From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: ADMIN: Gangs of Generica
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:58:52 GMT
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Just to contribute to the mass of ADMIN postings...here's what I have so far
for the Gangs of the Low City and elsewhere in Generica.  Some of it it pretty
sketchy, and Noctu will be trying his best to modify it until all of them say
Leader: XXX, Demon Spider infiltrator.  ;-}  I've deleted all the attributions,
i.e. whose gang is which, but I think the only ones that should be Hands Off
the Dark Blades, for Morgan Broman, and the Demon Spiders, for myself.  The
unspecified ones, in particular, are fair game--but send me the description if
you come up with anything.  (Pete, feel free to add any personages below to
the Directory--or don't, unless you see them being used.  Up to you.)

Will this be a regular posting?  Maybe--depends on the demand.  Your vote
counts.

Anyway, the listing:


  Alley Creepers
Symbol: a cockroach
Leader: Chicele, human, Demon Spider infiltrator
Others: Black Dharzin, dwarven thief, wanted by the Guard
        + 2 halflings, 11 humans

This is a team of thieves. They don't do killings, but will retreive "lost"
items for a fee. They are highly skilled professionals.

  Black Bullies.
Symbol: a fair-sized black square
Leader: "Bully-Boy", drow; ally of Demon Spiders

Dress entirely in black and thus prefer to work the darker yet somewhat richer
parts of Low City.  Bully-boy's identity as a drow is not generally known.

  Chaos Creating Crew.
Symbol: 3 C's of different sizes, within each other
This racially mixed, basically leaderless group lives up to its name from the
destruction they cause.

  Dark Blades
Symbol: their darkened blades
Races:  2 drow
 3 haflings
 15 mixed humans

This gang is basically a team of thugs/assassins. All blades carried by the
members are blackened so they won't shine in the dark alleys of Generica...They
will hire themselves for assassinations. They are a mixture of stealth and
"brute squad".
(Morgan, send me a more complete listing.  I don't seem to have one.)

  Dark Corner Gang.
(Somebody--Rigler, perhaps?--has the description of these guys.  Somebody send
me a copy.)

  Demon Spiders
Symbol: black eight-armed "spider" symbol 
Leader: Noctu, a.k.a. Prince Naleril of Desleval--drow
Others: Shatoc--Noctu's lieutenant, human
        Clivia--New recruit, former Stiletto
        + others, and several infiltrators

The Demon Spiders once merely affected the sign of the Demon Spider.  When
Noctu, exiled prince of the Underwurlde, took them over, though, he turned them
to active worship of Lolth.  He is more daring than many gang leaders, wishing
nothing more than to regain his position in the Underwurlde, through regaining
the favour of Lolth and creating a foothold in the Overwurlde.  His current
plan is to take over all of the gangs of Low City by infiltrating them with
Demon Spiders.

  Elf Scalpers
Symbol: lock of hair
Leader: Ugluk, half-orc

Let's just say these guys don't like elves at all.  There are several
half-orcs, including the leader, Ugluk.  Currently they and the Trigolet Clan
are warring with Golden Violence and Norad's Pummelers.

  Flame Brands
Symbol: upper right arm branded in flame shape

  Golden Violence
Symbol: gold coin
Little is known of Golden Violence, but this gang is composed mainly of elves. 
Despite their name they are fairly humane--they will kill quickly.  (It is also
unknown where they get the golden coins they leave with their kills.)

  Grunge
Symbol: lots and lots of dirt and grunge

  Le Roy Boyz
Symbol: affected symbols of royalty
Leader: 'The Kink'

A group of youths claiming to be royalty in the Low city.  They favor purple in
their cloaks and ermine at the collars.  The group is headed by 'the Kink' --
he siezed power when he forced the former Kink to abdicate with the
'crown'---of his head.  They are too tight-knit a group to kill each other
without cause, so the former Kink is presently a Nearl...

  Night Martens:
Symbol: spiked collar
Leader: Hot Seccho, large young half-ogre
Others: Bethor Rinch, half-drow, ally of Demon Spiders
        Hyac Zuggsudz, half-orc
        Muys Badds, human
        Whurgo Finkum, human
        Fifti Meahodds, human
        Thilu Fish, human
        + several orc-dogs

A big gang occupying a large part of the Low City, south of the Scrappy Ram.
Their boss is Hot Seccho, a large young half-ogre, and the others are mostly
human, though there is a half-drow, Bethor Rinch, and a half-orc, Hyac
Zuggsudz.  The human members are Muys Badds, Whurgo Finkum, Fifti Meahodds, and
Thilu Fish, and they have some orcdogs to help them in their actions.  All
members, as well as their dogs, wear a spiked ring around the neck.

  Norad's Pummelers.
Symbol: imprint of a fist
Leader: Norad, elf
Others: Norad(son of Norad), elf

Norad is the last name of the Elven family that has ruled this gang --due to
their fighting, thievery, and occasionally magic skills-- since its beginning.

  Opal Kings
Symbol: shining jewel(sometimes even authentic)

  Shadow Falcons:
Leader: Santo Yonkuhn, former novice priest of Trulfar
Others: Guby Zulkims, follower of Santo
        Fett Coss
        Meg Berfes, Santo's moll

They have a sort of moral code; they don't kill their victims until it's
*really* necessary.  This is because of the personality of their charismatic
leader, Santo Yonkuhn, who once was a novice priest of Trulfar, a fertility
goddess.  He has been thrown out of the temple for stealing.  Guby Zulkims is
his most devoted follower, the others are Fett Coss and Meg Berfes, Santo's
moll.  They are all humans in the late teens, and their district is close to
the South Gate, which means that they often have to fight the Night Martens.

  Shunrunners:
(Pending Clinton Wolf's description...)

  Stiletto
Symbol: a stiletto

This gang's membership is exclusively female, and their preferred weapon is
(what else)the stiletto.  They were originally formed as a band of Low City
women who were tired of being mistaken for streetwalkers, and adopted a unified
approach to their self-defense.  Some of them are former prostitutes, and Yirma
is an especial enemy of theirs.

  The Trigolet Clan:
Members: Boar Trigolet
         Bear Trigolet
         Ox Trigolet
         Mule Trigolet
         Gustafi Kruzaxl

Boar, Bear, Ox, and Mule Trigolet, four brothers whose father came from Ydoine
after killing one person too many (a baronet), and their brother-in-law,
Gustafi Kruzaxl, who is from Pappheymknaff, an orc-infested country northeast
of Vascondy, in the Mysty Mountains.  The brothers all earn their names with
their looks, and Gustafi is a brute with a square chin.  They earn their money
west of the Spitting Cobra, and they *really* don't like elves other than dead
ones.

  'Unnel Chuz:
Symbol: odor, as well as T-croc "souvenirs"

Spend a lot of time down in the sewers, hunting T-crocs or being hunted by
T-crocs.  As part of their initiation, they spend three days by themselves in
the sewers.  Usually notable by their distinctively puissant odor.

Other names--supply your own description if you want to use them...

Aces
AntiVigilantes
Bangs
Bloodletters
Blue Stingers
BoneRollers
Brush with Death
Claw of the Dragon
Crush
Cry Mercy
Dark Angel Descending
The East Street Raiders
Fallen Idol
Invigilators
Jagged Knives
Kyffers
The Merc-Hill MadDogs
No Quarter
The Rakehells
Scum-sucking-pigs
Shaven Saints
Sisters of Twilight
Six Feet Under
Snakes of Death
The Tangs
Two Wrongs
The X-Paladins
Zeds

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