[OOC] Fiddler's Green

[TheYellowKing]

Maybe the irish mob was destined to start small...

[Sturmgewehr]

...and end up big & strong. :)

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[Sturmgewehr]

I decided to make some changes to my character. I edited the occupation, the appearance and the history, except for the personality part.

[Polyphemus]

Looks good. My question is how he gets involved with a crappy bar up on the North Side?

[Polyphemus]

Might as well get this show on the road. We can pick up more as we go.

[Polyphemus]

Alright, it's up. I'm assuming y'all are the group of regulars Kelly is talking to.

[TheYellowKing]

Since it's my first post in an RP ever i'd be happy to hear some criticism. In particular: is it too short?

[Sturmgewehr]

Polyphemus said
Looks good. My question is how he gets involved with a crappy bar up on the North Side?

Would it be too much if I say that Max offers protection for the owner in exchange for a monthly fee?

[TheYellowKing]

Sturmgewehr said
Would it be too much if I say that Max offers protection for the owner in exchange for a monthly fee?

I would think so, yes. Either they are friends (Kelly and Max) in which case Max wouldn't charge him, or their not friends in which case I'm inclined to think Kelly would be too proud to pay him. (wait, kelly's not the owner...scratch that). Regardless i think it would be weird for max to be a regular customer in a club that's paying him "protection" money.

[teapotshark]

Pick up more as you go? I'll gladly help there, if you like.

Name: Beth Callahan.
Age: 26.
Gender: Female.

Appearance:

Beth Callahan

Day Job: Mechanic at Nolan's Garage, an auto-repair shop that doubles as a front for an array of criminal dealings.

Bio: Beth's father, Tommy Callahan, has his roots in Ireland and made the move to Kansas City to follow his sweetheart, an American tourist named Angela. While their story started off sweet, Tommy's criminal tendencies and drug addiction had him tangled up in half of the city's gang crimes before Beth was five years old. Angela Callahan suffered from post-natal depression and turned to alcohol shortly after Beth was born.

As such, Beth grew up highly independent. Still a kid, she developed a tough outer shell as a defence mechanism and gave in to rowdy, somewhat violent moods whenever the situation called on it. She led a one-woman crusade against her childhood bully, which ended when she broke the boy's arm and nose. She unintentionally became the King Pin of the playground for a time, and discovered she quite enjoyed the feeling. However, she never terrorised the other kids. She's not a bully; while she won't go out of her way to protect people, she'll stand up for the underdog if she has to. But of course, the playground is nothing compared to the streets of Kansas City.

Meanwhile, Angela Callahan became a prostitute to fund her alcoholism and growing drug addiction. This led to many afternoons, evenings and nights that found Beth wandering the Kansas City streets because her mother locked the apartment. She quickly learned the law of the streets and did whatever was necessary for her survival. At thirteen years old she dropped out of school and joined a minor gang. She jumped from gang to gang whenever one disbanded or became the victim of a police raid. For four years she was part of minor gangs, during which time she learned to fight, steal, fire a gun, hotwire cars and ride a motorcycle, among other things.

Occasionally she visited her mother and got into fights with her customers. She worked her way up to larger, more influential gangs and bigger crimes, always refusing to be some gangster's arm-candy and demanding respect in her own right. Within gangs she made the odd friend but never got close to anyone. As a result she's unused to and concerned by amiable people. She's not the kind of person to waste time in any sense.

Her father would turn up at the apartment from time to time, usually hiding from something or someone. Beth followed him to Fiddler's Green one night and pulled him out of a bar fight. Since then she has been a regular, forming connections and often eavesdropping on conversations, especially those involving Tommy Callahan. After a while, however, he went missing. Despite her eavesdropping, Beth knew nothing to help her find him, though she's certain he got himself into too big a mess to get out of. She sticks around Fiddler's Green whenever she's not on a job or working at Nolan's Garage. Maybe one day she'll discover something new about her father's disappearance.

(How's that?)

[Sturmgewehr]

TheYellowKing said
I would think so, yes. Either they are friends (Kelly and Max) in which case Max wouldn't charge him, or their not friends in which case I'm inclined to think Kelly would be too proud to pay him. (wait, kelly's not the owner...scratch that). Regardless i think it would be weird for max to be a regular customer in a club that's paying him "protection" money.

Well in that case i'll go with option 2.

There are times when Max wants to relax and leave it all behind for a few moments. That's why he comes there quite often. Plues he is not a sophisticated person. Despite the money and power gained from selling drugs, Max remained the same simple person he'd always been.

[Polyphemus]

Beth looks great to me.

And I like the idea of the bar being Max' refuge. If you've watched House of Cards, it's like how Frank always comes back to the same greasy barbecue joint no matter how rich and powerful he becomes.

[teapotshark]

Awesome, I'll have an IC post up shortly.

Edit: Also, Sturmgewehr and I had an idea that Beth's father got caught up in Gonzales and Max Lowrey's business, and so Max is keeping him hostage and getting him to do jobs to repay a debt. Is it cool if I play Tommy Callahan too?

[TheYellowKing]

Just posted an IC and wanted to clarify: Although it's a call from Ashling's phone, as far as i'm concerned anyone could be on the other end of the line!
That's what makes it all the more thrilling!

[Polyphemus]

Um, it's already the next day? What happened to the guy at Fiddler's Green?

[Sturmgewehr]

I can take care of him in my next post. Once Max arrives at Fiddler's Green and sees him there he will take him away(to deal with him personally) and apologise saying that he's a newbie and dosen't know how this business works.

Also...what do you think of teapotshark's proposal?

[TheYellowKing]

I didn't make any decision regarding the events that night (except the fact that Conor is unhurt). I left everything open plot-wise. He could be dead, missing, alive and well, held as hostage ar anything else really.

Nevertheless, I'm sorry for stretching the rules a bit. I have now a better sense of where the boundaries are.

[Polyphemus]

Sturmgewehr said
I can take care of him in my next post. Once Max arrives at Fiddler's Green and sees him there he will take him away(to deal with him personally) and apologise saying that he's a newbie and dosen't know how this business works. Also...what do you think of teapotshark's proposal?

The proposal works for me. Are we just assuming this guy works for Max, then? I had a couple ideas in mind for that character, but I guess we can do that too.

TheYellowKing said
I didn't make any decision regarding the events that night (except the fact that Conor is unhurt). I left everything open plot-wise. He could be dead, missing, alive and well, held as hostage ar anything else really. Nevertheless, I'm sorry for stretching the rules a bit. I have now a better sense of where the boundaries are.

Not a problem, dude. We learn by trial and error. I was just a little confused more than anything else.

[teapotshark]

Polyphemus said The proposal works for me.

Excellent. Here's Tommy's character sheet in that case.

Tommy Callahan

Name: Tommy Callahan.
Age: 47.
Gender: Male.

Day Job: Max Lowrey's lackey.

Bio: Thomas Callahan was born and bred in Dublin, Ireland. He was the eldest son of two very proud parents, and a brother to three. As a teenager he started out selling fake IDs and his brother's Asperger's medication. He got a thrill from breaking the law, so his criminal activity shot up as a teenager. He stole cars, went joyriding, took part in street races, dealt and used meth, committed arson and caused grievous bodily harm while drunk or high.

By the time he was twenty years old his parents had disowned him and he owned an apartment in the city. Around this time he met an American tourist named Angela and the two became lovers. He followed her back to Kansas City and immediately became a part of the vast criminal underworld there. Angela's pregnancy was a surprise to them both, and while she welcomed it, Tommy was apprehensive about bringing a child into the world he made for himself and Angela. But, loyal to family, he married Angela.

Then Beth was born and Tommy couldn't take the swift change in his life. He grabbed his stuff and ran. It was this nagging feeling of cowardice and guilt that has kept him coming back to his wife and daughter every once in a while.

He created enough of a name for himself that mob bosses took notice. For a time he worked a cage fighting ring for Harry Keegan, the head of a small organisation that dealt in drugs, theft and anything else that would earn them money. Tommy made his way slowly to the top of Keegan's list of favourites. Unfortunately, Keegan's biggest rival, Javier Gonzales, destroyed the organisation, consumed its various businesses and took on what remained of its members.

He hid with Angela and his then six year old daughter for a while, and bonded with the child. Shortly before her seventh birthday, he left them again. He took up a position with another of Gonzales' rivals and fell right back into the underground. A while later, he shot and killed a high-ranking member of the crew and, with no other option, fled to Gonzales for help. Gonzales agreed to protect Tommy as long as he provided Gonzales with information on his rivals and joined his crew. With Tommy's information, Gonzales consumed another gang and grew in power and influence.

Tommy worked for Gonzales for many years, visiting his wife and daughter from time to time, until he asked Gonzales for a sizeable loan – with which he bought several properties – and couldn't earn the money back. He fled again, hiding with Angela and Beth, then in her early twenties, and frequented Fiddler's Green for updates on Gonzales. When he heard Max Lowrey had taken over, he thought he could come out of hiding. He was wrong, of course.