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Grizzlybeard"The Liquor Man"...
Name: James-William "Hard Stuff" McFinnegan; "Jimmy" to his friends, "Hard-Stuff", to his business associates
Age: 29
Description/Appearance:
Jimmy is a slightly smaller man, standing 5'7" in height, and is fairly slim in build. He's perpetually scruffy, sporting an unkempt, aged five-o'clock shadow. His hair is wavy, and messily slicked backward, more to keep it out of his face than to look good. His hair is darker in colour, but his eyes shine bright blue.
His hands are calloused and bony, and well suited for underground boxing. He wears a suit that was very expensive at one time, but is now well-worn and fraying at the seams.
Occupation: Alcohol Smuggler
Affiliation: He's affiliated with The Cassidy Crew, and cuts them a large discount on his product. In return, they help him distribute across the city.
Skills:
History:
McFinnegan was born in New York, to two Irish immigrants. He had a sister and two brothers. His father founded a successful ship-construction company out of New York, and he and his siblings worked together in the company. The first world war broke out, and father McFinnegan put his children into hiding. His company had made enough money that he was able to bribe his way into the immigration office, and have the records of his children destroyed. He died only a few years later during a mugging, leaving his oldest son, Jimmy, as the new head of the company. During prohibition, however, the McFinnegan family found their business dwindling, as highways began replacing ships as the main mode of goods-transport.
Facing poverty, Jimmy convinced his siblings to move to Canada, where prohibition wasn't in effect. Jimmy himself stayed in New York, and used his siblings to establish a liquor smuggling business along the Atlantic coast. It started out small, with his siblings buying whiskey and beer, and sending it to him to resell at a premium. Within a couple years, they had saved up enough to start their own brewery in Newfoundland. With the bargaining chip of a constant supply of liquor, Jimmy talked his way into the high ranks of the Cassidy Crew, an up-and-coming organization of New York Irishmen, lead by three of his cousins. With their help, Jimmy began mass-distributing "Hard-Stuff McFinnegan's Canadian Whiskey" and "McFinnegan Fine Ale" all across the West Coast.
Of course, as his business grew, so did his reputation. Soon enough, McFinnegan found himself paying off several police stations, and buying protection from various regional gangs. He soon found it more cost-effective to completely turn himself into a middle-man, merging his company with the Cassidy's, so that they could handle all the difficulties of distribution and protection, while he focused on keeping the booze flowing across the border as fast as possible.
Age: 29
Description/Appearance:
Jimmy is a slightly smaller man, standing 5'7" in height, and is fairly slim in build. He's perpetually scruffy, sporting an unkempt, aged five-o'clock shadow. His hair is wavy, and messily slicked backward, more to keep it out of his face than to look good. His hair is darker in colour, but his eyes shine bright blue.
His hands are calloused and bony, and well suited for underground boxing. He wears a suit that was very expensive at one time, but is now well-worn and fraying at the seams.
Occupation: Alcohol Smuggler
Affiliation: He's affiliated with The Cassidy Crew, and cuts them a large discount on his product. In return, they help him distribute across the city.
Skills:
- - Lockpicking
- Fluent in both English and Irish Gaelic
- Swimming
- Sailing
- Knife-Fighting
- Boxing
History:
McFinnegan was born in New York, to two Irish immigrants. He had a sister and two brothers. His father founded a successful ship-construction company out of New York, and he and his siblings worked together in the company. The first world war broke out, and father McFinnegan put his children into hiding. His company had made enough money that he was able to bribe his way into the immigration office, and have the records of his children destroyed. He died only a few years later during a mugging, leaving his oldest son, Jimmy, as the new head of the company. During prohibition, however, the McFinnegan family found their business dwindling, as highways began replacing ships as the main mode of goods-transport.
Facing poverty, Jimmy convinced his siblings to move to Canada, where prohibition wasn't in effect. Jimmy himself stayed in New York, and used his siblings to establish a liquor smuggling business along the Atlantic coast. It started out small, with his siblings buying whiskey and beer, and sending it to him to resell at a premium. Within a couple years, they had saved up enough to start their own brewery in Newfoundland. With the bargaining chip of a constant supply of liquor, Jimmy talked his way into the high ranks of the Cassidy Crew, an up-and-coming organization of New York Irishmen, lead by three of his cousins. With their help, Jimmy began mass-distributing "Hard-Stuff McFinnegan's Canadian Whiskey" and "McFinnegan Fine Ale" all across the West Coast.
Of course, as his business grew, so did his reputation. Soon enough, McFinnegan found himself paying off several police stations, and buying protection from various regional gangs. He soon found it more cost-effective to completely turn himself into a middle-man, merging his company with the Cassidy's, so that they could handle all the difficulties of distribution and protection, while he focused on keeping the booze flowing across the border as fast as possible.
