with them.  Up until recently it was only a matter of time it seemed before Stomp grew tired of them and wiped them from the map, but lately they have been getting guns, ammo and cheap drugs from an outside group of white supremacists.

Regardless of their reputation as a joke among the other gangs, trespassing on their territory is extremely dangerous, as they will ambush anyone wearing gang colors, anyone of color, or anyone who is seen as having something they want. 

(For more on the Orphans please see Gangs Of Night City.)

Written By Deric Bernier, images from Death Wish 3

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