Voodoo Boys (2020)

The Voodoo Boys are a gang operating in Night City.
==History==
===Early history===
The presence of a college in Night City soon attracted the interests of different groups trying to sell drugs to the local students. With major crime contacts in Florida and the Caribbean, the Voodoo Boys started to make deals with those attending Night City University, though the gang was much more dangerous than that. Based around the University District, the Voodoo Boys were considered a terrorist group with ritual magic overtones, feeding their bizarre tastes by dealing primarily non-synthetic drugs. However, they were also known to kill, torture, rape and burn without any rhyme nor reason, preferring to maim their victims or dissect those they killed with machetes, leaving body parts to terrorize others. On occasion, their targets were given a notice by finding chicken blood and feathers on their doorstep, though more often than not, there was no previous sign. The gang's territory was filled with graffiti, and some people claimed that there was a rudimentary ganger code among the load of paintings covering the walls of businesses around the neighborhood. For that reason law enforcement authorities made an effort in keeping the walls clean.
The Voodoo Boys tag was exceptionally crude, usually being either a decapitated chicken or a crude human figure being cut with large blades, surrounded by lots of blood and with the letters VOOODOO BOYS or VOODOO BOYZ written on it. Its members wore distinctive bones through the nose's septum or the ears, had black chicken feathers implanted on their scalp, wore tattoos on their bodies, and had personalized teeth and other trappings. All this made them stand out inside the crowds. Their drugs and rituals were "inspired" by those from Afro-Caribbean religions, though the majority of these gangers were average white boys. The true believers of those religions disavowed the Voodoo Boys as nothing more than twisted pretenders who had stolen elements of a spiritually they couldn't even comprehend. Despite most members being males, there was the occasional female, though it was even worse running into them as they had to prove twice as much as the guys.
The nihilism the Voodoo Boys spread, plus the exotic drugs they used attracted some students to the gang, which caused a number of young people to join them in low-level gigs only. The gangers also took that opportunity to exploit them in order to obtain the funds from their families. The NCPD considered this gang a high priority, though due to the Voodoo Boys small and thinly spread structure, they had little success on their police operations. Nonetheless, the increasing pressure by the NCPD forced the gangers to not set any formal meeting places nor crash pads, instead choosing the location and time for the next one in each conclave. There were no-known outsiders that had ever successfully infiltrated the gang that were still alive to tell the tale. In fact, two well-known Night City medias were believed to have died violently after trying to record them. Not even the locals dared to say where the Voodoo Boys met, as they knew their life would be in danger otherwise. For those trying to find a Voodoo Boy, however, could do so in Grace Street, notably in Hababas, an ex-biker bar that the gang had a strong grip on after scaring the establishment with threats of violence and their twisted sort of celebrity status. This bar was also where much of the drug dealings were done, especially since students who put up with the gangers jeering and harassment were given a discount, though it was advised to never take your date here. Grace Street was heavily grasped by the Voodoo Boys, who liked to terrorized its residents and extort money from shop owners.Countdown to the Dark Future (#101)
===2020s - 2040s===
By 2020, there were no other major gangs in the University District, though there were rumors that if the Bozos located to the north ever expanded south, there would be a real conflict among both groups, possibly causing a street war between terrorist thugs and psychotics clowns. Occasionally, the Voodoo Boys walked north into West Hill (Bozo territory) for a dose of culture, which made the local artists flee the area. Other than the NCPD, the Voodoo Boys had an extreme antagonistic behavior against the NCU Campus Police, clashing with them anytime they encountered each other when the gang tried to go after a student. The Campus Police never went into Voodoo Boy territory alone, though in university grounds it was considered open season for the exceptionally well-prepared guards.
By the 2040s, the Voodoo Boys were still present in Night City, mostly around the districts of Pacifica and Rancho Coronado. Much like before, they were still draping themselves in Hollywood-style "voodoo" trappings, and were as violent and focused on drug trading as they had always been. During this time, however, the gang was facing real trouble due to the recent raise in local Haitian and Dominican population, who had moved into Night City after the decimation of large parts of their countries. These immigrants took offense on the so-called "Voodoo Boys" and started to express their displeasure by maiming gangers and dissecting the dead with machetes, leaving body parts to terrorize them. By how things were going, it was only gonna get worse.
==Faction Locations==
===2020===
*Grace Street
*Hababas
==Stats & Equipment==
===Cyberpunk 2020===
These are the stats and equipment of an average Voodoo Boy member in 2020's .
==References==
Category:Cyberpunk 2020 Gangs
Category:Cyberpunk RED Gangs
es:Hijos del Vudú
ru:Вудуисты