This is no regular roleplay. Control your gang and make it to the top, either through smooth tongues and charisma or fear and blood. It's up to you.
The roleplay is based in a modern setting, and a city much like New York, huge with looming sky scrapers and dark alleys perfect to start your empire with. It's a land where everything counts, and crime is absolute. There is one man that truly owns the city, and that is one Mr. George Smythe. He's a multi-billionaire and considered the most powerful man on the coast. His will is whispered into the ears of every government official, and followed in hast. Though he tends to keep to himself, there are times that he has been sighted in public, talking to big people in big places. There are some rules here, though.
One, No going around shooting people up or making obvious product runs. Unless you have put money in the right places, the police will take you down in a heartbeat.
Two, No powerplaying or godmodding to stand up to the big boys. Bide your time or make friends.
Three, no more than ten henchmen to start, unless you have permission! This is not to let you start out a empire, but being off to a good start is fine.
Four, arguments happen, sure. Just don't rip eachother's heads off over something silly. Take it to PMs if it's not apparant to the roleplay.
Five, My word is law. I will be a Dungeon Master of sorts. I will have my own gang, yes, but I will mostly be here to do main events or pick on a certain gang ;P.
Six, please do more than seven sentences per post. This is not a singular character roleplay, your handling a whole group of people and I expect most of your men to be doing something at first.
Gang character Sheet;
Name:
Age:
Uniform:
Symbol:
Product (Whether it's illegal booze or drugs, the product is the most important aspect. Choose it wisely. Jacks of all trades welcome.):
Starter Muscle: (How many henchmen do you start with? Remember, no more than ten unless i tell you otherwise or you back it up with history.)
History:
Mob boss Character Sheet;
Name:
Age:
Appearance (Description or picture is fine.):
Gender:
Basic Personality:
History:
Other:
Please get rid of the messages in parentheses in the character sheets.

My personal gang is as follows...
Gang character Sheet;
Name: Bleeding Hearts
Age: a good five months
Symbol:
Uniform:
Product: Mostly a jack of all trades, but deals in illegal gun transactions quite often.
Starter Muscle: Three
History: The Bleeding hearts are a new and upstart mafia. They started as, and mostly still are, a family that started doing illegal gun transactions. They started to get into other businesses. They now have a small name for themselves, but no strong connections yet. That will change though. Don't worry.
Mob boss Character Sheet;
Name: Gabriel Fisher
Age: 32
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Basic Personality: At his best, he's joyous and humorous, a very good person if you don't look at what he does for a living. At his worst, though, he is cold, cruel, and merciless.
History: He grew up a basic life, his mother was a doctor, his father a lawyer (Funny enough), and went to school like any other kid. He also went to collage, and got a degree in psychology. This does help in his endeavors, and has left him with a smooth tongue and an understanding for how certain people think. He collected a few family members, namely his brother, and two of his closest cousins, and started a business of trading guns illegally for high prices. No license check, no backgrounds. Just hand over the cash and the gun is yours, just don't rat us out when the cops find out.
Other:

Name: The Sutherlands

Age: 1 year 2 months as a legitimate corporation, 9 months as a criminal one

Uniform:
-Security Guards: Bulk of the forces employed by the Sutherlands, they don't do anything illegal, they just happen to go by when a gunfight is the most likely.
-Enforcers: Professional Criminals working for the Sutherlands, most of them would show no love to their employer, but they pay well and the Sutherlands probably have enough dirt to send them to prison for life.

Symbol:


Product: Cyber Security & Extortion, Blackmail, Advertisement Algorithm Manipulation, Money Laundering, Corporate Spying.

Starter Muscle: 4, with more applicants considered on the legitimate side of the business.

History: Started as a legitimate operation but as the Sutherlands had difficulty finding clients since corporations tend to have their own network security or hire already well established consultants, they began to make their own clients. Go on a corporate network and a few private ones, gather as much dirt on the corporation, the CEO and the Board director as much as possible and offer a deal: Pay us now and give us a cyber security contract and your information is safe, don't and it's on the evening news and both you and your corporation is ruined.


Name: Erika Sutherland
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Basic Personality: Extremely arrogant and prone to anger, impulsive as well, she has developed a somewhat nihilistic life philosophy where it's everyone for himself and as such shows no regrets about the lives she ruin.
History: Got involved with the Occupy Movement and Anonymous, which earned her a juvenile sentence and 2 years away from any computers. When this sentence was over she was fed up with the whole ideology and 'Helping the world' idea and started Erika Security, E-Sec. It was 9 months earlier that she finally broke with her past ideals and began to simply menace people to get what she wanted. In her spare time she ruin the lives of those who ever bullied her in school or the officers, lawyers and the judge who sentenced her.
Other: Has built a mountain of data on everyone she ever did business with, openly menacing to make everything public if she ever die or collaborate with the police if she is caught. People hate her but still work for her out of fear.


Name: Alison Sutherland
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Basic Personality: Intelligent, Composed, ruthless and manipulative to the maximum.
History: Oldest of the Sutherland clan, went to an Ivy league university in accounting and economics, went to New York to find a job but only found a demeaning one serving coffee and be eye candy in general, nobody taking her seriously. She helped out Erika when she went to New York to start her company as well and quickly found out a few months later that in desperation Erika had resorted to crime to get money. She found the operation of her sister was good and she took time not to be caught. She joined her to streamline the operation, make dossiers to make more compelling arguments for Erika's target to accept their offer and so forth.
Other: Erika is the corporation owner at 65% but Alison is the one to handle most of the day to day operation as well as the money. Some may consider her a glorified secretary but she holds the books and pay the taxes.


Name: Jack Sutherland
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Basic Personality: Friendly, open, kind of trusting and somewhat unprofessional.
History: Joined the Marines at an early age, didn't work out and found himself going back to his parent's house. Begged Erika and Alison for a job which he got in the form of 'Head of Security', becoming Alison's bodyguard.
Other: Doesn't like Erika at all since she openly refer to him as the scape goat since He is the one to handle contacts with CEOs and so forth as well as other illegal activities that could be traced. Gets well with Alison since she tells him she's on his side even if she thinks the same thing Erika does. Has a huge drug problem.


Name: Mordecai Coldwater
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Basic Personality: Polite, deceitful and highly intelligent, he is somewhat of an OCD person and really, really likes class and perfection to an obsessive level.
History: A professional hitman, he was a free agent and did a few works for Erika until she confronted him with the fact that she had enough evidence, even a video of him killing someone and saying 'I've killed countless people like you so don't try begging. You're just a statistic now.'. He thus entered a more permanent contract with Erika as her bodyguard. Still, remains he isn't just some thug and although Erika is more technically competent, he is certainly more intelligent than the entire Sutherland Clan together. Alison sees this and doesn't trust him at all although Erika is too blind.
Other:

I'm really tempted, but also somewhat intimidated. Hm.

Well, I love the concept and I'm certainly interested, so I'll toss up a sheet pretty soon here. Thinking along the lines of some sort of Russian/Ethnic mafia. I do believe it time to bring in some unbridled and unsophisticated violence.

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Had some trouble with posting it as new, so here's the gang info. If it happens to post seperately later on, my bad and I'll get rid of it.
Gang Character Sheet

Name:The Sons Of Shqipëria

Age:About 2 Years

Uniform:
Enforcer:
Thug:

Symbol:

Product: Human Trafficking. The Sons bring in workers, prostitutes and other human “cargo” from Albania and Eastern Europe. Not pretty, but it pays the bills. Trying to move into the extortion racket with small shops.

Starter Muscle: 8

History: The Sons started back when Redi and Sedik were both 16 living in Tirana, the capital city of Albania. Both were street kids who had to put up with the conduct and aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars - Parents dead, no jobs, and shitty prospects for life. [Though not born to the same mother, the two considered each other brothers and were damn near inseparable. They helped each other out and kept each other alive through 4 years of hardship.] Long story short, it was best that they left the country after a few of their escapades, and managed to secure passage to America illegally. They landed in an Albanian version of Brighton Beach, and took over - by force - the smuggling route they came over on. Taking the name of their home country, they gathered new friends from the neighborhood, and named themselves after their homeland. Thus, The Sons Of Shqipëria were born.

Mob Boss’ Character Sheets

Redi Dervishi
Age: 22
Apppearance:
Basic Personality: Operates on a switch. Whilst typically gregarious and carefree, once the “switch” is flipped, is calculated, emotionless, and ruthless. Especially willing to defend Sedik, sees himself as an older brother, even though they are the same age.
History: Redi was born in Tirana in 1992, approximately 1 year into the Yugoslav wars. His parents were dirt poor, and, try though they might, Redi learned early on the need to rely on himself to get what he needed. A large boy throughout life, he was quick to fight, but was strangely unemotional during the act. As he said, “I was made to destroy, and so I do.” However, this did not always turn out in his favor. Sedik saved him from a severe beatdown when both were young boys, preferring brains over brawn, and as such, Redi quickly swore to protect him for the rest of his life. The two became fast friends, and kept each other alive - Redi with an emotionless fist, Sedik with a silver tongue. And so, when Tirana had nothing to offer them, they left, bound for America. When they landed with the rest of the Albanian immigrants, they quickly found work, just not legitimately. Forming their crew, they set about building an empire…

Sedik Dukagjini
Age: 22
Appearance:
Basic Personality: Much more reserved than Redi, but can be equally as ruthless, albeit in different ways. Lack of physical strength has caused him to hone his mind - Redi is no moron, but he’s certainly not the brains either.
History: Born in Tirana at near the same time as Redi, they met when the boys were both 8, and Redi had finally gotten in over his head in a brawl. Sedik had no way to intervene physically, but used his sharp tongue to draw attention off of Redi and allow him to escape. When they reunited, it was as brothers and friends, inseparable from then on. Following their exodus to America, Sedik was the one who arranged their first contacts with the human smugglers in the area, and began setting up operations.

Other/Miscellaneous:
- Main Base of Operations is upper level of an auto-repair garage.
- All members ethnically Albanian, and they intend to keep it that way
- Several of the enforcers are veterans of the Yugoslav Wars.

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Just wanted to get it down so that people are aware of it, and finalize my interest. Definitely needs some fine tuning, and I'm open to any criticism.

I think I am interested.

Gang Character Sheet

Name:The Sons Of Shqipëria

Age:About 2 Years

Uniform:

Enforcer:


Thug:


Symbol:


Product: Human Trafficking. The Sons bring in workers, prostitutes and other human “cargo” from Albania and Eastern Europe. Not pretty, but it pays the bills. Trying to move into the extortion racket with small shops.

Starter Muscle: 8

History: The Sons started back when Redi and Sedik were both 16 living in Tirana, the capital city of Albania. Both were street kids who had to put up with the conduct and aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars - Parents dead, no jobs, and shitty prospects for life. [Though not born to the same mother, the two considered each other brothers and were damn near inseparable. They helped each other out and kept each other alive through 4 years of hardship.] Long story short, it was best that they left the country after a few of their escapades, and managed to secure passage to America illegally. They landed in an Albanian version of Brighton Beach, and took over - by force - the smuggling route they came over on. Taking the name of their home country, they gathered new friends from the neighborhood, and named themselves after their homeland. Thus, The Sons Of Shqipëria were born.

Mob Boss’ Character Sheets

Redi Dervishi
Age: 22
Apppearance:
Basic Personality: Operates on a switch. Whilst typically gregarious and carefree, once the “switch” is flipped, is calculated, emotionless, and ruthless. Especially willing to defend Sedik, sees himself as an older brother, even though they are the same age.
History: Redi was born in Tirana in 1992, approximately 1 year into the Yugoslav wars. His parents were dirt poor, and, try though they might, Redi learned early on the need to rely on himself to get what he needed. A large boy throughout life, he was quick to fight, but was strangely unemotional during the act. As he said, “I was made to destroy, and so I do.” However, this did not always turn out in his favor. Sedik saved him from a severe beatdown when both were young boys, preferring brains over brawn, and as such, Redi quickly swore to protect him for the rest of his life. The two became fast friends, and kept each other alive - Redi with an emotionless fist, Sedik with a silver tongue. And so, when Tirana had nothing to offer them, they left, bound for America. When they landed with the rest of the Albanian immigrants, they quickly found work, just not legitimately. Forming their crew, they set about building an empire…

Sedik Dukagjini
Age: 22
Appearance:
Basic Personality: Much more reserved than Redi, but can be equally as ruthless, albeit in different ways. Lack of physical strength has caused him to hone his mind - Redi is no moron, but he’s certainly not the brains either.
History: Born in Tirana at near the same time as Redi, they met when the boys were both 8, and Redi had finally gotten in over his head in a brawl. Sedik had no way to intervene physically, but used his sharp tongue to draw attention off of Redi and allow him to escape. When they reunited, it was as brothers and friends, inseparable from then on. Following their exodus to America, Sedik was the one who arranged their first contacts with the human smugglers in the area, and began setting up operations.

Other/Miscellaneous:
- Main Base of Operations is upper level of an auto-repair garage.
- All members ethnically Albanian, and they intend to keep it that way
- Several of the enforcers are veterans of the Yugoslav Wars.

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Just wanted to get it down so that people are aware of it, and finalize my interest. Definitely needs some fine tuning, and I'm open to any criticism.

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Jesus, posted it three times. Sorry about that.

Gang character Sheet:

Name: The Cahill(Caw-hill) Clan

Age:
almost one year

Uniform:


Symbol:


Product: The Cahill Clan Specializes in smuggling Alcohol which is brought in on the ships and ferried to their customers aboard the Delivery Trucks and masqueraded as Packages.

Starter Muscle: 7

History:
The Cahill Clan was created By Harold Cahill when his business was endangered due to rough economic times. He used the funding to keep his delivery company afloat but decided the extra cash was to much to give up on and so has stuck with his newfound life of crime creating the Cahill Clan

Mob boss Character Sheet;
Name: Harold Cahill

Age: 48

Appearance:


Gender: Male

Basic Personality: Harry is a stern man who has endured much in his life. He's buried two wives and one son and nearly lost his life's work when the Delivery company nearly shut down. However he is still jovial and warm to his friends and his subordinates see him as a father figure calling him "Pop" Cahill.

History:
When Harry Cahill was 18 he married the love of his life, Sarah Jesperson. When he was 22 She gave birth to his first child but unfortunately Sarah would die shortly after giving birth and the little baby boy would only live for a few months before joining its mother.Harry was heartbroken and attempted suicide at the young age of 23 he failed however and was hospitalized. While he was being treated he met a young nurse name Theresa Franklin and the two would begin to see each other romantically for the next two years. Finally Harry married Theresa and he opened Cahill Deliveries which was a success. Theresa would give birth to Harry's second son, Thomas when he was 25, the boy was healthy and so was Theresa and so Harry was happy. However tragedy would strike again, when Harry had turned 46 Theresa was diagnosed with cancer and passed away three years later. Around this time the economy had begun to falter and the family business was beginning to strain and soon after it would be on the verge of collapse leading to the creation of the Cahill Clan.

Other: Harry doesn't involve himself in the dirty deeds of his illicit activities as he prefers to let Thomas do that for him.

Name: Thomas Cahill

Age: 23

Appearance:


Gender: Male

Basic Personality: Thomas is rather passive and quite prefering to let his actions speak for him. When he does talk he doesn't raise his voice and tries to come off as calmly as possible. He is a salesman at heart and loves pushing product and ensuring customer loyalty.

Any group wants to have pre-existing relations with others?

I might want to do that, or I was wondering if it would be okay if I was apart of someone's group?

Gang character Sheet;
Name: The Golden State Particulars

Age: 6 Months

Uniform: There are no uniforms, just nice Italian suits.

Symbol:

Product: Loan sharking, money laundering, insider trading and embezzlement.

Starter Muscle: 4

History: The GSP have been operating out of cities for years now in branches. Each branch was designated a city or state, given start up capital and told to start making money. The most recent edition is (I'm going to say New York as no city name is given) the New York branch. The GSP make their money in other people’s money, they are the bankers and accountants of the criminal world. Gangs and corporations hide their money with the GSP because they are experts in the field and very soon everybody will know it. Money is moved all around the world to keep Uncle Sam from having a taste as well as keeping it away from those pesky police officers who would take away people’s ill-gotten wealth. They of course take a percentage for the expert service which they in turn invest for they into businesses they know are going to only go up. Of course they also offer loans to aspiring gangs and criminals however when they aren’t paid back on time the GSP are never afraid to get their hands dirty and with all of the money they touch and the friends they make they normally have a number of allies to help them. Nobodies money survives too long without the GSP laundering it and hopefully this new branch will be one that will last for ages to come.

Mob boss Character Sheet;
Name: Peter Stirk

Age: 61

Appearance:

Gender: Male

Basic Personality: He deals with this branch of the GSP as a big business. He holds meetings, poker games and regularly visits bars to play pool and drink for his meetings. He never was one for the dirty side of business but if a tongue needs cutting out he won’t back down. Finally he doesn't truly trust anyone, he will strike deals and believes in respect amongst thieves but doesn't truly trust anyone.

History: Peter has been working for the GSP for most of his life, his father was a big time banker in Boston and he had always felt comfortable around the office. Brought up with a silver spoon in his mouth it was a shock when his father was robbed and he was left with nothing. It was the biggest on anyone had ever soon and he was amazed as to how somebody could get way with that. He spent the rest of his life working his way back up through the banking world trying his own scams and running his own numbers to be just as good as the man who robbed his father. During his time he drew the attention of the GSP, they signed him up immediately, especially when he managed to trick the scout into handing over all of his bank details without even knowing it. During his time with the GSP he ran a number of businesses in the laundering department turning criminals money into a working man’s money and after many years of service he has been given his own branch to do business with.

Other: The GSP operate out of a number of back rooms, bank storage facilities and a single very nice gentlemen's club that has a bar, pool table, darts and a back room cards table.

Game Master hasn't posted in a week, might be dead. People interested if I start this instead of him?

@Joe: If there is no objection from the one you'd join. Although I'm guessing that since there will be a lot of '3 men do this while 2 others do that' you sometimes may not have much to do.

@Gowia: The Sutherlands having blackmailed Stirk, worked with him or having an all out war with him? I think it's a possible plot idea or something that could have happened in the past as both deal in the corporate and financial world.

I'm happy for you to start it, mmm it's a story idea, perhaps the Sutherlands are offered the GSP services and turn it down and so they basically rob you blind as a demonstration and then giving your money back to you to assure that you can trust them with the money which just pisses you off starting the war etc. Perhaps let me see how other people react, since you also deal in private paramilitary, cyber crime and cooperate espionage so I'd assume to keep it fair I would be better at finance side of things since I specialise in it. I would prefer not to start off in a war with the Sutherlands or being blackmailed by them however. :)

I'd say that E-Sec is Completely based on cyber crime with everything else being more or less leverage (Erika knows she's vulnerable physically and as such will employ a legitimate corporate body for her protection and for she need to get physical in her business have some enforcers she coerce to do the job, but then again I think The Sons will have the most fighting power and The Clan the most street smart as well as steady income from its own means).

I think financially the GSP would have by far the best means to make money since Erika for insider trading can only spy on corporate e-mails or force people to give her insider information while Peter gets information as they come and thus doesn't have to be proactive. In the means to destroy money however, while the GSP has to do things, should I say, 'Manually' (Get codes from people, know things and so forth), Erika on the other hand steals the numbers, crack accounts, clones debit and credit cards which I think would be much more efficient than the ways GSP employs. In a war with the GSP for example I think that they could easily track the money she sends to the 4 corners of the world and use the fact that she remains vague on her identity to impersonate the inexistant owners of the accounts and drain them, on the other hand would probably seek to attract the IRS on Peter or do blitz against his acounts, emptying some of them overnight or if she knows a deal that's about to happen due to insider trading destroy them by making them public, doing harm to the company and so forth.

Stock exchange, for example in the larger banks and broker companies, are handled mainly by super computers in which glitches can blow away hundreds of millions of dollars in instants, as happened to Knight Capital:

The most recent glimpse into a frightening future occurred on August 1 when a computer glitch at Knight Capital Group Inc. in New Jersey, that handled 11% of all U.S. stock trading, was rocked by an unproven algorithm. In less than an hour, the firm’s new “program” bid for 150 stocks incorrectly and ended up holding US$7-billion worth at one point. Immediately, rival computers traded against the bids and, by the end of the day, Knight had lost US$440-million and had to seek a financial rescue.

I think it could be seen this way: GSP specializes in bringing people to success through indirect means, but the Sutherlands specialize in bringing people to ruin through indirect means.

Government man: The Particulars: Finance, legal protection, indirect.
Special ops: The Sutherlands: Blackmail, legal shitstorms, indirect.
Tradesman: The Cahills: Generating Revenue (GSP makes money out of the money of others, they sell an actual product for real profits), underground relations, direct.
Military: The Albanians: Extortion, fire power & number, direct.

I think that each have their own ways of waging war and their weaknesses. (Sutherlands would probably suck against Cahills the most due to lack of compromising records of ability to reach their clients (mostly poor people with low online presence), but probably be the most efficient against the GSP since they have the most to lose, GSP would have trouble because while they have rich clients to which they make a lot of money, they have more to lose working against the Sutherlands. GSP would probably be more effective against Albanians because of their relations in high places that can be used to crack down on 'Serious Crimes', human trafficking and violence being more serious than alcohol contraband. Albanians being the bane of the Cahills in the fact that they probably wouldn't hesitate to kill people, blow their products and in general have the manpower and resources to wage a physical war, things neither Sutherland or Particulars would have.)

Unless the GM returns soon, I'd say yeah, call it dead. That said, you certainly seem to have grasp on the idea and an interesting concept for direction, so if you start it on your own, do let me know.

@wernher If the Gm has bolted i would be behind you taking over 100%

I am soooo sorry guys, my computer decided to not like my internet...
I hope I get get this back off of the ground

I'll get an OOC up, if there isn't one already.