[OOC] The Syndicate

[Hey Im Jordan]

T H E S Y N D I C A T E

_{| GMs: @Universorum & @Sol | Genre: Modern, Crime | Type: Sandbox |}

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B L O O D S W E A T A N D R E S P E C T

_{Two are given. One is earned.}

Everyone has to eat. It’s a fact of life. Maybe you have a job. Maybe you don’t.

It’s even worse when you have a family to provide for.

When the rent’s due and a couple of your checks bounced.

You’re stressed out.

The local liquor store doesn’t have any security. No cameras. No guards. Nothing like that, past 12 AM. Grab the panty hose. Take the gun. Point it at the cashier. Tell her what you want, she’ll give it to you, she’s scared. There isn’t a button to call the cops. In and out.

Get the Benjamins, get the penny rolls. It’s all yours now. It’s okay.

The safe is a beast. Next time, you’ll bring a bigger saw. Of course there will be a next time. It only gets better from here. You’re not going to tell, are you? Remember, loyalty is what makes you family. That’s what we expect. And we’ll help you.

No more stress.

Guess you’re a criminal now. But at least the bills are paid, right? It’s okay. We’ll help you now. Now you can do bigger jobs.

You’re family now.

Welcome to the Syndicate.

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The Syndicate is not above any crime, with murders, robberies, drug running, and even human trafficking being attributed to them. The leader of the Syndicate is unknown, both to the public eye, and most of the group. The ring is trying to expand and go national, or even worldwide. It’s said that the kingpin’s dream is a world where all crime runs through him.

Their main crime is grand theft. Heists. Local banks, local liquor stores, jewelry stores. They want to hit bigger banks, museums, private art collections. They want more money. Bigger houses. Faster cars. Most of all, they need more notoriety. That was why the big dogs in the group did the deeds. Infamy and fortune, by any means necessary. They want to scope out bigger scores, but they can’t do it anymore. There isn’t enough of them on the lower food chain.

And that’s where you come in. You’re expendable to them, though they make it seem like you’re not. You’re part of the family, remember?

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S E T T I N G

The roleplay will be taking place in a town on the Nevada/California border, with a population of about 40,000. Specific heist locations will be revealed in the OOC(and IC) threads in higher detail. The city is named Fairbank. Your characters can be new to it or have been here for a while.

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C H A R A C T E R S K E L E T O N

[b]Name:[/b] First, Last
[b]Age:[/b] 18-43
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b] Use whatever you’d like for a face claim; real person or illustrations. Describe it if you’d like. If there are any problems, I’ll notify you.
[b]History:[/b]
[b]Skills:[/b] A list of up to ten things your character is good at. Driving, marksmanship, charisma, etc
[b]Flaws:[/b] List 3 character flaws.
[b]Vices:[/b] Write your character's vices here.
[b]Occupation:[/b] What your character does on the side/prior to joining the Syndicate. Illegal occupations allowed, unemployed also allowed.
[b]Theme Song:[/b] Not REQUIRED, but encouraged.

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R U L E S

• Don’t be a douche.
• Refer to rule #1 in ALL instances.

We’re here to have fun, and the best kind of fun isn’t super strictly moderated. Go nuts, man, just don’t break any glaring, overarching guild rules. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to ask me or @Sol.

[Hey Im Jordan]

I edited the character sheet a bit.

[Taytay]

Name: Edwin Flowers

Age: 20

Gender: Male

History: Edwin Flowers grew up in a small suburbia in the farm lands of Louisiana. His parents are Mary and Lenard Flowers, are the most pland and normal people you could meet, but there is son is anything but. They gave birth to a colorful child who got into all sorts of trouble. As kid he would get into fights with others, mess with things that were not his, and be as loud as ever. Both his parents had their hands full with all the mischief the child was causing. When Edwin went into middle school with blazing red hair and a loud mouth. He had a tendency to speak out against (or talk back to) many of his teachers and friends, and as he got older it only got worse. In high school he washed the dye out but replaced it with a mean streak and sassy attitude.

After he graduated he left to the west to get an education as a lawyer against his parents permission. As an adult he is more tamed but turned his loud mouth and pushy nature into skills that he can use. He robbed his first liquor store because he was three month behind on his rent and up to his neck in student loans. His paralegal job was not doing any good for him either, and without mommy and daddy's money he was desperate. It was a liquor store owned by some Asian woman, the job was simple he went in with the ski-mask on and simple gun he bought from a nobody and did what he saw in the movies. Quiet frankly he was scared as shit; What if the chick got smart and called the cops? What if by some grace of god a policeman walked in looking for a doughnut? But it was to late to turn back, he was already pointing the gun, waving it at her and telling her to empty the safe and register. He was relived when she quickly emptied her "pockets" and raised her hands in fear. The look in her eyes gave him a thrill, the fear she held sent a chill down his spine, it gave him a sense of control and power that he only felt when he was in court getting bad people out of trouble. Edwin shot her twice, once in the shoulder and another in the leg and then ran with his money in tow.

The rush he got was addicting and it lead him to do it two more times before getting noticed by some very big people who wanted his skills, and psychotic nature.

Skills:
1.Charisma
2.Strategy
3.He is a good shot
4.Swimmer
5.Runner
6.Can take a hit
7.Knows the law
8.Care free nature
9.Psychotic
10.Quick Talker

Flaws:
1.Has a tendency to over think most things.
2.Can be brash and stubborn and if things don't go his way he might "act out".
3.His deep psychotic nature might drive him to do extra studpid things (like shooting the woman)

Vices:

Occupation: Paralegal at a law firm

Theme Song:
Waking on a Dream By: Empire of Sun

[Sherlolly]

Name: Ara Branning
Age: Twenty four years old [24]
Gender: Female
Appearance: Keira Knightley

description

A true beauty with sharp and striking features, Ara can go far with her looks alone if she intended to. Dark mahogany hair often frames her features, the mark pity of the time remaining messy and unkept yet still presentable. Her dark brown eyes appear almost black in some lights, and, to some people, lighten depending on what mood she's in. Her complexion is a mix of olive and fair tone, a rosy glow illumintating her cheeks most of the time. The style of her attire varies depending on what she'll be doing that day, but largely consists of the causal jeans and t-shirt combinations.

History: Ara was brought up as an only child by an abusive, drunken father after her mother died during child birth. She spent the majority of her childhood alone until she started wandering around the streets and getting involved with the 'wrong people'. She would steal small things from people's pockets or purses and, one time, managed to retrieve a credit card along with its bank details on a single peice of paper. After a short while of hesitation, at the time, the twelve year old started using the card and spent over £4 million in England on junk and pointless things she found interesting before she was caught. Lashing out at the first police officer, the young girl of merely thirteen stabbed the man arresting her and attempted an escape, succeeding for the time being.

Since then, she has been moving around a lot and only making a few connections wherever she goes. She would pick up any job she possibly could, but had one skill in particular that seemed to outshine the rest, landing her a few decent-paying jobs as a florist. Unfortunately, she'd never fully be able to settle down and start a life before being discovered once more. That's where the Syndicate came in, promising her a better life and protection. And, of course, she believed them.

Skills:
• Skills of persuasion
• Charisma
• Decent runner
• Skilful with a knife
• Can ignore emotions
• Relatively tough, so can take a few blows
• Uses the fact she is a woman to her advantage
• Good singer
• Artistic
• Can figure out people's weaknesses easily

Flaws:
• Thinks primarily of herself
• Is prone to running away
• Her yearning to start a new life can often get in the way

Vices: Write your character's vices here.

Occupation: Florist
Theme Song: Beautiful Disaster by Jon McLaughlin

[Treshan]

Name: John Redentar

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Appearance:

History: John was born in Dallas, Texas. His parents were rich and had a few houses in various parts of USA. for young days he was a fearless man, was afraid of nothing, after completion of education became a traveller, in 2002 he was in Japan, next in 2004 he went to Canada where stayed for 4 years. In 2008 he went to Mexico where he was caught by one of drug cartels. He managed to convince the cartel for not killing him and what's more let him attach to themselves, in mexico he taught hiding from Police, goverment and firing the sniper rifle. On his return to the USA in 2012 he settled in the small city named Fairbank. He became an owner of the shooting range where could exercise shooting with his sniper rifle named "Viper" . He conducted the calm life, earning money. In surroundings everyone very much quickly got to like him. At present he is teaching children firing the weapons on shooting range.

Skills:
-Marksmanship
-Persuasion
-Driving
-Stealth
-"Eagle Eye"
-Good Runner
-Strong
-Brave
-Knows Geography
-He has a legal source of weapons.

Flaws:
Likes go exalt himself
He must convince to the new people
Shooting with weapons other than Pistols and sniper rifle is anguish for him

Vices: Killing 34 people in Mexico

Occupation: Before Mercenary, now Shooting Trainer

[Hey Im Jordan]

@Queentze@Treshan@SherlollyEveryone's accepted so far!

[Sol]

Name: Greg Wilson
Age: 26
Gender: Male

Appearance:

History: Eagle Scout. Straight A's. Big plans and even bigger paychecks. With God on his side Greg thought he had a life of virtuousness and regalia in the bag. It wasn't long after his college graduation that he landed a cushy, high-paying job at an upstart firm for an exuberant amount of cash. Ready to live his pure and peaceful life, Greg moved to Cali and bought an apartment. All he needed was a wife and 2 kids and he was living the dream, but as it turns out Greg didn't a normal life. He had told himself his whole life that God and goodwill were the ways of the world but with a 90k sign on bonus and a bonafide truckload of cocaine his outlook on life started to change. Drugs and women were worth sinning for, and you bet your ass that Greg learned to sin. He committed his first murder after an "escort" threatened to expose him. One whack to the head with a humanitarian award and the lights went out for Sunflower. He buried his gold cross necklace in her unmarked grave and decided that maybe God wouldn't want him around anyway, so why bother trying to be good?

It started out small, lunches from the employee fridge at the firm. Greg found a new high theat cocaine couldn't even match: theft. The rush he got when stealing was second to none, even giving cocaine a run for its money as he moved on to riskier, more exhilarating jobs. Greg made plans to rob a convenience store. It wasn't the money he was after, it was the unmistakable rush of adrenaline that kept him on edge. He approached the counter, sawed-off in hand, and demanded everything in the register. As it turns out the old black woman behind the counter was packing, and she was a much, much faster shot. Running out of the store with a bullet in his shoulder and blood on his brand new Armani suit, Greg decided he needed help. He knew he wasn't much of a career criminal, and if he wanted to keep his high going he was going to need people who knew the game better than he did. That's where the Syndicate came into play.

Skills:

• Charisma
• Architectural Knowledge
• Computer Expert
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Greg has a strange preference when it comes to axes)
• "A good shot" (but only with a shotgun)
• Psychotic

Flaws:

• Is a terrible shot with most guns
• Has a public image he doesn't want tarnished
• Is very gullible

Vices:

• Cocaine Addiction

Occupation: Works at the new-age architecture firm "NewPlan", a start-up that focuses on building custom, state of the art mansions for the world's elite. Greg is a team supervisor which gives him very flexible hours and a great Christmas bonus.

Theme Song: youtu.be/IPkvIDpBgPM

[Hey Im Jordan]

@Solapproved b('-'d)

[Legion02]

Name: Jurgen Lagram
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance:

Jurgen Lagram

History:
Jurgen was not the most social of people. When growing up he had trouble making friends, mostly because he seemed quite happy just on his own. Reading comic books or watching cartoons. Initially it seemed like a concern. Anti-social behavior in these times is greatly frowned upon. However, Jurgen seemed to pull through. He got a few good friends and enjoyed their company from time to time. In Highschool he started programming together with 3 other people. This is where Jurgen discovered his talent. It wasn't so much as programming as it was problem solving. Jurgen's brain seemed to keep thinking about everything non-stop. He got ideas, developed them and even tested them before he put them on paper. As a result, his programs were rather failproof.

As programmer, Jurgen was expected to earn a fair amount of money. However he is rather greedy. When he gets a grand he wants two. Soon he realized that any legal way to gain money was rigged. If he earned 1.500 his boss got 15.000 and he did not like that. So he counter rigged the game. He installed several backdoors in the accountancy program the company he worked for developed. Sadly he was caught. To keep the thrust of the customers he was forced to quite his job, or face jailtime. Most of his work was removed. Most, but not all. To this day he can access several firms' network through the program.

The idea of an illegal hack suited him. On the Deepnet he found a wealth of information on all matter of subjects. The Syndicate recruited him through that way.

Skills:
- Expert hacker (not the matrix way)
- Programmer
- Clever
- Psychopath
- Strategist/planner
- Learned a great deal from the internet (even some explosive recipes)

Flaws:
- Not the smoothest of talkers
- Psychopath
- Not really trustworthy
- Was never in a fight
- Can't handle guns
- Can't handle knives

Vices:
- Is looked down on by Knox Inc. The company he used to work for.
- Insomniac

Occupation: Hacker/Jobless
Theme Song: Will add later

It may look now that he's deeply flawed but his cleverness will most likely be his strongest point and should not be underestimated.

[Sol]

@Legion02 Approved!

[MonsieurShade]

Name: Dimitri Collins
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Appearance: - He stands at roughly 6'4" and weighs 91kg. His taste in clothing is pretty average, though he does have a preference for t-shirts, cargo pants, and boots.

History: Dimitri's life was a bit of a rough and tumble one: The youngest of three siblings growing up in a small house in Rockhill South Carolina, Dimitri was taught from an early age how to fight or flee to keep hold of what was his. His parents couldn't afford much with their current jobs, typically making only enough to keep a roof over everyone's heads and food in their stomachs. Luxuries such as vacations, television, and even new clothing were often ignored in favor of keeping the power and water running. As could be expected the lack of luxuries created a bit of a gap between Dimitri and most of his peers, and Dimitri suffered more than his fair share of bullying all throughout grade school and partially into his first year of high school. Things changed rather rapidly once he hit puberty and Dimitri began towering over his classmates. They changed even more when Dimitri decided to join the school's boxing club and start using what he'd learned to get a bit of payback on the people that had mocked him in the past. After several suspensions and a near expulsion for instigating fights with and occasionally mugging other students, Dimitri found himself diving on a downward spiral into the life of a criminal. He started running with small time gangs in his sophomore year, and by the time he'd graduated, skewed college in favor of continuing with what he thought was the path to easy money. He hopped from state to state for a bit, falling in and out of all sorts of gangs until he found himself recruited by the Syndicate with the promise of a lifetime of riches.

Skills:

• Brawler- A childhood packed with fights allows him to compensate for the fact that he only has a few years of actual lessons under his belt. A skilled fighter who can take a hit as well as he can give one, Dimitri likes to dominate his opponents with his sheer size and ferocity, pressing the attack while shrugging off anything short of a blow to a vital area or an attack with a weapon.
• Sheer strength- He's strong and durable, more accustomed to lifting and carrying heavy loads.
• Intimidation- A rather imposing individual, Dimitri can be made to strong arm others in order to produce favorable outcomes
• Minor Gang connections- His runs with several minor gangs has given Dimitri a small network for street info and favors
• Short to mid range fire arm usage- Dimitri understands how to use handguns and shotguns
• Grand Theft- Dimitri can hot wire a car if need be.

Flaws:

• Limited Education- Dimitri only has a high school level education. He's not stupid, but he's not exactly someone to come up with a complex plan
• Arrogant- The fact that he rarely loses a fight or has to deal with people contesting him has given Dimitri an misplaced sense of self-importance. It doesn't really affect his ability work too badly, but it does mean that he can underestimate people on a regular basis. It can also put a strain on his relationship with those he works with unless they can find a way to deflate his ego. Beating him in a fist fight is the easiest way of doing so. Blackmail also works.
• Gang Rivalries- The door swings both ways. For all of the friends that he's made in gangs Dimitri has made just as many enemies. Rival gang members are still more than willing to take a shot at him, as are those from previously friendly gangs that believe that he's betrayed them
• Terrible driver- Ironically Dimitri has almost no experience with driving due to a lack of driving lessons
• Acrophobia- Dimitri has a crippling fear of heights. He shuts down if forced into high places where he can see the ground below him.

Vices: Dimitri is an alcoholic.
Occupation: Manual labor jobs mostly, drug and weapon running back when he was still with other gangs.
Theme Song:Travi$ Scott - The Prayer

[Sol]

@MonsieurShade I love it. Approved!

[MonsieurShade]

Thank ye kindly~

[Hey Im Jordan]

This will probably start in the next couple of days, depending on if me or @Sol does it. I'll have to talk to him, but at the latest, next Monday is the next day I'm free enough to start it up.

I'll post my character tonight or tomorrow morning.

[Sol]

I'll send you a few ideas and see if we can get something going. @Universorum