Party Crashers

The Party Crashers are a human militia dedicated to hunting down and exterminating victims of the Sanguine Festivus Virus.
==Description==
Their origins dating back as early as the late 1910s, the Party Crashers have dedicated themselves since their inception to taking the fight against Sanguine Festivus wherever it may take root, offering aid and care to communities affected by the disease and mercilessly stomping out any of the infected — which they unanimously refer to as "Partygoers" — at a moment's notice. Despite having little permanent residence in the Backrooms, opting instead to stay somewhat decentralized in the form of mobile battalions traveling between colonies, they still boast an incredible population potentially in the tens of thousands.
All members of the Party Crashers are identifiable by their signature piece of clothing: a specialized dark-blue mask designed to protect their face from exposure to sources of SFV contamination. Most members of the militia are additionally outfitted in a thick, blue-gray hoodie worn over top of several layers of clothing, along with thick protective gloves, steel-toed boots, and padded cargo pants meant to leave little to no exposed skin and protect against attacks from SFV victims. Some Party Crasher soldiers take their protective gear even further by manufacturing armor plates and helmets out of scrap metal or sealing loose fabric tight with duct tape wrappings. All members, regardless of variations in uniform, additionally wear a cloth band tied around their left arm, using a system of colors and rudimentary symbols to indicate battalion and rank.
In terms of weaponry, the Party Crashers flaunt an arsenal that has yet to be properly recreated by any other group of the Backrooms. Thanks to resources acquired from an undisclosed level — wherein the organization has established their central base of operations — most members of their ranks are armed with a variation of the Sten gun, a cheap and easy-to-make model of submachine gun first created in the Frontrooms. It is believed that while the Party Crashers are capable of making these weapons, their resources yet restrict them from making other modern firearms, leading them to turn to Blackfire firearm designs using powder imported from Level 813. Such other weapons take the form of precision rifles using Minié ball bullets and rudimentary scopes, wheellock shotguns using revolving chambers to house multiple rounds, and even cannons armed with grape-shot charges and manned by five-person gun crews. Outside of firearms, battalions also regularly make use of melee weapons such as axes and machetes, as well as Molotov cocktails and rudimentary smoke bombs.
==History==
The Party Crashers have their origins as far back as the year 1919, when a veteran of World War I - whose name has been lost to history - founded a team of volunteer combatants known as the Anti-Jovial League. Initially, this volunteer force was dedicated specifically towards violent force against SFV victims, with members of the Anti-Jovials traveling between hospitable levels and taking leads from wanderers as to the whereabouts of infected communities. 
The modern Party Crashers organization didn't begin to take form until roughly the late 1940s, with the militia being reorganized following the death of its founder. It's shortly after this time that the faction began to establish colonies in a select handful of levels kept secret from outside wanderers, the contents of which enabling far greater combative capabilities and the ability to start lending more personal aid to those affected by Sanguine Festivus. By the year 1978, the group would completely rebrand itself and change focus from solely being dedicated to extermination efforts towards more humanitarian efforts as well in the form of supplying medical aid and other relief to other colonies in the Backrooms. 
The organization is widely considered to have reached the peak of its strength and influence in the early 2000s, when the leadership of the Party Crashers began to refocus the faction not just towards combating those infected with SFV, but attempting to wipe the disease from the Backrooms entirely, especially by targeting it at the source. Beginning in April of 2004, dozens of battalions given overwhelming supplies and weaponry started to attempt colonizing Level 338.1, leading to over three years of constant and bloody engagements between heavily-armed Party Crasher forces and scores of SFV victims that would spill out across the entirety of the Backrooms. This widespread conflict — resulting in estimated casualties as high as 7,500 for the militia and likely tens of thousands for the infected — would be known shortly after its conclusion as "The Euphoric Wars". 
Today the Party Crashers are notably weaker in capability then they were prior to their efforts in the Euphoric Wars, but their mission to protect the Backrooms from Sanguine Festivus still continues with just as much resolve as they had beforehand, merely with somewhat diminished numbers and munitions. Those who stop by most more well-populated colonies throughout the Backrooms are likely to find at least one recruitment officer for the militia, and trading outposts operated by the faction can be found on a handful of advantageous levels. 
==Outposts==
=== Killjoy Redoubt - Capital (Level Unknown) ===
Central base of operations for the Party Crashers, where it's believed the production of most of their munitions takes place, especially their Sten guns. Population of this settlement is almost entirely unknown, but some estimate it to likely be in the thousands.
=== Point Hawkdown - Major Outpost (Level Unknown) ===
Site where most of the organization's medical equipment is believed to originate from, allegedly kept classified to prevent swarms of wanderers trying to beg for aid or even raid their supplies. Populations is rumored to be roughly 250, but regularly hosts hundreds more volunteers passing through to restock on medicinal supplies and means to cure SFV.
=== Taggertsbane - Moderate Outpost (Level 4) ===
Outpost established to help distribute aid to wanderers and coordinate deployment of battalions throughout the Core 9 Levels. Known to regularly cooperate with the S.R.C., another colony located on the level also dedicated to lending medical help to those in need. Home to a permanent population of roughly 75, but host to as many as hundreds more passing through at any given moment.
=== Cobalt Visage - Moderate Outpost (Level 813) ===
Named by the Penumbra population inhabiting the level, this trading outpost exists to help supply necessary resources for production of the faction's munitions, particularly Blackfire powder used in firearms. Home to a population of roughly 90 volunteers, along with an additional ~30 trade delegates and local hired help in the form of both humans and Penumbras alike.
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